Real estate agents: no more cookie cutter websites. (And no more drag and drop editing either.) Today you can build a website in a little over ten minutes, and it'll be a fully customized website you'd pay designers and agencies thousands to tens of thousands of dollars for. And it'll cost you less than $100. Here's how I did it.
But wait, before I sensationalize just how easy websites are to build these days, I want to make something clear. Even though 'AI' and vibe coding with agentic coding agents make things easier, the 'ten' minutes it took me to build this website was just to get the look and feel of it right. It'll take a few hours of learning and prompting to wire in your real estate board's listings, set up a compliant 'virtual office website' (or VOW) to show restricted listings (i.e. solds), and add custom finishing touches.
At this point, you'd rather talk to clients and sell houses, right?
Well, let me indulge you and show you how I built it – and at the end of this, if you like what you see, I'm going to share this with you so you can build your own using my template. And I'm not going to charge you tens of thousands of dollars for it. You get it for free.
First – let me outline the actual build time and how I did it.
Here's the first 'build' prompt in the gallery. Copy and paste it to Lovable (or Replit, or Base44, or v0, or Bolt).
create a real estate agent website similar to what luxury presence or agent image offers, complete with full front end with hero graphics, appropriate sections and calculators (Canadian mortgage, downpayment, etc.), a back end CRM website editor and listings feed using real estate board data (I will integrate later) -_ BUT for now we will simulate listing data. the website should also have a chatbot.
In 6 minutes and 42 seconds, it churned out a functional template, with listings gallery, calculators, and basic content. And a chatbot.
But how about live listings?
My next prompt – the listings feed.
use the proptx reso api (documentation here: https://developer.ampre.ca/docs/getting-started) and ask for my 'bearer token' to feed listings into this website. for now let's do idx listings where ContractStatus eq 'Available' (note how I said that) and pull in listings details into the gallery view of the website, along with a full listing detail page loading up images using their CDN and make sure you are compliant with idx rules.
In 3 minutes and 37 seconds, listings were live. (Oh, add 50 seconds 'cuz it kinda messed up a bit and I had to fix something.)
Yes – you will run into problems the first time trying this. The listings won't show up. You'll have to read the API docs to know how the RESO API works.
Oh – and you actually have to go through the process of signing up and getting approval to get access to your board's data. And that could take a few days.
But if you're tired of your cookie cutter website and ready to build a custom IDX website, in a little over ten minutes (or maybe a few hours), reach out to me so you can rip off and duplicate this.