Price is the first question every real-estate business owner asks — and the honest answer depends on who builds it. Here are the real ranges and what each one buys you.
A real-estate website costs $2,000-$10,000+ as a custom agency build, $500-$2,500 from a freelancer — or $199/year with AI4WEB, where domain, hosting, copy, schema and lead capture are all included and the build completes in under 2 hours. For a full look at what a high-converting Real Estate website includes, see Web Design for Real Estate Agents.
Real estate sites compete with giant portals for attention, so cost hinges on locally superior content — neighborhood guides and valuation tools — rather than on listing display alone. Neighborhood-guide depth and valuation or saved-search integrations are the two budget lines that separate a real agent site from a portal clone.
| Option | Setup | Monthly | SEO included? |
|---|---|---|---|
| DIY page builder | $0-$300 + your weekends | $15-$40 | No — schema and city pages are manual |
| Freelancer | $500-$2,500 | $10-$50 hosting | Basic at best |
| Agency custom build | $2,000-$10,000+ | $50-$200 | Often a paid add-on |
| AI4WEB | $0 — built in under 2 hours | $199/year | Yes — schema, city pages, FAQ markup built in |
One real-estate website, up to 10 cities and 200 pages, every service and city page written for you, LocalBusiness/Service/FAQ/Review schema, geo-tagged lead forms, managed DNS/SSL/CDN. See full pricing.
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FAQ
$199/year on AI4WEB with domain, hosting, copy, schema and lead capture included. Agency builds run $2,000-$10,000+ upfront plus $50-$200/month hosting.
Cheap sites rank poorly when they're slow, thin or missing schema. AI4WEB sites are mobile-first with LocalBusiness, Service and FAQ schema — the ranking essentials — at $199/year.
No. Domain and hosting are included in the $199/year plan.
Yes — billed annually, cancel anytime, and you can export your site as a ZIP.
Complete, SEO-optimized, live in under 2 hours — from $199/year.
