real estate agent website design
High-performing Websites For Real Estate Agents
Let's Get StartedThe main challenges for residential real estate agents are building their brand profile, consistently generating quality leads, and running their business. You may already have a real estate agent website that looks great but is not performing for lead generation or your cost per acquisition (CPA) from the site is far too high.
Or you may be having problems building your profile in your area, even though you have been there for a long time. These are the issues we encounter when residential real estate agents ask us about a website. We’ll show you how we’ll overcome all of them by designing and building a personal real estate agent website that will generate leads, build your profile in your area and build your business.
Commercial real estate agents face similar challenges to their residential colleagues but with the added layer of complexity that commercial real estate brings. The listings they need to attract still include sellers, owners and investors but the range of properties they list is more diverse compared to residential real estate.
The buyer profile is also very different as commercial real estate agents are trying to meet the wants and needs of another business who may want to buy, lease or rent. That business may be an individual or a company. If you’re a commercial real estate agent, it’s important your site can engage a diverse audience and still focus on what you have to offer and your experience in each area. We will help you to segment your audience so we can generate leads effectively.
We help property management agents with websites designed to instil the trust and confidence that owners, investors and tenants demand. While you need to generate leads from each of those audience segments, you also need to reflect the experience, expertise and professionalism of your brand.
We design and build sites that help property management agents do just that. A quality site is essential if you want to generate quality leads.
Your website is the centre of your marketing universe. It’s often the first place a prospect will visit whether they’ve been led there via online and offline marketing, or if they’re simply searching in your area. Sellers and owners are looking for someone they can trust with a track record of success. This is where first impressions count, particularly for the first-time visitor. The critical decision on whether they stay on your site will be made in seconds. Their decision will largely be based on what they see on your website.
We build websites for real estate agents. We’ll build you a custom website, designed to engage genuine prospects and generate quality leads for sales appraisals and property management agreements.
You may operate in the same area as your competitors but the way you do business, the way you interact with your clients, your knowledge and your success is what will differentiate you. We have the team, the expertise and the experience to ensure your site reflects who you are and how you work.
To generate more quality leads, sellers and owners need to see more of what they’re looking for, presented in a way that engages and builds trust quickly. If your new website is designed to perform and customised to suit your needs and budget, it can build your business.
For your real estate agent website to work successfully for your business, it needs to be:
If your current real estate agent website isn’t generating enough leads, or it has a high cost per acquisition (CPA), there’s probably at least one design feature from the above list that’s missing.
The resulting lower ROI is costing your business. We’ll design and build you a site that is optimised for maximum performance and lead conversion. Our digital marketing consultants can also show you how to make the most of your site with an SEO strategy to attract sellers, owners and investors and to build your brand profile, through your new site.
We build you what you need.
Even though we follow the same principles and processes for every real estate agent or agency’s website, we know every business is different. That means every website we build is different because it’s tailored to the brand, sellers, owners and investors in a particular area, as well as the objectives of the individual businesses.
These are some of the key factors that will allow us to design real estate agent lead-generation websites.
Before we can build a website for real estate agents to help your business grow, we need to understand your market, your area, your story, your audience, your competitors and what you want to achieve. During this discovery phase, we’ll also ask you what works, what doesn’t, what used to work but doesn’t anymore and what your marketing objectives are. This step allows us to build an accurate picture of where and how you operate and how a real estate agents website needs to work for your business.
Demographics may give you an idea of things like the size and make-up of your audience, but the most valuable insights will come from using the data to develop personas of the people you want to target and attract to your real estate agent’s website. Grouping your audience by personas gives a greater understanding of what they might like and dislike, what they’re looking for, what their various life stages are and how they feel about businesses like yours. Once we know who they are we can better understand what they want and need from you, and your new real estate website for agents.
Once we have a better understanding of your users, we can look at how your real estate agent website design can deliver what they want. We can plan the user journey of your real estate agents website to suit each of your target personas. This includes how they will navigate the site, what they will look at, and in what order (user flow). It allows us to identify any potential roadblocks, or pain points, for your user and rectify them during the planning stage. Red Route Planning is an important part of this process. This is the name used to describe the most important and frequent actions your users will take on your site. Identifying and planning Red Routes adds value for the user and your business because you are allowing them to complete their most important actions in the most efficient way – this is a key aspect to create the best real estate agent websites.
