Improve enquiry conversion, strengthen follow-up, and raise standards across the full customer journey, including New Homes Quality Code (NHQC) compliance.
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Testimonial
We have a number of measurement programmes that Customerwise deliver for us. Tam and the team provide us with a professional, flexible and efficient service, which is backed up with a sophisticated online portal that gives us real insight into areas of our business, enabling us to consistently support our onsite team and improve upon customer experience.
Tam and her team are always on hand to swiftly answer and provide solutions to all our queries and I can highly recommend their services.
Miller Homes
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How we helped a premium Home Builder improve staff communication of quality and increase key sales behaviours along with sales and revenue
Why Mystery Shopping works so well in property
Choosing where to live is a high-stakes decision. Prospects notice responsiveness, clarity, professionalism, and whether they feel listened to.
Mystery Shopping gives you clear, practical insight into what is really happening across sites and channels, including the details that quietly win or lose sales (and lets).
Built around the full enquiry cycle
Most programmes are designed so that enquiries reflect a realistic enquiry journey. Journeys can start with a phone call or online enquiry, or with an unannounced drop-in visit to a marketing suite or show home. In many cases, a representative mix of both works best. After the main sales consultation, we then monitor follow-up activity (for example, phone, SMS and email) and include all details in each enquiry report. So, reports generally cover:
- Online enquiry or telephone call
- Appointment booking and pre-visit comms
- Sales office / show home visit or viewing
- Post-visit follow-up (phone, SMS, email)
Multi-stage journeys are where oversight and infrastructure make the difference. We design programmes and thoroughly brief our shoppers to keep experiences realistic and consistent from start to finish. Using our own telephony systems, we can facilitate follow-up calls, SMS and voicemails, and include recordings and activity logs within reports.
What we assess
- Speed and quality of response: How quickly and professionally enquiries are handled.
- Needs discovery and qualification: Whether teams ask the right questions and tailor the conversation.
- Accuracy and clarity: Pricing, incentives, availability, process, and next steps.
- Sales experience: Confidence, warmth, trust-building, and professionalism.
- Appointments, viewings and show home visits: Welcome, presentation, and the quality of the tour.
- Follow-up: Timeliness, relevance, and whether momentum is maintained.
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Mystery Shopping for Property – elements and approaches
Telephone and online Mystery Shopping
We can test telephone and online stages on their own, or more often as part of a realistic full enquiry journey. This includes:
- Website user experience and information clarity
- Web enquiries and form handling
- Email handling, response quality and follow-up
- Booking, confirmation, and follow-up calls, plus voicemails
- SMS messages
Video Mystery Shopping
Video Mystery Shopping is widely used in this sector because it captures the detail that matters in face-to-face sales conversations and tours, including presentation standards across show homes, marketing suites and teams. Video footage is invaluable as a basis for coaching and also for understanding and improving the standards of visual presentation throughout the on-site experience. In the vast majority of cases, video footage of on-site interactions is delivered with a detailed, scored report (though, if requested, the footage can be delivered on its own).
Audio-recorded Mystery Shopping
Audio recording is a strong option for clients who don’t want to use Video Mystery Shopping. Audio recordings capture exactly what was said, including tone and confidence. Recordings make a real difference where conversation quality drives outcomes, providing the clarity needed for effective coaching and performance improvement. In the vast majority of cases, audio recordings of on-site interactions are delivered along with a detailed, scored report, although if requested, recordings can be provided on their own.
Report-based Mystery Shopping
This is the traditional, straightforward approach, where the client receives a written report but not footage or recordings. This is normally the method used when personal data is not being collected or cannot be lawfully collected. This includes situations where the client arranges for enquiries to be made with businesses that have not given their consent (for example, competitors).
Compliance (internal and external standards)
For home builders, Mystery Shopping can help you assess compliance requirements alongside internal standards and brand expectations, with relevant elements built into the programme design.
Where relevant, programmes can also include FCA-focused checks.
NHQC pre-audits
We provide NHQC pre-audits to help you prepare for formal audits. They assess readiness across sites, identify gaps early, and give you a clear, prioritised plan to strengthen compliance ahead of assessment.
Kaizen Action Plans (turn feedback into documented action)
Kaizen Action Plans help you move from insight to improvement reliably and quickly. Actions are assigned, progress is tracked, and outcomes remain documented in one place.
Competitor Mystery Shopping
Competitor Mystery Shopping helps you to understand how your enquiry handling, sales experience and follow-up compares to other operators, and where you can gain an edge.
Data collection (using Mystery Shopping)
Where needed, Mystery Shopping can be used to gather structured data at scale, consistently and reliably.
Other services
In-moment customer feedback
In-moment feedback complements Mystery Shopping perfectly. Together, these two services form the basis of our integrated feedback solutions.
In-moment feedback can be captured via physical terminals and/or using signage containing QR/NFC prompts to provide a steady stream of feedback from real customers at key touchpoints. In-moment feedback provides large volumes of small-parcel data, each piece of feedback “stamped” with time, date, and location.
The cutting-edge HappyOrNot reporting platform collates this feedback and presents it to you as easily understood, actionable and constantly updated performance data.
In-moment feedback helps you easily identify patterns, trends, and associations you would never otherwise see (e.g., by site, time period, stage, team, or staff member).
Mystery Shopping perfectly complements this constant flow of high-volume data by helping you look at the details and investigate the “why” behind the numbers.
Customer Interviews
Surveys
Website competitor studies
A website competitor study provides a structured comparison of your website with competitor sites, using feedback from a recruited sample that matches your target customer profile. It helps you see where customers get stuck, what builds confidence, and what competitors do better at key decision points. These studies can be a powerful way to help you improve lead generation.
Strategic Consultancy
We’re here to help you turn insight into a practical plan and effective action. That might include prioritising actions, shaping training interventions, improving processes, or updating and aligning stakeholders around what “good” looks like.
Why Customerwise
Customerwise delivers high-quality Mystery Shopping with rigorous project design, strong oversight and reporting that drives improvement. We brief and coach shoppers carefully, keep journeys realistic across multiple stages, and tailor reporting to what different stakeholders need.
Schedule a discovery call or call now on 01392 984224.