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How to Write Real Estate Slogans

Along with the logo, the slogan forms the core part of your brand’s identity. A strong logo is crucial in the world of real estate where standing out from the intense competition can make or break your brand.

We’ll look at how to write real estate slogan and share some tips on coming up with your own.

1. Identify Who You Really Are (And What Matters to You)

The first step in any slogan writing process is introspection.
It may be a far stretch from coffee-fueled copywriting sessions you probably imagined (thanks in no small part to Mad Men), but your average copywriter is likely to spend more time mulling over a brand and its values than throwing around clever quips and witty one-liners.
This is because before you can even think of creating a catchy slogan, you first need to thoroughly understand your business, its mission, and its value proposition.

Let’s flesh this out a bit.
  • Your Business: What does your business really offer? Who are your primary customers? Do you seek to sell affordable housing to low-income home buyers, or do you target high-end properties and wealthy buyers? It is criticalthat you understand these fundamentals before you can come up with a slogan.
     
  • Your Mission: What does your business truly seek to achieve? You should be able to sum up your mission in one sentence, for example: “To provide affordable housing to low-income customers with zero compromises on service”, or “Deliver luxurious living tailor-made to client requirements at highly competitive rates”.
     
  • Your Value Proposition: This is what you bring to the table and what sets you apart from the competition. What makes your real estate company different from the rest? Are you obsessive about customer service? Or do you seek to use only the best construction materials? Identifying your value proposition is crucial as it will dictate the direction and content of your slogan.

2. Adopt Time Tested Values

Understand that when you’re in the business of selling homes, you are also in the business of selling dreams and fulfilling aspirations. For most, buying a home will be the single biggest purchase they’ll ever make. In this context, adopting time honored traditions and values makes not just business sense, but helps with the slogan writing as well.

Ideally, your slogan should evoke trust, honesty and solidity. While you can throw in some fun and humor in there, it need not be the singular focus of your slogan (unless you are targeting a very niche demographic). Your customers won’t take buying a home lightly; neither should you.

In fact, you’ll notice this trend in the slogans of most non-commodity businesses – insurance, banking, and B2B services (see below for examples) – all of which evoke feelings of confidence and reliability. It is fun when your deodorant slogans and beer ads are funny and whimsical, but when your bank starts talking like the Old Spice Man, you should start worrying!

If you do decide to be quirky and funny, make sure that you do it with complete faith and confidence. Nothing kills humor than a half-hearted, unsure attempt at a joke.

3. Mind the Logo

Your slogan will seldom be displayed in isolation. Most of the time, it will form a part of a whole along with your logo. Take care to select a slogan that complements the logo instead of contradicting it (and vice versa). Just as a pair of red sneakers can’t go with a tuxedo, a wacky logo with a sophisticated slogan sticks out like a sore thumb.

4. Be Clear

There’s an old saying among copywriters: “Be clear, not clever”.
Essentially, this means that clarity supersedes cleverness. Your customers should have a clear and immediate idea of what your company is about from your slogan; the cleverness can come later. As we will see in our examples below, this is a rule adopted by tons of business from the real estate world and beyond.

Of course, this rule isn’t set in stone; plenty of businesses have succeeded with cleverness where clarity failed them (especially in consumer goods businesses where humor and cleverness get rewarded). For the most part, however, choose to be clear instead of being clever.

In the same vein, always pick a shorter logo over a longer one. This not only helps with clarity, but also ensures that your slogan remains memorable (besides benefiting the design by fitting underneath the logo).

5. Don’t Be Generic

The worst thing you can do for your slogan is to be generic. No slogan is better than a dull, generic one like “Best Homes in Portland!” or “Finest Homes in Portland”. Your customers should carry a positive impression about your business from your slogan, not associate it with uninspired, unimaginative tripe.

6. Focus on the Benefits

This is one tip every copywriter swears by: focus on the benefits, not the business. Customers don’t care how long you’ve been in business or how many industry awards you’ve won. They care about how you can help them. Tell them exactly how you can help them buy the home of their dreams, and they’ll love for you it. Drone on about how you’ve been in business and how many homes you sold last year, and you’ll lose them.
 


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