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Harcourts Property Specialists

Video as the qualifying step, not the decoration.

+35%
Enquiry-to-sale conversion
Suburb-level
Local search targeted where a focused agency can win
Qualifying
Video watched as a conversion signal, not a vanity metric
HPReal Estate
The challenge

In residential real estate a listing is won or lost in the first few seconds, and static galleries were not converting browsers into inspections. The deeper problem was qualification: open homes fill with people who were never going to buy, while the genuinely interested buyer three suburbs away never gets a real sense of the property. Meanwhile suburb-level search — where every serious buyer starts — was dominated by larger competitors with bigger budgets, so the agency was being outspent on precisely the queries that matter most in a hyper-local category.

Our approach

We built a video-first funnel where video does the qualifying work. Listing walkthroughs are delivered fast over CDN so they play instantly rather than buffering away the first critical seconds. YouTube was treated as a search surface in its own right — titled, described and structured to be found by people searching suburbs and property types, not just as a hosting service. Hyper-local SEO and Google Business Profile work targeted the suburb-level queries where a focused agency can genuinely outrank a national brand. Geo-targeted campaigns put listings in front of the specific streets that matter. Video engagement is tracked as a conversion signal: watching a walkthrough to the end is a far better predictor of a real enquiry than a page view.

Technical & delivery

AWS CloudFront video delivery for instant playback · YouTube optimised as a discovery surface · hyper-local SEO and Google Business Profile management · real-estate structured data · geo-targeted campaigns at street level · GA4 video-engagement tracking as a conversion signal.

Commercial result
+35%
Enquiry-to-sale conversion
Better-qualified
Inspections drawn from buyers who watched through
Street-level
Media placed on the streets that matter
Winning local search
Suburb-level
Queries where focus beats budget
Dual-surface
YouTube optimised as search, not just hosting
Structured
Real-estate schema for search and AI answers
How video is measured
Completion
Watch-through predicts enquiry better than page views
Segment-level
Which parts of a walkthrough hold attention
Instant
CDN delivery protects the first critical seconds
Data, measurement & AI in this engagement

Engagement analytics identify which properties and which segments of a walkthrough hold attention, which informs both how the next video is cut and which listings deserve media weight. Geo-targeting is refined against the areas actually producing qualified enquiry rather than assumed catchments. Real-estate schema keeps listings machine-readable for search and for AI answer surfaces now summarising local property questions.

Where this goes next — the AI opportunity

Automated first-cut listing videos and multi-language versions generated from agent footage, with the agent approving every final edit. A property is the largest purchase most people make — nothing goes out unreviewed.

Stack & channels
AWS CloudFront · YouTube SEO · Local SEO · GA4
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