WordPress Real Estate Themes
Looking for a professional wordpress real estate theme? I’ve been working with WordPress for a long time, have seen almost every theme around and have gone through the trouble of listing the top real estate wordpress themes here for you. Why you ask? Well it’s just one of the things I do as a web developer… try and find the best available blog themes, resources, etc. for my clients to use on their sites. And by far, the themes listed below are the best of the best as far as wordpress themes for real estate agents go. Now, of course any wordpress theme can be used for your real estate business but these themes are created specifically for agents and are ready almost out of the box.
Now 12 13 (of the BEST) Premium Real Estate WordPress Themes
In a hurry? Jump to the themes below: Main Street Theme, Elegant Theme, Homeowner, Open House, Smooth Theme, Bel Air Theme, Agent Theme, iReal Estate Theme, Real Estate Theme, WP Pro Theme, Villa Grande Theme, Real Estate Theme, Realist Theme. NOTE: I update this post regularly when I find new themes for real estate agents so please bookmark this page.
Why use wordpress to power your real estate website?
More and more people are catching on to the fact that wordpress is the best CMS (content management system) around. It’s relatively easy for beginners to learn, is highly customizable, makes adding content easy and has another huge added benefit… SEARCH ENGINES LOVE BLOGS. And by search engines I mean Google. If you can create a blog, post to it regularly and receive some nice links from other good sites you won’t have any problem receiving traffic. The key here is Blog + Fresh Content + Good Links = Traffic. Of course that is way over simplified but you get the picture.
Main Street Theme (NEW)
Main Street Theme is a new theme for wordpress 2.9. Another great release that you need to see to experience all the great features it offers. Currently only $79.95
Elegant Real Estate Theme
Elegant Real Estate wordpress theme is designed for real estate type websites. It comes with built in basic real estate listing filtering, featured slider banner and admin options to customize the theme. This theme has many features and methods of customization and gives an overall professional feel to any real estate website.
View the Demo or Purchase this theme for as little as $30.
Homeowner Real Estate Theme
Some of the Homeowner’s Theme features:
- Compatible with both U.S. and European Markets
- Has Google Maps Integration
- “No Custom Fields”
- Use it with Single or Multiple Agents
- Individual Agents page with listings and bio
- Unlimited dropdowns for category search
- Contact agent from property page
- Logo Uploader
- Easy Listings Management (Custom Script)
- Widget Ready – Yay!
- Custom Plugins
- Photo Gallery (up to 12 images)
- Agent Photo Uploader
- IE6, IE7, Firefox and Safari compatible
- XHTML and CSS valid (a plus for SEO)
- Extensive help and tutorial included
- Advertisement Banner Management
- Easy Adsense or Image Link Code implementation
- Turn all-or-individual banners on/off
- Image Auto Resizer (for thumbnails)
- Gravatar Support
- Financing Calculator
- Threaded comments
Check out the new Homeowner Theme demo and view pricing.
Open House WordPress Theme
The Open House real estate wordpress theme is a highly customizable theme with Google Maps Integration, a professional look for Agents and Realtors that want to build a website around the WordPress platform Compatible with both American and European Markets.
Open House features custom plugins and scripts that make adding, deleting and modifying listings an easy task with included photo gallery for up to 12 pictures with a lightbox effect, gorgeous photo fade animations and automatic Google Map integration as soon as the address is entered on each individual listing.
The theme can be used as a single or multi-agent website with individual Agent-Realtor pages with listings and biography, Agent photo uploader, no custom fields, financing calculator, unlimited dropdowns
Open House WordPress Theme <- click to learn more and view a live demo.
Smooth Real Estate WordPress Theme
Smooth Real Estate WordPress theme comes complete with Google Maps Integration which is the first wordpress theme I’ve seen that offers that. It’s widget ready, offers a photo gallery for each listing where you can list up to 14 property images, a very nice carousel property slider and allows for multiple agents to update the site. It also includes banner management and an image auto resizer for those that don’t want to mess with resizing all their images.
Here are some of it’s main features:
- Google Maps Integration
- “No Custom Fields”
- PSD files included
- Multiple Agents
- Carousel Property Slider
- Logo Uploader
- Easy Listings Management
- Widget Ready
- Custom Plugins
- Photo Gallery (up to 14 images)
- Agent Photo Uploader
- IE6, IE7, Firefox and Safari compatible
- Extensive help and tutorial included
- Banner Management
- Ad your Adsense or Image Link Code
- Turn all-or-individual banners on/off
- Image Auto Resizer
- Gravatar Support
- Compatible up to: WP 2.7.1
Smooth Real Estate WordPress Theme <- click to learn more and view a live demo.
