06 Dec How much do you pay to sell a house?
You can expect to pay 10 percent of the final sale price when selling a house. This includes the agent’s commission, which is typically 6 percent, as well as, any necessary home repairs, staging costs,...
05 Dec 9 Steps to Create a WordPress Website That Sends IDX to Facebook
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To create a WordPress website that sends IDX to Facebook, you should install Realtyna WordPress software. Then, create Facebook Ads, Business, and Developers accounts and add the information to the Realtyna Facebook Add-on. Facebook is a...
04 Dec 8 Steps to Build an ORTIS IDX Website With WordPress
ORTIS IDX and WordPress make a valuable combination for real estate agents in Canada. The power of ORTIS IDX listings and the flexibility of the WordPress platform allow you build a unique site that can...
29 Nov How to Uninstall Plugins on a WordPress IDX Website
To uninstall plugins on a WordPress IDX website, navigate to your WordPress dashboard, and then access the Plugins panel. Find the plugin you wish to uninstall, and click delete. Over time, many WordPress users build up...
26 Nov What Is a Featured Snippet and Why Is It Important for Real Estate SEO?
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A featured snippet is a search result displayed prominently at the top of the page that includes a block of text and a photo that attempt to answer a question entered into Google. Featured snippets...
21 Nov 5 Must Haves for the Real Estate Professional By OpenListings
Much of being a real estate agent is being on the road and much has been said about the must-haves for real estate professionals in terms of software, gadgets, client management and lead generation tools,...
20 Nov 13 Tips for Starting a Real Estate Blog
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A beginners guide for real estate blogging A blog can help your real estate site reach new levels. But to maximize its potential you need a strong foundation. That foundation should consist of a consistent routine and...
19 Nov How to Use Google Analytics With Your WordPress IDX Site
Google Analytics is a powerful tool for real estate agents. It can help you learn about your leads and how they interact with your IDX Site. Ultimately, this can help you generate more leads and...
16 Nov How to Add Listhub To WordPress
Realtyna integration software allows you to add ListHub to your WordPress website and display listings. ListHub is considered the nation’s premier real estate syndication platform. With content agreements with more than 600 MLS, ListHub presents the...
14 Nov How to Become a Real Estate Agent in the United States
To become a real estate agent, typically you need to be 18 years old, have a high school diploma, complete 40+ hours training, and pass an exam. Though these license requirements vary by state. So...
13 Nov Capture and Covert Leads with Realtyna and Follow Up Boss
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When owning and operating a real estate business, one thing is for certain: the need for converting leads. Generating leads is one thing, but retaining them is another. The strategies, consistency and organization needed to...
09 Nov What Is the Largest MLS in the U.S.?
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As of November 2018, the largest MLS in the U.S. is CRMLS, which covers large areas in southern California, the central coast, and the North Bay. CRMLS has 95,000+ members, 100,000+ active listings, and if...
08 Nov How to Build a Trend IDX Website With WordPress
TREND MLS hosts one of the largest listing databases on the East Coast. By connecting your website to TREND MLS via IDX, you can generate more traffic and capture more leads. As a TREND vendor,...
07 Nov What Is ListHub?
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ListHub is a real estate syndication service in North America that provides listings to third-party publishers and collects data on consumer traffic. Under the ListHub model, participating brokers can choose which publishers receive their listings. ListHub...
05 Nov How to Build a WordPress Website With ListHub
With Realtyna’s integration software for WordPress you can import ListHub listings and build a property search website. With content agreements with over 600 MLS, ListHub is the nation’s largest real estate syndication service. It is also...
02 Nov 10 Sources of Royalty Free Images For Your Real Estate Website
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An image-rich real estate site can rank higher and generate more leads Real estate is a visual industry. Its very foundations involve property photos, home tours, and, increasingly, drone flights. Most of this visual content is...
01 Nov How to Host a Bright MLS Database on Your WordPress Website
Hosting an MLS database on your website offers several advantages. First, it allows you to create a property listings search and generate leads. Second, it helps you increase the SEO content on your site and...
31 Oct Top Haunted Houses in U.S.
Whether you're a believer or not, America's towns are filled with spooky stories passed down through time. From haunted fortresses to grisly tales of suffering and death, we've pulled together a list of some of...
30 Oct What Is Managed Hosting?
Managed hosting is a web hosting model that includes most of the IT services necessary to maintain your servers and website. These services can include patching and updating server software, monitoring your website for security...
29 Oct How to Add Bright MLS Search to a WordPress Website
Bright MLS has one of the largest databases of for-sale homes in the U.S. With Realtyna’s Organic RETS Integration you can add these listings to your WordPress website and build an MLS search. What Is Organic...
