8 Ways to Get More Clients in Commercial Real Estate Agency

In commercial real estate it is easy to spend too much time with current clients or prospects, and little time in finding new ones.  When this happens your leads and listings tend to slow and will eventually stall.  For this reason you must have some systems on the go that will help you find more new clients.

There are always new people to connect with in our industry.  The ways to tap into them are simple and yet systemised.  Here are some tips to help you with that ‘client growth’ requirement:

1. Look for pressure points within the market.  Some property owners will be experiencing tenant changes, higher vacancies, renovation pressures, and financial changes.  The list goes on and will change during the year.  Look for the clients that need help in adjusting to prevailing market conditions.
2. Track the other real estate agent boards for both sales and leasing.  When they put a new board up on a property, you should contact the owners around it and in the same general area.  There is likely to be another property owner nearby that would like to compete with the existing listing.  You can help them with that ‘competition’.
3. Do a street by street canvass through your territory.  Meet the business owners and track down the property owners.  This does take an organised process but the rewards are many when you stay fixed to a system of contact.
4. List quality properties as a general rule.  The quality properties will give you better rates of enquiry from buyers and tenants.  When you control the listings you control the enquiry.
5. Offer special marketing solutions that are unique and relevant.  These marketing solutions will help you when it comes to presenting and pitching your services.
6. Build a database of relevance.  It is very hard for a client to ignore your database if it is strong and large.  Use your database as leverage in your presentation to the client.  Show the client the size of the database and give them an indicative ‘short list’ of potential people you would like to quote their property to when the listing is signed.
7. Referral business will be available when you connect with the clients and contacts that you have served well in sales and leasing.
8. Ask for property management business from those clients, buyers, and landlords that are involved with sales and leasing activity.  A great sales or leasing outcome is a reason to quote your property management services.

There are always new ways to get clients. Some will work for you and others will not.  Decide what you can do in that regard and adopt a daily process to build your database of clients.