Last updated: October 31, 2026
More than half of small US landlords have already asked an AI tool for help choosing who manages their property. In a survey of 500 owners of one to ten rental units, fielded December 4 to 27, 2025 by a national polling firm for a property management software founder and the owner of a property management company, 54% said they had used AI tools such as chatbots to find or evaluate a property manager. Another 30% hadn't yet but planned to, which brings the share who have used or plan to use AI for it to 75%. The margin of error is plus or minus 6.1 points.
Those respondents are landlords hiring a management company, so read the number as a related signal. It still describes the people at the end of most proptech funnels: owners, managers and agents who now meet a shortlist in an AI answer before they meet a vendor's website. If the answer files your property management tool under brokerage software, or can't say which listing services you connect to, you lose the deal before the first demo.
Judge a proptech SEO agency by whether it can tell your buyers apart. A good one knows a leasing tool, a brokerage CRM and a commercial real estate analytics platform have different searchers, keeps listing data from turning into thousands of thin pages, and gets your product named correctly in AI answers. Three picks lead below, with six more for narrower needs.
TL;DR
Miraa - Best for proptech software teams that want product-led SEO and AEO on a fixed monthly price and can supply the real estate expertise themselves.
DerivateX - Best for real estate software companies above $5M ARR that want AI answer visibility first, with a reviewed investor CRM project.
Platypus SEO - Best for property management software sold to landlords, especially in the UK, with a dated case on a landlord platform.
GrowPad - Best for proptech teams that want asset-class and role pages at a mid-range price, backed by the longest review record here.
Stratabeat - Best for well-funded property management and real estate software brands that want senior strategy and content.
Growtika - Best for proptech startups unsure which sub-category AI assistants put them in.
Siege Media - Best for consumer-facing real estate and rental marketplaces that need links and content at scale.
Bay Leaf Digital - Best for proptech companies that want an outsourced B2B SaaS marketing team with an AI search package.
Upgrow - Best for proptech companies that want paid search and SEO run by one team.
At a glance
Agency | Best for | Starting price | Proptech proof | Latest in-window Clutch review |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Miraa | Product-led SEO and AEO, fixed price | $2,500/month | No case study; Proptor (facilities software) on its client list | No third-party reviews yet |
DerivateX | AI answers for real estate SaaS | $5,000/month | REsimpli (investor CRM) | Nov 20, 2025 (REsimpli) |
Platypus SEO | Landlord and PM software | Clutch minimum $5,000+ | Landlord Vision (UK) | Aug 26, 2026 |
GrowPad | Asset-class and role pages | $3,000/month (proptech page) | Proptech page; no named or dated proptech result | Oct 12, 2026 |
Stratabeat | Premium strategy and content | $8,000/month (own pricing page) | AppFolio as a client; case undated | Jul 9, 2026 |
Growtika | Sub-category positioning in AI | Clutch minimum $5,000+ | Agora testimonial; no dated proptech result | Jun 15, 2026 |
Siege Media | Consumer real estate brands at scale | Clutch minimum $5,000+ | Pacaso review (Jul 2026); ApartmentGuide and Homebuyer named | Aug 31, 2026 |
Bay Leaf Digital | Outsourced B2B SaaS marketing team | $3,999/month (AI search package) | Proptech page; no named proptech case | Apr 2, 2026 |
Upgrow | Paid search plus SEO | Setup fee plus monthly retainer | Proptech page; no named client | Apr 6, 2026 |
What's different about proptech SEO and AEO
Proptech is several software markets sharing one label. That's the first thing an agency has to understand, and the reason generic SaaS playbooks underperform here.
Buyers split by role and asset class. A residential property manager, a commercial landlord, a brokerage owner, a real estate investor and a short-term rental host all search differently, use different words and compare different vendors. "Property management software" means one thing to a manager of 40 single-family homes and another to a multifamily operator with 10,000 units. Pages need to name the role and the portfolio type, or they attract visitors who never fit.
AI assistants mix the categories. Ask a chatbot for a brokerage CRM and it may include a residential property management platform, or the reverse. When that happens, a good product gets cut from the right shortlist and added to the wrong one. Entity work, consistent descriptions across review sites and partner directories, and pages that state plainly what you are and aren't, all help an AI system file you correctly.
