Commercial Property Agents – How to Attact Property Buyers

In this commercial real estate sales market, you need to find well-qualified buyers and do that effectively and quickly. Conversations and prospecting activity will help you find those customers who want to buy or lease property.

As part of this process, it is worthwhile to sit down with the property seller to brainstorm all the regional property activity and history they have seen recently. You do this by asking specific questions at the time of listing.

Well-directed questions give you a well-directed property campaign. 

In many cases, you can set your sights on finding property buyers. Do that by just taking some of the further steps below.

Local Property Market Intelligence

Provide local property market intelligence to the seller as part of the property listing and appointment process.

They will hire you as a real estate broker or agent for those ideas. 

Do not overlook the market intelligence that the seller could have gained from owning the property for several years.

It is quite likely that the questions below will help you extract more ideas from the property owner and perhaps even highlight the ideal type of buyer that you should be targeting. 

The seller of the property knows the property and the property precinct.

This feedback then makes your brokerage job easier.

Questions to Ask About Purchasers

Key questions to explore to help find the right property buyer:-

Who has a similar property and possible expansion objectives in the area? – This should be all the local businesses in the precinct for the surrounding 1km.

What companies in the region have recently undertaken acquisitions? – Even in a changing property market, some businesses are still going very well.

Look out for these growth segments or needs requiring more property.

• What companies in the area are highly active and quite profitable? Who or what are they, and do they need more space in your precinct?
• What are the competitors of the subject property and its business? Do these competitors need more property to operate from in your area?
• Who are the established contacts that have enquired regards other properties recently from other sale campaigns? Are they still looking for property? Could they look at the new listings coming on the market?
• Who sells to the same customers that the subject property sells to? Could this be a channel for interested buyers?
• Are any existing customers of the property vendor/owner that could be considered potential purchasers of the property today?
• Are there any industry-related executives seeking to move into their property and run a similar business?

Property Targets and Priorities

From the above list, you will achieve an ideal buyer profile for the sold property. Target the best property buyers. Where are they? They are those that are suitably placed to purchase. 

Document the buyer profiles for the seller of the property. Achieve mutual agreement with the client or seller. Target the ideal purchaser profiles in your marketing campaign. 

You should be attempting to profile the purchaser with the following facts in mind:

• both public and private company
• a private individual or investor type
• selected industry
• benchmark equity
• ideal timing
• preferred location
• required cash flow

From this list, build your property promotion.   Understanding real estate buyers is part of and driven by getting more brokerage inquiries today.

Local Area Marketing for Purchasers

The sale of commercial property and a buyer’s location are not just functions of advertising and waiting for inquiries. Gone are the days of advertising the property and waiting for the telephone to ring. 

In this property market, make the telephone ring. As part of that, connecting with local people is a good thing. How can you do that? Conversations every day will help you improve your business opportunities.

The most successful agents and brokers in this market are exploring many channels of property interest for buyers. In markets like this, the targeted market you identify and how you tap into it really matters.