WordPress is the perfect platform for building a website for realtors and real estate agencies. All of the features that are required are readily available and there are many themes with the features already built in. In fact, the vast number of themes can make it difficult to find the perfect theme for your real estate website.
In this article I will take a quick look at 15 of the best real estate WordPress themes for 2016.
Why Choose a Real Estate Theme?
The best themes for real estate agents and agencies include useful features such as property listings, easy and advanced searching of listings, maps to show locations, galleries to show multiple images, multiple agent profiles, featured listings, and MLS/IDX integration.
All of these features can be added to most themes using plugins, but real estate themes would have them built-in and ready to use. The layouts are designed specifically to showcase real estate properties and the integrations are smooth with no compatibility issues. For a review of the top real estate plugins, see the article The 5 Best Free WordPress Real Estate Plugins Explored and Compared.
The Best Real-Estate WordPress Themes
Here’s my list of the best real estate WordPress themes for 2016. They’re in no particular order.
1. OpenHouse
OpenHouse (which also includes OpenRoad for car dealers) is a great choice for real estate agencies that want to give their visitors some powerful search and comparison options. You can include the search parameters of your choice and they’re always available on screen. Up to 5 properties can be compared side by side. It will even show floor plans. You can specify up to 3 agents per listing.
Key Features:
- Follows Material Design principles
- Visual Composer
- Ultimate Addons for VC
- Slider Revolution
- NAV
- Themeable Google Maps
- Menu icons
- qTranslate X
- Easy Social Share
- Responsive
Price: $49 (Regular license), $2450 (Extended license) | More Information
2. Avlar
Avlar was created for real estate agencies with multiple agents. Users can login and submit properties from the front end and add properties to a favorites list. It has several page layouts to choose from, and you can customize them or create your own layouts. It has a contact bar above the header to make it easy for visitors to contact you.
Key Features:
- Visual Composer
- Unlimited colors
- Sticky header
- Mega menu
- Contact form
- PSD files
- Retina ready
- WPML ready
- Demo content
Price: $49 (Regular license), $2450 (Extended license) | More Information
3. Esta
Esta is a beautiful theme that was made specifically for real estate agencies, agents, or anyone with a property for sale. It’s flexible and includes lots of widgets and features such as maps, agents, listings, galleries, sorting, searching, etc. It includes sticky menus, animation, a full screen slider, the ability to embed videos, an admin dashboard made for listings, and lots more. It has lots of property details and listing information.
Key Features:
- 5 built-in color styles
- Unlimited color customizations
- 16 extensions included
- Several page templates
- Mega menu
- Animation
- Google fonts
- Responsive
- WPML ready with RTL
Price: $49 (Regular license), $2450 (Extended license) | More Information
4. SunHouse
SunHouse was created for real estate professionals to provide them with a total solution for creating a real estate website in one package. It includes a property management system where you can set prices, upload images, add agents, attach files, provide descriptions, and more. It also includes agent information. Users can submit properties from the front end. It includes lots of search filters. A contact bar is placed above the header.
Key Features:
- 6 home demos
- Visual Composer
- Slider Revolution
- Demo data
- Theme options panel
- Fully responsive
- Parallax
- Google fonts
- Font Awesome icons
Price: $59 (Regular license), $2950 (Extended license) | More Information
5. LUXOR Realty
LUXOR Realty was made specifically for agents and agencies and offers lots of features to show off your properties. It has lots of presentation features including images, video, infographics, carousels, forms, galleries, sliders, and more. You can display information in pricing tables, video boxes, quote boxes, testimonials, tables, accordion tables, and focus on your team members with agent profiles and the agents and agencies post types. The properties post type gives you all the tools you need to show off your properties and let your visitors search through them to find their perfect home.
Key Features:
- Visual Composer
- Theme customizer
- 36 custom shortcodes
- Members area
- Property system
- Custom post types
- Font Awesome icons
- Line icons
- Typicons
- WOW animations
- Responsive
- WPML ready
Price: $49 (Regular license), $2450 (Extended license) | More Information
6. Java Home
Java Home is a real estate theme for agencies that includes single listing pages. Users can see and filter properties from the user profile page. Agents can upload images from the front end. It contains a search form to show and filter listing types. You can choose from multiple page layouts and customize them as much as you want. A contact bar displays your hours and address.
Key Features:
- Visual Composer
- Ultimate Addons for VC
- Slider Revolution
- Advanced Google map
- Demo content
- dsIDXpress compatible
- Mobile menu system
- Responsive
Price: $49 (Regular license), $2450 (Extended license) | More Information
7. Open Floor Plan
Open Floor Plan includes a full-width image slider and lots of widget areas to place your CTA’s. It’s optimized for IDX Broker. It requires the purchase of the Equity real estate framework, but the purchase waves the IDX broker fee. The framework is a complete real estate package. Choose from multiple layouts and templates and customize them any way you want. Filterable searching makes it easy for users to find the home their looking for. A contact bar makes it easy for them to contact you.