Local and national intent sit side by side. Many proptech searches carry a location ("property management software for Texas landlords", "CRM that integrates with a specific regional MLS"), but the product is national. The temptation is to build a page for every city or state. Most of those pages end up near-identical, which is the pattern Google's spam policies describe as doorway and scaled content. A smaller set of pages that differ in substance, built around the regulation, integrations or market conditions that change from place to place, usually performs better and carries less risk.
Listing data creates duplication. Many proptech products touch listing data from MLS feeds, syndication partners or public records. If your site publishes that data, the same property description may also appear on brokerages, portals and every other licensee's site. Thousands of pages with identical text add little for searchers and can drag down how the rest of the site is judged. A proptech agency needs a clear plan for which data pages to index, which to keep out of search, and what each indexed page adds that the copies elsewhere don't.
Integrations and partnerships are trust signals. Buyers want to know whether you connect to their accounting system, their listing service or their access control hardware. Integration pages, partner directory listings and data partnership mentions help in search and in AI answers, because they're the facts an assistant needs to recommend you for a specific setup.
Regulation changes the calendar. Rent rules, tenant screening laws, tax filing changes and fair housing requirements create sudden spikes in search demand. An agency that tracks them can publish useful pages while buyers are looking. It should never write legal or compliance claims for you; those come from your own counsel.
How we chose
For the wider strategy behind this list, see the B2B SaaS SEO pillar.
None of these agencies was hired for this guide. Everything below comes from each firm's own website and its Clutch profile, all rechecked on October 22, 2026. Each agency other than Miraa had to pass four tests:
Proptech relevance: a proptech or real estate software page, or a named or described real estate technology client, on its own site or on Clutch.
Fresh reviews: a Clutch review dated after November 10, 2025. Only reviews in that window are quoted.
AI search scope: answer engine, generative engine or AI search work sold as a service, next to SEO.
Software, not agents: agencies that mainly market individual brokers, agents or local property managers to consumers were left out, because their buyers and pages differ from a software company's.
Several candidates failed the second test, with their most recent Clutch reviews dated October 2025 or earlier. One had no Clutch reviews at all, two had real estate pages built from a template with no proptech detail, and one showed no AEO or GEO service. Nine passed, so this is a list of nine.
Quoted lines come from the summary Clutch shows at the top of each review. Agency results are repeated only when the agency dates them; an undated case study gets the client's name at most.
Side-by-side comparison
Agency | Services | Pricing | Reviews | Proptech proof | AI search evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Miraa | Product-led, content-led and technical SEO, AEO/GEO and six more | Fixed plans at $2,500, $3,500 or $5,000 a month | No third-party reviews yet | Proptor on its client list, no case study | Salesforge AI citation counts (Ahrefs, Aug 2026) |
DerivateX | SEO and GEO for B2B SaaS | $5,000, $8,000 or $12,000 monthly, plus a $3,500 diagnostic | 5.0 on Clutch, 7 reviews, newest Nov 20, 2025 | REsimpli | REsimpli's reviewer reports outranking competitors on most agreed AI search queries |
Platypus SEO | SaaS SEO and AI search | Not published ($5,000+ Clutch minimum) | 4.9 on Clutch, 7 reviews, newest Aug 26, 2026 | Landlord Vision | Brand mentions built for AI answers |
GrowPad | SEO, GEO, AEO, content | From $3,000 a month, opening with a paid three-month Sprint | 5.0 on Clutch, 39 reviews, newest Oct 12, 2026 | Proptech page only | Featured AI case is undated |
Stratabeat | SEO, GEO, content, websites, CRO | From $8,000, $15,000 to $21,000, or from $22,000 monthly | 5.0 on Clutch, 13 reviews, newest Jul 9, 2026 | AppFolio (undated case) | GEO service; no proptech AI result |
Growtika | SEO, content, AI visibility | Not published ($5,000+ Clutch minimum) | 5.0 on Clutch, 10 reviews, newest Jun 15, 2026 | Agora testimonial | Proptech prompt audit, described as a method |
Siege Media | Content marketing, link building, PR, GEO | Not published ($5,000+ Clutch minimum) | 4.9 on Clutch, 48 reviews, newest Aug 31, 2026 | Pacaso (Clutch review, 2022 to 2026 engagement) | Real estate GEO page; AI result outside real estate |
Bay Leaf Digital | Full-funnel B2B SaaS marketing incl. SEO, AEO, GEO | $3,999 per month (6 months) or from $5,000 | 5.0 on Clutch, 4 reviews, newest Apr 2, 2026 | Proptech page | AI search package described |
Upgrow | PPC, SEO, AEO | Setup fee plus monthly; pages differ | 5.0 on Clutch, 14 reviews, newest Apr 6, 2026 | Proptech page | AEO service page |
1. Miraa
Miraa is a B2B SEO and AEO studio that pairs custom AI agents with human strategists and editors. It has no proptech service page and no real estate case study on its public site. The industries Miraa lists are B2B SaaS verticals such as fintech, HR tech, accounting, logistics and construction software, and real estate isn't one of them. What it offers proptech teams is its general B2B SaaS SEO method, applied to a market where getting the buyer right matters more than volume.
