Performance marketing for developers
Real Estate Marketing Agency in India
We fill your sales office. Your media buyer fills their reporting deck. We’re the difference.
We run performance marketing for real estate projects across India, focused on cost per site visit and bookings, not vanity metrics. Built for builders who need a sales pipeline, not a slideshow.
- CPL Cost per lead
- CPQL Cost per qualified lead
- CPSV Cost per site visit
- CPB Cost per booking
We report on the last two.
The problem
Most real estate marketing agencies optimise for clicks. Buyers don’t buy clicks.
Here’s how it usually goes. You hire an agency. They run campaigns. At the end of the month you get a deck with a cost per lead number on it, and the number looks good, so everyone nods. Then your sales team tries to work the list. Nine hundred contacts don’t pick up. Eighty pick up and say they never enquired. Five are actually looking.
The problem was never lead volume. It was never even cost per lead. It was always the question nobody was being paid to answer: how many qualified buyers actually walked into your sales office this month?
That’s the number we work to. We call it cost per site visit (CPSV), and every decision runs backwards from a booking: which platform gets the budget, which creative survives the week, which lead gets called first, how fast the follow-up goes out.
All of it is judged on one question: are serious buyers showing up at the site?
What we do
Five practices, each one accountable for a site visit
They work on their own and compound when you run them together.
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Performance marketing and paid campaigns
We buy media on Meta, Google, YouTube and programmatic inventory, and optimise it for site visits rather than form fills. Creative, targeting, bidding and landing pages stay in-house so nothing gets lost in a handoff.
- Meta lead ads and instant forms, with qualification built into the form
- Google Search and Display for buyers already looking
- Budget that follows CPSV, moved weekly, not quarterly
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Real estate SEO and AEO
Buyers search your project name, your locality, your competitors and your price band. Then they ask an AI assistant the same questions. We build the pages that answer both.
- City landing pages built to rank, not to fill a sitemap
- Schema markup so AI engines can quote you instead of a listing portal
- Long-form content that earns topical authority in your market
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Creative and brand
Advertising that tells buyers what the product actually is. Curiosity traffic is cheap and it wastes your sales team’s afternoon.
- Static and video creative built for conversion, not the awards entry
- Segment-specific messaging: an NRI investor and a first-home buyer need different ads
- Tested against site visit rate, not click-through rate
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Lead nurturing and response
The pipeline does not end at the form fill. It ends at a booking. We build the layer in between, and speed is most of it.
- WhatsApp Business API automation with sub-60-second first response
- CRM integration, real-time routing and automated nurture sequences
- Lead scoring so your sales team calls the right person first
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Project launch marketing
A launch window is short and it does not come back. We plan the whole arc, from waitlist to absorption.
- Pre-launch waitlist and teaser campaigns that build a real enquiry bank
- Launch-week media planning across platforms and channel partner comms
- Post-launch campaigns for the inventory still sitting in month four
Why developers trust us
Accountable to the number that matters
The CPSV framework
We measure the whole funnel (cost per lead, per qualified lead, per site visit, per booking) and report on the last two. Every rupee is tracked to a buyer who physically walked onto your site.
MahaRERA-compliant advertising
Every creative carries the project’s RERA registration number and QR code. We check compliance before the ad goes live, not after a notice arrives.
Claims we can source
When we quote a market number it comes from published research such as JLL India, ANAROCK, Cushman & Wakefield or Knight Frank, and we name the source.
Where we work
India’s major real estate markets
Mumbai Metropolitan Region
South Mumbai to Thane, Navi Mumbai and Kalyan–Dombivli, each with its own buyer.
Pune
Hinjewadi, Wakad, PCMC and the growth corridors, where workplace proximity drives the decision.
Bengaluru
A research-heavy buyer who wants evidence before a site visit, not lifestyle creative.
Hyderabad
Fast absorption, heavy NRI participation, appreciation-corridor positioning.
Delhi NCR
Gurugram and Noida luxury and commercial launches.
Who we work for
Six kinds of project, six different campaigns
Residential
Apartments and housing, mid-segment to premium.
Commercial
Offices, retail and warehousing, sold to a buyer who runs the numbers.
Luxury
Brand authority that holds the price point through negotiation.
Township and plotted
NA plots, villas and integrated communities.
NRI
Gulf, US and Singapore buyers, across time zones and trust gaps.
Redevelopment and SRA
Society consent, rehab and sale components: a different campaign entirely.
In one sentence
What is Cost Per Site Visit (CPSV)?
Cost Per Site Visit (CPSV) is a real estate marketing metric that measures how much a developer spends to bring one qualified buyer to the physical project site. Unlike CPL (Cost Per Lead), CPSV filters out uncontactable, unqualified and unresponsive leads, which makes it a far more accurate indicator of campaign return and sales pipeline health.
