8 Client Gifts for Their One-Year Home Anniversary

You’ve worked with some great clients during your real estate career — and you would love to add more to the list! All the effort you put into nurturing clients can really pay off when they send you referrals. And a great way to remind your past buyers of their experience with you — and the happiness they felt when closing on their home — is to send them a one-year home anniversary gift.

If you’re considering sending a gift, here are eight thoughtful options that will remind them of you and could help lead to a referral.

1. Send a card instead of a gift

Let’s start with something simple — send a card on the anniversary of your client’s home closing. It’s easy and shows that you’re thinking of them. Sometimes that is all it takes. 

2. Order a personalized address stamp

By the time the one-year anniversary rolls around, your clients will likely be settled into their new home. They’ve most likely purchased what they need to feel comfortable, and there aren’t too many gadgets they require. 

Although it’s not a necessity, sending them a personalized address stamp is a fun way to check in and say hello. And they’ll think of you every time they stamp their return address onto an envelope.

3. Plants bring joy and can last a long time

Flowers are always nice, but a plant — whether it’s inside the house or in the yard — will bring beauty to the home and last longer.

Rather than choosing the plant, a gift certificate to a local nursery or gardening center is a great idea for a client. You’ll be supporting a local business while also giving the homeowner the opportunity to pick the plants, shrubs, trees, or even gardening tools that best suit their taste.opportunity to pick the flowers, plants, shrubs, or trees that best suit their personal taste.

4. Give a gift certificate to a local restaurant

Everyone has to eat — and we all love checking out a local hotspot. See if a new place has opened up recently, and your past clients can be one of the first to try it out. Or give them a certificate to one of the neighborhood favorites. (You can read reviews to see what’s popular in the area.) Again, you and your clients will feel good supporting a local business.

5. A watercolor, acrylic, or cool photo of their home

Capture your client’s home in a work of art. They already love their house, so seeing it drawn, painted, or photographed by a professional artist will be a thrill. It’s a sentimental gift that will promote warm feelings about the home — and the gift giver — you. And there’s a good chance they’ll hang the art on the wall and be reminded of you whenever they pass it.

6. Key fob

Who hasn’t lost their keys at least once (if not once a week)? Send your clients a key finder to help them locate their keys in an instant. There are many choices out there that are affordable and easy to attach. You can bet it will become one of those gifts that keeps on giving.

7. House history

If you’d like a more creative gift, a binder filled with information you’ve collected about their home’s history would be unexpected and unforgettable. Do some digging online and in your local records office to see if there are any interesting historical facts you can dig up about the home. And if you find anything, share it.

If you don’t have the time, ask someone else to do the research for you. Then all you have to do is deliver or mail the documents.

8. Personalized brass wall bell

At the one-year mark, your previous homebuyers probably have all of the essentials. So why not send them something they might not think of purchasing for themselves. A personalized brass wall bell to hang on the outside of their home rings in old-fashioned charm. And along with looking stylish, it may get more use than they imagined — ringing kids home for dinner or letting the neighbors announce their visit.

Don’t waste time scratching your head for the perfect gift for each client. Choose something from this creative list. Your clients will be grateful that you took the time to think of them — and you’ll be top of mind when someone they know is looking for a real estate agent.