Paid Advertising · Google Ads

Google Ads for multifamily communities that pay for themselves.

Search captures renters already looking in your submarket, so it produces the fastest tours and is almost always the first channel to fund. We run it portfolio-wide from a single Google Ads manager account (an MCC), so every community is visible from one login, measured in signed leases.

What we run

Three campaign types, one honest report

Search

Own your name and your submarket

Brand campaigns kept separate so nothing else takes credit for your own community. Exact-match discipline as occupancy climbs; broad-match discovery during lease-up.

Performance Max

Volume without cannibalizing brand

Brand exclusions applied so PMax can't scoop your branded searches and flatter its own numbers. Conversion signals filtered to tours and applications.

Remarketing & Display

Bring back the tour that didn't book

Audiences you own, built in your account. Concession pushed into the ad the day it changes, so a returning renter never sees last month's offer.

In Jamesday Marketing Pulse

Impression share lost to budget vs. lost to rank

The one number that answers "should we add spend here." Search ads took 58% of eligible impressions across the demo portfolio; 11% was lost to budget and 14% to ad rank. More money fixes the first. Only better ads fix the second.

  • Spend, leads, and cost per lead by community, daily
  • Pacing against each property's monthly target
  • Brand vs. non-brand split, so PMax is graded honestly
  • Alerts when conversion tracking breaks
Next step

Three ways in. Pick the one that fits.

Straight answers

Questions about Google Ads for apartments

How much should an apartment community spend on Google Ads?+

It depends on the size of the community, the market, and whether it is in lease-up or stabilized. A lease-up carrying dozens of vacant units can justify several thousand dollars a month because every week of delay costs real rent, while a stabilized community holding 95% occupancy usually needs a much smaller budget aimed only at replacing natural turnover. The right way to set the number is to work backward from how many leases you need and what a lease currently costs you to acquire, not from a percentage of a marketing budget.

Will Performance Max cannibalize my brand searches?+

Left alone, yes. PMax will happily serve on searches for your community by name and report them as its own conversions, which makes it look far better than it is. We apply brand exclusions to every PMax campaign and keep brand search in its own campaign, so the number you see for PMax is the number it actually earned.

Do we keep the account if we leave?+

Yes. Every campaign is built inside a Google Ads account you own, under your billing, with your conversion history and audiences. If you leave, you remove our access and everything stays exactly where it is. There is no proprietary platform to migrate off.