Services
Every Miraa engagement draws on the same ten services:
Product-led SEO: pages built around what each buyer does in the product, such as a leasing manager's workflow or an investor's deal pipeline.
Content-led SEO: topic planning that separates residential, commercial and investor audiences instead of writing one "real estate" cluster.
Technical SEO: indexing rules for listing, location and integration pages, so data-heavy sections don't flood search with near-duplicates.
On-Page SEO: tightening existing pages that rank on page two, from headings to the links pointing at them.
SEO Site Migration: platform and domain moves without losing search traffic.
SEO Website Recovery: diagnosing and fixing traffic drops.
AEO/GEO: work aimed at getting the product described and filed correctly in AI answers.
Content Writing: drafts built from your team's own knowledge, with nothing invented to fill gaps.
Link Building: outreach for editorial links, never paid placements.
Agentic SEO/GEO: custom agents that track rankings, prompts and competitors, with editors deciding what ships.
For proptech, the useful parts are the first three. Miraa says it won't invent a client count or a result for a vertical where it has no public case study, and its construction software work follows a set method: split the audience into separate buyers first, and let a page say less when a claim can't be sourced. A proptech company should expect the same, with a page for each role and asset class and no made-up portfolio sizes, unit counts or integrations.
Pricing
Miraa publishes three monthly plans. Basic Growth is $2,500, Growth+ is $3,500, and Hyper-Growth costs $5,000. A monthly qualified-lead target is attached to every plan. GEO and AI search visibility are part of Basic Growth, and both higher plans include everything in Basic. A site migration is priced separately as a one-time $4,000 project.
Running the numbers
Twelve months of Basic Growth cost $30,000. Move the marketing site to a new CMS in the same year and the $4,000 migration project takes year one to $34,000. Even Hyper-Growth, at $60,000 a year, costs less than a year of DerivateX's entry tier once that tier's citation budget is added ($72,000 to $74,400).
The gotcha is the lead target. Ask how a qualified lead is defined before signing. A demo request from a landlord with one rental and one from a multifamily operator are very different pipeline, and a target that counts them the same tells you little.
Reviews
Miraa has no third-party reviews yet, so there's nothing independent to check its work against.
Clients
Its client list includes Proptor, maintenance and work order software for facilities teams that run malls and multi-site property portfolios. That's the closest Miraa gets to proptech, and it has published no case study or result for that account. Its case studies come from other B2B software. The fullest covers the Forge family of cold-outreach products. Its AI search result belongs to Salesforge, a sales outreach platform in that group. Perplexity cites it 388 times, Gemini 618 and Google's AI Mode 2,100, by the Ahrefs count shown there (Ahrefs, Aug 2026).
The same client's organic traffic is charted below. Ahrefs marks 1 Mar 2024, the start of Miraa's work, at 156 visits. The estimate barely moves through 2024, reaches roughly 40K by mid 2025, sags to about 30K over the winter and then climbs hard through 2026. It peaks a little above 150K and reads close to 105K on 28 Oct 2026 (Ahrefs, Oct 2026).

Salesforge.ai organic traffic, Ahrefs estimate (5-year view to Oct 2026).
Summary
The lowest fixed price on this list with AEO in every plan, and a buyer-splitting method that suits proptech. Proof is the gap, for the reasons under Reviews and Clients.
2. DerivateX
DerivateX is a Bengaluru-based SEO and GEO agency founded in 2024 that works only with B2B SaaS companies, aimed at those between $5M and $50M in annual recurring revenue. It runs a dedicated proptech and real estate industry page, and it has a dated Clutch review from a real estate software client.
