AgentPress Real Estate Theme Review

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AgentPress Real Estate Theme Review

The AgentPress Theme is all you need to create a stunning, comprehensive real estate portal website that is suited for realtors looking to boost online local listing awareness. For under $100, you'll be able to create a feature-rich realty website with advanced search and listing features.

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A Design Solution for Real Estate Agents

Quick to install, no customization necessary

If you're not familiar with Wordpress, it's a free software package that you can install on your web hosting account. It's extremely flexible and easy to use, contains powerful features (SQL database management, an administrator's panel to tweak settings/create new pages/edit the "look and feel" of the site, and a template system that makes it easy to upload a pre-designed web design). AgentPress is a premium Wordpress theme designed by the same team that created an earlier version named AgentTheme: the first Wordpress-based web design for Real Estate Agents.

The difference between Agent Theme and AgentPress is that AgentPress is that it is more intricate, customized counterpart. Complete with a custom-coded property search that includes options for price range, property type, location and number of rooms, separate portal areas for sellers and buyers, an agent profile page for contact information and plenty of opportunities to showcase individual homes and even articles, AgentPress is an extraordinarily powerful platform for any private realtor or realty company.

An AgentPress Home Page

What your real estate web design would like out-of-the-box


Here's a closer look at how your AgentPress site will look upon installation. Notable features include a space-saving, clutter-free design that makes your site incredibly easy to navigate from the perspective of a home buyer or seller, a listings search feature to help customers drill down to more specific searches (as well as a traditional search box where query terms can be inputted), four high-profile areas for featured properties of your choice (these may be selected through the administrator panel for the theme), and a bottom area for content and articles.

Since search engines love helpful content, the possibility of ranking high for your local area is an attractive business prospect for your real estate ventures.

The right column is an area that is completely customizable; you can advertise additional listings, include paid banner placement to generate additional income, advertise your latest articles and even your real estate business' Twitter account.

Real Estate Listing Detail Pages

How your real estate listings are designed

This is the crowning achievement of Wordpress AgentPress theme: individual real estate listings pages are top-notch promotional tools. A 650x400 pixel introductory image greets the customer, as well as a description area following underneath it. "Property Details" list all of its specifications, including price, status, MLS#, number of rooms, square feet and anything else that you feel your clients would need to see.

An "Additional Features" section within AgentPress lets you expand on the property with any inclusions, upgrades or other selling points.

This is followed by an area for more pictures of the real estate property or home: all pictures open with a convenient "lightbox" feature. When an image is clicked, AgentPress's interface immediately darkens as the image opens up on top of the website, along with arrows to view next or preceeding images...a feature that is leagues over the standard MLS listing website.

Lastly, a geo-coded Google map is displayed, showing the exact placement of the home you're selling. This map can be manipulated directly on the page: zoom in or out, see a full version and print directions. It's a convenient feature available right on the page itself! When it comes to web design, you always want your visitors to access everything with the least amount of clicks possible - that is the strong point of AgentPress.

AgentPress' Simple Installation

Zero web design or development skills needed!

It's a given that most real estate agents are not web programmers, nor are they willing to pay an extraordinary amount of money ($75-150 per hour for a 15 hour job, on average) to a development freelancer to create a custom made website.

With Wordpress, you'll be looking at a simple 5-minute installation process. If you purchase AgentPress, it will be available as an instant download, located in its own folder. Use your favorite FTP program (Filezilla is recommended: it's powerful and 100% free) to simply drag and drop this folder into the "wp-content/themes" folder on your web space.

To edit and add to your site, visit your Wordpress site's administration panel, click "themes," and click the big icon for "AgentPress." Installing a theme can take a minute of your time or less. The theme will then be applied to your website instantly, and there's nothing more you have to do! Wordpress makes it easy for people of all computer proficiencies to manage a website. From there on, it's simply a matter of adding new pages and uploading information for your real estate listings.

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