How to Plan the Perfect Commercial Property Presentation

In commercial real estate brokerage you only have a brief opportunity to grab the attention of a client and help them see why your property presentation is better than anything else that your competition may be recommending.  You have to plan a perfect property presentation.

Let’s take for example a presentation relating to the sale of a prime investment property.  You know that the property will sell and that there will be a lot of interest in and through the marketing campaign.  Your main focus in marketing the property should then be a combination of the following:

• Getting volumes of enquiry so you can build a real competition for buyers to make offers on the property
• Convert plenty of inspections so that the momentum of the campaign grows to a critical point of finality as an auction, or close date for offers through a tender situation
• Pull in all the potential people in the target market

Simple points of focus like these will help you build the perfect property presentation.  When you get the ‘formula’ right, the client cannot fail to listen and carefully consider your ideas in a relevant way.

How Can You Pitch Your Ideas?

So what can you do here to shape and promote your presentation ideas?  In the case of an investment property for sale the following strategies really work:

1. Restate the client’s situation – Tell the client what you understand to be their position and their targets. This first stage of the presentation will ensure that the client can see that you understand their timing, and the property challenge.
2. Explain how you see the property – When you explain the property in detail (including the improvements), you show the client that you really comprehend all the aspects of the sale situation that really matter.
3. Pick the advantages and strengths of the asset – Give the clear strengths as feature points that you can build on in any inspection. Tell the client how you will move people through the property and why that will be done.
4. Show time frames and stages – When you take the entire sales process into account you can split up the marketing and inspection process into critical stages. From that you can create a timeline.  A timeline is a great ‘visual approach’ to getting the client to understand your property ideas and recommendations.
5. Answer the difficult questions – The client will have certain problems and issues that they think could impact the sale or the price. You can identify those issues in the earlier stages of the client contact, and then address those concerns in your property listing pitch.

In essence, these simple ideas are very effective in helping you gain the attention of the client to the potential of you marketing their property.

You can get more presentation and sales pitch ideas for commercial real estate brokers in our eCourse here.