Bel Air Real Estate WordPress Theme
The Bel Air Real Estate WordPress Theme is also a nice wordpress theme for both agents and brokers. It has a classier feel then most of the other real estate wordpress themes here.
Bel Air Features:
- Easy Listings Management
- Five Color Schemes
- Photo Gallery
- Agent Image / Biography
- “No Custom Fields”
- Featured Properties
- Property Search Options
- Payment Calculator
- Ad Management
- Affordably Priced
- Rebrandable – No credit links required
- Compatible up to: WP 2.7.1
Bel Air Real Estate WordPress Theme <- click to learn more and view a live demo.
Agent Theme Real Estate WordPress Theme
The Agent Real Estate WordPress Theme is another one of Revolution2 wordpress themes from Brian Gardner. It offers drop down menus and a featured content section on the homepage.
Agent Theme Features:
Tags: three-columns, fixed-width, white, gray, black, red, sidebar-widgets
Widget-ready: Yes
Compatible up to: WP 2.7.1
Agent Real Estate WordPress Theme <- click to learn more and view a live demo.
iReal Estate Theme
iReal Estate Theme is a professional looking wordpress theme from iThemes. It include many features that make it a top choice among real estate agents.
iReal Estate Theme Features:
- Easily customizable
- Integrated blog
- Home page template
- Wide layout for content heavy sites
- Widget ready sidebars and feature areas
- Drop-down navigation
- Search engine optimized
- Works with wordpress 2.7+
iReal Estate Theme <- click to learn more and view a live demo. (NOTE: You need to click on the “Purchase” menu link and then click on “Buy this theme…” to view an actual demo of this theme.
The Real Estate WordPress Theme
The Real Estate theme is a more simplified theme that might be to some agents liking. I notice though that it doesn’t have some main features that others themes do. Even a place for a phone # would of been nice. It is however a wordpress theme so it can be customized like anything else.
The theme allows you to create property listings of two types – Buying and Leasing – each with a details and listing page. Additionally you can create pages like this one to hold general content and submenus so that the site is largely extensible.
The Real Estate theme features:
- Searchable listings
- Editable homepage content via a customized WP-Admin panel
- Simple, clean CSS to easily update colours
- Flexible page structure that can accomodate a large amount of content
- Easy to create “listings” from WordPress posts
- Works with WordPress 2.6 (no word yet if it works with 2.7 though)
- Mainly 2 column layout, except for the home page
In short you have everything you need to create a manageable, dynamic looking Real Estate site
Real Estate theme <- click to learn more and view a live demo.
WP Pro Real Estate WordPress Theme
WP Pro Real Estate is a clean and simple theme. It’s supposedly very simple to get up and running, and includes many features allowing for complete customization.
This theme is fully compatible with 2.6+ & 2.7+
WP Pro Real Estate Features:
- Custom Theme Administration Panel – Allows you to edit template and home page content including the logo, home header image, company tagline, home page verbiage and link text as well as many other options. No need to go searching through code to make template changes.
- Custom Write Post Panel – Adds all the necessary detail fields to your write post panel i.e.(price, location, sq ft, etc…) without the use of a plugin. This is built in and ready to go once you activate the theme.
- sIFR 3 – All headings are rendered utilizing sIFR, this allows the use of the custom font without having you or the end user to have the font installed on your computer.
- Dynamic Image Resizing – Never worry about having to re size your images, upload large images via the WordPress admin and the theme takes care of the rest generating thumbnails, medium and large size images on the fly with caching.
- Searchable listings – listings are searchable by address or description.
- Utilizes Clean and Semantic XHTML and CSS – everything is commented and very easy to update.
- Very scalable page structure – allows for accommodation of large amounts of content without breaking the layout
- Five nice large stock photos are included as well.
WP Pro Real Estate <- click to learn more and view a live demo.
Villa Grande WordPress Theme
Theme Features:
1. Featured properties in a Jquery slideshow.
2. Just upload a photo in a post, and you’re done. No need to specify a url for the uploaded photo.
3. Advanced Google maps:
a. Just specify a street address, Google will find the map
b. Disable maps in the admin globally or per post.
c. Parameters to display addresses that is not located on a street.
