Plenty of Ancoats and Salford Quays owners have never lived in the flat they rent out, so the manager they pick is the one who answers first.
Many Manchester apartment owners are investors who live elsewhere and pick a managing agent from a website and a phone call. HeyLead runs Google Ads, SEO, Meta ads and landing pages aimed at those owners in the boroughs you cover, and keeps tenants looking for a flat away from the owner form. Each lead is tracked to a rental appraisal and a signed management agreement, reported in pounds with VAT shown separately. Your redress scheme membership and client money protection stay with you.
What we do
SEO, Google Ads, Meta and web design each have a Manchester page. Here they are aimed at owners who could hand you a property to manage.
Pages and listings that appear when people nearby search Google for what you do.
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Paid search ads that reach people searching right now, reported against the calls and bookings they produce.
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Facebook and Instagram ads for offers that need reach, including ads shown again to people who visited your site.
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Pages built to turn a visit into a call, form or booking.
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Call and form tracking, so you can see which ad or search produced each lead.
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Optional link to your customer system, so signed work flows back into your reports.
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Who we work with
Independent managing agents with a book of city-centre apartments in Ancoats, NOMA and the Northern Quarter
Lettings firms looking after investor-owned houses in Salford, Stockport and Trafford
Agents that handle selective licensing applications and renewals for landlords in licensed wards
Student and HMO managers around Fallowfield, Withington and Rusholme who want better landlord enquiries
The local picture
Your market
Manchester's rented stock runs from off-plan apartments in Ancoats, the Northern Quarter and Salford Quays, through Victorian terraces in Longsight and Levenshulme, to semis in Sale and Stretford.
Many apartment owners are investors who live elsewhere, sometimes abroad, and they choose a manager on website evidence alone. The rules give you things to show.
Managing and letting agents in England must belong to a government-approved redress scheme and hold client money protection, which covers rent and deposits an agent holds.
Some wards in Manchester and Salford sit under selective licensing, which adds duties for the landlord that agents are often asked to handle. Greater Manchester also has a voluntary Good Landlord Charter that agents can support.
Owners read all of this as a sign of who is safe.
Your customers
The lead you want is an owner with a property let or about to be let who asks for a rental appraisal or a management quote.
Typical searches are management plus a district, letting agent fees, managing agent for a block apartment, and switching searches such as change letting agent. Tenants on Rightmove, Zoopla and OnTheMarket looking for a flat belong to your listings, so we keep them out of owner campaigns.
We skip landlords who only want a tenant found, unless you sell that service, and we cut deposit, guarantor and student sharer searches. Reports show owner calls, appraisals booked and signed management agreements by district, in pounds.
Our approach
Each district you cover gets an owner page: a plain fee table, what full management includes, your redress scheme and client money protection details, and how you deal with licence applications where a ward needs one.
An appraisal form asks whether the property is already tenanted and whether the owner lives abroad, so a valuer can call with the right script. Google Ads runs on owner terms, with tenant words blocked.
Meta ads reach investors with short guides, for example what a managing agent does when a city-centre block has a service charge dispute, then show a reminder to people who read them. SEO pages answer the questions owners type before they pick a firm.
Building stock
Off-plan and build-to-rent apartments in Ancoats and Salford Quays, Victorian terraces in Longsight and Levenshulme, and family semis in Sale and Stretford
Listing sites in this market
Rightmove, Zoopla, OnTheMarket
Licences you show on your page
Redress scheme membership and client money protection for managing agents in England, plus selective licensing where a Manchester or Salford area requires it; all of this stays with the client.
Common mistakes
Most Manchester rental searches come from tenants, and one shared form turns your inbox into a stream of viewing requests. Owner enquiries sit unanswered for a day and go to the next agent. Separate owner pages, and ads that block tenant words, keep valuers focused on the people who can sign.
An apartment owner abroad cannot pop into your branch. They judge you on clear fees, named staff, reviews from other landlords and how you report. A thin page loses them. A page showing your process, your compliance and feedback from real landlords wins the call.
Landlords in a licensed ward face conditions that landlords in Didsbury do not. One generic page ignores that worry. Ward-aware pages that explain how you support applications and renewals speak to it directly.
How it works
We start with the parts of Greater Manchester where you already manage homes and can reach a tenant or contractor quickly, such as Ancoats, Salford and Chorlton.
Fees in plain terms, your redress scheme and client money protection, licensing support and owner reviews you hold go on each district page.
Search and Meta ads aim at landlords and investors, with tenant searches and listing portal traffic left out.
Monthly reports follow each lead from first call to appraisal to signed management agreement, by district, in pounds.
Searches
These are the searches your pages and ads are built around, and what each person is trying to do.
| They search | What they want |
|---|---|
| property management Salford Quays | Investor comparing managers |
| letting agent fees Chorlton | Landlord price check |
| change letting agent Manchester | Switcher unhappy with current agent |
| selective licence help landlord Manchester | Licensing worry, agent support |
| managing agent city centre apartment | Flat owner seeking block-aware manager |
Testimonials from HeyLead clients
HeyLead was able to quickly bring structure and order to our Search Engine Marketing campaigns. Their methodical approach turned around our SEM performance and allowed us to demonstrate the ROI from the programs. They brought innovations to the table that increased the visibility of the online journeys our prospects and customers were taking.
Paul Liddiatt
Chief Marketing Officer, NewBook
I've worked with HeyLead for over a decade. There is no one else I'd trust with lead generation and IT. I've tried others, to my detriment. If you want someone who is dedicated and trustworthy, you couldn't pick someone better.
Andrew Woodruff
CEO, Woodruff Property Management
FAQs
Questions Manchester managing agents raise before they hire us.
Ask which agency can show signed management agreements rather than clicks. Check how it keeps tenant searches out of the owner pipeline. HeyLead builds owner-only campaigns and reports by district in pounds.
Give them a page that does the job of a branch visit: named people, fees, a sample monthly statement and reviews from other owners. Video calls for the appraisal help. Reply times matter more than price for this group.
If you handle applications for landlords, yes, because it is a live worry for owners in licensed wards. Describe what you do and point to the council for the rules. HeyLead is the marketing team, not a licensing adviser, so the detail comes from you.
Tenants are a separate campaign with its own page, budget and goal, usually viewings on your own listings. We keep it apart so it never distorts owner results. Some firms skip it and rely on the portals for vacancies.
Your redress scheme, client money protection certificate, any professional body membership and how deposits are protected. Owners look for these before they fill in a form. We place whatever you hold in view.
No. Our team works online, so a Manchester office is not part of the service. We run campaigns around the boroughs your team covers and talk by phone or video.
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