3 Tips On How To Direct Clients To Your Property As A Real Estate Agent

3 TIPS ON HOW TO DIRECT CLIENTS TO YOUR PROPERTY AS A REAL ESTATE AGENT

Once you give directions accurately, then you have mastered an important life skill.

This will help you a great deal as a real estate agent because there are a times when the clients want to pay the site a visit on their own without necessarily wanting to pass by your offices.

Below are tips and hacks that you may refer to so that you can direct your client from the comfort of your offices or homes.

Using Google Maps

Google Maps offer entirely everything as it’s all registered online.

All you will need to do in this case is just drop a pin of the location and share it to your client.

Now it will remain to your clients to follow the pinned location to get to the property. That there is tech!

Referring to Landmarks

If your property is well-developed and has well known social amenities or already set up business centers, then consider using them.

It would be easier that way because directing someone from a known business center will be easier and quick unlike doing so from a totally different unknown place.

In addition to that, you can as well make use of the prestigious surroundings in your area having land that’s close to a much-needed area is always another hack to getting clients, for instance land that’s close to malls, market centers, filling stations, hospitals and even well known schools.

Refer to Proper Grammar When Doing So

Understanding verbs and prepositions when directing is one of the things that will help you when it comes to communicating with your clients.

The secret to cracking this strategy is using short, easily understandable and accurate phrases.

Of course, we all understand that you are a pro when it comes to grammar but in this case, don’t out do yourself your clients don’t want to hear how much of a literature guy you are they want to understand how they can get that land and for the record not everybody even understands English a times you might be forced to switch to their local language or even Swahili so always be flexible and use simple language.

Once you would have mastered how to communicate with your client, the rest will just be a walk in the park.

Always offer Estimations When it Comes to Distance

You are targeting people from all over the country if not all over the world then and of course not everybody knows that area well.

It will be easier if you will offer them an estimate distance to your property from where they are so that they make calculations on how they will plan and be there.

In addition, you can also advise them the shortest route that they might use which is not so bumpy and one that doesn’t have heavy traffic.

Tell them how long it will take, offer the time and the distance that they will need to cover, send them figures.

It’s always the first impressions, the way you handle your clients that go a long way, it’s how people end up getting referrals and even selling out because of how you treated them well.

CLASSIFICATIONS OF LAND AND WHAT THEY ENTAIL.

Referring to the Constitution of Kenya 2010 under article 61, land in Kenya is classified into three categories:

Public Land
Community Land
Private Land
Public Land

Basically, this entails land held by the government or any other public agency for the benefit of the entire public.

This unalienated government land that’s lawfully held, used occupied by any state organ.

Land in respect of which no heir can be identified by any legal process.

All minerals and oil as defined by the law belong to the government, the forests, grazing areas, shrines, government game reserves, water catchment areas, national parks and animal sanctuaries.

All roads, rivers, lakes and other water bodies in the territorial sea, the exclusive economic zone and the sea bed, the continental shelf and any land that is out of bounds.

Public land vests in both the County and National Governments and managed on their behalf by the National Land Commission.

Community Land

This is land held by communities identified by the basis of ethnicity or culture and even having a similar community of interest.

This land entails:

Land lawfully registered in the name of group representatives under the provisions of any law.
Land lawfully transferred to a specific community by any process of law.
Land that’s lawfully held or managed by specific communities as community forests, grazing areas or shrines and ancestral lands.

Community land shall not be disposed of or otherwise used except in terms of legislation specifying the nature and extent of the rights of members of each community individually and collectively.

Private Lands

This is registered land held by any person under any freehold tenure.

This is land held by any person under the leasehold tenure and any other land declared private by law.

Freehold tenure gives the owner absolute rights to do anything they want with the land, and of course in subject to laws and regulations.

Leasehold tenure whereas the owner or the one who is on that specific land doesn’t have rights of owning the land but pays yearly rates to the government.