January 26 2012
Ricardo Bueno is back with another great post from the Diverse Solutions blog.
The truth is, you can take almost any generic WordPress theme and design a good looking real estate blog with it. What you need to identify is, does this theme contain all of the features that I require in a functioning real estate website? Or do I have to download a series of plugins and customize it to make it work the way that I want it to?
So here’s where I would start… Take a look at a series of real estate websites from your competitors and elsewhere, then ask yourself:
…from there, you can start to shop around for a suitable real estate theme that has everything you need it to do.
What other features do you look for in a real estate website?
Here’s a short-list of four functioning WordPress themes for real estate. With your help, maybe we can add more recommendations to this list and update this post?!
A lot of careful thought and consideration went into building out this WordPress theme for real estate. You have a featured slider, IDX integration, a carousel to add links to your neighborhood category pages, and even a “Featured Listings” section to add your own listings side-by-side.
It might take some time to set up your site just as the demo appears, but everything just about works right out-of-the-box. And they have a great community support forum to help you out along the way.
You can purchase the AgentPress WordPress theme for real estate here.
Live examples of AgentPress in action:
While this theme isn’t real estate specific, I did find one real estate agent who’s using it for his real estate website. What I like about it, is that it emphasizes the email sign-up. Which as you know, means better lead generation.
So you might write an ebook titled something like:
Then, what if you placed an image of your ebook with that headline and Call To Action to subscribe. Think anyone would be interested? (You bet they would!)
Here’s a live example of Generate Theme in action:
You can purchase the Generate Theme for WordPress here.
This one has elegant/luxury real estate written all over it. It contains just about all of the same/similar features as the AgentPress theme listed above and again, it has IDX integration so IDX data is properly styled and ready to work right out-of-the-box.
You can purchase the Realty’ de’Classique WordPress Theme for real estate here.
This one is a bit more expensive than the others referenced above, but what I love about this theme is that it really puts emphasis on the “home search” by creating a search menu that spans across the top of the site from left to right. It’s properly styled and the listing display really puts emphasis on the property photos and details (they’re displayed in a very large format).
You can purchase the Estate WordPress Theme for real estate here.
Do you have a specific WordPress Theme for Real Estate that you like? Drop a link to it in the comments for me and I’ll update this post…
To view the original article, visit the Diverse Solutions blog. They regularly post consistently excellent content.