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The knowledge is in your agents' heads

Everything a national portal cannot say about an area, your team says out loud twenty times a week and nobody has ever written down.

What's different here

Property content usually fails by being generic — market commentary that could describe anywhere, buying guides indistinguishable from a bank's. The asset an operator actually has is specific local knowledge: which streets flood, what a given budget really gets you, which blocks have service charge problems, how the commute genuinely works. That is unpublishable by a national platform and unwritten by almost every local one.

-29%average vacancy daysreal estate & proptech averageFrom Digital Squad client accounts. Orientation, not a guarantee — your starting point changes the range.

Real Estate & PropTech clients

NorthwindLumen LabsHarborlineVerdantAtlas FoodsPoka HealthBrightsideCobalt BankMeridianArdentFoundryKestrel
Vertical-specific tactics

What content looks like for brokerages, property managers and proptech platforms.

These are the plays that wouldn't appear on a generic content page — they only make sense in real estate & proptech.

01

Mine the phone calls

Agents answer the same twenty questions weekly and consider them too basic to publish. Those are the highest-performing pages available to you. A structured interview with two experienced agents typically yields a quarter of content that no competitor can copy without doing the same work.

02

Area guides with numbers, not adjectives

What a specific budget buys on which streets, actual transport times, school catchments, service charge norms, how prices have moved over a defined period. Guides written in adjectives rank for nothing because they answer nothing.

03

Publish market reporting on your own patch

National market commentary is a commodity. A quarterly report on your specific area, with your own transaction data, is quotable by local press and is the most reliable route to the local links that make everything else rank.

04

Write for a cycle measured in years

Someone reading an area guide today may transact in two years. That argues for evergreen structure, genuine usefulness and an email capture that is worth subscribing to — not for a call to action pushing a valuation on a first visit.

The constraints

What holds brokerages, property managers and proptech platforms back

01

Portals own your demand

A large share of enquiry arrives through listing portals that charge for access to customers who are, in effect, theirs. Every year that dependency deepens, the negotiating position weakens, and the cost per lead rises regardless of what you do.

02

Vacancy cost is invisible

The cost of an empty unit — vacant days, turnover, re-letting fees, the discount to move it quickly — sits in operations while marketing budget sits in acquisition. The two numbers rarely appear on the same page, so retention never wins the argument.

03

Local search across many locations

Multi-office brokerages and multi-site managers compete in dozens of local results simultaneously. Most run one generic site and a set of near-identical location pages that rank for nothing, which is a structural problem rather than a content one.

04

The transaction cycle outlasts the attribution window

Someone browsing today may transact in eighteen months. Any measurement built on a ninety-day window will conclude that brand and content do nothing, and the budget will move accordingly.

What's included

The full scope.

Everything in a content engagement, applied to real estate & proptech.

01

Content strategy & intent map

Every buyer question mapped to a funnel stage, a target keyword, and a content format.

02

Editorial calendar

A rolling 90-day calendar with topics, formats, owners, and publish dates agreed in advance.

03

Expert-written long-form

Written by writers with genuine domain experience, then edited to your standards and your voice.

04

Bottom-funnel content

Comparison pages, alternatives pages, integration guides, and use-case content — the pieces that actually convert.

05

Original research & data studies

Proprietary surveys and data analysis that earn links and citations no competitor can copy.

06

Content design & assets

Custom diagrams, charts, and illustrations that make content genuinely useful and more linkable.

07

Distribution

Content doesn't distribute itself. Email, social, community, and syndication planned for every piece.

08

Refresh & decay management

Quarterly performance review with systematic updates to pieces slipping in rankings.

The process

How this runs.

  1. Audit & strategy

    Weeks 1–3

    Content inventory, gap analysis against competitors, and buyer question mapping across the journey.

  2. Build the calendar

    Week 3

    A 90-day editorial plan prioritized by revenue potential, with briefs written for every piece.

  3. Produce

    Ongoing

    Expert writing, editing, design, and internal linking — published on a predictable cadence.

  4. Distribute

    Ongoing

    Every piece gets a distribution plan across email, social, and relevant communities.

  5. Measure & refresh

    Quarterly

    Quarterly performance review, refresh of decaying content, and expansion of the topics that worked.

Investment

Scoped like the core service, no surcharge.

Every engagement is quoted from your actual brief. There's no vertical surcharge for this combination — request a quote and we'll scope it properly.

Editorial

Consistent, high-quality publishing.

Scoped to your brief

  • Content strategy & calendar
  • 6 long-form pieces/month
  • SEO optimization
  • Basic content design
  • Monthly performance report
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Authority

Owning your category's search results.

Scoped to your brief

  • Everything in Editorial
  • 14 pieces/month incl. bottom-funnel
  • Original research (1 study/quarter)
  • Custom diagrams & illustration
  • Distribution across all channels
  • Content refresh program
  • Dedicated content strategist
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Publisher

Content-led growth at real scale.

Scoped to your brief

  • 30+ pieces/month
  • Multi-format (video, podcast, interactive)
  • Dedicated editorial team
  • Multi-language content
  • Programmatic content systems
  • Full-time managing editor
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All engagements start with a free audit. Prices exclude media spend, which you pay directly to the platforms on accounts you own.

Questions

Real Estate & PropTech questions, answered straight.

They should not be writing. The workable model is a structured interview — forty-five minutes, recorded, turned into several pieces by someone whose job that is — which respects the fact that their time is worth more selling than typing. Every content programme we have seen fail in this sector failed because it required practitioners to write. Every one that worked extracted what they knew and did the writing elsewhere.

Content × Real Estate & PropTech

Let's talk about your growth constraint.

Everything a national portal cannot say about an area, your team says out loud twenty times a week and nobody has ever written down.

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