If you are a realtor who wants to guarantee the success of your business, creating a website is a must. Firstly you need to make sure that your site is just not only visually appealing, but it’s also powerful, user-friendly, and functional!

To help you with the task, there is a heap of significant real estate plugins for WordPress that you can use. In this WordPress Wednesday post, you’ll discover five of real estate plugins on the market for WordPress.

But why using Real Estate Plugins?

To produce a real estate website, you need to choose a CMS such as WordPress. But sadly, the default functions you find in a default WordPress site, may not be adequate to launch a successful real estate agency.

So you will need to add some custom functions and extra features into your real estate website, to easily achieve this you will need to use some WordPress plugins. Some plugins you notice are available for free, while others have an annual or a monthly cost. Every WordPress plugin that been developed comes with a specific purpose in mind, while some of them may be designed to fight spam, or created to boost your SEO.

So, if you want to build a real estate site, using plugins that explicitly been developed to help create real estate sites is the brightest choice.

1. WPL Real Estate

The first plugin on this list is WPL Real Estate, with this plugin you get a chance to list every single agents, share a map view of your property listings and offer an advanced search for your buyers. With this plugin is one you should really try out as it caters to agencies with a handful of real estate agents and you can post agent information and share photos to give to your buyers or your sellers more on who they’ll be working with.

This plugin has some native and compatible themes but it should work fine with just about any theme for WordPress. You’ll notice that this free plugin comes with decent features, but the true functionality comes in the form of a Pro version at a cost of $199.

Price: Free

2. Essential Real Estate

Essential Real Estate plugin gives you a lot of premium features in it’s free version of the WordPressplugin. You can easily customise and override the layout and functions. The plugin supports global payments, single list properties, single agents and more.

This plugin has essentially have everything that you need to start a Real Estate website. It also has an impressive five star rating on the repository. It comes with custom post types, taxonomy features for your properties, your agents, your packages, user packages, invoices, and transaction logs. Also you can add new listings, edit them and much more.

Price: Free

3. WP Property

WP-Property is a plugin for creating and managing highly customisable real estate, property management and completely custom listing showcase websites.

Although WP-Property can handle so much more than real estate. Showcase any kind of entity you want, from livestock, golf carts, to properties and products, experiencing unparalleled ease of use and flexibility on the way.

Price: Free

4. IMPress Listings

IMPress Listings is a free plugin, but you do have the option to buy some listing templates. You’ll find the basics behind the plugin that include a full listing management system, integration to MLS and status tags for all of your listings. Also you will notice that IMPress has quite a few fields for you to fill in when making a listing. Some fields include price, address, floors, garage, pool, map and virtual tour.

Price: Free

5. Estatik

Estatik is definitely the top of all real estate plugins for WordPress, seeing how it offers a wide range of features in this plugin. You get the listings and multilingual support. Plus you receive a responsive layout that comes with a photo gallery and yes you can create a slideshow or integrate this plugin with your real estate social media accounts.

There is Estatik Pro version that you can use that comes at a price of $89 and it this pro version provides a full suite of tools like customisable labels, front-end subscription management and an advanced search module to filter properties even down more.

Price: Free