Key Features:
- IDX broker fee waved with purchase
- 5 color options
- Theme customizer
- Custom CSS editor
- Custom widgets
- Shortcodes
- WPML ready
- Responsive
Price: $49 + Equity framework | More Information
8. WP Residence
WP Residence was designed for both independent agents and real estate agencies. You can place property location markers on the Google maps. It has an advanced properties search feature with custom fields and a dynamic URL. Agents can submit properties and floor plans through the front end. You can allow users to upload for free or by fee-based membership system that’s included. Payments can be accepted through PayPal or Stripe. Property searches can be filtered using AJAX filters. Users can receive email alerts for saved searches.
Key Features:
- dsIDXpress support
- Full-width slider
- Google maps
- Theme options interface
- Visual Composer
- Slider Revolution
- Payment systems
- Floor plans
- Custom widgets
- Page header options
- Shortcodes
- Responsive
- WPML ready with RTL
Price: $59 | More Information
9. WP Pro Real Estate 7
WP Pro Real Estate 7 has all the features you need to sell or rent any kind of properties from all users including single agents and agencies. Users can upload, manage, and pay for listings through the front end. Users can save listings to their favorites list. Agents can have co-listing support. It includes a booking calendar system for vacation rentals. It also has advanced searching features and you can choose the fields and their order. You can also allow for listing reviews, which is a good feature for rental properties. A contact bar makes it easy for visitors to contact you.
Key Features:
- dsIDXPress
- Revolution Slider
- Site demos
- Page templates
- Visual Composer
- Sub listings
- Front end management
- Multi floor plans
- WPML ready with RTL support
- Walk Score
- Responsive
Price: $59 (Regular license), $2950 (Extended license) | More Information
10. Elviria
Elviria is a real estate theme for the free WPCasa framework. It works great for single and multiple listings. Features include a listings carousel, full page listings slider, an image gallery, and an advanced filterable property search. There are two different home page templates to choose from and a widgetized listings page. You can easily manage your listings using the listings editor. You can customize the colors and features to suit your needs.
Key Features:
- PSD files
- Free WPCasa framework
- 6 addons (with Developer package)
- Home page templates
- Unlimited colors
- Listings slider
- Listings carousel
- Responsive
- WPML ready
Price: $55 | More Information
11. Dream Land
Dream Land was created for both single home sales and for real estate agencies. Describe your properties with detail and tours pages. Show images using the full-width or boxed galleries and slider. You can choose from multiple layouts and customize them any way you want. It places your contact information at the top of the screen so it will stand out.
Key Features:
- Visual Composer
- Revolution Slider
- Parallax
- Google fonts
- Shortcodes
- Demo content
- WPML ready
Price: $49 (Regular license), $2450 (Extended license) | More Information
12. DreamHome
DreamHome works great as either a single property website to make it easy to show off your rental property, or as a website for real estate agencies. It has both a multi-page and a single-page version. Show off your properties with a 2 or 3 column gallery and give your visitors a tour using the tour page template. Contact icons above the header make your contact information stand out.
Key Features:
- 2 home page variations
- Slider with bullet points
- Font Awesome icons
- Google fonts
- Unlimited colors
- Advanced theme options
- WPML ready
- Retina ready
Price: $49 (Regular license), $2450 (Extended license) | More Information
13. Sylt
Sylt is a real estate theme built on the free WPCasa framework. It’s easy to customize and has several page templates including a home page with meta boxes so you can create your own home page layout, and a widgetized listing page that consists of multiple widget areas. It includes an image gallery, listings slider, and a listings carousel. It also has an advanced property search. It includes a contact bar. It’s a great choice for single and multiple listings.
Key Features:
- WPCasa framework is free
- PSD files
- 6 addons (requires Developer package)
- Unlimited colors
- Home page template
- Widgetized listing page
- Advanced property search
- Responsive
- WPML ready
Price: $55 | More Information
14. Prime Location
Prime Location runs on the Equity Framework. It includes a large homepage map with a community focus. Several page templates are included to help you build a landing page, blog, communities page, or a full width page. The parallax and slider features look modern and sharp. The homepage map search feature requires the IDX Broker Platinum, but the feature can be turned off and replaced with the included slider. It will feature MLS listings if you have the service but it’s not required. The admin panel includes agent info and custom feeds fields, and separate footer settings where you can place text or shortcodes in three different fields.
Key Features:
- IDX broker fee waved with purchase
- 6 color options
- Theme customizer
- Shortcodes
- Custom widgets
- Custom CSS editor
- WPML ready
- Responsive
- Optimized for IDX Broker Platinum and Lite
Price: $49.99 + Equity Framework | More Information
15. Realty
Realty is billed a “fully-fledged property management system for real estate agents and companies” and it’s go the features to back it up. With custom maps for property discovery, property listing layouts, agent profiles, and more Realty is for real estate agents and companies.
Key Features:
- Enhanced page building
- 100+ design customization options
- Property search
- Frontend property submission forms
- Free and paid submissions
- Ability to favorite properties
- Ability to compare properties
- And more
Price: $67 | More Information
Final Thoughts
That’s my list of some of the best real estate WordPress themes for 2016. All of these themes have what you need to build a great-looking real estate website with WordPress and get your website running quickly. Whether you need a website for a few rental properties or and fully staffed real estate agency, you’re sure find what you need from this list.
Do you have a favorite theme for realtors and agencies? Let us know in the comments.
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