26 Oct 8 Steps to Build a Bright MLS IDX Website With WordPress
Bright MLS IDX and WordPress offer a strong pairing for real estate agents. The power of Bright MLS IDX and the flexibility of WordPress mean you can build a site unique to your business and...
25 Oct How to Build a Real Estate Site With WordPress and Outrank Zillow in Canada
Zillow is expanding to Canada. Here’s how to outrank it and other portals in your local market. Zillow is a page view machine. With its recent expansion to Canada, it promises to dominate online real estate...
23 Oct How Zapier Can Help Real Estate Agents Improve Customer Connections and Automate Work
Being a real estate agent can be quite time-consuming. Keeping all the necessary data consistent, making sure nothing gets missed when it comes to everyday operations and scheduling business efforts can be a lot to...
19 Oct How to Integrate Bright MLS Listings into WordPress
Integrating Bright MLS listings into your website allows you to build a property search feature and increase the SEO content on your site. In many markets, it’s no longer enough to offer a simple IDX website....
18 Oct How to Choose a Strong Domain Name for an IDX Real Estate Website
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When choosing a domain name for an IDX real estate website, you should focus on what is memorable, searchable, available, and succinct. So you are looking for a domain name. That’s great. This is one of...
17 Oct 12 Routine Maintenance Tasks For Your WordPress IDX Website
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Routine website maintenance is standard practice for any business that generates revenue online. But because real estate agents are stretched so thin, these essential tasks are often neglected. To help you keep your site running smoothly...
16 Oct What Is Bright MLS?
Bright MLS is a multiple listing service formed from the consolidation of nine other MLS in the Mid-Atlantic United States. With a coverage area from New Jersey to Virginia, Bright MLS has built itself into...
15 Oct 13 Signs That Your IDX Website Has Been Hacked
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Modern real estate agents depend on their IDX website to convert leads, communicate with clients, process transactions, and market services. If this website is hacked, it can cause lasting damage to a business and brand. Of...
14 Oct How to Update Plugins on a WordPress IDX Website
To update plugins on a WordPress IDX website, you should navigate to your dashboard, select the plugins that have new versions available, and apply a bulk update. But first you should read about the updates...
13 Oct How to Backup Your WordPress IDX Website
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To backup your WordPress IDX website, you should log into your cPanel and download a full website backup. If you are not comfortable doing this, there are a few other options such as using WordPress...
12 Oct 9 Steps to Add REBGV IDX to a WordPress Website
The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV) is a 100-year-old organization hosting one of Canada’s largest databases of real estate listings. Now REBGV members can add IDX to their WordPress website using Realtyna’s Organic RETS...
11 Oct Five Things Clients Are Looking For In An Agent and Why Most Realtors Don’t Succeed By Ashley Lipman
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Welcome Realtyna Readers. Today’s blog post is written by Ashley Lipman from The Blog Frog and The Urban Avenue. Ashley is an award-winning writer who discovered her passion in providing creative solutions for building brands online....
10 Oct How to Build an MRIS IDX Website With WordPress
An IDX connection to MRIS can help take your business to a new level. By hosting listings from one of the nation's largest MLS, you can generate more traffic on your site and capture more...
09 Oct How to Set Career Goals in Real Estate
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Setting career goals in real estate takes time and reflection. You need to step back, imagine your future in a way that you can summarize in one to two sentences. Then, you must translate this...
08 Oct How to Add IDX and School Ratings Data to a WordPress Website
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[realtyna_blog_notice] To add IDX and school ratings to a WordPress website, you should download and install Realtyna’s Organic MLS Integration plugin and the School Info Add-On. Then you should add the RETS username and password from...
07 Oct How to Create a Targeted and Successful Real Estate Facebook Ad
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Real estate professionals are busy. I am well aware of the time and effort agents must spend every day on a variety of tasks: communicating with clients, contacting leads, driving through neighborhoods, maintaining your website,...
06 Oct What Is Days On Market?
Days on market provides a measure of the age of a real estate listing. The statistic is calculated as the number of days a listing is active before an offer is accepted or the listing...
05 Oct How to Get Listings as a New Real Estate Agent?
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Your first few months as a real estate agent are perilous. You expend great money and effort to establish yourself with few guarantees of income. Traversing this period requires strategy, persistence, and a bit of...
04 Oct How to Change Your WordPress IDX Website Theme
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So you want to change your WordPress IDX website theme. It’s a fairly straightforward process. The most important thing is that you test the new theme fully for compatibility with your current features and that...
02 Oct What Is a Real Estate Association?
A real estate association is a trade group made up of agents and brokers that can provide trainings, lobby the government, produce market research, and operate an MLS for the benefit of its members. The...