How Real Estate Agents Can Use WordPress: A Real Estate WordPress Theme

By Cory Miller

In order to demonstrate how WordPress could be used by real estate agents and brokers, we decided to drum up a demo version … here’s a screenshot that’s linked to a live demo of our Real Estate WordPress Theme.

Here are a couple of reasons we think a custom WordPress theme would be a good solution for real estate agents:

Affordable, really affordable — Compare to the cost of typical website design, and a custom WordPress theme is extremely affordable
Easy to use and update — WordPress is extremely easy to use and update, allowing the agent to be control of his/her content
Capitalize on local search – Because of WordPress’s ability to get your blog/site indexed quickly, you can focus on funneling those local search inquiries straight to your site

These are just a couple of reasons … check out our Real Estate WordPress Theme here.

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8 Responses

Albert Says:
August 12th, 2007 at 10:21 pm

Have you released this theme? I like it alot. From the css it looks like this theme is GPL.

Cory Miller Says:
August 13th, 2007 at 5:57 am

Albert, no, right now it’s not being released as a free theme …

Thanks for the catch though … I’ve changed the stylesheet.

webcosmo Says:
August 30th, 2007 at 10:50 am

Another good thing with wordpress is it makes the posts visible to search engines.

Peter Says:
September 25th, 2007 at 4:23 pm

It looks really awesome. Congratulations for the idea, I find it brilliant!

Helmut Says:
November 23rd, 2007 at 8:29 am

WordPress has that magic power to deliver updates to Google via its RSS, and believe me, it works fast. At the moment i stick to Joomla for estate site..

Rick Says:
December 30th, 2007 at 11:26 pm

Wordpress seems to be the most popular tool for real estate and finance related websites. Besides Wordpress, are there any other good alternatives?

The Home Directory Says:
February 24th, 2008 at 2:05 pm

Responding to the post above, many people now are using an open source CMS (Content Management System) called Joomla but I find it a lot more complicated then wordpress and they have just about the same options.

Zack Katz Says:
April 22nd, 2008 at 4:19 pm

Your design is good, but it seems like you’ve not including the whole part of how to set up WordPress to handle real estate listings.
Using your template is a great start, but it’s important to set up the structure of the site properly as well.
I’ve written part 1 of a tutorial series that could be used in concert with your template: Building a Real Estate Website in WordPress - Part 1.

Check it out, and let me know what you think!