Real estate developers and brokers · Customer retention

An owner who bought once will buy again, or tell you when to sell it.

Retention means different things for a developer and for a broker. One keeps the investor who buys into the next project and the owner who speaks well of the handover; the other keeps the landlord who re-lets and the buyer who eventually sells. GullySales builds the owner record and the routine behind both.

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What customer retention means

Customer retention is keeping an existing customer buying again rather than losing them to a competitor after the first purchase, usually cheaper than winning a new customer. GullySales sets a routine of check-ins and renewal reminders aimed at customers before they show signs of leaving.

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For real estate developers and brokers

Where it usually goes wrong, and what we would do.

“The handover, not the booking, decides whether they buy again”
Snags closed properly, documents handed over without three visits, and the association given clean accounts. Investors compare builders on exactly that, and they talk to each other.
“A broker's real asset is the landlord list”
A flat let this year is let again in two years and sold eventually. Brokers who record every landlord, the tenancy end date and the rent agreed are working a list instead of chasing portal leads.
“Loyalty schemes here are mostly a discount with a name on it”
A waiver on the booking amount for a repeat buyer is fine if you were going to negotiate anyway. What actually holds an investor is early access to a launch and an honest word about which tower hands over first.

What we do

What we deliver for real estate developers and brokers.

Every deliverable, what it covers for you, and the result it is there to produce. Nothing here is an extra.

An owner record the company keeps
Every buyer with the project, the unit, the purchase date, whether it was to live in or to let, and how to reach them now.
Result: Your next launch has a list before it has an advertisement.
A handover checklist the buyer can see
Snags logged, dates agreed, documents listed and the association handover set out, shared with the buyer instead of held internally.
Result: Handover stops being the thing owners complain about.
Early access for past buyers at a launch
The pre-launch note, the choice of units and the price band offered to investors who have bought before, ahead of the public campaign.
Result: Part of the tower sells before the advertising starts.
A tenancy calendar for brokers
Every let recorded with the rent, the tenancy end date and the landlord's contact, with a prompt before the agreement runs out.
Result: The re-let comes to you rather than to a portal.
A reason to be in touch between transactions
Progress on their tower, what their locality is renting for now, or a valuation note when they ask, sent with consent.
Result: Owners hear from you without being sold to.
A repeat measure in the reporting
Bookings from past buyers, re-lets from existing landlords and owner-sourced enquiries, set against the baseline recorded before the work starts.
Result: Retention gets counted rather than assumed.

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How the result is measured

Retention rate
Repeat purchase rate
Customers won back

Recorded as a baseline before work starts, so every later report has an honest comparison.

Read the full customer retention strategy page

Work it out from your records

The owner and landlord figures a developer or broker can pull from its own deal files.

Buyers who bought a second unit: From the booking register, find the buyers or families who booked more than one unit, or later bought in another of your projects. Note whether they were investors or end users, and who introduced them.
Owners referred by an earlier owner: Check each booking form for a referral source and count those named by a previous buyer. Include the ones who came at site visit and said an owner sent them. That is retention shown in what owners say.
Handover snags left open: List flats handed over with a snag list, and mark which items were closed and when. Owners with open items will not recommend you, so close them before sending any launch invitation.
Landlords re-let in your area: For a broker, list the landlords you have let a property for and the date the tenancy ends. Ring before it ends. An owner whose tenant leaves with no word from you will list with the next broker.
Past buyers not told about a launch: Compare your invitation list for the last launch with the full list of past buyers. Everyone missing from the first list is a gap to close before the next launch.

Who it is for

This is written for these real estate developers and brokers.

Residential apartment developers
Villa and plotted development builders
Commercial and office space developers
Independent brokers and channel partner networks
Redevelopment and rehabilitation projects
Plot and land aggregators
NRI-focused residential projects
Affordable and mid-income housing developers
Luxury and premium residential developers

Not for

It is not the right fit if.

You have no owner record, so a retention plan would not know whom to reach.
You intend to offer a discount to existing owners for referrals, which is a payment that rules may restrict.
The handover is still in dispute, and a retention message would arrive as an insult.

How it works

How the customer retention work runs

The work itself, in order. How an engagement starts, from your brief to a written scope, is set out on our method page.

1
Read the records
Your sales and billing records are read for repeat purchase, the normal gap between orders and the customers who have gone quiet. The record-keeping gaps found here are listed.
2
Ask why they stopped
A small set of lapsed and current customers is called with your team's consent, and asked plainly what changed. The reasons are sorted into price, service, competitor and circumstance.
3
Build the strategy
The written plan sets priority groups, touchpoints, offers, owners, consent rules and a target.
4
Align existing tactics
Each retention activity you already run is mapped against the plan, then kept, changed or dropped.
5
Start with one group
The plan goes live for the most valuable at-risk group first, with a held-back comparison group, before it widens.
6
Review against the baseline
Retention is compared with the baseline recorded before work began. How often you are reported to is agreed in writing.

Where this fits

Three pieces of sales work, in this order.

This work sits inside sales process design, at stage 7, after the sale. The audit comes before it, and sales management keeps it running.

Step 1
Sales audit
Find where deals are being lost and what to fix first.
Start here if you cannot say where orders are lost.
Step 2 · you are here
Sales process design
One written way to sell, from first enquiry to repeat order.
Start here if every salesperson sells differently.
Step 3
Sales management
A target, a review routine and someone who owns the number.
Start here if the team has targets and no routine.

Tell us what you need Your brief is read before we call. Scope, fee and term in writing.

FAQ

Questions owners ask before they call.

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Tell us what you need

Is a loyalty programme worth running for a developer?

A formal scheme, rarely. People buy a flat once or twice in a lifetime, so points add up to nothing. Early access to a launch and a clean handover do the same job for less than the discount would cost.

How does a broker keep an owner who has already bought?

By being useful between transactions. Tell them what their locality is renting for, handle the tenant paperwork, and ring before the agreement ends. The broker who does that gets the resale. The one who appears only when a listing is wanted does not.

A buyer wants to sell the flat they bought from us. Should we help?

Yes, if the agreement permits transfer, since a resale you handle properly keeps the owner and the buyer on your records. Check the builder-buyer agreement, the society or transfer rules and any dues before you list it.

Can we send marketing messages to people who only visited the site?

Contact them about the project they visited, once or twice, and take them off if they say no. Do not pass their numbers to brokers or other builders. Keep a note of what each person agreed to hear about.

How much does it cost?

There is no price list, because the work differs by business. The fee is scoped after we have read your brief and spoken to you, and put in writing before anything starts, split into our time, your media spend and production.

How long is the contract?

The term is agreed in writing after we have spoken, along with the fee and the reporting. It is never a default twelve months, and renewal is decided on the numbers against the baseline recorded at the start.

How soon will we see results?

It depends on the trade, the channel and what is already in place. After we have read your brief and spoken to you, we say what we would expect to move first and how it will be measured against the baseline. Nothing here is guaranteed.

Who will actually do the work?

The person you speak to before anything starts. We work from one office in Nagarbhavi, Bengaluru, with no account managers in between.

What do you need from us?

Your brief, and a conversation. After that, access to whatever this work touches, such as your website, your accounts or your enquiry record, and time with the people who handle your enquiries.

What if we are not happy with the work?

Tell us and the plan changes. Everything is reported against the baseline, so a number that is not moving is visible to both sides. The term is in your written scope, and the refund and cancellation policy sets out the rest.

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