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A good tour loses you viewings

Every person who books a viewing and leaves in four minutes cost you an hour of agent time. Video's job here is to filter, not to flatter.

What's different here

Property video is almost universally made to sell the property, which is the wrong objective for a business whose scarce resource is agent hours. A tour that hides the small third bedroom and shoots around the main road produces more bookings and more wasted Saturdays. The operators who use video well treat it as qualification — showing the layout honestly, naming the compromises, so the people who arrive have already accepted them.

-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 video editing looks like for brokerages, property managers and proptech platforms.

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

01

Shoot the walk, not the highlights

A continuous route through the property in the order someone would actually walk it tells a viewer whether the layout works for them. Cut-together hero shots of four rooms do not, which is why they generate viewings that end quickly.

02

State the compromise on camera

The second bedroom is small, the garden faces north, the station is a twelve-minute walk not five. Saying so filters out the people it disqualifies and materially raises trust with everyone else — and they were going to find out at the viewing anyway.

03

Vertical for discovery, horizontal for the listing

Portal and social discovery happens vertically on a phone where the first second decides everything. The considered walkthrough belongs on the listing page where someone is already interested. Same shoot, two structures, different jobs.

04

Film the area, not just the address

The walk to the station, what the high street is actually like, where the school gates are. This is the footage every buyer wants, no portal can produce it, and it works across every property you list in that postcode rather than expiring with one instruction.

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 video editing engagement, applied to real estate & proptech.

01

Hook library & testing

Every video ships with 3–5 alternate openers so you can test hooks without re-editing the whole asset.

02

Multi-platform aspect ratios

9:16, 1:1, 4:5, and 16:9 delivered from one edit — properly reframed, not just cropped.

03

Motion graphics & kinetic text

Branded lower thirds, animated captions, data callouts, and transitions that hold attention without distracting.

04

Sound design & mixing

Licensed music, SFX layering, dialogue cleanup, and loudness normalization per platform spec.

05

Burned-in captions

Frame-accurate captions in your brand style — 80% of social video is watched on mute.

06

Color grading

Consistent LUT-based grading so every asset looks like it came from the same brand.

07

UGC creator sourcing

Optional: we brief, source, and manage creators, then edit the raw footage into performance-ready ads.

08

Performance feedback loop

We review retention graphs and ad metrics monthly, then adjust the editing approach to what the data shows.

The process

How this runs.

  1. Creative strategy

    Week 1

    We study your top-performing content and your competitors', then build a hook and angle matrix to work from.

  2. Footage intake

    Ongoing

    You upload raw footage to a shared drive — or we source and manage UGC creators for you.

  3. First cut

    48 hours

    Rough edit within 48 hours with hook variants, delivered on a review platform with timestamped comments.

  4. Revisions

    24h per round

    Unlimited rounds until it's right. Most edits are approved in one or two.

  5. Deliver & measure

    Monthly

    Final files in every ratio, then a monthly retention review that shapes the next batch.

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.

Starter

Brands testing short-form for the first time.

Scoped to your brief

  • 8 edited videos/month
  • 3 hook variants each
  • All aspect ratios
  • Captions & basic motion graphics
  • 48-hour turnaround
  • Unlimited revisions
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Most popular

Volume

Paid social teams that need enough creative to find winners.

Scoped to your brief

  • 25 edited videos/month
  • 5 hook variants each
  • Advanced motion graphics
  • Custom sound design
  • Dedicated editor + creative strategist
  • Monthly performance review
  • 24-hour rush available
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Studio

Full production — shoots, creators, and post at scale.

Scoped to your brief

  • 40+ videos/month
  • On-location or studio production
  • UGC creator sourcing & management
  • Scriptwriting & storyboarding
  • Dedicated post-production team
  • Same-day rush turnaround
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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.

It costs you viewings, which is the intention, and in our experience it does not cost offers. The people who withdraw after seeing an honest tour were going to withdraw after the viewing — you have simply saved the Saturday. What it changes is the composition of who turns up: fewer people, further along, and noticeably less negotiation on the points they already knew about. Agents resist this until they run a month of it.

Video Editing × Real Estate & PropTech

Let's talk about your growth constraint.

Every person who books a viewing and leaves in four minutes cost you an hour of agent time. Video's job here is to filter, not to flatter.

Our commitment: Send us your footage and we'll edit two videos free. If they don't beat your current best performer, you owe us nothing.