Website design for real estate agents in Tampa Bay

Websites for real estate agents, built to answer before the other agent does.

A buyer who asks about a house is asking three other people the same evening, and the one who replies first usually gets the showing. Your site has two jobs: convince someone you are worth calling, and make sure the reply goes out in the first minute rather than the first hour.

Who's on the other end

Three people land on an agent's site wanting opposite things.

Only one of them is ready to transact. The other two decide, quietly, whether you ever hear from them at all.

Vetting

Checking whether you're worth calling

They got your name from a friend, a sign, a portal profile or an open house, and now they are doing what everybody does before handing someone the biggest transaction of their life. This is the most common visit to an agent site and the least designed for.

What they need to see

  • A face and a name that match the sign
  • The neighborhoods you genuinely work
  • Recent closings, shown honestly
  • How you communicate and how fast

Seller

Wondering what the house is worth

A homeowner turning over the idea of moving, six months out, telling nobody yet. They will read everything and raise their hand only when it feels low-risk. Handled badly, this is the listing that goes to whoever sent a postcard that week.

What they need to see

  • What you would actually do to market it
  • A straight explanation of commission
  • What the current market means for their street
  • A valuation request that is not a trap

Buyer

Ready to go see houses

Pre-approved or close to it, with a list of saved homes and a weekend free. They want to know that you cover their price range and their area, and then they want a time on the calendar without a phone conversation first.

What they need to see

  • That you work their price range
  • What the first meeting involves
  • Showing times they can pick themselves
  • A reply that arrives in minutes
What the site has to do

Six things an agent's website has to get right.

Most agent sites are vendor templates with the headshot swapped, which is fine until a seller compares two of them and cannot tell the difference. These are the parts that separate you.

  1. You, before anything else

    In this business the person is the product. Your name, a real photograph, the brokerage you hang your license with, and one paragraph that sounds like you talking. Your broker will have rules about logos, team names and how your title is written, and those rules win over anything we would prefer.

  2. Neighborhood pages written by someone who goes there

    Not "Tampa real estate" but Seminole Heights, Westchase, Apollo Beach, the streets you actually drive. Say what the flood zones and the insurance picture do to a deal there, what the commute is really like, which blocks turn over. Vendor platforms ship thousands of agents the same auto-generated area pages, and Google's spam policies name that pattern directly.

  3. Proof you are allowed to show

    Sold and closed work is the most persuasive thing on the page, and the rules about displaying it come from your MLS and your brokerage, not from us. We show what you are permitted to show, attributed the way it has to be attributed, and we leave off anything nobody can verify.

  4. A short form and a fast answer

    Every field you add costs you submissions, and a name plus a phone number is usually enough to start a conversation. What matters far more is what happens next: an automatic reply inside the first minute, in your voice, while they are still on the page.

  5. Listing search only if you actually need it

    An MLS feed on your site will not outrank the portals for people searching houses, so it is not a traffic plan. It is a convenience for the buyers already working with you. If you want it, we set it up through an IDX provider you pay directly, for a fee we quote once we know your MLS and what your brokerage allows.

  6. Something that survives a brokerage change

    Agents move. If your site sits on your brokerage's platform or a vendor's subdomain, the day you leave it goes dark, along with the search history behind it. The domain should be registered to you, and the files should be yours to take, which is how we build it whichever tier you pick.

Watch it work

4:15 on a Sunday. You're mid open house.

A sign call comes in on another listing and you cannot pick up without walking away from the people in front of you. Text-back replies under your name, finds out which house, and puts a showing on the calendar before you lock up.

  1. A sign call arrives while you're running an open house.
  2. A text goes out under your name and asks which property.
  3. They name the listing and say when they could see it.
  4. The showing is on your calendar before the open house ends.

An example for an agent. The message goes out in your name and your wording, you decide whether it offers a showing link or your calendar, and a Sunday afternoon can read differently from a Tuesday morning.

What we build

What goes into an agent build.

Hand-coded from scratch, on a domain in your name. The page list comes out of the free concept, because a listing-heavy seller's agent and a buyer's agent living on referrals need the site to argue two different cases.

