WhatsApp for real estate.
In short
Property businesses get real value from WhatsApp on site-visit confirmations and reminders, which are utility templates and cheap. The hard part is consent: a lead bought from a property portal has not opted in to WhatsApp from your agency, and treating portal leads as a broadcast list is the single most reliable way to have a number reported. Opt-in has to be collected in your own enquiry, naming your agency.
Why it works here
The cheap messages are the valuable ones.
A site visit confirmed and reminded is a site visit that happens, and a missed one costs a whole Sunday. The channel suits a long, high-value decision — but only for people who asked to hear from you.
Where consent comes from
From your own enquiry form, your own site visit register, or a conversation the buyer started. A portal lead list is not opt-in, and neither is a number scraped from a listing — the portal collected consent for itself, and cannot pass it on.
The full opt-in rulesThe messages
What to send, and what it costs.
Meta prices by category, so which category your message lands in matters more than almost anything else you can control. Utility is a small fraction of marketing.
How Meta charges-
Site visit confirmed, with the address and the time.
UtilityAbout an appointment they made. Cheap, welcome, and it prevents a wasted weekend.
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Reminder the evening before, with directions.
UtilitySame appointment, and the one that actually gets people there.
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Documents received for a named unit.
UtilityA transactional acknowledgement in a process full of paperwork and anxiety.
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A new project launching in a named locality.
MarketingMarketing rate, marketing opt-in, opt-out button — and only to people who asked about that locality.
The mistake
Specific to this trade
The follow-up cadence
Property follow-up is built on persistence, and persistence reads differently on WhatsApp than on a phone call. A buyer who enquired once and gets a message every second day does not answer and does not block — they report. Reports drive the quality rating down and the sending limit with it, and the restricted number is the one the whole agency runs on. Follow up when there is something new to say; use the phone when there is not.
Prices and availability sent on WhatsApp are quoted in writing and will be shown back to you. A reason to be accurate, and a reason not to let an automation send either.
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Free to open, and nothing to pay until you send.
Meta bills you directly for the messages. We charge a prepaid fee per message for the software — no subscription, no per-seat charge, no minimum top-up.