4. Customize the site for your currency in the admin section.
5. Supports multiple agents. Each agent can upload his own properties, and will receive his own responses.
6. Features section makes use of tags. Type in only once, and click to activate next time. You do not have to retype features.
7. Works with wordpress 2.8.4+
View the demo or purchase this theme for $30.
Real Estate Theme
Real Estate Theme Features:
- Theme admin options
- Option to change the theme colour set
- Image Preview Resizing
- PSD layout Included
- Ready made contact form
- Wordpres 2.8 ready
- Home page feature slider (jquery)
- Animated homepage tabs
- Post/Entry/Article menu (like, print this, email to friend, share this post.. )
- Threaded comments
- Comments and pingbacks are separated
- You can add status on individual post like New, or Rented etc..
- Twitter and flickr widget
- Works in all major browsers including IE6 (png fix also added)
- Google anlytics script option
View the Live Demo or Buy this theme
Realist Theme
Check out site for details.
Why You Shouldn’t Use A Free WordPress Theme For Your Real Estate Website.
If you’re in business and I’m assuming you are your website is the last place you should be cutting costs. Using a free wordpress template to power your businesses website is just plain negligent in my opinion. I’ve seen the majority of free wordpress templates that are supposedly for agents and I’m being fairly nice when I say they are hideous at best. Design matters to people. Good design says something about you. If your site shouts “Amatuer!” people are going to leave with a negative feeling about you and your business. That’s not what you want.
Main reasons to NOT use free wordpress templates:
- Zero Support: Free templates don’t come with support, so if you have a question you’ll be looking long and hard to find an answer. Not so with premium themes.
- Author Credit: This is usually by the means of a link(s) in the footer of your site. I’m all for giving credit where credit is due but I’d rather not be obligated to link to someone if I don’t want to.
- Clumsy Coding: On screen many wordpress themes look ok, but underneath in the actual PHP/HTML/CSS the coding may not be as well written as it could be.
- SEO Neglect: I can’t honestly name one free theme that was designed as SEO friendly as say Thesis has been. When you look under the hood at some of these free wordpress templates floating around you’ll be amazed at what’s going on behind the scenes.
Anyway, that’s my two cents on using free themes. I know, I know… all wordpress themes can be fixed (it’s something I offer as a service) or customized. Even the premium wordpress themes listed above will need some kind of customization.. ie. logo design, color scheme change, possibly even PHP or CSS tweaking to get it to do exactly what you want. That’s just part of the process. Don’t be hindered though,, using wordpress with a nice premium real estate theme will pay off in the end. Trust me.
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Great points. I have had great success with Thesis. I recently switched each of my 12 blogs to Thesis and have no intention of ever changing! The theme is highly customizable, the support is perfection, the sites look great, and Thesis is an seo beast.
SEO is the bottom line when you have a web site. If the search engines can’t find you, you simply don’t exist. Anyone who is looking for a theme should click through the gold link to the right and buy Thesis. It’ll be the smartest investment you ever make – outside of a latte from Starbucks.
These are very beautiful. thanks for post.
Thank you for your great review of our own Smooth Real Estate theme with Google Maps integration and the mention of The Bel Air Real Estate, very much appreciated.
Hey Carlos,, no problem. Keep up the great work.
Sure thing.
Hey Joi, glad you’re having success with Thesis. It is a great investment in my opinion. It still needs customization to get it to look good but it’s a better framework to work from since you can keep your design separate from the main files. Saves you from a lot of extra work in the future.
These premium themes look extremely profesional and well done.
I want to buy one but cant decide between Agent theme and WP Pro Real Estate Theme. Any one has tried them both? any feedback?
Depends on your budget but I’d probably go with one of the Gorilla Themes
Carlos from Gorilla Themes here, quick update
Homeowners was just released and Smooth has been updated with tons of new features-enhancements.
Thank you for the great feedback.
Perfect, I’m looking for a real estate theme and this selection has helped me decide on which on to go with.
Going from the list above I decided to go with Ithemes after giving thesis a shot as well. For everyday people looking to make a decision I hope these tips are helpful.
