Trade guide · Estate Agents
A proper home online for estate agents
Everything agencies handling residential sales and lettings need to run a website worth trusting — speed, security and support on the price tag, with nothing hidden underneath it.
Straight answer first
Estate agents need speed, uptime and the particulars of the trade — starting with a listing feed out of your CRM that keeps pace with the portals — from a setup that never asks them to hire a webmaster to keep it running.
All of it sits on the shelf as standard — NVMe speed, LiteSpeed caching, free SSL and migration, mail on your own domain and support around the clock — on a price tag that reads the same at renewal.
Written by the Hosting Seller staff · Checked 1 August 2026
NVMe
Storage in every plan
Free
Domain, year one
99.9%
Uptime commitment held
Flat
Price at renewal
Take the design away and the site agencies handling residential sales and lettings actually need is property listings, valuations, area guides and what you offer a seller — the whole lot standing on whichever hosting account happens to be underneath it.
The portals hold the buyers, but it is the vendor who picks the agent. An agency site is really there to win instructions, and it is valuation tools and area guides that bring those vendors through the door. That single fact shapes what matters on a hosting plan far more than any tick-box comparison table ever will.
The way it goes wrong is always familiar: pouring the marketing budget into portals that keep the buyer relationship you were trying to build for yourself. Good hosting exists to take that outcome off the table entirely.
Hosting requirements, put plainly for estate agents
Written out straight, the needs read like this: a listing feed out of your CRM that keeps pace with the portals, an instant-valuation tool aimed at vendors, who are your actual customers, area guides written to catch the 'what is it like living in' searches and photograph-heavy pages that still open quickly on a phone.
Each one maps onto something you can measure — storage and caching for the media, uptime and form delivery for the enquiries, and a panel simple enough to update between jobs. That is the lens to hold any host up to, this one included.
Why quick pages pay for themselves here
Slow hosting costs you quietly, because the visitors it loses never complain — they simply go. Picture it plainly: pouring the marketing budget into portals that keep the buyer relationship you were trying to build for yourself. No error page, no support ticket, just trade walking somewhere else.
Our stack goes at that from every angle: NVMe disks answer database queries in microseconds, LiteSpeed hands over cached pages before PHP has even woken up, and image optimisation keeps big pictures sharp without the weight. The result is a site that feels immediate on a phone on mobile data, which is where your customers actually are.
How the site actually gets built
The builds we watch succeed are put together with WordPress with property plugins, CRM feed integrations (Reapit, Alto) and an instant-valuation widget — every one of them installable in a single click from the control panel, with no command line anywhere in sight.
Whichever route you take, the result stays yours. WordPress sites export and move freely, the domain is registered in your name, and nothing about the build ties you to us beyond the service being worth keeping.
The details that make a business look established
Trust is built out of small signals: the padlock in the address bar, an email address that matches the website, and a site that is up every single time somebody checks. All three come as standard — free SSL, mailboxes on the domain, and a 99.9% uptime commitment with monitoring behind it.
Behind all that, a daily backup turns a bad update or a deleted folder into a ten-minute restore instead of a crisis — and support answers at any hour, which counts most at exactly the times trouble prefers.
Why estate agents order from us
Most of the people we serve are agencies handling residential sales and lettings — customers who want the website handled, not a second career in server administration.
Bring an existing site and we shift it across at no charge — usually inside 24 hours, with nothing going dark while we work.
- SSL and the move in, free on every plan
- NVMe storage behind LiteSpeed caching
- Mailboxes on your own domain included
- Real people on the counter, any hour
Why Hosting Seller
On every plan, as standard
Room on the shelf to grow
From a first site to serious traffic, upgrades apply in place — no migration and no fuss.
SSL on the tag, always
The padlock comes with every plan, issued and reissued automatically, and never rung up as an extra.
The move in is on us
Hosted somewhere else? We carry the whole site across free, and you check it before anything switches.
Support that turns up
Real people, at every hour, who answer the practical questions instead of pushing them away.
Backups nobody has to remember
A backup taken daily, with one-click restores that turn a bad afternoon into a ten-minute fix.
Mail that matches the sign
Mailboxes on your own domain are included — enquiries answered from an address that earns trust.
First Steps
From choosing to live
- 1
Start on a plan sized for the job
Most estate agents sit comfortably on our Launch or Pro plan — the first-year domain and the SSL are already on the tag, and moving up later is an account change rather than a move.
- 2
Install fresh, or hand us the old one
Install WordPress or the Website Builder in one click — or, if a site already lives somewhere else, our staff carry it across free of charge, usually within a day.
- 3
Go live and leave the worrying here
Connect the domain, check the site on your own phone, and get back to the actual business — backups, SSL renewals and uptime monitoring run themselves from that point on.
In the Box
Packed with every plan
- Real people on the counter, every hour of every day
- A free SSL certificate on every plan, reissued before it lapses
- LiteSpeed caching running at the server, not bolted on by plugin
- A domain free for year one when you order annually
- The renewal price printed on the tag matches the order price
- Staging copies so changes get tested before they go live
- A backup taken daily, with restores you run yourself
- Mailboxes that carry your own domain name
- SSH, Git and Composer on the plans built for developers
- Upgrades apply to the account in place, with no move between plans
Across the Counter
The questions we get asked most
Will listings come across from our CRM by themselves?
They will. The mainstream agency systems export a feed that property plugins read, so a listing edited in the CRM changes on your site without anybody retyping it. Price reductions and sold-subject-to-contract flags follow along on the same run.
What genuinely wins instructions from a website?
Valuation tools and evidence. An instant-valuation widget trades an estimate for the vendor's details, and short write-ups of properties you sold above the asking price do most of the persuading before you ever knock on the door for the appraisal.
What if the site outgrows the plan I bought?
You move up in place. Plan changes are made from the client area with no migration and no downtime, and the range runs from small shared accounts through VPS to whole dedicated servers. Growing becomes a line change on your account rather than a hunt for a new host.
Does hosting come with mailboxes?
It does — mailboxes on your own domain ship with every hosting plan, with webmail, IMAP, POP and SMTP access and spam filtering fitted as standard. There is also standalone email hosting for domains whose website lives somewhere else entirely.
Is there a refund if it does not suit?
Yes — thirty days. Put the hosting through real work, and if it is not right, ask for the money back and you get it; there is no retention script to survive first. Domain registrations are the one carve-out, because registries take that fee the moment the name is placed.
Can one plan hold more than a single website?
From the Pro tier upward, yes — several sites, each with its own domain, mailboxes and certificate, all under one account. If those extra sites belong to clients rather than to you, reseller hosting is the better fit: it gives each one proper separation.
Can I set the PHP version myself?
Yes — PHP versions are chosen per site from the control panel, so an old application and a current one can sit side by side on the same account. Extensions and per-site settings live in the same screen, and none of it needs a support ticket.
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