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Seller Leads pages help you get more listings from IDXaddons.com

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We have a lot of people who are asking about great ways to get leads for new sellers in their area.  Some agents are using tools like Leads2Listings but they want something that has a smooth integration with IDX Broker.   Get home values instantly for your sellers  We just made some new software that allows your leads to type in an address and get maps, and the sellers can see some price estimates based on Zillow’s data for them.  We also have the option to use the AVM from RPR.   RealtyCandy has added in a feature that when […]

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New PureIDX free website design – vote for $100 gift card winner

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We offered a contest in July for our clients to make a free PureIDX website and enter for an opportunity to win a $100 Amazon gift card. We only had a couple of clients who felt comfortable putting their sites in the competition. Go to https://www.facebook.com/realtycandy/ and “LIKE” the Chandler Arizona site or the Sun N Lake site. The one that gets the most “LIKES” by August 15th wins the $100 Amazon Gift Card.  Go like the one you like best.   New PureIDX 2 Design We are so excited about these new JAMstack sites, that we call PureIDX. They […]

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Houses details IDX template looks great for Houzez theme

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We have had a lot of people over the years ask about how to make their IDX Broker pages look like the Houzez WordPress theme.  In the past it required several hours of billable customizations, but now you can get a layout that matches your theme for free! Introducing the Houses IDX Broker details page for Houzez theme One of the challenges of buying a WordPress theme from Themeforest like Houzez, is that the custom layouts are hard to replicate with your IDX listings. This is because the theme authors spent a lot of time styling and designing what in […]

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ADA and IDX Real Estate Websites

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For years we have had clients ask us “Are RealtyCandy real estate websites or IDX Broker ADA compliant?”.  The answer is a resounding “Yes!  They can be.” What is ADA? BusinessNewsDaily.com has a great article about ADA for websites.  We got a lot of great information from them. The federal Americans with Disabilities Act provides information about what businesses should do to provide services for people with disabilities. What does an ADA-compliant website look like, exactly? There are no clear ADA regulations that spell out exactly what compliant web content is, but businesses that fall under ADA Title I or […]

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PureIDX Promo

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Get $ 100 for building your new real estate website! We are so excited about our new PureIDX websites.  These are free websites that you can use as a main website, as a landing page, or even as a secondary site for your real estate website. What do I have to do to win the $100 from Amazon? All you need to do is have your site built by the last day of the month, and send us a link to it.  We will post all of the sites made this month on our RealtyCandy Facebook page, and the site […]

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Market Reports for IDX Broker Platinum

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IDX Broker just released their new Market Reports tool for all Platinum users this week.  Take a look at the video at the bottom of the page to see it in action. What are IDX Broker Market Reports? Market Reports from IDX Broker provide information based on a city in your MLS area. These reports show the numbers of active listings by property type for the city.  There are also some nice graphs showing property information and demographic data for your area. One of the things that you will love on these is that there is a “VIEW ALL ACTIVE […]

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RPR AVM Widget for Property Price Estimates on IDX Broker Details

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Put Property Valuations on IDX Broker Details Pages for Free.  How many times have you wanted to have a “Zestimate” tool right on your own IDX Broker website?  Well this feature is available to you, for free,  right now by using one of RealtyCandy’s Premium IDX Template Designs.  The benefit to this great widget is that as visitors come to your site and look through your listings, you are able to help them make decisions about how the property they are looking at is priced compared to current market values.  Property Valuations help your clients feel that your IDX site […]

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Speedy IDX Widgets: Get more speed for free

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IDX Addons – tools to get more out of IDX Broker We have had folks ask us over the years if IDX Broker has a feature to do this or that.  Sometimes these functions are built right into IDX Broker.  Sometimes they aren’t. We have made IDXAddons.com as a way to create what we consider the “missing” toolset or The Ultimate IDX Broker Toolset. These are tools like our Saved Link Generator, Premium IDX Templates like Sunny Social, and our soon to be released Premium IDX Widgets. All of these tools are available for free for all of RealtyCandy’s IDX […]

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Social Sunny Premium IDX Template

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Premium IDX Templates IDX Broker recently released a great new feature to all their developer partners with the Custom Template feature. This custom templating feature allows IDX developer partners like RealtyCandy to create custom layouts and templates that are available for the needs of a specific client or designs that can be used by all our clients. We are building out a series of these and we are offering them at no charge to all our IDX Broker clients as “Premium IDX Templates”. Social IDX Features In addition to great layouts and designs, we are able to actually build some […]

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Get more SEO and Google Juice from IDX Broker with Saved Search Generator

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We have a lot of IDX Broker clients who reach out to us and ask what can I do to rank higher on Google or get more of my pages indexed by Google? They are all really looking for more leads. More leads who will convert into clients and buy or sell real estate. We have seen over the years that Google doesn’t really give most real estate agents’ sites ranking for an address of a listing like 123 Main Street. It is also hard to get ranked for “Miami Real Estate”.  (…like millions of dollars hard.) We have seen […]

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Omnisearch tool for WIX, SquareSpace, and Weebly IDX installs

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We have been working on a new tool that will allow clients using WIX, SquareSpace, or Weebly to be able to enjoy the “omnisearch” experience that many WordPress users have. The omnisearch is a tool that allows a visitor to start typing a city, county, or zip code, and the omnisearch will “auto-complete” the search. This makes searching for new properties really simple on your site.  Your website visitors will love it. You can check out our page at https://realtycandy.com/squarespace-weebly-wix/ and see all of the benefits of using us for IDX Broker setup. Our one-time setup fee is very affordable […]

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Setup Custom Subdomain on WIX

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We love WordPress. We have worked with WordPress and IDX Broker for over 7 years now, but these new WIX, SquareSpace, and Weebly sites are becoming more and more popular. You can see that we have made some IDX Broker real estate sites here that use these platforms. Today, we want to show you how to quickly setup your IDX Broker Custom Subdomain on WIX. Custom Subdomain for IDX Broker One of the SEO features IDX Broker offers is to have all of your property searches, search results, and property details listing pages show up on a custom subdomain of […]

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