How UK Estate Agents Are Filling Their Diary from Google
Built around the daily reality of being an estate-agent: you're on a job, your phone rings, you can't answer, you lose the call. We fix the lost-call problem and the not-getting-calls-in-the-first-place problem at the same time.
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Why It's Different for Estate Agents
Estate Agents get a steady stream of calls when their Google listing is sorted. When it is not, it dries up. There is almost no middle ground. You are either visible and busy or invisible and quietly dying.
If you cover accurate property valuations and communication during sales as an estate-agent, your customers are searching for those exact words on Google before they call anyone. Estate Agents who match those phrases on their Google listing pick up the calls before the competitors do.
What We Actually Do
Estate Agents get told the same marketing advice as everyone else, and most of it does not apply. Here is what actually works for estate-agents in 2026. Run by one person who actually knows what he is doing, not an agency where you get passed between five account managers. Website, Google profile, SEO, reviews, missed-call recovery. All done, all reported on monthly.
For estate-agents, the search terms that matter are not "estate-agent" on its own. The buying-intent searches are urgent variations like "accurate property valuations" and "selling speed". We target those exact phrases on your Google profile and on the estate-agent pages of your site.
What Most Owners Get Wrong
When we sit down with estate-agents and look at why the calls have stopped, this is what we usually find. The estate-agent business has reviews, has skill, but is invisible on Google for the right local searches. The phones do not stop ringing because the work has dried up. They stop ringing because somebody else's listing is showing up first. That is the entire diagnosis nine times out of ten.
The Clients We Already Run
In our experience working with estate-agents, this is the part most estate-agent owners do not realise. Google decides who gets called before the customer even sees a price or a review. We are small on purpose. Seven paying clients right now: a mix of plumbers, heating engineers, paving and bathroom fitters across England and Wales. Every one of them we know by first name. Every one of them got a real result inside the first month.
Next Step: A Free Audit
We're not going to chase you with five follow-up emails. Request the audit, read it, and if you want to talk you reply. If you don't, we don't pester. Promise.
The Three Things That Move the Needle
Local SEO and Google Business Profile
Our SEO work is opinionated. We do not chase every algorithm update. We focus on the things that have moved local rankings for the last decade: relevance to the search term, prominence (reviews and citations), and proximity to the searcher. Everything else is noise.
Missed-Call Text-Back
If you cannot answer the phone (because you are on a job), the system automatically texts the caller back within seconds. The reply reads something like 'Hi, can't pick up right now, on a job. What do you need? I'll be back to you within the hour.'. About a third of those texts turn into actual jobs that would otherwise have been lost.
Review Automation
The automation only asks customers we know are happy (most clients filter by job type before we send the trigger). If a customer was unhappy, we route them to a private feedback form instead so the public listing only collects positives.
What It Costs
£299 setup. £449 a month. That covers the website, the Google profile, the reviews, the SEO, the missed-call texts, and a monthly report. Less than £15 a day.
Setup
£299
One-off. Covers your website. Yours to keep forever.
Monthly
£449/mo
Less than £15 a day. One extra sale pays for 8 months.
What's included every month
- Website (included in setup fee)
- SEO management
- AEO management
- Google Business Profile management
- Website updates included
- Monthly performance report
- 4 blog posts per month
- Missed call text back
- Quote follow-up automation
- Review automation
Frequently Asked
What does it actually cost?
One extra sale pays for 8 months. The price is £299 setup and £449 a month. Less than £15 a day. Cancel after the third month if it isn't working out.
What do you actually do every month?
We replace four jobs you would normally pay separately for: web designer (£2k-5k one-off), SEO agency (£500-1,500/month), review automation app (£40-100/month), and missed-call answering service (£50-150/month). All bundled into one price.
Do I need to do anything technical?
No. You do not need to do anything technical at any point. We handle the website, the Google profile, the SEO, the reviews, all of it. The only thing we ask for is information about your business and a few photos if you have them.
What if I already have a website?
Fine. We will migrate it over. The domain stays in your name. The content comes with it. The bits that work, we keep. The bits that do not, we replace.
How long until I see results?
Truthfully, we cannot put a number on it because every business is different. What we can tell you is what happened with our existing clients: most started seeing extra calls from Google within four to six weeks and meaningful ranking improvements by month three.
Can I cancel?
Three months is the minimum because that is how long it takes to do meaningful SEO work. After that you can leave whenever you want. Website yours, domain yours, no exit fees.
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