The utility of WordPress as Content Management System for Real Estate Industry has evolved since the launch of WordPress Platform in 2003 with newer demands and choices being given center stage, in the form of themes, as a way to change the looks and functionality of the WordPress powered website without altering the content.
Let’s have a look at the top notch Real Estate Themes in the market that in addition to being a window into the owner’s creative capacity will also cast an everlasting spell on the visitors mind and lead to better conversion rates and customer loyalty.
Thing Real WordPress Theme:
ThingReal, a beautiful theme that serves as a perfect option to create a personal webpage or website. This complex WordPress theme comes with numerous useful features that includes a feedback form, custom widgets, a slider and many more.
The theme is adaptable with all version of WordPress such as WordPress 2x, WordPress 3x and WordPress 3.5.
Architech:
A perfect WordPress theme for a website that showcases residential buildings and commercial properties for the internet users. The entire theme is crafted using the Cherry Framework version 1.0.
It includes an admin panel where in users can find various options to customize the theme according to their needs.
Real Estate Gold
Real Estate Gold theme is a WordPress theme elegantly designed for being one of the best in terms of lasting visual impression and functionality for the Real Estate businesses. The theme is impressive with an easy to set up \”featured\” image slider, a color switcher with 3 color schemes, and a built-in contact form.
It comes with all the basic functionalities of search by location, price range, number of bedrooms, baths, garage availability, listing type-new or foreclosure. The widgetized home tabs allows for addition of images, recent posts and make the homepage more effective and the users more informed about the latest offerings and best deals. The theme also offers the administrator to customize it according to requirement and is priced at $35 for a regular license.
Light House
View Demo
A basic theme developed by Theme Forest gives expression to the minimalist approach. The Real estate sector companies can get a fixed layout, widget-ready theme supporting WordPress Version 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3, and compatible with IE8, IE9, Firefox 4, Safari 5 and Opera by just shelling out $45 for a regular license and the extended license to sub-license, license, resell or sell, or even re-distribute work or propose to do these things for $2250.
WP Pro Real Estate 3 Responsive
This is one of the powerful Real Estate Themes that comes with a responsive design. It can be used for anything from real estate to vacation rentals to automotive sales. It’s widget ready, supporting WordPress 3.2 and 3.3 and, is compatible with browsers-IE8, IE9, Firefox 2, Firefox 3, Firefox 4, Safari 4, Safari 5, Opera and Chrome. With unlimited skins, drag and drop Home Page Builder and Slider with Touch Support and tons of Custom Shortcodes it is fairly priced for a regular license at $50 and extended license costing $2500.
Quick start Real Estate
Give a quick start to your Real Estate Biz by using the $35 professional real estate theme offering from Themeforest. It supports WordPress 3.0 Menus and has been successfully tested for all major browsers like IE6, IE7, IE8, IE9, Firefox 4, Safari 5, and Opera. This theme comes with a readymade contact form, basic filtering functionality, threaded comments feature, slider banner, Google Analytics integration and many more features.
Real Estate 2:
Here’s a unique Real Estate Theme with a homepage displaying a dynamic slideshow of included properties, allowing the visitors to refine their search with multiple category search, prioritizing the offerings for later access through the user dashboard and also allowing the users to submit and list property.
The user can upload as many pictures as required for a property offering that are viewed in form of a slideshow on the property details page. The Real Estate 2 theme also offers category specific prize packages and also recurring packages for PayPal users. The theme is prized from $79 onwards.
Realtr
An impressive Real Estate Theme allowing the user to search through Multiple Listing Service properties in the area, bulk upload and download feasibility, widgetized homepage, homepage slider, option to switch between grid, list and map view at all times, category specific custom field addition, Price Package functionality, built-in payment gateways, news blog and not to forget the Auto Install feature. Realtr is prized at $89 onwards.
Smooth Pro Real Estate
One of the latest and most feature rich offering from Gorilla Themes come with an optional IDX-MLX integration. The Property information module in addition to standard feature and prizing details also allows adding the video and Google Map integration with Street View. The integrated video selector also allows one to add the video tours through YouTube and Vimeo. The theme allows for Twitter and Facebook integration as well and the essential package costs $39.95.
Bel Air
The Bel Air Real Estate theme is an effective and efficient way of acquiring a stable customer and agent base through powerful visibility in the Real Estate online biz. The theme package encompasses an array of features in addition to standard features. The theme allows for use by single or multiple agents with individual agent administration option and also offers complete details of the agents available so as to enhance the customer experience.
Other features are Twitter and Facebook Integration, Google Maps Integration with Street View, theme localization, 6 color styles and built-in advertisement banners. Moreover, the theme is compatible with all markets, has a brand new fast loading lightweight framework and is SEO optimized. The theme packages are prized from $39.95 to $99.95.
Stylo
This Themeforest theme offering allows for unlimited colors, customized typography option, theme localization and sidebars for specific pages. Designed with simplicity of operations in mind the theme has number of easily manageable mini-icons and ribbons. The theme has a fixed layout, is compatible with WordPress 3.0+ and has been tested for all major browsers- IE7, IE8, IE9, Firefox 3, Firefox 4, Safari 4, Safari 5, Opera and Chrome. The theme is prized at $45 onwards.
Openhouse
The bestseller from the Themeforest house is rich in features and is also one of the most advanced offering in terms of design. It has an effective and flexible search engine with multi level location search. A fully featured loan calculator and link to generate a complete amortization table adds to the customer experience.
Unlimited color options with gradient adjustment are available. Separate regular and news blogs with unlimited sub-categories. Now, side by side comparison, single Google map view of all listings on homepage slideshow, dual agent support and call to action feature, are also available. The regular license is prized at $50.
Agentpress
Agent Press theme with one time purchase at $99.95 offers flexibility to choose from 6 layout options and 5 color styles, and allows for customized background, header and menus, featured images and threaded comments. The package includes a genesis framework and unlimited updates and support, and a detailed user tutorial. The theme can also be acquired through Pro Plus Package of Studio Press allowing for access to all themes developed by Studio Press at $349.95.