Services
DerivateX runs traditional SEO and AI search visibility as one program: technical SEO, content, conversion work and off-site citation building. It splits proptech into six sub-verticals (residential property management, commercial real estate, brokerage CRM, transaction management, investor tools and short-term rental) and argues that AI assistants confuse them. It also makes a point most agencies miss: if an AI answer can't say which MLS systems a brokerage tool integrates with, a broker may rule the product out immediately.
Pricing
Published on its own site: three monthly retainers at $5,000, $8,000 and $12,000, with enterprise scoped separately. The two lower tiers start as a 90-day pilot. An off-site citation budget of $1,000 to $3,000 a month, depending on tier, sits outside the retainer. A standalone $3,500 diagnostic is available, credited against the first month if you move to a retainer within 30 days.
Running the numbers
The entry tier's 90-day pilot costs $15,000 in retainer. Add its $1,000 to $1,200 monthly citation budget and the quarter runs $18,000 to $18,600. That tier includes 18 on-page assets per 90 days, so each asset costs a little over $1,000 once placements are counted.
The diagnostic has a clock on it. Sign a retainer inside 30 days and the $3,500 comes off month one. On day 31 it's a sunk cost. Teams below the $5M ARR floor DerivateX sets for itself will feel the pilot most.
Reviews
Clutch 5.0 from 7 reviews. The latest is dated November 20, 2025, from the Head of Marketing at REsimpli, a CRM for real estate investors, who calls the agency's plan for outranking competitors from every angle "pretty impressive." The reviewer reports outranking competitors on most of the agreed AI search queries during an August to November 2025 project.
Clients
REsimpli, a CRM for real estate investors, is its one named real estate client, through the Clutch review above. Other named clients on its Clutch profile include Gumlet and Verito, outside real estate.
Summary
The only agency here with a named real estate software client and a dated review describing AI search gains. That client is an investor tool, so property management and commercial platforms are still untested ground.
3. Platypus SEO
Platypus SEO is a small SaaS SEO agency, founded in 2025 with a team of two to nine people on Clutch. It publishes a detailed case on Landlord Vision, a UK property management platform for portfolio landlords.
Services
SEO and AI search for SaaS, built around what it calls revenue-first organic search: discovery, keyword research by intent and funnel stage, an SEO and AI search audit, a three-month plan inside a 12-month strategy, and execution by a senior operator. For Landlord Vision it paired comparison and alternatives pages with link building from property-data publishers and brand mention building aimed at sources AI answers tend to cite.
Pricing
Not published. Clutch lists a minimum project size of $5,000+.
Running the numbers
That $5,000 is the smallest project Platypus will take, and it says nothing about monthly cost. The Landlord Vision work ran as a three-month plan inside a 12-month strategy, so the fair comparison with GrowPad's $3,000 floor or Miraa's $2,500 plan is a written 12-month quote. Ask who the senior operator on your account will be, too. The whole team is two to nine people.
Reviews
Clutch 4.9 from 7 reviews, latest August 26, 2026. It comes from the head of digetiers, a German consulting and knowledge graph firm, and credits the team with understanding how search works in that firm's industry. A December 10, 2025 review from the founder of Workever reads: "Platypus SEO is hardworking and organized, and maintains excellent communication." Landlord Vision also reviewed the agency on Clutch, but that review predates the window.
Clients
The Landlord Vision engagement ran 12 months from the third quarter of 2025, aimed at UK portfolio landlords. The agency reports more than 235 keywords in top Google positions and a 50% rise in keyword visibility across middle and bottom-of-funnel terms. It leaned into UK-specific needs such as Making Tax Digital, and it recommended adding a free trial after spotting that the site relied only on demo requests. Over the twelve months, the agency reports SEO-attributable revenue up 76% and purchases up 90% year on year.
Summary
The most detailed public proptech case on this list, with a clear period. It rests on one UK client.
4. GrowPad
GrowPad is a B2B SaaS SEO agency based in Ukraine and Spain, founded in 2020, with a dedicated proptech page covering property management, commercial real estate, leasing and real estate software.
Services
SEO, GEO and AEO, content and outreach, reported as demos, sales-qualified leads and pipeline. Its proptech pitch centers on the long software comparison real estate operators go through, and on pages by asset class and buyer role, such as multifamily, student housing and investors. It also targets operators at the point where their current platform stops scaling and they start comparing alternatives.
