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Get a FREE SSL Certificate for Your Real Estate Solution Website An SSL certificate is a great addition to any website that provides several advantages to you and your website visitors, including making data sent through your website more secure, giving users more confidence in using your website and giving you a boost in your Google ranking. As part of our efforts to provide our customers with the best real estate websites and services for agents, teams and brokerages, we are proud to announce that all Real Estate Solution websites are now being provided with a FREE SSL certificate. Whether you’re a new customer or have been with us for years, we’re pleased tooffer you this upgrade for your website at no cost.  Why You Want an SSL Certificate for Your Real Estate Website The main advantage of an SSL certificate is that it provides you and your website visitors with a greater level of security. Information sent through your website, including information sent through your contact form, property forms and lead capture forms, will be transferred…

DDF® Listing Automation in Canada from Real Estate Solution DDF® Listing Automation on your website provides you with up-to-date, detailed property listings from your board that update each day and include all of the details you need to help people find the right residential, commercial, and agricultural properties with ease. DDF® Listing Automation is included as part of every Real Estate Solution website for Canadian agents and brokerages, and can display properties for the board(s) that you want to include. This means that whether you want to include properties from just one region or have multiple regions included on your website, you can have those automated each day for you. With DDF® property listing automation, you have access to all of the listings for your region, not just your own. Your listings will be given top priority along with your brokerage’s listings, but you will have all of the homes, commercial properties, and agricultural land for sale in your region included in your listings. This means that whether you’re a top producer…

Real Estate Websites for Agents Whether you’re an experienced real estate professional or a new agent looking to establish yourself and stand out in the competitive real estate industry, an agent website from Real Estate Solution is a great option to help you grow your real estate business, generate more leads, and increase the exposure of your brand. For a powerful website that gives you the tools to bring in leads, get your listings out to the public, and easily interact with your clients, Real Estate Solution has an answer for you no matter what stage you’re at in your career. For new agents, our Turnkey Real Estate Websites are an economical solution that gets you started on the right foot. These websites are customized with your brand, photo, and colour scheme to go along with listing automation from IDX® or DDF® and lead tools including Free Home Evaluation, Mortgage Pre-Approval, and New Listing Notification. Plus, you get a powerful content management system in webOS that not only lets you manage and add…

A Better Search Solution for Your Real Estate Website One of the best ways to get visitors to your website to look at properties and contact you for more information is to make it easier for them to find exactly what they’re looking for, including homes with the features that matter the most to them. With that in mind, at Real Estate Solution, we are pleased to offer a custom site search feature that can be seamlessly integrated into your real estate website and allow visitors to find properties based on any criteria they want to without being limited by filters.   With lightning fast site search from Real Estate Solution, visitors to your website can easily find the features that are most important to them in a new property without being limited to just standard search filters. Want to only find properties with garages? How about a finished basement? Pools? Newer roof? Your integrated site search can find anything mentioned in the property listing, from a mother-in-law suite to hardwood floors and any other property feature your potential…

Exclusive Listings System There are times when you want to go above and beyond traditional listings to offer your clients something more and help bring more attention to your properties for sale. Whether it’s because you need a property up more quickly than with automation services, want to highlight a property that is not being listed on MLS® or just want to expand on what details you’re providing about your listings, the Exclusive Listing System from Real Estate Solution. Whether for an agent or a brokerage, the Exclusive Listings System can help you do more with your real estate website. While DDF® and IDX® property automation gives you properties added to your website fast, sometimes you need a property available on your website right away. With the Exclusive Listings System you can add properties to your website instantly, formatted just like they would be if they were automated to your website and with no waiting. These listings will appear right alongside your other properties so users will find them…

Solutions for Real Estate Teams Real Estate Solution offers a number of ways to increase the web presence for real estate agents, brokers, and brokerages, but our solutions are also a great choice for helping real estate teams increase their exposure and generate more leads. All of our solutions are available for teams as well as individual agents, so if you’re looking to get off on the right foot with our Starter or Closer solution, are looking for a completely custom web presence with our Top Producer solution, we have options available to help your team bring in more leads and become more visible to potential clients. No matter which solution you choose, we will customize your solution to represent your team the way you want. Our team websites will automate listings for your entire team, making sure that you always have the most up-to-date listings for your entire group available to your website visitors. We can also make sure that all of the leads received from your website are delivered to the team members of…

Why We Don’t Use WordPress While WordPress is an extremely popular content management platform, at Real Estate Solution we do not use it for any of our real estate websites. Even though a number of other companies use WordPress’ readily-available templates and plugins to sell real estate websites, we instead use a custom platform for all of our website developments. and there are a number of reasons why we work this way.   Security is paramount to us in our development and website hosting, and WordPress has a number of known security issues. Being the most popular CMS on the internet, more people also target WordPress specifically for malicious activities and for discovering its weaknesses. We want to make sure that your data, including website content and information about your leads, is always kept secure, so we instead use a secure and scalable framework that is continuously updated to respond to the latest known security threats. There are also security vulnerabilities that can come with many of the third-party…