Building a website for a Real Estate business is probably a daunting task for a realtor. Not only does it need to be designed with seduction and professionalism in mind, but there are technical challenges involved too.

Typically you’ll need a designer and a programmer and about $5000 to help you build such a website, but with Wordpress, a Wordpress theme and a few smart decisions you can achieve the whole thing for under $100.

Wordpress Themes for Real Estate Websites

First off, if you don’t know what a Wordpress Theme is, check out Step 3 of our 14-step guide. Essentially, it’s a pre-built website or blog design that you buy for between $20-$75 and upload into Wordpress.

Recently, there have been a bunch of new Real Estate themes for Wordpress appearing on the market. And they come in 2 shapes and sizes. There’s the single user version which allows a sole realtor to set up his or her own website. Then there are multi-user themes that let you manage a team or group of realtors. Let’s take a look at some of the best new Real Estate Wordpress themes.

New Real Estate Wordpress Themes

Our 3 favorite themes come from Gorilla Themes and Studio Press. All 3 are beautifully designed and offer the functionality and layouts you’d expect from a real estate site.

Agent – Real Estate Wordpress Theme

The Agent Wordpress theme is classic real estate. Some of it’s features include:

• Smooth rotating featured home area with beautiful transparency for the description.
• Example categories that show you how you would break down listings by price.
• Large photography used in the category templates.
• Layouts for detailed property listings.
• Photo gallery layout – we’d actually like to see this work with Lightbox type functionality, but you can achieve that easily if you install the ShadowBox JS plugin we mention in Step 4.
• 6 page templates that cover the required elements of a real estate website.
• Multi-agent template.

Here’s a preview of how the Agent real estate Wordpress theme looks:

Visit the Studio Press website for a live demo of this real estate Wordpress theme.

Bel Air – Real Estate Wordpress Theme

Both of the real estate themes from Gorilla Themes are very advanced, and have been built from the ground up to work perfectly for agents and realtors. Bel Air has a clean design aesthetic that smells like money, perfect for high priced properties. It also comes with:

• Simple and direct search capabilities.
• Built for realtors not Wordpress experts.
• Comes with a Lightbox photo gallery.
• Multi-agent and single-agent versions.
• Mortgage calculator.

Visit the Gorilla Themes website for a live demo of this real estate Wordpress theme.

Open House – Real Estate Wordpress Theme

Open house has a darker feel for those who like to create a little mood. It’s featured packed and comes with 5 different color schemes to give your even more individuality.

Open House comes with:

• 5 color schemes.
• Lightbox and photo fade animations for photo galleries.
• Google Maps integration.
• Compatibility with European and North American markets.
• Single or multi-agent versions.
• Mortgage calculator.

Visit the Gorilla Themes website for a live demo of this real estate Wordpress theme.

I like the themes – How do I Build the Site?

If you’re building a real estate website or blog, we hope you found this useful. Getting started is a lot easier than you might think. If you use the free One Night Site 14-step process to create your real estate blog you’ll be up and running in only one night. It’s simple and it’s free. Also, for register members (also free) you get to ask us one question per month in case you get stuck along the way.

Happy house building.

– One Night Site