Pricing
GrowPad quotes $3,000 a month as the starting point for proptech programs, and every engagement opens with a paid three-month Sprint covering the audit and strategy. Link placements and analytics setup are quoted separately. On Clutch, its SEO packages start at $2,000 a month with a $1,000 minimum project, so ask which figure applies to a proptech program.
Running the numbers
If the Sprint bills at the $3,000 proptech floor, you spend at least $9,000 on audit and strategy before the first program month starts. Links and analytics setup sit on top of that. A seed-stage team with $2,000 a month should ask whether the Clutch package price can cover a proptech program, because the proptech page itself starts higher.
Reviews
Clutch 5.0 from 39 reviews. The newest, dated October 12, 2026, is from the CMO of ABM Cloud, who says GrowPad reviews the whole site, from product pages down to author pages and case studies.
Clients
No proptech client is named. The featured AI visibility case on the proptech page is anonymized and gives no dates, so its numbers are left out. The page's other real estate example is a custom software development firm, not a proptech product, and that project ran January to October 2025, before this guide's review window.
Summary
A proptech-specific method backed by the deepest review record here. You'd be buying that method on the strength of general SaaS reviews.
5. Stratabeat
Stratabeat is a Boston-area B2B marketing agency founded in 2011, offering SEO, GEO, content, website design and conversion work. Its packages are the most expensive published prices on this list.
Services
SEO and GEO services, content strategy and development, Reddit marketing, B2B websites and conversion optimization. Each package comes with a dedicated strategist who handles two to four client accounts, backed by CRO and content specialists.
Pricing
Stratabeat publishes three tiers: Start-Up from $8,000 a month, Scale at $15,000 to $21,000, and Dominate from $22,000, with no long-term contract. Clutch shows the same three price points.
Running the numbers
Start-Up costs $96,000 over a year. Scale runs $180,000 to $252,000. The strategist on your account handles two to four clients, so at any tier you may share that person with up to three other companies. A Series B property management platform can carry a six-figure search line. A seed-stage leasing tool spending $96,000 on one channel can't.
Reviews
Clutch 5.0 from 13 reviews, latest July 9, 2026, from the Head of Marketing at a wealth management software company, who describes the team as "collaborative and smart." That reviewer credits direct sales to AI search. A February 23, 2026 review from LBMC, a professional services firm, reports a 500% year-over-year rise in fourth-quarter form submissions and website opportunity revenue.
Clients
AppFolio, the property management software company, appears on its client list, and Stratabeat's portfolio has an AppFolio case covering SEO, blogging and paid search. The case gives no dates, and the homepage and Clutch overview describe its outcome with different numbers, so none are repeated here.
Summary
Senior strategy and a well-known property management client, at the highest prices on the list. Its proptech AI search work isn't documented.
6. Growtika
Growtika is an Israel-based SaaS SEO and AI visibility agency founded in 2019, with a dedicated proptech sector page.
Services
SEO, content and AI visibility work. The proptech offer has four parts: an AI visibility audit across more than 500 proptech queries covering property management, construction tech and commercial real estate analytics; entity work so AI places a product in the right sub-category; integration citation signals from ecosystems such as CoStar, Yardi and Procore; and ROI-focused content formats such as case studies, benchmarks and cost-benefit analyses.
Pricing
Not published. Clutch lists a minimum project size of $5,000+.
Running the numbers
The audit covers more than 500 proptech queries. If each one is checked in three assistants, a single run produces 1,500 answers, and a weekly cadence makes that 6,000 a month. Ask who reads them and how the results roll up by sub-category, since that roll-up is what shows whether you're filed as property management or construction tech. With no public price, get the audit quoted on its own before any retainer.
Reviews
Clutch 5.0 from 10 reviews, latest June 15, 2026, from the VP of Marketing at wisor ai, a quoting tool for freight forwarders, who singles out how quickly the team learned a niche, technical market. Organic leads went from a few in early 2024 to over 90 during January to June 2026, by that account, and the one request is for reporting that's a little more proactive.
Clients
The proptech page includes growth and ranking figures for real estate software terms, but names no client and gives no dates, so they're left out. Its testimonials include the CMO of Agora, which sells real estate investment management software, though the page doesn't present Agora as a proptech case.
Summary
The most specific page here on the sub-category problem. No named or dated proptech result supports it yet.
