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IDX BROKER REVIEW
IDX BROKER’S IMPRESS OVERVIEW
IDX Broker provides a family of plugins that is one of the default choices for
many developers and brokers due to their MLS coverage and deep relationships
with several marketing agencies. As we’ll discuss below, there are better
options for many real estate agents and marketing agencies.
The company was founded in 2003 and is located in Eugene, Oregon. We were unable
to verify that all of their technology is Made in USA.
PROS & CONS OF IDX BROKER
The four big IDX plugins (IDX Broker, Showcase IDX, iHomeFinder, and Diverse
Solutions) all offer many of the same features. In this review and section,
we’ll highlight the differences agents need to know about and the results from
our 2020 IDX Study, the largest real estate marketing study ever that used deep
analytics to review 25,000+ real estate agent websites and studied 135,000
qualified buyers/sellers interacting with those sites and large portals.
IDX BROKER PROS:
* MLS Coverage: IDX Broker has the largest MLS coverage of any of the IDXs in
the United States.
* Agent Roster: If you’re a broker or team leader and want to have a directory
of your agents without having to create manual pages in WordPress, the IDX
plugin provides this for an additional fee.
* Multiple Plugin Options: They offer a Lite and Platinum version of the
product with agent, team, and office plans. You can also upgrade to add WP
Listing, IMPress IDX plugin, and others.
* Easy to Setup: You can set up your home search by yourself or have a web
developer do it for you in as little as one day. Because the IDX and listings
work primarily through subdomains, it is not integrated as deeply into your
site which can be an easier initial setup.
* Integrations: They have direct integrations with CRMs like Top Producer, Wise
Agent, Infusionsoft, Follow Up Boss, Contactually, and LionDesk, as well as
integrations with many other applications through Zapier.
* They now offer websites: Need a website built? IDX Broker now also builds
websites using their IMPress IDX plugin so agents do not have to work with a
website developer.
* Use With Any WordPress Theme: Because the IDX plugin primarily works with a
subdomain, you can use it with almost any WordPress theme.
* Largest IDX Company: The company received a large investment from private
equity and debt provider Main Street Capital in 2013. This allowed the
company to expand its team and make several acquisitions, including Agent
Marketing which is a technology and print services company.
IDX BROKER CONS:
* Subdomains and SEO: The plugin works on subdomains. Ever see a website URL
that looks like https://search.cityrealestate.com instead of just
https://www.cityrealestate.com or https://cityrealestate.com? That’s search
is a subdomain. Google will consider your search and the real estate data on
it different than your main website. It will be extremely difficult to rank
any real estate website using a subdomain for local terms without spending
tens of thousands of dollars extra per year. Here’s more info from Search
Engine Journal why to NOT use subdomains on your website.
* Pricing: We’ll cover this more in the pricing section.
* Lower retention of your clients: We compared IDX Broker, iHomeFinder, Diverse
Solutions, and many other home search providers in our 2021 IDX Report and
found that of the qualified leads going to a site powered by IDX Broker that
only 9.7% stayed on the site. This is even lower than the results in our 2020
research. See the full details here.
* Plain Design: While they have invested in updating the home search, the
ability to customize the design is still lacking. You are able to select one
of about nine different mobile-friendly designs for your listing search and
displays. You are then able to add a dynamic wrapper to match your site’s
colors, style, them, and headers. This cannot compare to the stunning home
buyer search experience of Showcase IDX or all-in-one buyer tools like Ylopo
or BoomTown.
* Lack of Support for Creating Neighborhood Maps: There is a polygon search but
you are unable to display that search on the front end. This means you are
unable to create a boundary for the listing search and have that display on
the map for community pages.
* No Free Trial: There is no free trial to setup your site and try the plugin.
If a free trial is important to you (or your clients if you’re a developer),
then try another IDX vendor.
* Support: We heard from numerous agents that it can be hard to speak to anyone
and they sometimes do not receive a solution to problems for weeks. This is
not always the case but worth making note of if you like to speak to your
support team.
* Uncertain future: Elm Street Technology announced the acquisition of IDX
Broker on June 24, 2020. Past acquisitions for Elm Street have included
companies such as eMerge, AgentJet, Listingbook, RLS2000 and Consolidated
Knowledge. Will the new owners keep the IDX offering, make it part of their
other services, how will this impact resellers and web designers? Only time
will tell.
