Websitebox offers agent or broker websites for $99.

WebsiteBox, an Internet start-up in Toronto, says that for a single payment of $99, real estate professionals can now purchase an attractive, mobile-friendly website, with ready-to-publish content, full MLS Integration with their local board (IDX), lead capture and customer-relationship management (CRM), an all-in-one control panel, an email address and perpetual 24/7 website hosting.

The company offers three $99 real estate website packages for agents, teams and brokers. In each version, users can configure a mobile-friendly real estate website or choose content to address their real estate specialties, such as making single property sites, neighbourhood sites, commercial real estate sites, rental sites, condo sites and property-management sites.

The new product and price point from WebsiteBox has the potential to “upset the apple cart,” and signals the commoditization of real estate website technology, says Kurt D. Lynn, the company’s chief executive.

“In every other industry, website technology sells for a fraction of the price that the real estate agent or broker has been asked to pay. We thought it was about time someone offered an appropriate price for good-looking, mobile-friendly sites,” says Lynn.

Recently the company acquired RealtySoft.com from its parent Atigana, Inc., of Toronto.

Prior to the acquisition, WebsiteBox licensed (IDX/MLS) from RealtySoft.com.

“The acquisition of RealtySoft ensures that we can offer both the best value and best full-service offering in the real estate website arena,” says Lynn. “We look forward to integrating them into our overall mission of providing real value to the Realtor.”

RealtySoft.com founder Peyman Aleagha says that existing RealtySoft.com customers will be offered the opportunity to migrate to WebsiteBox if they choose but may continue with their current services.

For information: www.websitebox.com.