Most real estate ad roundups are mockups. These are not: every ad in this collection is a real Meta ad from a working agent, brokerage, or developer, pulled from our library with engagement score and days running attached. Realtor marketing that photographs well and realtor marketing that generates seller leads are usually different ads, and the run-time data is how you tell them apart.
Real estate is a lead-economics vertical: listing promotion, home valuation offers, and open house creative all compete for some of the most expensive clicks on Meta. When a brokerage keeps an ad running for months, its cost per buyer or seller lead works, and that is a funnel signal you cannot read off a screenshot.
Three formats dominate sustained spend: walkthrough video with the agent talking (trust and inventory in one asset), "just sold" proof creative with numbers ("sold 40k over asking in 9 days"), and home-valuation lead magnets for the seller side. Interior photo carousels still work for listings, but the agent-on-camera format is what compounds, because it sells the next listing too.