7. Siege Media
Siege Media is an Austin-based content and SEO agency founded in 2012, with 50 to 249 staff on Clutch. For real estate, it markets itself as a GEO agency.
Services
Content marketing, link building, digital PR, design and GEO. It also recruits real estate publishers and creators for affiliate programs, so a brand is mentioned on sites that AI answers already cite.
Pricing
Not published. Clutch lists a minimum project size of $5,000+.
Running the numbers
Pacaso's engagement ran from April 2022 to June 2026, about 50 months of content, briefs, photography and tools. That's the kind of commitment Siege's model is built around. A B2B proptech company budgeting the $5,000 Clutch minimum would be buying a small slice of it, so ask what one quarter delivers on its own.
Reviews
Clutch 4.9 from 48 reviews. The newest, from August 31, 2026, comes from a content director at an online therapy company and reports a 400% rise in AI visibility on tracked prompts. A July 10, 2026 review from Pacaso's director of paid digital advertising reads: "Siege Media's organization and documentation procedures are very impressive."
Clients
Pacaso, a second-home co-ownership company, is the best-documented. Its Clutch reviewer describes an engagement from April 2022 to June 2026 covering blog content, briefs, photography and interactive tools such as a second home mortgage calculator, and reports gains in organic impressions, visits, engagement and lead conversions without giving figures. The real estate page also names ApartmentGuide, a rental listings site, and Homebuyer, a mortgage startup, but its case figures carry no dates and aren't repeated here.
Summary
The strongest named real estate client list here. Every name on it is a consumer brand, and its links-and-content model suits marketplaces more than a niche property management tool.
8. Bay Leaf Digital
Bay Leaf Digital is a Texas-based B2B SaaS marketing agency founded in 2013 that works only with software companies. It runs a dedicated proptech marketing page.
Services
A full-funnel marketing team: SEO strategy, GEO, content, PPC and retargeting, paid and organic social, video, lifecycle marketing, CRM and marketing operations, and website work. For proptech, it divides the market into tenant experience, smart building and IoT, brokerage and agent tools, and transactional platforms and marketplaces. It also makes a practical point about field adoption: many property teams aren't at a desk, so pages need to show the product works on site and on mobile.
Pricing
Published on its own site: an AI search package at $3,999 a month for a six-month engagement, covering a baseline of AI visibility, technical signals and authority building, and a full-service Growth Partner retainer from $5,000 a month. Clutch lists a minimum project size of $5,000+.
Running the numbers
The AI search package commits $23,994 across its six months. Switch to Growth Partner for the second half of the year and you add at least $30,000, so year one lands at $53,994 or more. Because many property teams work from phones, ask whether mobile page work sits inside the $3,999 package or only in the full retainer.
Reviews
Clutch 5.0 from 4 reviews. The latest is dated April 2, 2026, from an executive at Tratta, a payment platform for debt collection agencies, who calls Bay Leaf "a great culture fit." The reviewer reports more traffic, leads and brand exposure from a year of website, SEO and content work. The other three reviews date from 2019 to 2022.
Clients
The proptech page doesn't name a real estate client or publish a proptech result. Its Clutch reviews and portfolio come from other industries.
Summary
Fits a proptech company with no marketing team of its own. The sub-market thinking is good, and there's no proptech case behind it.
9. Upgrow
Upgrow is a San Francisco and San Diego performance marketing agency founded in 2018, best known for paid search, with SEO and AEO alongside. It runs a proptech page aimed at SEO and paid media for real estate technology companies.
Services
Paid media across Google, Bing, LinkedIn and social, plus SEO, technical SEO, content, link building and AEO, each with its own service page. Its proptech service covers conversion tracking, audience segmentation, landing page work and SEO items such as schema, internal linking and indexing fixes. Its lead and return-on-investment claims name no client and no period.
Pricing
Published with a setup fee plus a monthly retainer for both paid media and SEO management. Its published price list and its proptech pitch give different SEO monthly figures, worked through below. Clutch lists a minimum project size of $10,000+ and an hourly rate of $200 to $300.
Running the numbers
Upgrow's general pricing lists SEO and AEO management with a $3,000 setup fee and $5,000 monthly. On the proptech page the setup matches and the monthly line reads $6,000. Over twelve months that's $63,000 or $75,000, a $12,000 gap from one agency. Work outside the retainer, such as extra landing pages for a paid campaign, bills at $200 to $300 an hour, so get those hours quoted before the campaign starts.
Reviews
Clutch 5.0 from 14 reviews, latest April 6, 2026, from the Director of Demand Generation at EventMobi, an event management software company: "Upgrow is data-driven in the strategies they recommend." The reviewer reports an 80% rise in total revenue and a 58% rise in new customers from paid search work.
Clients
No real estate client is named in its proptech material. InfluxData appears among the clients on its homepage, and its Clutch reviewers include EventMobi and BioRender, all outside real estate.
Summary
Suits a team that wants paid and organic search planned together. Paid is the stronger half, and the review record shows it.
Questions to ask about local pages, programmatic pages and listing data
Most agency pitches skip these topics, and they're where proptech sites get into trouble. Ask them before you sign.
On local and location pages:
Which location pages would you build, and what will be different on each one?
How do you decide between a page per state, a page per metro and no location pages at all?
What happens to location pages that don't earn traffic after six months?
On programmatic and template pages:
Which page types do you plan to generate from data, and how many?
What information will each generated page carry that no other page on the site has?
Will you index them in stages, and what result tells you to stop?
The guide to programmatic SEO for B2B SaaS covers the test each template should pass.
On listing data and duplication:
Which listing, property or market data pages should be in search, and which should be kept out?
How do you handle descriptions that also appear on portals, brokerages and partner sites?
If an MLS or data partner's terms limit display or indexing, how does that change the plan?
On AI answers:
Which prompts will you track for each buyer role and asset class, and what do AI answers say about the product today?
How will you get AI assistants to state the right integrations and sub-category?
Which third-party sites do AI answers cite in this category, and how will you earn mentions there?
An agency with a real proptech process will answer these specifically. Vague answers about "scaling content" are a warning sign, because scaled location and listing pages are exactly what search engines discount.
How to choose: start with your situation
You sell to landlords or residential property managers: Platypus SEO for its landlord platform case, or GrowPad for asset-class pages at a mid-range price.
You sell to real estate investors or brokerages, and AI answers matter most: DerivateX, if you're above $5M ARR and can fund the citation budget.
You want product-led pages and AI work on a fixed, lower budget: Miraa, as long as your team can supply the real estate expertise it doesn't yet have.
You're well funded and want senior strategy: Stratabeat.
You're not sure which category AI assistants put you in: start with Growtika's proptech prompt audit.
You run a consumer-facing marketplace for rentals, home buying or co-ownership: Siege Media.
You have no marketing team and want one outsourced: Bay Leaf Digital.
You spend heavily on Google Ads and want SEO run alongside: Upgrow.
When you weigh proof, rank it this way: a dated result for a named real estate software client (Platypus's Landlord Vision), then a dated Clutch review from a real estate client (DerivateX's REsimpli, Siege Media's Pacaso), then a described method (GrowPad, Growtika, Bay Leaf), then a services list. Treat an undated case study as a sales claim until the agency tells you when the work happened. For how to measure progress yourself, see the guide to measuring AI search visibility.
FAQ
What makes proptech SEO different from regular SaaS SEO?
Proptech serves several distinct buyers, including property managers, landlords, brokers, investors and commercial owners, and AI assistants often confuse their categories. It also carries listing data and location intent that can easily turn into thousands of duplicate pages.
Should proptech companies build a page for every city?
Usually not. Build location pages only where something real changes by place, such as regulation, integrations or market data. Near-identical city pages add little for searchers and match the pattern Google's spam policies describe as doorway and scaled content.
How much does a proptech SEO agency cost?
Published prices on this list start at $2,500 a month (Miraa), or $30,000 a year, and Stratabeat's highest plan starts at $22,000 a month. Three agencies publish only a Clutch minimum, which sets a project floor and says nothing about the monthly fee.
Do AI assistants recommend proptech software?
Yes, and buyers are using them. In a December 2025 survey, 54% of small US landlords said they had used AI tools to find or evaluate a property manager. In a November 2025 Clutch review, the Head of Marketing at REsimpli, a CRM for real estate investors, reported that DerivateX's work outranked competitors on most of the agreed AI search queries.
Should listing data pages be indexed?
Only when they add something other sites don't have, such as your own analysis, pricing history or tools. Pages that repeat the same feed everyone else publishes are better kept out of search.

