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Sell the development, not just the units. Marketing that makes buyers and investors want in.

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Marketing agency for residential developers
Residential developers

A residential scheme is sold twice. First to the lenders, agents and investors who get it built, then to the buyers who make it a home. Both audiences meet your development online long before they visit a marketing suite, and both decide fast. Cornerstone builds the digital presence that sells a scheme from first render to final plot.

What makes the timing so unforgiving is that the marketing has to work at its hardest when there is least to show. Reservations taken early are the ones that de-risk the scheme and satisfy the funder, and they are asked for at exactly the point when the only things in existence are a rendering, a hoarding and a promise. Everything published in that period is doing the work the building itself will do later.

The developer's marketing challenge

Off-plan selling is an exercise in confidence. Until the show home opens, your marketing is the product. A dated development microsite, a couple of CGIs and a PDF brochure will not carry a premium price point, and every month a scheme sells slowly is a month of finance costs eating the margin.

There is a second cost to starting late that rarely gets counted. A scheme website published a year out has a year to accumulate search authority, coverage and links, and can own the search for its own name and street by the time the suite opens. One published three months out has three months, which is not enough to rank for anything, so the launch is carried entirely by paid advertising at the precise moment the budget is under most pressure.

What we do about it

How we help residential developers

Until the show home opens, your marketing is the product. It should be built to the same standard as the scheme.

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  1. 1

    Development websites that sell

    Fast, search-visible scheme sites with plots, availability and the story of the place, built to capture and nurture buyer interest.

  2. 2

    From CGI to completion

    Photography and film that document the scheme as it rises, replacing renders with reality the moment it exists.

  3. 3

    Virtual tours of show homes

    360 tours that let buyers walk the show home from anywhere, and keep selling after the suite closes.

  4. 4

    Buyer campaigns

    Google Ads and paid social campaigns tuned to the postcodes, price points and life moments your buyers actually search from.

  5. 5

    The specification, published in full

    Heating, glazing, acoustic performance, EPC, service charge estimate and tenure. Serious buyers look for exactly this and almost never find it, and its absence is read as something being hidden.

  6. 6

    A track record buyers can check

    Previous schemes photographed at completion, next to the renderings that preceded them. It is the most direct answer available to the question every off-plan buyer is silently asking.

Our work

A film of a residential scheme and a 360 tour of a flat

Inglewood MewsOCL1 min 20
The Embassy, Waltham CrossTwo bedroom flatOpen the tour

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What this looks like in practice

Publish something on the day the hoarding goes up rather than waiting for a launch date. The scheme page carries the area written honestly, the specification in full, the team behind it and monthly progress photography from site. None of that requires the building to exist, and all of it answers a question a buyer would otherwise take elsewhere.

Then keep the page after handover. Replace the renderings with photographs of the finished building and write up what the scheme actually became. Developers who do this build a public, verifiable record of delivery, which is what makes the next scheme easier to sell, the next application easier to argue and the next funding conversation considerably shorter.

We work across the built environment, so we speak developer: phasing, sales rates, section agreements and the difference between marketing a scheme and flogging units. That fluency shows up in the work.

Solutions

What do you need?

  1. 1Sell or let the space soonerDevelopers and commercial property
  2. 2Stop paying for clicks that never buyAnyone running ads
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What we bring to the table

