For WA real estate agencies

Win the listing
before the appraisal.

 

We help residential, commercial and property management agencies win more listings and landlords, with websites, local search and branding that make vendors call.

 

Yard Property, a Fremantle real estate agency, photographed for its new website

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Where an agency’s own marketing wins listings

Buyers mostly browse the big portals, and the portal decides which listings they see first. Your own real estate marketing has a different job. It has to win the vendors and landlords who decide which agency gets the listing or the management.

A vendor choosing between three agents reads their profiles, checks recent sales nearby, scrolls their socials and reads their Google reviews. A landlord fed up with their property manager compares fees, response times and what other owners say. A good real estate marketing agency measures its work in appraisal requests and landlord enquiries, because those grow a sales book and a rent roll.

Underneath sits plumbing that has to work every day. Listings should flow from your CRM so the site stays current, and every office, agent and signboard should look like the same agency.

Real estate websites built to win appraisals

Your website is where a vendor checks whether you know their suburb. It should show recent sales, suburb pages written by people who sell there and agent profiles with real photos. The appraisal request should take a minute. We build on WordPress or, where speed and custom features matter, React.

Buyers still check portal listings on your site, so search and listing pages need to be quick on a phone. When we built Yard Property’s website, we let buyers make offers and vendors request appraisals directly.

Listings that sync from your CRM, so the site stays current

A home shown as under offer on the portal but still for sale on your site makes the agency look careless. We connect your website to your CRM, so new listings, price changes and sold results update automatically. Nobody has to re-key anything.

That might be a custom plugin that syncs VaultRE with the site, or scheduled jobs that keep sale and rental listings current. If you’re on a different CRM, we’ll check what its feed allows before we quote, so there are no surprises mid-build.

Real estate agent marketing under one agency brand

Many vendors pick the agent before the agency. So every agent needs a profile page with a proper bio, current listings, recent sales and a direct contact.

Good real estate agent marketing builds the agent and the agency together. We give agents templates and simple guidelines so their own posts still look like your agency. If two or three agents write most of your business, keep their profiles, sales history and testimonials on your domain too. That record stays with you if they move on.

Local SEO and a Google Business Profile for every office

When a vendor searches for an agent in their suburb, the map results and reviews do much of the deciding. We manage a Google Business Profile for each office, keep details consistent and build a habit of asking happy vendors and landlords for reviews.

Our local SEO work adds suburb pages with something useful on them: recent sales, what’s selling and the agent who covers that patch. Pages that swap one suburb name for another rarely rank or convince anyone, so we don’t build them.

Property management marketing that grows the rent roll

Landlords ask different questions from vendors: what you charge, how quickly you respond, how you handle arrears and maintenance, and how hard switching is. Property management marketing works when landlords get their own pages, their own enquiry form and, budget allowing, their own Google Ads campaign.

Landlords, property managers and agents each need their own path through the site. Regular email marketing keeps you in front of investors who already know you.

Real estate branding that holds up on a signboard

Your brand works hardest on signboards, window cards, letterbox drops and agent socials, where people see it for a second or two. If each office has drifted into its own version, vendors stop recognising you. We build brand identity systems that stay consistent from a signboard to an email signature.

When two agencies merge, build one identity from both and design the collateral to carry it. If you’re merging offices or rebranding after a change of ownership, plan the signboard changeover as carefully as the logo.

Social media and ads aimed at vendors

Just-listed and just-sold posts show owners you’re active in their street. We plan social media marketing around recent sales, suburb insights and agent faces, so owners think of you when it’s time to sell. Paid campaigns can reach homeowners in your area and remarket to people who viewed your appraisal page. Property ads on Facebook and Instagram can fall under special targeting rules, so we check Meta’s current policy before planning one.

Commercial agencies deal with a smaller, more professional audience, so LinkedIn ads and direct email usually do more than Instagram. If you’re a residential agency with a modest budget, put it into remarketing to past appraisal visitors before broad brand campaigns.

How we helped Yard Property bring its Fremantle focus online.

  • Yard Property buys, sells and rents exclusively within the Fremantle area, and its ageing website didn’t show that community focus.
  • We built a custom plugin connecting VaultRE to the new WordPress site, so listings update without manual data entry.
  • Every agent now has a dedicated profile page where clients can connect with them directly.
  • Buyers can make offers online, and the site takes appraisal requests, contact forms and e-newsletter signups.
  • Since launch, we’ve seen more visitors spending time on the site, exploring agent profiles and listings.
  • “The website has become a key platform for generating leads.” Pascale Berkers, Marketing & Media Coordinator.

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Yard Property's office in a historic brick Post and Telegraph Office building

How we helped Davey Real Estate keep its northern beaches listings current.

  • Davey Real Estate is known for Perth’s northern beach properties, and its old website made that specialisation hard to show.
  • We designed and built a custom website on React/Gatsby for a fast, responsive experience.
  • Cron jobs keep the site in sync with VaultRE, so visitors see the latest properties for sale or rent.
  • The design reflects Davey’s community-focused approach in the beachside suburbs it serves.
  • “It was a pleasure to deal with the team at Distl.” Simon Spencer, Managing Director.