The next step is to create a simple map, or wireframe, of how the content will appear on each page of your site and how the pages are connected, or travelled, according to your users’ actions. Content blocks give you an idea of the size and position of the various elements on a page. For example, how big and where an image will be, where the text will appear, and what actions can be used on a specific page such as click-throughs, forms, or links.
We specialise in real estate agent website templates. We’ll work closely with you to arrive at a final design that reflects your brand and appeals to your sellers, owners, and investors with the best real estate website.
Once you’re happy with your real estate agent website design we move into development. This is the part where we build your site, and everything comes together. We’ll ensure it’s SEO ready and take you through our recommendations on SEO strategy, which we can implement for you, ideally by the launch date, or later. Once your site is built it undergoes an extensive testing process to ensure it does everything it’s supposed to do. Then you just need to let us know when you want to go live so we can ensure all the content is where it should be by that date.
The final step is an official handover of all the details of your real estate agent website. Of course, we’re here to help with any post-launch SEO or digital marketing strategies you need to maximise your investment.
There’s no point building a great real estate website for agents if you don’t know whether it’s actually working. If you can’t track visitors, you can’t tell how effective your real estate marketing campaigns are or what those visitors are doing on your site so you can optimise it for peak performance. When we build your site, we’ll include the analytics and tracking so you know precisely how many visitors you have, where they come from, what they do on your site and the ratio of visitors to conversions. We use tools such as session recording and heat mapping to provide a detailed picture of how users are interacting with your site.
Session recording is like watching a video of how a user is actually using your site over a period of time (session). We can see where their curser goes and what they click on as they move through the site. Heat mapping is a visual tool that shows us where the activity is most concentrated on a page. By using different colours to track the data we can quickly see where the most popular areas are on any page of a real estate agent’s website. This is the data that will inform the decisions you make on existing and planned real estate digital marketing campaigns.
A real estate agent’s website is the most important brand touch point for new and returning visitors. It represents you and your business, and for many, it may be their first impression of you. What they see and feel will decide whether they keep you on their list or move ahead without you. The features and pages we build for you are built with your brand firmly in focus. This is what will differentiate you from your competitors and establish your thought leadership position in your area. If you want to be #1, you need to take ownership of that position and look, feel, communicate, and behave, like you already are – with the help of a well though-out real estate agent website design.
Website conversion happens when a user takes an action that you want them to on your website. This can be signing up for a newsletter, completing a contact form, or engaging in a web chat. These types of actions are also known as conversion goals and more web conversions on your site means more leads generated. We build real estate agent lead generation websites so users can convert at every stage of the funnel.
Every buyer and landlord who visits your site is a potential lead. We design your real estate agents website so there’s something for users at every stage of the funnel to keep them moving down or to convert bottom-stage users efficiently. At the top, resources may include brochures or information sheets. In the middle, we use lead magnet downloads where users exchange some of their information, such as their email address or phone number, in return for an e-book or newsletter subscription. At the bottom, we cut to the chase with things like specific response forms.
Database integration is a process we use to ensure your properties appear on various listing sites to increase visitor traffic and ultimately lead generation. The integration also extends to your own CRM. Integrating your real estate CRM with your real estate agent website ensures your subscribers are constantly informed of what’s listed, what has sold and for how much – this is a key feature for a great real estate agent website.
A positive user experience is crucial for real estate agent lead-generation websites. By creating a great user experience, you’re not only making it easier for your audience to do business with you, but you’re also proving you are responsive to their needs. When we design your real estate agent websites, you know it will be responsive to what sellers, owners and investors want from you. It will give them everything they need to know and allow them to take critical actions that move them to conversion.
Creating a real estate agent’s lead generation website to build your business takes a multi-disciplined team with strategic and technical expertise. But before we can begin, we need to know much more about you. If there’s one thing we’ve learnt from our many years of experience in the property industry, it’s that every real estate agent’s business is different, just like yours.
No one knows your business better than you. You know your area, what you want to achieve and what success looks like for your agency. That’s why we’ll meet with you before we start. We’ll walk away with a deep understanding of your real estate agent business, which is a crucial foundation for the strategic development of your site.
Once we know what success is for you and who your sellers, owners, investors and buyers are, we’re ready to go. We’ll share a schedule of all the key milestones so you know what should be happening and when.
This will also help if you’re planning any other marketing activity. You can decide how involved you want to be during the process – it’s as much or as little as you like.
At various times your award-winning team will include:
They all work together to deliver your lead generation site on time and on budget.
