CHALLENGE
Real estate developer preparing to enter the urban residential market needs clear understanding of target customer, competitive offerings to create market leading.
SOLUTION
- Work with client to clearly define target customer.
- Facilitate product development meetings with client, target customers, and real estate agents defining product strategy: unit size, features, benefits, and price point.
- Collaborate with client, architects, engineers, and designers refining design for compact, high feature, high detail, mid-priced urban living spaces.
- Enhance value offering - Recommend expanded parking capacity. Mount AC compressors on roof enabled high-efficiency HVAC on narrow inner-city site.
- Develop marketing and sales practices and materials - Dedicated on-site sales agent, promotion to real estate agents, customer information materials, and pre-arranged mortgage financing.
RESULTS
Sold-out initial project in one week at 23% above average local price per square foot. Developer received multiple investor inquiries about upcoming projects.
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