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Secondly, the plugin allows for a clean listings modules with a beautiful image gallery. Customers can purchase through your website by going through PayPal or Stripe. Furthermore, it’s fully responsive for clients to browse listings on their mobile phones and tablets.

Why This WordPress Real Estate Plugin Rocks

• Real Estate Pro is compatible and integrated with MailChimp. Therefore, all new customer emails are stored in your database.
• You can use Visual Composer with the plugin.
• It allows you to configure subscriptions.
• Charge for things like adding a listing, claiming a listing, selling a VIP badge or even accessing the site.
• The plugin translates into 13 languages.
• The users that come to your site can bid to get the top search rank. Essentially, you could run a listings site with the plugin and not even be a real estate agent.

Downsides of this WordPress Real Estate Plugin

• Although it comes with translations, it’s not that clear how to make the translations.
• The help files are lacking.
• It doesn’t integrate with the MLS.

3. IMPress Listings

IMPress Listings is completely free, but you do have the option to buy some listing templates. The basics behind the plugin include a full listing management system, an MLS integration and status tags for all of your listings.

IMPress has quite a few fields for you to fill in when making a listing. Some of them include price, address, floors, garage, pool, map and virtual tour.

Why This WordPress Real Estate Plugin Rocks

• It connects with the MLS.
• You can migrate your AgentPress listings over to IMPress.
• The plugin comes with a featured listing widget.
• The search listing module has customizable dropdowns for things like locations, property types, bedrooms and bathrooms.
• The maps are inserted automatically so that you don’t have to embed them.

Downsides of this WordPress Real Estate Plugin

• The default property status tags can only be changed by messing with some code.
• Creating single listing templates is much harder than it should be.
• It looks like the support could be better.

4. WP Amortization Calculator

The WP Amortization Calculator plugin has its uses if you don’t already have one of these calculator tools included with your theme (or another plugin like Estatik). Right now, the WP Amortization Calculator plugin sells for $20, so you’re not spending much money to give your clients a tool they definitely need.

The plugin has highly customizable settings for branding and fitting it in with your website. It’s responsive and has a lead capture module when people use it. You can also share PDF reports to give your clients additional value.

Why This WordPress Real Estate Plugin Rocks

• It’s more than a calculator, since you gain access to a simple lead capture module.
• You can integrate with Visual Composer for a drag and drop interface.
• Create PDFs for your clients and include your logo and company info in that PDF.
• View the type of loan that each customer is interested in.

Downsides of this WordPress Real Estate Plugin

• More advanced styling requires CSS knowledge.
• You really can’t disable any features that are already programmed in.
• Many WordPress real estate plugins and themes already have calculators. So, this is more for those who want to add to their current site.

5. WPL Real Estate

With the WPL Real Estate plugin, you get a chance to list agents, share a map view of your listings and offer an advanced search for your clients. The main reason I like this one so much is because it caters to agencies with a handful of agents. You can post agent information and share photos to give buyers or sellers more on who they’ll be working with.

The WPL plugin has some native and compatible themes, but it should work fine with just about any WordPress theme. There is a free plugin with decent features, but the true functionality comes in the form of the WPL Pro version. Unfortunately, you have to ask for a free quote in order to see how much it’s going to cost you.

Why This WordPress Real Estate Plugin Rocks

• The plugin connects easily with the MLS.
• The customer support is rock solid.
• There’s more to it than just property listings. For example, you get agent listings and an awesome search feature.

Downsides of this WordPress Real Estate Plugin

• The multilingual features aren’t included with the free version.
• In fact, quite a few customization options are omitted from the free version. For instance, you can’t hide the address, accept multiple currencies or adjust the “More Details” section if you don’t have the premium version.

6. Easy Property Listings

Easy Property Listings has more of a freemium business model, where the regular plugin is completely free, but several extensions are available for you to buy. For example, you can buy the Comparables extension and spend around $47.

The stats are rather interesting since you can look at how many listings have been posted in a certain timeframe. You can also check how many of those you have been sold. Listing widgets are provided as well. Therefore, you can reveal some property listings in a sidebar next to your blog feed.

