Joomla real estate sites are in our opinion the best type of website for a real estate agent or brokerage to invest in. And make no mistake - to do a Joomal site correctly does require an investment. However, investing in a quality Joomla real estate website - particularly when its one built by Joomla real estate experts like us - will pay many dividents for years, even decades, to come. Here's a short summary of why Joomla is the best CMS for real estate sites.

Joomla websites are Search Engine Friendly

Is Joomla Search Engine Friendly (SEF)? You betcha–in fact, that's an understatement. Out of the box, Joomla is reasonably search engine friendly on its own. The novice can easily use Joomla's built-in search engine friendly URLs, which will put your article title into the URL and give you what us geeks call "pretty URLs." That means you'll see something like "/section/category/article-title" in the URL instead of the default "index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=x&Itemid=y" format.

What makes Joomla so powerful for real estate websites and SEO is that it can be "souped up" with some key search engine friendly customizations that make it a high-performance PR tool to reach search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN/Live/Bing, etc. Our SEO upgrades to the standard Joomla CMS make sure that every page on your site gets the attention from Google that it deserves. We've been building search engine friendly websites for over a decade, with results that have added up to hundreds of thousands of dollars in sales for our clients. We've taken everything we've learned in that decade and applied it to the Joomla CMS to create a high-powered combination of standard Joomla, extra components, SEF navigation, expertly composed and organized content, and internal linking strategies.

Joomla can be managed by the end user

What's the point of having a real estate website if you have to pay someone to make every little change in your site? We'd rather provide full access to a Content Management System – or CMS – so that website owners can take more ownership of their sites and really get involved enough to appreciate what it can do for them. We would rather teach our clients how to fish than just hand them a fish. In this way, they will come to appreciate the power of their website to impact their business and see the value in investing in it further. A website where the web design firm holds all the knowledge and nickels and dimes the client for every change is a website that won't perform to its maximum potential.

Joomla can support IDX integration

Can you search the MLS on a Joomla website? If we build it, you can, without having to invest in a dedicated server or pay for the high bandwidth of downloading the data each night. Necessity is the mother of invention. Out of our need to provide a way to build search engine friendly real estate websites that include IDX/MLS search capability, we've partnered with IDX Broker to do domain-level integration of their IDX/RETS search product into our high-performance Joomla websites. We make a great team!

NOTE: In some cases, we may be willing to partner with other IDX/RETS providers to provide a search engine friendly MLS search feature for a Joomla website. Please contact us to find out if this is feasible.

You own your Joomla webhosting account, not us

We have partnered with a major Joomla webhosting company to provide a high-performance webhosting package that includes unlimited domain hosting, emails, databases, Joomla sites, Wordpress sites, and more in the account. The best part is that the account is yours - it's in your name, not ours. You have full access to all the admin control panels that come with the account, and we'll teach you how to use them. Personalized service is part of the package. Although we build your first Joomla site in the account as part of our custom Joomla site package, we'll teach you how to install your own future Joomla sites and Wordpress in just minutes.