Rental applications, from 30,959 to 55,602.
Search conversion rate, after the program was rebuilt around applications.
Audiences from 287 providers and platforms, free to search. More than 49,000 are tagged Real Estate & Home.
- Lightstone Group
- Moinian Group
- TF Cornerstone
- Two Trees Management
Every month a unit sits vacant is revenue that never comes back. A 300-unit building leasing three months behind plan has burned seven figures before anyone finishes debating the brand campaign. Lightstone Group, the Moinian Group, TF Cornerstone, and Two Trees Management are among the real estate clients on this site, and the pattern across New York lease-ups repeats: the building has a beautiful brand, the campaign has reach, and the tour calendar is half empty anyway.
The constraint is qualified tours and how fast someone answers the inquiry. The plan buys search around applications, retargets the people who looked at floor plans, and puts the price and the move-in date in the ad so the wrong prospects never click. Calls count as conversions, because the best prospects pick up the phone.
Housing is a special ad category on Meta and Google, which removes targeting by age, gender, and ZIP code. The audience gets built from the property's own visitors, the interests the category allows, and geography drawn around how residents commute.
For TF Cornerstone, rebuilding paid search around application intent and retargeting people who had browsed but not applied raised applications 80 percent and the search conversion rate 730 percent.
An engagement usually begins with the leasing funnel: inquiries, tours, applications, and how long each step takes.
Fill the building
A review of the leasing funnel shows where prospects drop between the ad and the signed lease.
Start the conversationServices for developers and owners
All eight servicesTargeted Digital Advertising
Search, social, and retargeting built inside the housing ad category rules.
Service 02SEO + GEO
What AI assistants say when someone asks where to live in your neighborhood.
Service 03Digital Strategy
Lease-up plans built backward from the occupancy date.
Service 04Digital Copywriting + Content Creation
Landing pages and ads that show the price and the move-in date.
Service 05Lead Generation
Qualified inquiries and tours, with calls counted as conversions.
Service 06Data Analytics + Insights
Funnel reporting from first click to signed lease.
From The Signal
View all notesFilling a Building Is Not an Awareness Problem
Real estate marketing keeps buying reach when the constraint is qualified tours and follow-up speed. Notes from lease-up work for New York developers.
May 14, 2026Geofencing Is Not a Strategy. It Is a Radius.
Most location targeting is a circle drawn around an address, which targets geometry rather than people. Location run properly is behavioral data with a map attached.
April 8, 2026Cheap Leads Are the Most Expensive Thing You Can Buy
Cost per lead is the easiest number in marketing to improve and the most dangerous one to optimize. The damage shows up two quarters later, wearing someone else's name.
March 17, 2026Phone Calls Are Conversions. Your Dashboard Thinks They Are Silence.
In healthcare, home services, legal, and anything high-consideration, the best customers call. Accounts optimized on web forms alone are training the algorithm against their own best buyers.
February 10, 2026Your Landing Page Is Killing More Campaigns Than Your Media
Teams iterate ads daily and leave the page after the click untouched for a year. The math says that is backwards. The cheapest performance gain in most accounts is on the other side of the click.
January 21, 2026Case Study: TF Cornerstone and 80 Percent More Rental Applications
How paid search and Facebook retargeting drove an 80 percent increase in rental applications for TF Cornerstone, with a 730 percent improvement in search conversion rate.
Resources
All resourcesAudience Finder, set to Real Estate & Home
The full catalog of more than 950,000 audiences, opened on the 49,000+ tagged Real Estate & Home.
ReferenceHousing, employment and credit ads
The categories where targeting by age, gender, ZIP code, and correlated interests is prohibited.
ReferenceGeofencing
Targeting devices that enter a boundary drawn around a place, and what it can and cannot tell you.
ReferenceLead form ad
An ad that opens a prefilled form inside the platform instead of sending the user to a landing page.
QuestionWhat is a good cost per lead?
One your close rate and deal value can pay for, worked out from both.
CalculatorCPA and ROAS
Cost per acquisition and return on ad spend from spend, conversions, and revenue.
Quick answers
How do Fair Housing rules affect real estate advertising?
Housing ads run in the special ad category on Meta and Google, which removes targeting by age, gender, and ZIP code, along with interests that stand in for protected classes. Plans are built from the property's own audiences, the interests the category allows, and geography drawn around how residents commute.
What should a lease-up campaign optimize for?
Qualified tours and signed leases. Reach and clicks are easy to buy and do little for an empty unit, so the plan tracks inquiries, calls, tours, and applications, and watches how quickly the leasing team responds.
Does geofencing work for real estate advertising?
When the fence marks a behavior. A radius around the leasing office mostly reaches people who happen to be nearby. Fences around open houses in target neighborhoods and around competing buildings reach people who have shown intent, and for one residential client, open-house fences outperformed any radius around the office. Visits get measured against a holdout.