Foundation and up

The website

  • Your name, your photograph and your brokerage, laid out the way your broker signs off on
  • Neighborhood pages for the areas you work, written rather than generated
  • Closed and sold work presented within your MLS and brokerage rules
  • A short lead form that fills in one-handed on a phone
  • A seller valuation request that says exactly what happens after they send it
  • Buyer and seller guides that answer the questions you already answer twice a week
  • A domain and files registered to you, so the site moves if you do
  • Structured data for you, your brokerage and the areas you serve
  • Optional MLS listing search through an IDX provider you pay directly, set up for a quoted fee

Growth and up, or Retrofit on your current site

The follow-up behind it

  • Missed-call text-back that answers in your name inside the minute
  • A showing or consultation link carried in that first reply
  • Separate follow-up for buyer and seller leads, because they move on different clocks
  • A review request once a closing is done, pointed wherever you want the reviews
  • Yearly check-ins to past clients by email, and by text only where they agreed to it
  • Every call, text, form fill and portal lead in one inbox, with A2P 10DLC registration handled for you
Pricing

Which tier fits a real estate agent.

The four tiers and the prices are the same for everyone. What differs for an agent is the reasoning: the deciding factor here is usually reply speed rather than search, so read the fit with that in mind.

  • Retrofit
    $200/mo

    Plus $300 setup. Keeps your current site.

    Your brokerage page and your portal profile bring in enough, and you are content with that. What you are losing is the lead who called while you sat in a closing. Add the text-back and the follow-up to what you already have.

  • Foundation
    $2,500$1,500

    One-time. Founding rate, first 3 clients.

    Newer to the business, or already spending everything you have on leads. You need a site with your own name on it that you keep if you change brokerages, without another monthly bill from us.

  • Growth
    Build +$400/mo

    First month waived.

    Our usual pick for agents

    You buy or earn leads and lose some of them to whoever replied first. The site, the automatic follow-up and steady reviews working together is what closes that gap, and it compounds across a year.

  • Scale
    Build +$750/mo

    Plus ad spend. First month waived.

    You run listing ads or buy portal leads at volume and want a straight answer about which source produced which closing. Ad spend is paid to the platforms directly and never marked up by us.

Founding rates are for the first three businesses we take on, and stay locked while you stay. Everything each tier includes.

FAQ

Straight answers for real estate agents.

Yes, as an add-on. The feed comes through an IDX provider that you pay directly, the same way you pay for your own domain, because the MLS relationship has to be in your name and not ours. We handle the setup and the design work for a fee we quote once we know which MLS you are on and what your brokerage permits. Ask your broker first, because some of them restrict it or require their own platform.

They should not, and we build to whatever they require: the brokerage name and logo where compliance wants them, any required disclosure text, and team naming that follows their policy. Send us the advertising guidelines at the start and give your broker the link before launch. It is a short conversation early and a painful one late.

No, and I would not take your money to try. Searches like that are dominated by the national portals, and competing with them on listing inventory is not a fight a single agent wins. What a site can win is your own name, your neighborhoods, the guides nobody local has written, and the people already deciding whether to call you.

Because the lead looks you up before they answer your call, and right now that lookup lands on a profile the portal controls. The other reason is that the portal is renting you attention month to month at a price it sets. The site, the domain and the contact list are assets you keep, and they cost the same next year.

You keep everything and we swap the brokerage details, which is usually an afternoon. Worth checking now: if your current site lives on a brokerage platform or a vendor subdomain, you probably do not own it, and finding that out during a move is the wrong time.

Sometimes, and it depends on MLS rules and the brokerage that held the listing rather than on what we would like to do. Tell us what you have permission to display and how it must be credited, and we present that. Anything unverifiable stays off the page, which is also the version that survives a compliance review.

Yes, and a team site is a different build. Leads have to route to the right agent by area or by rotation, every member needs a real page instead of a headshot in a grid, and somebody has to own the domain when a member leaves. We would rather settle that last one on day one than watch it turn into an argument.

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