How WPResidence becomes a luxury, commercial, rental, land, new-construction or single-city real estate website, with the listing details and search each market needs.
Last updated: September 28, 2026
By Cris Bean
WPResidence is a real estate WordPress theme you adapt to a niche or a region: the listing details, search filters and page designs change for each market. The same theme runs a luxury, commercial, rental, land, new-construction or single-city site.
This guide covers each niche, then regional setups for a single city, Singapore HDB flats and Dubai off-plan projects, followed by monetization, copying sites, licensing and imports.
A niche site shows the details its buyers care about. A commercial buyer wants cap rate and zoning, a renter wants the monthly rent and pet policy, a land buyer wants lot size. In WPResidence you set up five things for each niche:
You set all of this up in the WordPress admin. The sections below show it niche by niche.
Each listing belongs to groups that visitors browse and filter by: category (House, Office, Land), deal type (For Sale, For Rent), labels, amenities, and location by state, city and neighborhood. Groups can sit inside each other, so "Commercial" can hold "Office" and "Retail". All about taxonomies explains each group.
You add the details your niche needs, such as cap rate, lot size or handover year, as text, number, date or dropdown fields, and choose where each one shows: on the property page, on the listing card, in the submit form and in search. You leave out details a niche has no use for, such as bedrooms on land. See the custom fields builder and how to add property custom fields.
Visitors filter by the fields you pick. Search can have tabs, such as For Sale and For Rent, and a radius search that finds listings within a set distance of a place. See radius search.
With WPResidence Studio you design a property page once and apply it to a whole category or city, so every new commercial listing uses the commercial layout. See how to create a template for each property category. The property card composer sets what each listing card shows in search results.
WPResidence keeps the listing cards it shows in lists and grids in a cache for 24 hours, so busy search pages load faster. See performance and hosting.
Each listing is a WordPress page with its own address, so Yoast SEO or Rank Math handle how it appears in Google. The theme ships in 40+ languages, runs multilingual sites with WPEstate Translate, WPML or Polylang, and supports right-to-left Arabic and Hebrew. Visitors can switch currencies, with rates updated daily, and switch size units such as square feet and square meters. See the multilingual guide and multi-currency support.
Each niche uses the same tools with different groups, details and page designs.
Luxury buyers look at photos, video and location first. A luxury property page leads with a large gallery, video, virtual tour and floor plans, and lists features such as an indoor pool or a private dock. See the luxury demos.
Commercial buyers compare numbers. A commercial listing shows cap rate, zoning, annual rent and price per square foot or meter, and leaves out bedrooms. You add those as listing details, group Office, Retail and Industrial under "Commercial", and give that group its own page design. See the commercial and land demos.
A rental listing shows the rent with a label such as "per month" after it. A property offered for sale and for rent shows both prices. Add the details renters check, such as pet policy and lease length, and offer only rental deal types in search.
For a vacation rental directory, yes. Guests browse short-term listings and send inquiries or tour requests to the owner or agent. Nightly booking with an availability calendar and online payment needs a booking plugin.
A land listing shows lot size in acres or hectares, road access, zoning and soil type, and its card leads with lot size in place of beds and baths.
A building lists its apartments as units on its own page (see how to attach apartments to a building). Listings show the project type, such as off-plan, freehold or leasehold, the payment plan and the handover year. Developers get their own profile pages and add their own agents.
Student listings show room type, distance to campus and number of flatmates, and carry a "Student Rental" label. Students can search within a set distance of the campus.
Labels such as "Student Rental", "Luxury" or "Pet-Friendly" show on the listing cards, and visitors can filter search by them. See listing labels.
A city or regional portal shows only the places in its market.
You create your city and its neighborhoods as the site's only locations. Search then offers only those places, and agents adding a listing pick the city and neighborhood from a list, so addresses stay consistent. The map opens on your city at the zoom you set; see how to set the map coordinates.
Use the three location levels for region, town and estate. Each flat shows its block number, flat model, lease start year, MOP status and ethnic quota, and search offers the details buyers filter by.
Listings show the type (off-plan, freehold, leasehold or branded residence), the payment plan and the handover year, and buyers browse by community, such as Downtown Dubai, Dubai Hills or Palm Jumeirah. Developers and agencies each manage their own agents. The site runs in English and Arabic, with Arabic pages laid out right to left.
A portal can charge owners and agents to list. The WPResidence membership system offers three models:
Users pay with Stripe, PayPal, WooCommerce or offline wire transfer. Owners, agents, agencies and developers each get a dashboard for their listings. You can review each new listing before it goes live, and approve new accounts by type, for example every new developer on an off-plan site.
Agencies that build several sites copy a finished one and start from there:
Listings export with the standard WordPress export, and the WPResidence REST API lets other apps read them. With white label, the admin shows your agency's name in place of the theme's.
WPResidence costs $49 a year for one website, $99 for three and $249 for ten. Each license includes a year of updates and support, and the site keeps working when the license ends. See pricing.
Each license key works on one domain. When you move a site from staging to live, you move the key to the new domain; see how licensing works. One license covers any number of agents, offices and listings on that site.
Other costs are hosting and, for MLS data, MLSImport from $49 a month for one MLS, after a 30-day free trial.
Listings you add by hand and listings imported from an MLS use the same page designs, search and cards.
MLSImport (sold separately) brings in MLS listings and updates them every hour. You choose what to import by city, county, postal code, property type, sale or rent, status, price range, or listing agent and office, so a rentals site can import only one city's rentals.
For a one-time spreadsheet of listings, the WP All Import plugin maps each column to a listing detail.
The main points of this page.
For each niche you set up listing groups, listing details, search filters, page designs and listing cards.
Add details such as cap rate or lot size, and choose where each one shows.
Design a property page once and apply it to a whole category or city.
Create only your city's locations, and search and the submit form offer only those.
Charge per listing or with membership packages, through Stripe, PayPal, WooCommerce or wire transfer.
WPResidence costs $49 a year for one website, $99 for three and $249 for ten, with a year of updates and support.
Your listing details, groups and page designs are stored in the WordPress database, so theme updates keep them as they are.
Each license key activates one domain. For several portals, the 3-site and 10-site licenses on the pricing page cover more domains.
Yes. Each listing is a WordPress post, so the standard WordPress export includes your listings, and the WPResidence REST API gives other apps access to them.
Yes. Theme Options sets a number of free listings for new users and how many days each free listing stays live, next to your paid packages.
Yes. Your team learns one Theme Options panel, and you copy a finished setup to a new site with the Import & Export tool or a migration plugin. Each site needs its own license key.
Local place names, currency switching, size units and right-to-left layout are built into WPResidence, and WPEstate Translate adds languages for free. Add a plugin for nightly booking, or WooCommerce for a local payment gateway.
