What is a lead? It appears that there might be a bit of a disconnect between what a lead is, and what real estate agents think a lead is. So today we will break down that wall and discuss the realities of what an online real estate lead really is.

With sites like Zurple, Zillow, Redfin, and Realtor.com, consumers have more power over their home search. They can begin their online search one week, 2 months, or years before they’re ready to work with an agent. And this can have an adverse effect on your marketing budget. If you generate leads online, chances are you’ve captured leads that don’t plan on buying or selling months or even years from now. To focus on your transaction-ready leads, you’ll need to weed out those that will likely never return to your website. Continue reading to uncover what percentage of real estate leads are never likely to return to your website.

As the final part of the Discovery-Stage Buyers & Sellers Study we’ll be revealing how to push online home buyers and sellers from the Discovery-Stage into the Consideration-Stage. As a quick recap Discovery-Stage real estate leads are those that are in the beginning stages of buying or selling their home. They’ve just begun their home search and are not yet serious about their move. Consideration-Stage real estate leads are those that actively searching for a home and ready to work with an agent. The Zurple Products Team spent hours analyzing the messaging that ultimately pushed millions of buyers and sellers out of the Discovery-Stage and into Consideration. Continue reading to learn what marketing moves a prospect down the sales funnel, specifically from the Discovery-Stage and into the Consideration-Stage.

According to experts, the home buying journey takes anywhere between 11-27 months. This makes it more and more difficult for agents to weed out the transaction-ready buyers and sellers from the not-so-ready. In this study we’ll be revealing the peak activity window of leads in the "Discovery-Stage" or awareness-stage of their journey. Continue reading to find out how long discovery-stage real estate leads are actively searching on an agent’s website.

Do you know how much time real estate leads are spending on your website? Average dwell time and average session duration are important metrics for assessing the overall effectiveness of your real estate website. In this article we’ll be explaining what average dwell time and average session duration is, in addition to the average dwell time and session duration of real estate leads in the Discovery-Stage.

Note: Discovery-Stage Real Estate leads are those that are in the beginning stages of their home search and are not yet ready to commit to a move. For more information on what Discovery-Stage Leads are, visit our Discovery-Stage Buyers & Sellers Study introduction here.