As another year winds down and we look back on 2023, it’s clear to see that the real estate landscape has experienced significant changes. Market fluctuations have made an impact, but amid this sea of change, one thing has remained constant — our unwavering dedication to empowering real estate agents with the finest websites in the industry.
Let’s dive into everything that was launched and take note of our holiday hours. But first, a RealtyNinja tradition… the annual team collage!
View our previous team collages over the years:
2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022.
Holiday Hours
We will be closed from Dec 25, 2023 to Jan 1, 2024, and will re-open on Jan 2, 2024.
We’ll be monitoring our email inboxes over the holiday break in case of emergencies only. If you have urgent requests or website changes you’d like us to help with before the break, please get in touch as soon as you can.
Celebrating Success in 2023: Our Year of Growth and Innovation
2023 has been a remarkable year for RealtyNinja, filled with victories on many fronts. Our team has been laser-focused on product development, continually innovating to equip our users with cutting-edge tools and features that cater to the evolving needs of the dynamic real estate market. Here are a few of the noteable ones we released this year:
RealtyNinja Labs & AI Listing Description Generator
In response to rapid advancement in the field of generative AI, our team launched a new innovation lab called RealtyNinja Labs. It’s a place where we experiment with cutting-edge technology and determine how it can be used to supercharge the modern real estate agent.
Our first tool is a Free and Standalone AI Listing Description Generator. Check out our announcement post, then use the free tool here:
(No website or login required)
Our team is working on more tools for real estate agents in this field and will keep you posted.
Brand New Onboarding Experience
Over the years, our dedicated team has assisted many customers with professionally setting up, designing and launching their sites. In fact… real estate agents, teams and brokerages have used RealtyNinja to build over 9000 websites!
Although no two customers are the same, we’ve gotten really good at setting up real estate websites and know what it takes to make them succeed. We have applied this knowledge into a brand new and seamless onboarding process for new websites. If you’re considering signing up for a real estate site, or starting over with a new one, you’ll love the ease of the new process!
Revamped CMS
We recently revamped the content management system behind our websites with brand new icons and a general refresh.
If you’re part of a team or office/brokerage, managing agents is now much cleaner as well.
You can read all about it here.
Design Service Payment Plans
A professionally designed website that matches your brand is the best way to make your online presence memorable and professional. Having said that, it can be hard to justify larger payments while the market is slow.
To address this we’re offering interest-free payment plans on our semi-custom and fully-custom design services. Check it out!
Re-imagined Affiliate Program
Do you know any great companies that would like to sell RealtyNinja websites at 10% off and earn a 10% commission? If so, we’d love to introduce them to our Affiliate Program!
Revamped Social Media Icons
We’ve upgraded the social media settings, links and icons on all websites.
Added:
- TikTok
- Threads
- Snapchat
- Vimeo
- REW.ca
- Telegram
Updated:
- X (Twitter)
- YouTube
See details and examples on our announcement post.
Filter MLS® Search by Site Influences
You can now restrict any MLS® Search widget to only display listings that have certain “site influences”.
Note: this new option is only available for the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver, Fraser Valley Real Estate Board and Chilliwack & District Real Estate Board. We’re looking to expand this functionality to other boards in the future. Note that each board has it’s own list of site influences and we’ve just used waterfront properties as an example.
Details and examples can be found here.
A ton of other launches this year include:
- Lead-routing for manually added listings
- Re-designed “Working with buyer” interface
- CREA DDF® listings now display site influences, features, amenities, and basement type
- Now available on CREA DDF® listings: filter MLS® search by site influences
- Improved “Share” functionality for listings and blog posts
- Improved order of listings displayed in MLS® search results (and removed duplicates)
- Improvements to co-listed properties and office listings
- Agent Group dropdown now displays on agents widget
- Listing & building PDF uploads increased to 10MB (per file)
- Listing, building, agent and other image uploads increased to 10MB (per file)
- ListTrac Integration For TRREB Members
- Clickable “Phone” link now available in the website editor
- Editor now supports emoji’s 😊🏡
- YouTube Shorts support for auto-embedded videos on listings
- Updated listing meta data for Pillar 9™ boards in Alberta
- Bug fix: Open House Display Order & Time Audit
- Bug fix: Resolved “Square Foot” data issue for sites in Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia
- Bug fix: PDF file attachments with special characters now upload properly
Plus a bunch of performance enhancements, features, security patches, bug fixes and other behind-the-scenes stuff we won’t bore you with.
New Support Ninja: Zyra!
This year wasn’t all about product development. We added a brand new Ninja to our roster as well. Introducing Zyra! We stole her from Facebook, and pretty proud of that.
New Semi-Customized Design: Kaizen
Visit realtyninjademo.com/kaizen for a live demo of Kaizen.
This design is modern, flexible, and high-end. It’s great for agents, teams, and property managers especially in competitive markets like Vancouver, Calgary, and Toronto. Anyone interested in an affordable way to get an easily-editable, absolutely gorgeous design will love this one!
It comes packed with attention to every interactive detail and — dare I say it — might actually make updating your website fun! Tell the world about your unique business approach with Kaizen; This one will make people stop and listen.
Remember that if you love the way this design looks and feels, you’ll love it even more with your own brand and personality applied. We can’t wait to see how it adapts to your needs!
To order Kaizen, or any customization service simply login to your RealtyNinja website (yourwebsite.com/login) and click into the design customization page, or get in touch.
New: Limited Edition Design
Year after year, our team has crafted beautiful, personalized designs for hundreds of agents and teams across the country. Now we are offering an exclusive new service: Limited Edition Designs.
Our goal at RealtyNinja has always been to get amazing results through efficiency and understanding, and we think these new Limited Edition Designs are going to pass on that strength we’ve developed. These Designs are not a Customized Service: it’s essentially a website package that only a select number of people will be able to order. Our Customized Services could be described like a “face lift” for your website — our Limited Edition Designs are a whole professionally done canvas, including content and other pages past the homepage.
We are kicking off this service with Nagi: a clean, efficient, and contemporary design focused on content and showcasing an agent or team’s unique business personality. While still centering the website around real estate, the design is nothing like any other real estate website we’ve seen.
It will be perfect if you are someone trying to beat the ever-changing Internet standards, as it will let you focus on other channels that need your attention, like social media, since your website is basically built for you. It will highlight any blogs and articles that will showcase you as the best choice for potential clients, and set you apart from your competition.
Only 10 customers will get to have a Nagi website and there are a few spots still left. We have aimed to make this an incredibly good value for an ultra-modern, but timeless result.
Interested? Find out more details about this service here! https://get.realtyninja.com/nagi
Looking Forward to 2024: Onwards and Upwards
As we stand on the cusp of 2024, we’re more excited than ever. Fueled by the accomplishments of the past year, we’re ready to take on the challenges of the future. We have some huge updates in development that we plan on releasing in 2024, so stay tuned!
A Heartfelt Thank You to Our Customers
Before we bid farewell to 2023, we want to express our deepest gratitude to you — our world-class customers. Your unwavering support and constructive feedback have been instrumental in helping us evolve and improve. You are the heart and soul of everything we do at RealtyNinja, and we’re truly grateful to have you on this journey with us. Here’s to another year of doing great things together!
Thank you for choosing RealtyNinja.