* Borrows Messaging from Other IDX Vendors: Starting in 2019, we saw the
company shift the wording in their ads and some of the wording on their
website to copy the claims of Showcase IDX. This can be seen using one of the
many tools, such as Spyfu, that allow you to view a company’s Google and
Facebook ad copy from previous months and years. The biggest issue with this
is that the product does not provide the same results.
* IDX Broker was acquired in 2020 by Elm Street Technology, which provides real
estate technology and marketing services competing with some former partners.
Elm Street “provides a single vendor and point of contact to maximize real
estate professionals’ business efficiency”.
* IDX Broker Competes with Website Developers: If you run a marketing agency,
this should be a BIG one! First, IDX Broker is now selling real estate agent
websites directly on their website. They may be simple sites that do not
perform well but you’ll have to explain that to your clients. Second, they
acquired Agent Evolution, a WordPress theme developer and large marketing
agency in 2014. Are you comfortable using a technology provider in the
marketing stack you provide to agents that is offering services similar to
you? You’ll never hear of that in other marketing technologies (e.g. Hubspot,
Infusionsoft, Salesforce, Liondesk, etc.).
* From their home page, “Website Solutions: IDX Broker HOME – A personalized
WordPress website powered by Platinum!”
IDX BROKER VS IHOMEFINDER
iHomefinder performed better than IDX Broker in terms of both the percentage of
home buyers that wanted to use a website with the IDX and in terms of organic
traffic. However, Showcase IDX is the clear winner when looking at the three and
even at all IDX plugins. Showcase IDX retains 9.8x more clients than IDX Broker
and 4x more clients than the typical iHomeFinder website, in our study. They do
not have coverage of every MLS though.
WHAT MAKES IDX BROKER UNIQUE?
Their MLS coverage and use of subdomains.
IDX BROKER PRICING
While the company used to have a $39.99/month option, that has now increased to
$50, most agents paid significantly more.
Be careful of sites like FitSmallBusiness that are written for traffic and
advertising dollars, not by people that use the products or by data evaluating
thousands of users. They claim for example that IMPress pricing starts at $50
per month but that is not an accurate view of what you will actually pay.
IDX Broker Lite
* Agent plan: starting at $50 / month
* Team plan: starting at $70 / month
* Office plan: starting at $100 / month
IDX Broker Platinum
* Agent plan: starting at $70 / month
* Team plan: starting at $90 / month
* Office plan: starting at $120 / month
Additional fees:
* There is a $100 setup fee
* MLS Pass-Through Fees. All home search and IDX brokers will have a fee that
passes through the additional access fees the MLS’s charge for access to the
MLS data feed. These could be as low as zero and as much as $500 per year for
a few MLSs. Where there are fees, they’ll typically be between $5 and $20 per
month. Note that this fee is not a profit to the IDX as it simply covers
their costs to the MLS for pure access, not counting the large amount of work
that must be done to normalize and work with the data from each MLS.
* Ask about additional fees. There are multiple additional fees you may end up
paying, such as $20 – $25 per month if you want to have two MLS feeds. That
adds up when you consider you pay it each month.
* Sold data, if your MLS allows it, is an additional $9.99 / month. We have
seen ZERO impact on SEO or consumer experience in having sold data on your
site but many agents still look for this feature to “check the box”.
IDX BROKER SUMMARY
IDX Broker and Agent Evolution (their marketing agency) have invested heavily in
recent years to try and update their product and in marketing. With that said,
unless you are an MLS not covered by one of the better IDX or home search
providers, there may be better options for you to consider for your business.
If you don’t want to spend a bunch of time playing with your IDX settings and
features, consider a website provider from our list of the Top 17 Real Estate
Marketing Agencies in the United States.
Want an IDX with higher consumer retention, better SEO, and that our test show
is the only home search chosen over Zillow, consider Showcase IDX.
LOOKING FOR IN-DEPTH REVIEWS ON
* IDX providers: iHomeFinder review, Showcase IDX review, Diverse Solutions
dsIDXpress reviews, RealtyNA review
* Real estate website providers that use those IDX providers: Agent Image,
Agent Elite, and Easy Agent Pro
* Other real estate marketing tools: LionDesk
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