1. Thesis is NOT a theme! It really shouldn’t be called a theme at all, it’s a program to build your website. If you don’t have the time or desire to learn how to build a website this is not for you – to make it a rock star site you need to invest alot of time and having some programming knowledge is a plus. If i had the desire and time I would have stuck with it because I can see how it’s a very good product.
2. I started noticing the support for some of these products is provided ONLY with forums. This is certainly true of IThemes – therefore if you have an problem then you have to post your question and wait for a response. This isn’t a plus or a negative just something to be aware of. If you are under the impression that support comes in the form of telephone service or something along those lines you might be mistaken. Check out the FAQ’s before purchasing, that should help.
Hi Malita,
I understand where you are coming from. Thesis is a bit more complicated because it is more of a framework with a generic theme that you have to customize. It does take a bit more work to customize thesis but I can guarantee you if you use Thesis right that it will help your search engine rankings. That’s if you use it properly. But with some work virtually any wordpress theme on the market can be optimized to achieve good rankings.
A client of mine purchased your theme. he didn’t realize that there’s a script within it that blocks google embedded in ireal. If scripts are turned off it goes directly to the login page and causes google to believe that you only have one page.
Can someone explain what’s going on?
Hi Christian, I don’t actually sell any wordpress themes here as of yet so you need to find out what theme your client purchased and go directly to the creator for support. I don’t fully understand your question either so I can’t help you there. There shouldn’t be anything that blocks google from indexing your site.
We’re the author of the last theme you have listed. We’ve recently added another real estate theme to ThemeForest: The Elegant Real Estate WordPress Theme
Hey Cody, yeah I’ve listed your Elegant them as the first one (biggest screenshot)… if you didn’t notice… great theme btw. Very nice.
Oh jeez… I feel silly now. Must have scrolled by too fast. Thanks for including us.
I’m new to WP and not quite clear what the difference between a real estate plugin (like Great Real estate) and a rela estate theme…are they all do the same things ot completely different, what the pros and cons for them? I apprecite any advices you may give…
Jeff, I’ve just released the new Main Street real Estate theme together with the new Dynamic Real Estate framework, you can edit labels-values and add more features within the admin without touching or editing any code, I’ll appreciate if you take a look and update your list:
Hi Jesse, a theme is template and changes the appearance of your blog. A plugin just adds some kind of functionality to your blog as an add-on. They are two totally different and separate things.
Carlos – another great theme! You’re doing some nice work over there.
Thank you very much for your feedback, I want to point out that this theme feature the brand new dynamic real estate framework where you can change the labels, value and add more custom fields via an Ajax panel without touching the code, more about this new feature in this short video demo: http://www.jeffhendricksondesign.com/out/gorillathemes/
On another note, all the themes will sport this new framework with the first update to be released today with a new redesign for the Smooth real Estate theme.
It looks like quite a few agents are using the Agent Theme in our city…I guess you guys have been successful in getting the word out there.
Very nice post Jeff. Although I still was not able to find what I’m looking for. It’s driving me nuts. I need a theme that allows USERS to upload properties with pictures. The only one I know that does this is the Thematic Real Estate Theme but I’m having so many issues customizing it that I’ve given up on and looking for a new template.
I’ve been searching for days for themes, plugins, widgets and nothing. Any way you could advise on this?
Thanks in advance.
Sam
@Sam I would like to invite you to check my Real Estate themes, user can add-modify-delete their own listings with Maps, Photo galleries and more.
http://gorillathemes.com/themes/
Thanks for the complete run down. Had gotten to the point where all looked like cookie cutter. Many were pretty but not all the functions needed specific to market. Every real estate market, broker is different and the tools they use, video, blog posts all put together different for smooth flow. Too many sites have big chunks glued on and look clunky. Add ons the wrong size, color and not a match. Will keep checking your site. Have started a joomla site and putter at it when time allows. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the list
Just what was looking for…
I was looking at the StudioPress stuff, but am a little confused with the AgentPress + Child Theme + Genesis Theme Framework? Whaaaa? Do I need to purchase all 3 items
Yes, you need to usually purchase the framework and also a child theme.
Hi,
Just looking for a single home theme. i.e. selling our house and putting it up on the web with a “street address” url.
Does anyone know of themes that might work for this?
Hi Phil, the free wordpress 20by20 theme that comes with wordpress will work just fine for this. I assume you just need a basic theme to post pics and info correct? If so then yes,, it will work perfectly for that.