FAQ
Everything you need to know about real estate marketing in India
What does a real estate marketing agency do?
A real estate marketing agency plans and runs the campaigns that bring buyers to a developer's project — media buying on Google and Meta, creative production, landing pages, SEO, lead follow-up systems and CRM integration. A specialist agency differs from a general digital agency in what it is accountable for. It works to site visits and bookings, because a property sale happens on site, not in a browser. It also handles the things generalists miss: RERA advertising compliance, channel partner communication, and launch-window planning.
How much does real estate digital marketing cost in India?
Cost depends on three things: your media budget, the number of projects, and how much of the funnel the agency owns. Media spend is the larger line — developers typically allocate a percentage of project revenue to marketing, and the agency fee sits on top of that as a monthly retainer or a percentage of spend. Ask any agency for a projected cost per site visit at your proposed budget. If they can only quote a cost per lead, you're buying a report, not a pipeline.
What is the difference between a real estate marketing agency and a general digital agency?
A general digital agency optimises for cost per lead because that is the metric most industries are judged on. In real estate, a lead has almost no value on its own — the purchase takes weeks of consideration, a physical site visit and a financing decision. A specialist agency is built around that cycle: intent-based targeting, instant response infrastructure, site visit tracking, RERA compliance and channel partner coordination. Same platforms, completely different definition of success.
What is CPSV and why does it matter more than CPL?
CPL tells you what you paid for a phone number. CPSV tells you what you paid for a buyer standing in your sales office. A campaign can deliver a ₹200 CPL and produce almost no site visits, while a ₹900 CPL campaign fills your weekend. The difference is lead quality, and CPL is blind to it by design. We track the whole chain — CPL, cost per qualified lead, CPSV, then cost per booking — and we hold ourselves to the last two.
How long does it take to see results from real estate performance marketing?
Paid campaigns produce leads within days and site visits usually within the first two to three weeks, once targeting and creative have had a round of optimisation. Bookings follow the buyer's own decision cycle — commonly 30 to 90 days from first enquiry, longer for high-ticket and NRI buyers. SEO works on a different clock: expect three to six months for meaningful organic movement, and treat it as the channel that lowers your paid cost later.
Which cities does Softex Media work in?
We work across the Mumbai Metropolitan Region — Mumbai, Thane, Navi Mumbai, Kalyan–Dombivli and Mira–Bhayandar — and across Pune, including Pimpri-Chinchwad, Hinjewadi, Wakad and the plotted corridors towards Lonavala, Karjat and Panvel. We also run campaigns for developers in Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Delhi NCR. Our on-ground depth is strongest in MMR and Pune, and that is where most of our work sits.
Can you run campaigns for both residential and commercial projects?
Yes, and they are run differently. A residential buyer is making an emotional and financial decision about where to live, so creative and site experience carry a lot of weight. A commercial buyer is evaluating yield, tenant demand and exit — so the campaign leads with numbers, floor plates and catchment data. We also work on plotted developments, integrated townships, luxury and ultra-luxury launches, NRI-targeted campaigns, and redevelopment and SRA projects.
How do you handle MahaRERA advertising compliance?
Every advertisement for a registered project in Maharashtra has to carry the MahaRERA registration number and the project's QR code linking to its MahaRERA listing. We build that into the creative template before anything goes live, across every format — Meta, Google, hoardings, brochures and landing pages — and we keep a record of what ran where. For projects outside Maharashtra we follow the relevant state authority's advertising rules. Compliance is a legal exposure you carry, not the agency, so we don't leave it to chance.
What platforms do you run real estate ads on?
Meta (Facebook and Instagram) for volume and retargeting, Google Search for buyers already in market, Google Display and YouTube for reach across a long consideration window, and programmatic for corridor-specific targeting. For NRI campaigns we add geography-specific placements and time-zone-aware follow-up. Alongside the media, we run WhatsApp Business API automation, because the platform that captures the lead is rarely the one that converts it.
How is real estate SEO different from regular SEO?
Real estate search splits into three very different intents: project-name searches from buyers who already know you, locality and budget searches from buyers still shopping, and comparison searches between developers. Each needs its own page type. The market is also dominated by listing portals, so a developer or agency site wins on depth, corridor-level specificity and original data rather than on volume of content. Local signals and schema markup matter more than in most other categories.
About Softex Media
Real estate is the only industry we work in
Softex Media is a real estate marketing agency based in Pimpri-Chinchwad, Pune, working with builders, developers and property brands across MMR, Pune, Bengaluru and Hyderabad. We started because the standard agency model in this market was selling developers the wrong number, lead volume, and everyone downstream was paying for it.
Every system we’ve built is shaped by how property actually sells.
We don’t chase leads. We drive bookings.
Ready to fill your sales office?
Tell us about your project. We’ll tell you what CPSV is achievable and how we’d get there.