From the residential archive

Living room with grey Chesterfield sofa, rug and a dining table by windowsBath and shower with marble panel and white metro tilesBusy evening street with parked vans and blue sky above old buildingsClose-up of olive green fabric with a diagonal herringbone weaveFreestanding white bath between tall radiators below a window in a speckled-tile bathroomCorner view of a modern glazed and stone building next to red brick flatsNarrow view of a bedroom with a grey pouffe and mirror beside the bedPink play tent on a timber floor beside a fireplace and shuttered windowDining table by black-framed glazed doors with rooftops outsideBathroom with built-in bath, stone tiles and a shuttered windowBedroom with tall padded headboard, wallpapered alcove and grey carpetGames room with red-baize pool table below a long drum pendant lightBedroom with wide shuttered window, radiator and a corner fireplaceCrowded pavement with a one-way street sign below lit buildingsLiving room with grey sofa, bay window shutters and herringbone timber floorNew narrow building with lit windows beside red brick flats at duskSitting room with herringbone floor, black fireplace and a bay windowSash window with white shutters above a sheepskin throw and flowers on a chairReading corner with raspberry armchair in front of dark built-in shelvingSteep staircase with downlights and grey treads rising to a landingView through a doorway to a bedroom with a blue chairLiving room with tan leather sofas, blue rug and a brass tripod lampClose-up of a chrome thermostatic shower control on a white wallBedroom with white bed, black fireplace and shuttered bay windowClose-up of a white basin against white brick tiles and marble panelBay window with white shutters, a blue throw and a timber benchBright living room with tan leather sofa, brass tripod lamp and blue wall printsPaved garden courtyard with timber dining set beside a slatted fence and plantersTerrace doors in black frames looking onto a timber-slatted screen and a corridorStreet lined with cars and lit shopfronts below brick buildings at nightCloser view of teal armchairs and a television in a bay-windowed living roomBedroom with white metal bed frame, abstract artwork and a mirrorBedroom with bay window, built-in wardrobes and a grey throw on the bedOpen-plan living and dining space with corner sofa, rooflights and black glazed doorsBathroom with twin white basins on a floating timber vanity and mosaic wallClose-up of a grey textured wall panel with a geometric ribbed patternHigh view along a city street of red brick buildings with shopfronts belowGrey armchair with yellow cushion in a shuttered corner window with blue wallsBathroom with bath and glass screen, mosaic-tiled wall and wall-hung toiletKitchen and dining area with grey cabinets, round table and garden doorsBedroom with fitted white wardrobes, bay window and sheepskin rugBay-windowed sitting room with shutters, blue throw and armchairsClose-up of a grey stone step with a small recessed lightCyclists and a rickshaw passing a church spire on an evening streetTall narrow new building with dark shopfront beside old red brickOpen-plan flat with white dining chairs, pale sofa and a kitchenette behindRed brick Victorian house with gables seen from the front gardenWhite glazed doors framed by brown patterned curtainsNarrow view of a shuttered bay window above a small chaise in a bedroomNarrow fitted kitchen in pale grey with a black hob and light timber floorGrey media wall with wall-mounted television above a white cabinetDining area with pendant lights, panelled wall and a chest of drawersWet city street at dusk with lit shopfronts and a red busClose-up of grey marble stair treads with a brass inlay stripLiving room with teal armchairs, shuttered bay window and antler mountShower with slim rail and handset beside a recessed niche in white tilesLiving room with blue walls, black fireplace, tan leather sofas and shuttered bayNarrow view of a bedroom corner with a teal armchair beside shuttered windowBuilt-in cupboards under a staircase beside a pale tiled hallway floorBedroom with grey bed, shutters on a bay window and a sheepskin rugKitchen with white island, wooden stools, pendant lights and a dark brick wallLiving room with grey sofa and a fireplace on a lime green wallPedestrians crossing a street at night with a church tower beyondLiving room with dark coffee table, round dining table and balcony doorsRoof terrace with timber screens, tiled floor and city skyline at duskWhite bathroom corner with a floral stool and glass shelfLiving room with yellow sofa, fireplace and a dark carved cabinetModern narrow building with glass bays beside Victorian red brick on a city streetClose-up of fitted wardrobes beside a shuttered bay window and sheepskin rug
Questions

Questions we get asked

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Can you work alongside our selling agent?

Yes. We build the digital assets and demand, your agent closes. The two work best together, and we are used to slotting into that arrangement.

Do you photograph developments in phases?

Yes. Progress photography and film across the build, so your marketing keeps pace with the scheme instead of relying on launch-day CGIs.

When should scheme marketing start?

Earlier than most developers think, ideally around the time the hoarding goes up. The people walking past are the first audience the scheme will ever have, and search authority takes months rather than weeks to build.

Is a scheme website worth it for a small development?

Often more so. The searches around a named scheme and its street are almost entirely uncontested, so even a small site can own them, and the cost is trivial next to a month of finance.

What happens to the site once the scheme is sold out?

Keep it live with the finished photography in place of the renderings. It goes on serving resale enquiries and becomes the evidence that sells the next scheme.

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