How to Create Your Own Real Estate Website: $100 or less

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By jujudy
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create your own real estate website

Sell real estate through your own real estate listing website. With today's technology, it is simple and inexpensive to own and operate your own real estate website.

Whether you are a real estate agent with the need to list your client's homes and properties on the internet or you desire to create a "sale by owner" website and charge a fee for each listing, you can create a real estate listing website in 24 hours or less.

To learn how to become the owner of a real estate listing website, read the instructions below:

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

real estate listing software
advertising program, optional

Step 1

SELECT A REAL ESTATE LISTING SOFTWARE PACKAGE

Select a real estate listing software package, such as the product I have listed under Resources.
Step 2

DETERMINE HOW YOU WANT TO HOST YOUR REAL ESTATE WEBSITE

You have at least two options when it comes to hosting your real estate website: contract with an internet service provider that hosts websites, or host your website with the developer of your real estate listing software package.

Either way, you will have the same functionality and the same management capabilities.

The option to have your real estate website hosted through the software developer will save you the time (usually a couple hours) to set up your software on a site hosted by another provider host.

Compare prices and save.
Step 3

USING THE ADMIN PANEL, CHOOSE THE FEATURES YOU WILL OFFER YOUR CUSTOMERS

With the leading real estate listing software, you will have the ability to establish your own listing fee schedule. You will also determine if you will allow an open real estate directory that will allow visitors to list their own properties, or whether listings will be submitted and then placed by you.
Step 4

MAKE CERTAIN YOUR REAL ESTATE LISTING SOFTWARE PROVIDES A PAYMENT INTERFACE THAT FITS YOUR NEEDS

Some real estate listing software is designed to allow for a PayPal interface. (See Resources below.) Other packages offer different means of accepting payment.

Shop around.
Step 5

ADVERTIZE YOUR WEBSITE

The more visitors you can draw to your website, the more likely that the property listings will result in sales, and the more likely you will attract more customers to use your services, and. . .you know how marketing goes.

Therefore, you will want to submit your website name to the major search engines, to appropriate directories, and use all the free listings you can find on the web. You may want to begin a free blog that can be used to advertize your website.

Further, you may want to allow yourself a small budget for paid advertizing, such as the Google Adwords program.