“Being nominated for the highly prestigious REIWA Awards for Excellence is a valuable recognition of the great work our internal team has done with the help of Property Hype. We are extremely proud to be recognised by our peers for our marketing efforts in the highly competitive WA real estate industry”
When we build a website for a real estate agent, our team brings experience and a wealth of knowledge about the property industry to ensure it meets your objectives. We know how important it is to feature the people behind the business and their knowledge of their area.
The profile of you, and your team, is important to establish trust among sellers, owners and investors. Buyers need to know they’re dealing with a reputable company that understands the local market and what it has to offer. Your site represents everything you stand for. You can see how effective our approach is, even when there are multiple components to the project.
Case StudyWe build your site knowing it will be a crucial component of your real estate digital marketing mix. You need to maximise ROI with a site that will drive your digital marketing further by generating qualified leads, nurturing them through the funnel, and building your brand. These are the sites we specialise in. That’s what Property Hype will do for you.
The expertise of the team who will work on your site has been recognised internationally with ‘Best Website Real Estate’ at the NYX Marcom international awards.
A real estate agent’s website should reflect their understanding of their area, their market and their audience. The design should be optimised to convert users to leads at every stage of the funnel.
Real estate agents who have sites specifically designed to attract traffic via SEO, local SEO and marketing campaigns, also attract the most traffic. If they are well designed, these are the real estate agent websites that generate the most leads.
This really depends on the agency and what other tech or platforms they are using. At Property Hype we usually recommend WordPress as it very Google friendly, which benefits our real estate agent clients.
First, choose a website builder that specialises in real estate agents. Someone who knows your industry and how it works. That means Property Hype. To get the real estate agent website you need happening sooner, just complete the form below and send it. We’ll get back to you soon to discuss your requirements and the next steps.
This depends on what your specific requirements are and how much you want us to do. We have a number of packages that can be tailored to your specific requirements with options for additional digital marketing assistance such as SEO or digital marketing campaigns.
A successful real estate agent website must be responsive to the user who may begin their journey on one device and continue on another, such as phone to desktop for example. Good user experience is vital, with easy navigation and easy access to the information they want. There should also be high quality content, visual and written, with testimonials supporting your expertise and thought leadership.
We’ll do it for you. We’ll follow a proven process to discover and understand your business; design a site that is tailored to your brand, your audience and your area; develop your site using the highest level of technical expertise; and deliver it on time and on budget.
Yes, we’ll work with you to understand your brand, your market and your audience before we design your custom website.
Yes. Before we handover your site we’ll show you how to change content or, if you’re busy running your business, we can do it for you. We have a range of website maintenance packages that cover the needs and budgets of most real estate agent websites. One of the benefits of becoming a digital marketing client is that we can include web updates as part of your regular Property Hype subscription.
Improving your ranking and getting to #1 will need an SEO strategy that you can implement yourself or with us. We can work collaboratively with you or take on the entire job.
This really depends on what your requirements are and when you want to go live. From our experience, most real estate agent websites take an average of three to four months to be built and migrated. If your new site is replacing an existing site, for example, then we’ll need to ensure a successful migration with minimal disruption to traffic or your business.
We use and recommend WordPress for real estate agent websites.
Yes, we recommend WordPress as there are benefits from Google for WordPress websites for real estate agents.
All websites require maintenance due to the constant changes made by search engines and all things digital. Regular maintenance ensures there are no technical issues that may result in penalties from search engines and it also maintains optimal performance for SEO. WordPress plugins need to be updated regularly and tested, for optimal performance. These plugins include things like response forms which are a key tool for lead generation.
Yes.
Yes. Your website offers a continuous presence for your audience so they can connect with your brand from anywhere at any time. It builds your brand profile, generates leads and establishes you as the thought leader in your area. It becomes a marketing and communications hub for you and your audience, and a key part of a real estate agent’s digital marketing strategy.
In general, you’re limited with what you can do with Wix and you might need to update it quickly. We believe WordPress is a better investment, especially when you consider the SEO capability you’ll need to drive traffic to your site. This is impacted by the Core Web Vitals of your site, a set of key technical factors that help to determine your ranking and how visible your site is to your audience.
Real estate agents rely on their websites to generate leads. That means responsive service and SEO capability are important. If SEO capability is limited in any way it will be difficult to improve your ranking and generate leads.
We recommend WordPress.
By having a distinctive brand, high quality content to support your brand, a great user experience, and an SEO strategy to drive traffic to your site.
