Finding the
ideal client for a property in your portfolio of properties for sale is key. This will save you meeting time and long sampling days. To find it, you will need specific information about the property and
identify the different types of customers.
Why is it important to meet people who are looking for a property? Because you are not going to offer a one-bedroom home to a family of four; or a house in Barcelona to someone who wants to live in Madrid.
Therefore, it is
very important that for each property that you include in your portfolio of offers, you have cataloged the type of property, the neighborhood where it is located and the block where it is located. It will also be necessary that you meet with all the buyers who come looking for your help to meet them, identify their needs, desires and interests and, in this way, find the perfect "match".
Filtering the client with a property will save you time and will also ensure its sale. In this article we bring you
TIPS to find the ideal client, what are the types of
housing that different types of clients are looking for and an argument so that, when showing a property, the client wants to make the reservation of it.
There are
two ways to find potential buyers for the properties in your portfolio: using your contact base with clients you have already worked with or, spreading the property on online platforms even, adding paid ads.
The first is to "filter" properties with buyers from your network. Those clients who have sold a house through your services as a broker and are looking for another, who have acquired real estate from your portfolio or to whom you have previously shown a property, are good opportunities.
For this
it is necessary that you keep your contact base updated and, monthly,
talk with them. Making yourself available to the client and seeing if they need your services is a good way to start the dialogue. That way you can know if you are looking for something, what you want to buy and if it matches any of the properties you have available.
The second way to find buyers is for them to contact you. The interesting thing about this type of client is that the action of communicating with you implies that he is interested in your services, you do not have to convince them of anything. You only have to listen to their needs and look in your portfolio for what best suits them.
Having a coffee is a good option to talk about business. In that exchange you will be able
to ask the client what they are looking for and help them find their ideal home. If during the conversation you realize that the property you consulted for will not be useful, you can offer others that you have available. And don't forget to add their contact to your network to keep in touch.
Property types
When you want to sell a property you will have to think about
the ideal client for that property. Who would be comfortable living there, or who, for example, could buy it to put it up for rent. Those answers will help you find the ideal buyer.
To anchor a property with its ideal buyer you will have to take into account not only the type of property (studio, house, duplex, two-bedroom apartment, local, for example), but also the location.
It is essential that you can visit the area in which it is located, its block and the nearbystreets to identify if it is a university area or a residential neighborhood, the type of shops and recreational spaces that are nearby, among other variables. Youcan be guided by Google Maps to know if there are good schools nearby, if it is a bar area, or what are the closest stops to the property. Once this information is collected,
you will be able to think about who would be the ideal buyer and how to offer it according to the requirements of the target.
Types of customers
To catalog the potential buyers of a home, you have to take into account
at what point in life people move. For example, many people come to the City of Torrevieja every year for a new job, or because they start studying a career. As we mentioned before, a typical family will not fit in a 1-bedroom apartment and perhaps a detached house for a university student is not functional, nor is it an expense that you can probably afford financially.
So,
we recommend separating buyers by groups.
- Young people from 18 to 30 years old: In this group, the buyers may be their parents, but the use of the property will be theirs. Single people, without children, probably coming from another province or town to study in Torrevieja, Alicante, Murcia for example, fall into this category.
- Young people from 25 to 35 years old: In this group we already find those who are looking for their first home of their own, which allows them the possibility of living alone or with someone else.
- Adults 35 to 50 years old: In this category, clients may want a place to settle, start a family, and make it lasting. Possibly for several people, a spacious place. In addition, from this range we can find those people who are looking for real estate to rent and thus obtain an extra income, as an investment.
- Adults 50 years and older: Single people or couples whose children have left the house, who are looking for something smaller or more comfortable for few people and also greater security.
It is important to note that the economic level will vary according to the work of each one, but it is not so in all cases, so when you go for a coffee or make a call with a potential buyer
it is good to ask what budget you are contemplating and what will be the payment method you are looking for.
This will also save you time, since in advance you should know the conditions of sale of the owner in order to find the ideal buyer.
How to filter a property with a client?
Taking into account the characteristics of the property; how the ideal buyer should be and the
conditions of sale, you will be able to find the right person and you will make both the seller and the buyer really happy.
So, to start joining properties with potential clientsyou have to start classifying people according to age ranges, wants, needs and then start analyzing which properties fit them.
If in your portfolio of properties you have
an affordable
one-bedroom apartment in Torrevieja,you have two potential clients: the one who wants to buy to
rent and young people from 18 to 30 years old who are buying their first home. It is a good area of the province of Alicante. .
A one-bedroom apartment or two-bedroom apartment in the Center will also be functional for this type of client since both the bus and taxis arrive, ideal means to manage around the city.
Torrevieja grew in recent years and has become a goodarea to reside.
Young couples looking for a place to settle or typical families could also move there but already in a building of other characteristics:
it could be a flat, a duplex or a partamento of up to three rooms. This group will also be useful to have public transport stops nearby, and that there are good schools in the neighborhood.
On the other hand,
if your client is an elderly couple, they may seek tranquility outside the big city and decide to move to a private neighborhood, which will also provide them with greater security. A comfortable house for two people, one bedroom but with a comfortable porch and a large dining room for when the family gathers on Sundays would be the ideal property.
These are just some of the endless possibilities within the real estate market. As a
real estate agent, the more you go through the area of the property to add information about it and also the more
you know your client, the easier it will be to bring them closer to their ideal property.
How to adapt a property for a client?
Part of finding the ideal buyer for a property is
to make that property functional for the type of client who is interested. In this section we bring you some
tips to adapt the
property to the needs of the client and thus have a guaranteed sale.
The main thing is to
talk to the buyer about the real possibilities of finding what they are looking for. If what you want is a two-story house in a neighborhood where all that is available are buildings, we can show you other areas where you find properties like the one you want and within your budget.
Sometimes you will have to ground the client about what he is waiting for.
As a
real estate agent you can
not say no, so we advise you to show him other options that may be more functional than those he is looking for and that he can make the decision to prioritize what type of housing he wants.
We recommend when showing the property that we consider best suits your possibilities and the reality of the market,
tell you what benefits and particularities of the area and the property are good for you and according to what you are looking for.
Where to find potential buyers for a property?
To
find potential buyers of a property , a good strategy is to publish the property on different portals. This will allow you to reach more people and be able to measure interest in the property according to the number of visits. If you wantto know which are the best real estate portals in Spain, we recommend this article.
We recommend
taking advantage of the description and the owner of the property to add additional information that is not reflected in the technical sheet or in the photos of the property. This will help you so that the client who is looking fors, is attracted to the publication.
The additional information that will guide the search the most are the hook words. They can be "ideal students", "subway descent line D a few meters", "good schools in the area" or also "ideal real estate project", to reach investors.
All the data you have about the location that serve specific customers, as we tell you in this article,you can add them. We advise you to leave some features unpublished so that you can discuss them in person to the client and work on them personally.