Why This WordPress Real Estate Plugin Rocks

• The listings don’t need much in terms of customization. This is one of the easier plugins to show your listings and see them displayed beautifully on your website.
• It integrates with WordPress frameworks like Genesis, Headway, and iThemes Builder.
• 100s of theme templates come with the plugin.
• The customer support is strong.
• The plugin delivers over 150 custom fields for the ultimate listing customization interface.
• The API documentation is available to give more experienced developers more freedom.

Downsides of this WordPress Real Estate Plugin

• The following paid extensions should definitely be part of the regular, free plugin (but they aren’t): Sliders, Listing Templates and Advanced Mapping.

7. Essential Real Estate

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

This plugin essentially has everything you need to start a Real Estate website. It also has an impressive 5-star rating on the repository! It has custom post types, taxonomy features for properties, agents, packages, user packages, invoices, and even transaction logs. You can add new listings, edit them, and much more.

Why This WordPress Real Estate Plugin Rocks

• Easily add/modify all attributes for a listing (such as city, state, status, neighborhood, price, etc.)
• This plugin has tons of features packed in!
• You can submit properties via both the frontend and the backend.
• Pays close attention to SEO, allowing you to even set the slugs for custom post types.

Downsides of this WordPress Real Estate Plugin

• Due to everything, the plugins includes it can be a little overwhelming.
• Longer learning curve.

8. WP-Property

The WP-Property WordPress plugin has been around for a long time and is one of the most downloaded real estate plugins on the repository. It allows you to create and manage highly customizable real estate, property management, and completely custom listing showcase websites.

The plugin was built for real estate, but it can also be used for any type of entity. Perhaps you are selling used cars? It can easily showcase this.

Why This WordPress Real Estate Plugin Rocks

• Easily filterable on any type of custom attribute.
• SEO friendly URLs.
• Integration with Google maps API validates addresses behind the scenes.
• Integrates with the built-in media library so you don’t have to use third-party gallery plugins
• Available in over 12 languages

Downsides of this WordPress Real Estate Plugin

• Longer learning curve.
• In the past, this plugin has had quite a bit of negative reviews, but it appears the developers are improving on their support.

WordPress Real Estate Themes (Bonus)

Even though this post is regarding plugins, we couldn’t leave out a couple really high-quality real estate themes you should check out.

1. WPCasa

WPCasa is probably the most widely known WordPress theme framework built to satisfy real estate agencies’ various needs. It is a flexible, fully responsive framework offering countless options for customization.

Edit screens and theme settings are extremely easy to handle with the use of drag & drop widgets. There are numerous layout options available, the background and the components of the header are also customizable, but if that wouldn’t be enough, you can create your truly bespoke website by using one of WPCasa’s professionally designed child themes, or making your own.

All WPCasa themes and child themes are available in several languages, which can easily be added and edited in the WordPress admin. Continuous support is provided in three languages to help users get the best out of the purchased theme. Purchase includes future updates and installs on unlimited sites.

The icing on the cake is that you can not just look at the front end demo before buying the theme, but you can create a personal test site for 7 days free of charge to experience all the advantages and drawbacks of the theme.

2. AgentPress

AgentPress is also a fully-featured realty WordPress theme, which is truly a great deal for real estate professionals.

Purchase includes access to AgentPress Pro and the Genesis framework too. Responsive design, unlimited support, and updates are of course provided. Again, several layout options, custom background, header, and menu are available. What makes AgentPress special is its smart listing system based on the combination of dsIDXpress plugin and dsSearchAgent. This mixture provides indexable MLS listing system, which is also good for SEO purposes.

Does Your Site Have the Best WordPress Real Estate Plugins?

As you may have noticed, you don’t really need all of these WordPress real estate plugins. Sure, you might go with something like Estatik for listing your properties and WP Amortization Calculator for displaying additional financing information, but there’s no need to have two home listing plugins. Therefore, we recommend reading these reviews, then testing out the ones that sound interesting.

Then you can install the necessary WordPress plugins for security, SEO, social media and more (the standard plugins we covered at the beginning of this article). If you have any questions about the best WordPress real estate plugins, or if you’d like to talk about your experience with any of the plugins, let us know in the comments section below.