Websites for real estate agents should include listings, local area information, team or individual pages, testimonials, location with map, and lead capture pages with forms or lead magnets. At Property Hype, we’ll work with you to map out exactly how many, and what type of pages you’ll need, based on your objectives.
To attract traffic from your target audience and convert to leads at every stage of the funnel.
It should attract traffic from your target audience. It should contain all the information they need about you, and what they are looking for, to convert their visit to a lead as easily and as quickly as possible.
Property Hype has been designing high performing websites for real estate agents for over fourteen years. We’d love to design yours.
Your website is an important marketing and communication tool. It reflects everything your brand stands for and offers a crucial brand experience for your audience.
We have been building high-performing real estate agent websites for over fourteen years and we know looks are not enough. As a real estate agent, your website needs to work hard to generate leads, build your profile in your area, and build your business. As a digital marketing agency, we understand how to build you a site that will maximise your ROI by generating more quality leads, lowering the cost per acquisition and building your local area profile. You’ll have an award-winning team designing and building your site.
The success of your real estate website can be measured against a number of performance indicators, which will also include your specific objectives.
Some of these performance indicators will be common to a number of sites and include the number of leads generated, downloads of material, increase in visitor traffic, response to a specific call to action, and the increase in sales, listings or property management agreements, measured over a specific time period. Once you know what your conversion criteria are you can also compare performance between your old and new sites.
The type of site you need will depend on what your real estate agent business is and also your objectives and budget. For example, a local real estate agent will have different requirements than those of a commercial property developer.
At Property Hype, we have designed and built lead-generating real estate agent websites for every segment of the property industry and we bring a wealth of collective knowledge to every site we build, including yours.
You can see examples of the sites we have built below:
Yes. The primary function of those two sites is to attract buyers and renters. They are sites you can include in your marketing strategy but they will not build your business as effectively as your own site because that’s not what they are designed to do, and you have no control over how they operate.
You need to attract more listings from sellers and grow your rent roll from owners/investors to build your business. Your own site will be far more effective for this. Remember, listing properties for sale on your own site, via links to other listing sites, also increases awareness of your brand, your services and your local knowledge. It exposes visitors to everything you have to offer.
Your website design reflects your brand personality. It’s also a great opportunity to connect with your audience by presenting yourself in a way in which they will engage. This is done visually with the colours you choose, your name, your logo and how they appear. If your primary audience, for example, is buyers and sellers of prestige homes, then the colours and images you use should reflect this. You need to look like the kind of brand they see themselves doing business with. This is your brand image and it should be crafted with your audience in mind.
We design your site to grow with you so you don’t have to go back to the drawing board every time you need to add something. You can easily add new service pages, new team member pages, and anything else you need as your business grows. This simple scalability means your brand image remains consistent as you build and grow your business.
Real estate agent websites need to convert and we design your website to convert right from the start. In the planning stages, we look at every page and include opportunities for your visitors to convert easily. There are calls to action and conversion points at every stage of the funnel. Lead magnets are included if necessary where your users can exchange their information in return for content such as brochures or an e-newsletter subscription. We look at all the lead generation tools to see what will work best with your users and your business.
Yes. If your existing site has been designed to act more like a brochure than a high performing, lead generation website, a new real estate agent website from Property Hype will make a positive difference that you can measure.
If your objectives include quality lead generation, local area dominance, cost effective digital marketing and a high brand profile, the answer is yes.
If you’re a real estate agent who needs a high-performing lead-generating website, we have a package that will work for you. Our full site builds are scalable so you can add listing, blogs, and team profiles. You can also grow the site while maintaining a consistent brand presence. As a digital marketing company we also offer a complete integrated service to get your marketing off to a flying start or give it the performance boost you’re looking for.
Let's ChatWe have over fourteen years experience in the property industry, which includes founding The Property Tribune (https://thepropertytribune.com.au/), which is on track to become Australia’s largest financial property news site.
The team who will work with you, have been internationally recognised with awards for high performing real estate marketing campaigns and website designs.
We’ve helped over fifty property clients across the industry – from residential real estate agents to property developers – achieve outstanding results and enduring success.
They have seen what a high-converting website and strategic digital marketing campaigns can do for their bottom line. We can do it for you, too.
For us, the most important aspect of the awards we have won and the recognition we have earned, is that it is spread across all of the most crucial areas of digital marketing for real estate.
Here’s a selection: