One of Bristol's biggest names in new homes
ocean may be best known for selling period property around Bristol, but since 2002, we've rapidly established ourselves as one of the biggest names in the new homes market, too.
ocean new homes has been involved in some of the city’s most exciting and original developments, including Airpoint with its fabulous rooftop SkyPark, and also the Paintworks at Arnos Vale which offers a new dimension in creative living. Today, we cover an area that stretches from Plymouth to Birmingham. And our service is equally wide ranging.
Our expert team are completely at home with every aspect of acquiring and launching a new homes site, from legislation and planning to marketing and sales. And we're happy to be involved as much or as little as you want us to be, taking charge of the entire marketing and sales operation, or introducing and managing another local agent. The bigger the development, the more reassuring you'll find it to have ocean new homes on your side.
New homes: the complete service
Pre-launch and marketing
Post-launch and sales
Site office sales
Coming projects
Our aim, quite simply, is to offer new home developers the most complete and professional service available. From acquiring the land to selling the very last unit, we can help to ensure that your development fulfils every bit of its potential.
Pre-launch and marketing
Each site we deal with has its own unique character, and we work closely with our recommended graphics company to create a marketable brand that communicates this to the specific target market.
Whether the land is acquired through ocean or another agent, we re happy to be involved as early as necessary. For example, you may need advice on appropriate unit types and sizes for your target audience or the specification that your purchasers will expect.
We constantly reappraise all our developments to achieve a positive gross development value and maximise our clients' return - keeping clients in the picture with regular marketing updates.
We meet regularly with our clients’ architects and planners to ensure that the goals of the development are fully met. And we're experienced in launching developments of many different sizes - bringing to bear all our sales and marketing experience to create the buzz that will ensure success in a competitive marketplace, using everything from advertising and PR to live events.
The strength of the ocean brand is a real plus in attracting a broad audience. And at each of our eight residential offices and two letting offices, we have well trained and highly motivated sales teams, experienced in off plan property sales.
All in all, with ocean new homes, your sales and marketing are in the best possible hands.
Post-launch and sales
After we have successfully launched and promoted your development, we'll keep the interest alive with consistent and high profile advertising, PR and marketing.
We'll send you a weekly marketing update report, which will give you the exact numbers of buyers looking at the properties on our website, and also of those asking for details online. It will also include the number of people who phoned for details, how many viewed, how many details have been sent, all offers (acceptable or not) and feedback from the applicants. All of this information is vital to the ongoing success of the site.
We have a highly successful and proven reservation process. And we recommend meeting monthly with the client to review sales and marketing, and keep you informed. If necessary, this will also allow us to make any modifications to the marketing strategy.
Each ocean office has its own in house Contracts Coordinator. This allows for a smooth transition of contracts with updates being relayed to the New Homes department weekly. The contracts staff will be in charge of seeing through the reservation to exchange, liaising with both parties' solicitors and purchaser.
Site office sales
Occasionally, a site may require its own on site sales office. Ocean has experience in running and staffing these and have staff especially trained to work on site.
We're happy to help setting up the marketing suite and will support you in any way possible. As the managing agent, we'd be responsible for ensuring full staff cover seven days a week. And our experience ensures we can create exactly the right environment, to complement the character of the development and make buyers feel at home.
You'll receive weekly email updates on all the relevant information, such as number of telephone enquiries, foot traffic and reservations. And, in addition, we recommend regular meetings, to keep everyone up to date with key issues such as sales progress, incentives, build programme and any changes to the original marketing strategy.
Coming projects
ocean new home is going from strength to strength. And this year, we'll be launching over 350 units in Bristol alone.