Art Division websites take approximately 6-8 weeks to build for estate agents.

However, the speed will depend upon several factors:

• The size of your website – It will take longer to create a website for a large, multi-branch agency which requires many different features and integrated marketing compared to a new, single branch start-up
• Division of labour – Some agents are keen to populate their own content and supply the web copy for their site. This often takes longer, as many estate agents are busy with other business critical tasks which push web work to the back of the queue.
• Your responsiveness – If you’re quick to respond to requests for (e.g.) CRM information or Google Business account details, then we can progress with your site much faster.
• Any amends or additions – If you want to amend or change bits of the site which diverge from the original design, then this will take longer to implement.

When we speak together about your web project, we’ll offer you a clearly defined timeline to help you plan ahead and know what is happening when (and anything we might need from you).

Art Division websites start from £1975+VAT for the most basic version of our website. Costs will then continue at £165+VAT pcm to maintain and update your website, ensuring it is running as it should.

However, even the basic version of our websites contain all the features you need as a small agency: property feed connection, bespoke-quality visual design, basic SEO optimisation, content population, property cost calculators valuation forms…and more.

Even better, you can purchase any one of our 45+ add-ons for your website, ensuring your web functionality grows with your business and budget.

Template websites offer a rigid design which you can pick and have applied to your site. Custom built or bespoke sites often start from the ground up, build all the necessary modules and features you require, often for significant cost due to the time of development.

Art Division’s websites sit in between these two options. We have spent years crafting a re-usable web infrastructure ‘under the hood’ which can be applied to almost any estate agency. However, we also personalise every website so that the modules and features look different every time, and are crafted according to your branding.

In addition, our ‘modular’ structure allows you to bolt on any new features to the even the most basic website. That way, you can increase functionality and features over time – as and when you need them. This approach has the advantage of cutting costs (we don’t design from the ground up) while achieving a bespoke level of visual design (we do personalise every site).

Of course! It is perfectly possible to built an estate agency website using free tools and AI (though there will always be some costs involved for upkeep).

However, just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. Estate agency websites contain a lot of unique features which are difficult to get right with standard website templates and AI. One of the most complex issues is connecting and presenting your property feed and CRM correctly, which takes a lot of expertise and is essential to get right.

A broader issue is that free and AI web tools often get your site about 80% of the way there, but that remaining 20% is often critical – and hard to edit. For example, your site may look great on desktop, but the mobile version skews the content and resizes everything badly. Fixing these things often requires a significant time investment and outside advice, even if you insist on doing most of it yourself.

Finally, your website also needs to be SEO optimised to reach your customers effectively, which requires plenty of manual time investment (and expertise).

The low cost of our estate agent websites, and the ability to add ready-to-go features, makes this a much more sensible option for agents who don’t want to spend hundreds of hours editing a ‘free’ website.

Absolutely. Art Division have integrated nearly every estate agent CRM on the market into our websites. Whichever provider you use, it will not be a barrier to us, and will function perfectly well.

What happens to my website if I want to switch CRM systems?

Nothing bad. Simply tell us that you are moving and supply us with the required technical information, and we can adapt the website accordingly without any disruption.

Certainly. Every website Art Division builds is ready to integrate and display your property feed, constantly updating as new properties are added or old ones taken off the market.