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Davey Real Estate website design for Perth's northern beaches agency

How we helped Link Residential Group merge two agency brands into one.

  • Link Residential Group, part of the BGC Housing Group, was running two brands and two websites: Now Living Realty and Link Residential.
  • We developed one new brand identity drawing on both, then a custom WordPress website with VaultRE integration.
  • Collateral included business cards, email signatures, e-letterheads, signboards, an EDM template and presentation folders.
  • A team photoshoot at the Osborne Park headquarters gave the site imagery that matched the new identity.

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Link Residential Group team photographed at their Osborne Park headquarters

Agencies we’ve helped grow

Show us where last quarter’s listings came from

Rough numbers are fine. We’ll look at your site, your agent profiles and your Google listings the way a vendor would, and point out what’s costing you appraisals.

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Common questions about real estate marketing

Should we put more into the portals or into our own marketing?

Use the portals for buyers and your own marketing for vendors and landlords. Better portal placement helps sell the listings you already have. Winning the next listing is a different job, and that’s where your website, reviews, agent profiles and local content earn their place. If you’re a single-office agency with a small budget, start with your Google Business Profile and reviews. It costs little, and vendors check it.

How do we get more appraisal requests from our website?

Make the request short, put it wherever a vendor might be ready and give them reasons to trust you first. That means a short appraisal form, a link on every sold listing and suburb page, and agent profiles that show recent results. Track each request back to its source, so you know whether suburb pages, ads or social bring vendors in. Ten serious requests beat a hundred newsletter sign-ups.

Can our website pull listings straight from VaultRE?

Yes. We’ve built VaultRE integrations for Yard Property, Davey Real Estate and Link Residential Group. One uses a custom plugin and another uses scheduled cron jobs. Listings, price changes and status updates reach the site without anyone re-entering them, which removes the usual cause of out-of-date listings. If you use a different CRM, send us its name and we’ll check what its feed allows before we scope anything.

How do we market our property management department to landlords?

Treat landlords as their own audience. Give them pages covering fees, communication, maintenance and how switching works, plus a separate enquiry form so their leads don’t get lost among buyer enquiries. Ask existing landlords for reviews that mention property management, because prospective landlords search for exactly that. If you need to grow the rent roll quickly, test a small Google Ads campaign on property management searches in your suburbs.

Our agents all post their own content. Does that hurt the agency brand?

Not if there’s a shared look and a few simple rules. Agents with their own following bring in listings, and asking them to stop rarely ends well. Give them templates for listings, sales and market updates, consistent logo use and a clear split between agency and personal channels. If an agent leaves, their Instagram goes with them, but the agency keeps the profile and sales record on its own website.

Do we need a Google Business Profile for every office?

Yes, if each office is a staffed location clients can visit. Each profile can then rank for nearby searches, collect its own reviews and show the right phone number and hours. Google’s guidelines decide who qualifies, including whether individual agents can have profiles, so we check before setting anything up. A suspended profile is painful to fix. An agency with one office covering several suburbs needs one strong profile plus useful suburb pages.

Will vendors find our agency when they ask ChatGPT for a recommendation?

Some vendors already ask, and we expect more will. Tools like ChatGPT and Google’s AI Overviews draw on how consistently you’re described across reviews, directories, local news and your own site. Our generative engine optimisation work tightens that picture and adds clear answers to the questions owners ask. It’s early days, so we’d still put your Google reviews ahead of it, and the two build on the same local work.

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How it feels to work with Distl

Planned around your listing calendar

Every agency has its busy listing months and its quiet ones, and your principal knows them better than any report. We plan campaigns, content and website updates around that calendar, so vendor-facing work is live before the busy months rather than halfway through them. Quieter months go to the jobs that pay off later: suburb pages, agent profiles, reviews and anything slow on the site.

Sales and property management both get heard

Sales and property management want different things from marketing, and both are right. At the start we talk to your principal, a couple of sales agents and your head of property management. The plan then covers listings and the rent roll. After that, your account manager keeps both sides in the monthly conversation, so one team’s push doesn’t crowd out the other.

Agents sign off their own profiles

An agent profile is personal, so each agent approves theirs before it goes live: bio, photo, specialties and the suburbs they cover. We write a first draft from a short chat, which saves agents staring at a blank page between open homes. When someone joins or leaves, their profile is updated in the same process, so the website shows the team you have today.

We'll come to your office

We’re based in Jolimont and happy to come to your office anywhere around Perth. That might be a strategy session with your principal, or CMS training for the admin team. It might be a team photoshoot with one of our Perth partner photographers, like the one at Link Residential’s Osborne Park headquarters. Time together early means fewer emails later.

Be the agency vendors call first in your patch

Book a strategy consultation with our Jolimont team. Bring your principal, your head of property management, or both.

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