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Nobody signs a building contract after one ad. A couple might browse floor plans for months and visit display homes over several weekends. Then they wait on finance approval or the right lot in a land release. Home builder marketing has to stay useful the whole way through.
Good marketing for builders tracks the steps that lead to a contract. That means design page views, display home bookings, finance calculator use and enquiries your consultants can work. A cheap lead your sales team can never reach still costs you their time.
Trust also carries more weight than it used to. Rising interest rates and the closure of several local home building companies have made buyers wary. They now look harder for signs of stability and clear pricing.
Home design pages are often among the most visited on a builder’s site, because that’s where buyers start picturing themselves living there. Each design needs its own page Google can find, with floor plans, inclusions, pricing guidance and photos of a finished build.
Head terms like “home builders Perth” are fiercely contested. Our SEO strategy usually wins ground first on design names, suburbs, lot types and display homes, then builds toward the bigger terms.
For a builder, a form fill is the start of a sale. We set up Google Ads to count what leads to one: display home bookings, price list requests and calls to a consultant. Campaigns are split by brand, region and product, so a granny flat search doesn’t land on a two-storey design.
Buyers often visit several times before they enquire, so remarketing keeps your designs in front of them while they compare.
Social is where many buyers first fall for a facade, and leads there often come in cheapest. It’s also where consultants end up chasing people who liked a photo and moved on. We build Facebook ads with a few qualifying questions about land, budget and timing.
If you’re a builder with a small sales team, add those questions even if they cost you some volume. Fewer, better leads get called back faster.
Buyers want to know what they can afford, where they can build and what’s open this weekend. The best builder websites answer with tools. When we built Summit Homes Group’s website, we added a finance calculator, a central pricing table and an interactive map of packages and display homes.
Enquiry forms should go straight into your CRM so consultants see them immediately. Page layouts come from user experience research into how your buyers move through the site.
Groups with a metro brand, a regional brand and a few specialist lines can confuse Google if one platform serves them badly. A dated platform can stop Google showing a regional brand’s pages at all.
We set brands up so each can rank on its own while the team shares content. Home listings and promotions can be published once and shared across every division. If you’re planning a platform change, bring SEO in at the start and plan the website migration before design starts.
After the builder collapses of recent years, buyers read your marketing for signs of stability as much as style. Loud countdown banners and red “last chance” pricing can read as desperation.
Good brand strategy for a builder says who you build for and why you’ll still be here at handover. Then it shows the evidence: years trading, finished builds and reviews from owners.
Plenty of buyers who enquire won’t be ready for months. They’re saving a deposit, waiting on a land release or selling first. Rather than letting those leads go cold, we set up email marketing with what they’re waiting for. That means new designs, display home openings and land release alerts.
Segment by what buyers have told you, so a first home buyer and a knockdown-rebuild family get different emails. If you’re short on time, start with one automated land release alert per estate.
Tell us how many became display home visits and how many your consultants gave up on. We’ll find where buyers drop out between enquiry and contract.
It’s one useful number, but on its own it rewards the cheapest leads rather than the best. A lead who books a display home visit is worth far more than one who never answers. We track cost per lead alongside cost per appointment and, where your CRM allows, cost per contract. When we ran Summit Homes Group’s Facebook Ads, cost per lead fell 88% year on year to $69.24. Your sales team’s view of quality still decides what we do next.
Longer than it shows up in leads. Google Ads and social campaigns can produce enquiries within weeks of launch. Contracts follow the buyer’s timeline, which often includes finance approval, land settlement and several display home visits. So each month we report on the steps in between: enquiries, appointments and deposits where you share them. If you judge a new agency on contracts after three months, you’re judging the previous agency’s work.
Not necessarily, but each brand needs pages Google can find and rank in their own right. Some groups run one site with clear regional sections, while others run separate sites that share content behind the scenes. Regional pages must not be hidden, duplicated or swamped by metro ones. If your regional brand has its own sales team and display homes, give it its own site and share content between them.
Build the evergreen parts now and make the time-sensitive parts quick to update. Each estate you build in should have a page that ranks for its name and lists current packages. A pricing table your team updates in one place stops old prices lingering. When a release is announced, email buyers who registered interest in that estate and run a short paid campaign. That gets you in early.
Show evidence rather than reassurance. Buyers have heard “trusted builder” from everyone, including firms that later closed. What persuades them is proof they can check: years trading, homes completed, recent builds they can drive past and reviews from owners. Keep every claim accurate and current. An overstated build time or a fixed price with conditions in the fine print damages trust faster than saying nothing.
Often not as a first step. If you’re a custom builder doing a handful of homes a year, most work probably comes from referrals, architects and past clients. Start with a Google Business Profile full of reviews and a gallery of finished homes with real photography. Make sure the website shows how you work. Once those are solid, a small, tightly targeted campaign can add to them.
Some are, especially for comparison questions like which builders handle narrow lots or sloping blocks. Tools like ChatGPT and Google’s AI Overviews draw on detailed, consistent information about your designs, process and reviews. Our generative engine optimisation work makes that information clear and easy to cite. For now we’d treat it as part of good SEO, well behind display home bookings on the list.
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Sales consultants are the first to know when lead quality slips. At each monthly report, we go through recent leads with your sales manager: who answered, who booked a visit and who was never serious. That shapes the next month’s targeting, forms and budget split. Marketing and sales then work from the same numbers instead of arguing about whose leads they were.
We’d rather see a display home than describe one from a brochure. For displays around Perth, walking through with your sales team shows us what buyers notice, what they ask and where they linger. It also gives our partner photographers and videographers a sharper brief, and gives us better copy. For a regional display, we’ll talk it through with your team on a video call. When a new Perth display opens, we can plan the launch campaign on site with the people who’ll staff it on Saturday.
Builders run to a calendar of land releases, display openings, price changes and seasonal promotions. We map that calendar with your sales or marketing manager each quarter. Campaigns, emails and website updates then go live with the release rather than a week after it. When a promotion ends, we plan for it to come down across ads, emails and the site together, so nobody sees an expired offer.
Multi-brand groups often end up with a different agency for each brand, and nobody compares them side by side. With us, one account manager oversees every brand, supported by the same paid media, SEO and web specialists. Each brand manager approves their own work. You see results side by side, so budget can move to whichever brand is having the strongest month.
Book a strategy consultation. We’ll go through your design pages, lead forms and cost per lead, ideally with your sales manager in the room.