How to Attract New Commercial Real Estate Business in the Best Ways Possible

To get a reasonable market share around you in commercial real estate brokerage you should consider your daily efforts and actions.  Understand what you are doing and not doing.  Understand the things that are wasting your time.  From that point it is just a matter of change.

Caution!  Some agents and brokers never change their ‘problem’ habits, and on that basis they struggle for their entire career.  Things don’t need to be that way.

How’s Your Business?

Perhaps you are wasting your own time in real estate due to a lack of process and quality in your business systems?   So it is time to step up to move into a better level of property performance.  It’s  a good year in the industry and there are things out in the market to be done.

If you are lacking listings, enquiries and clients, then you are likely to be lacking good business processes centred on the best clients and properties.  Here are some ideas to help you resolve that:

1. Think about and action your prospecting around your listings – When you have a listing in your area and within your property speciality, you have something to work with. Use your listings as reasons to talk to others in the street or suburb.  Remember that business owners need to relocate from time to time, and property investors look to upgrading their portfolios.  Help those people remember you at the right time by getting in contact and staying in contact in a relevant way.
2. Referrals – When you have finished a successful transaction you will have the opportunity to explore referrals, leads, and repeat business. If the client is satisfied with your professional efforts then there are things to do with referrals and leads.  Help other people to direct you to the next clients and property owners that you can serve.
3. Previous clients – Go back in your sale and leasing records to find those people that you and or your business has helped over the last 5 years. It is likely that some of those people are still active in the property market.  Do they want some more help?
4. Other agent’s clients – Don’t be afraid of positioning yourself with clients that currently use other agents and brokers. There could be some reasons for those clients choosing a different agent.  Professionalism will help you connect with those people and stay in their memory for the right reasons.
5. FSBO – This is a strange market segment, although a useful one. Some FSBO owners eventually give up trying to resolve their property problems.  Let’s face the facts; they probably don’t have the contacts, the database, or the skills to negotiate a sale or lease deal professionally.  Can you help them?
6. Investors – Local property investors are great clients for the long term. They need all types of help across tenant mix issues, leasing, selling, renovating, and portfolio mix.  When they trust and respect your skills, you can do something to help them.
7. Business Owners – Stay in contact with local business owners. They will require professional property assistance at some time in the future.  Keep them up to date with prices, rents, enquiries, and stock availability.  Share your facts about the property market and pull in the local business owners that can use your help.

These simple strategies will help you attract more new business in the best possible ways.  Make yourself known locally as the agent of choice; that agent that people must go to when property challenges present.

You can get more tips on business building in our eCourse ‘Snapshot’ right here.