Industry SEO · Canary Wharf
SEO Services for Estate Agents in London
You are not going to outrank the property portals on houses for sale, and you should not spend money trying. The searches worth owning are the ones portals cannot serve: what a property is worth, which agent to instruct, and what it is actually like to live in a particular street.
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Written by the HyperLedger IT SEO team · Last reviewed October 2026
How your customers search
What search looks like in your sector
Buyers and renters start on the portals. Sellers and landlords start on Google, searching valuations, agents in an area and how much their property is worth. Those are the searches that produce instructions.
London area searches are tightly drawn. People search by neighbourhood, sometimes by street or development, almost never by borough and never by London alone.
Searches we would go after for you
- estate agents in [area] London
- free house valuation [borough]
- sell my house [area]
- letting agents [area]
Examples, not a finished list. The real one comes out of your site, your margins and what your competitors already hold.
The work
What we actually do
Every engagement starts with an audit, so this list gets reordered once we have seen your site. Nothing here is theoretical.
- 01
Valuation landing pages
The highest intent page you have, built to convert and tracked properly.
- 02
Genuine area guides
Written with real local knowledge for the areas you actually cover, not generated from a template.
- 03
Sold and let archives
Structured so expired listings build authority instead of producing errors.
- 04
Landlord and lettings content
Compliance changes, yields and management questions, which attract clients who come back every year.
- 05
Branch profiles
Business Profile for each office with a review flow that keeps pace with the competition.
Before you start
What the results page looks like today
The better agency pages in this market have all reached the same conclusion: do not fight the portals on property listings, win the instruction side instead. They quote two to three months for long-tail area pages and four to six for a steady flow, and they openly call out anyone promising page one in thirty days. That matches what we would tell you.
We would rather tell you which positions are realistic now than sell you a target we both know is years away.
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What you can check before you hire us
Our Europe office is on Westferry Road, on the Isle of Dogs. We run SEO for estate agents and for businesses in other sectors across London and the UK, and the points on this page come from working on sites like yours rather than from a template.
A real office in London
214 Westferry Road, Canary Wharf, London E14 3RR. You can visit us, and you always know who is doing the work.
A registered company since 2019
HyperLedger IT, CIN U74999HR2019PTC079922, with offices in India, the UK and the UAE.
Our developers make the changes
Technical fixes get built and shipped by our own team, so they do not sit in a list waiting for someone else.
No ranking promises
Nobody can promise a position in Google, and we will not pretend otherwise. We commit to the work, the timeline and honest reporting.
Your accounts stay yours
Search Console, Analytics and your Business Profile are set up in your name. If we part ways, you keep the history.
Month to month
After onboarding, our SEO retainers run month to month. We would rather keep you with results than with a contract.
FAQs
Estate Agents SEO: common questions
If yours is not answered here, email us and we will reply properly.
Can we outrank Rightmove and Zoopla?
On property searches, no. On valuations, local guides and agent searches, yes, and those are the ones that bring instructions rather than browsers.
Can SEO reduce our portal spend?
It can reduce dependence over time by bringing instructions directly. We would be cautious of anyone promising you can drop the portals, because buyers still start there.
How many area pages should we have?
Only as many as you can write properly. Five strong ones beat thirty templated ones, which actively hold the site back.
How long until we see valuation requests?
Long-tail area pages can move in two to three months. A steady flow usually takes four to six. Anyone promising page one in a month is overselling and the better agencies in this market say so too.
Does this work for lettings as well as sales?
Yes, and landlord searches are often less contested while producing clients who stay for years.
London
Europe office
Nearest stations: Mudchute and Crossharbour. Meetings by appointment.
+44 7393 122979