Fitzhugh Creative Co.

Property websites · Portland

Your listing deserves more than a row in a database.

A dedicated website for one property — its own address, photos at full size, writing a buyer will actually read, and a link you can put in a text message.

5business days
$500flat, to start
47photos, full size
Live · 20 SW 111th Terrace A Portland property site built by Fitzhugh Creative
Great room

The difference

Same house. Same photos. Two very different first impressions.

A real Portland listing — 3,425 square feet, $1.75M, seventy days on market and one price cut in. One of these is what a buyer meets today. The other is what they meet after five days of work.

listing detail — record view
20 SW 111TH TER, PORTLAND, OR 97225 Active $1,750,000 DOM 70
Listing thumbnail

Photos (47) — click to page through

TypeResidential
Beds / Baths4 / 4
Sq Ft3,425
Lot Size0.69 AC
Yr Built2013
Levels1
HeatForced Air
CoolCentral
FireplacesY
Status ChgPrice Reduced
Days on Mkt70
ShowingsCall LA

Public Remarks

STUNNING CUSTOM 4 BD/4 BA ONE LEVEL ON .69 AC W/ OPEN FLR PLAN! GOURMET KIT W/ SLAB GRANITE, SS APPL, LG ISLAND, DBL OVENS & WALK-IN PANTRY. GREAT RM W/ FLR-TO-CEIL STONE FP. PRIMARY SUITE W/ FP, SOAKING TUB, WALK-IN SHWR. COV'D PATIO W/ BLT-IN BBQ. A/C. MUST SEE — WON'T LAST!

Illustrative record view — not affiliated with any MLS.

Photos at full size

Forty-seven images, edge to edge, in a gallery that opens large instead of a 200-pixel thumbnail carousel.

Remarks a person reads

The all-caps abbreviation block gets rewritten into sentences that describe the house to a buyer, not to another agent.

A link you can send

One clean URL for texts, email signatures, open-house cards and paid social — no login, no portal, no competing listings in the sidebar.

Why it works

What a $500 page actually buys you.

Not a web page. Six things that change how a listing performs — and one of them has nothing to do with the house you're selling right now.

01

It wins the next listing

The most valuable use of a property site isn't this buyer — it's the seller you haven't signed yet. "Every listing I take gets its own website" is a sentence nobody else says at that kitchen table. One listing won because of it pays for ten of these.

02

It gives you a second lever

When a listing stalls, most agents have exactly one move: reduce. This is a second move — new, visible, and yours — and it costs the seller nothing off their equity. It turns the Sunday call from "we should talk about price" into "here's what I just did."

03

Nothing competes with you

A portal wraps your listing in other people's listings, other people's ads, and a contact form that isn't necessarily routed to you. On your own URL there is exactly one thing to click, and it reaches you.

04

The only page you can advertise to

You cannot run paid traffic to a page you don't control. With your own address you can put real budget behind a listing, aim it at the right area, and actually see what came back.

05

The photography finally gets seen

You paid four to eight hundred dollars for images the MLS renders at 200 pixels wide. Full-bleed, at full size, is what the photographer shot them for — and it's the cheapest way to make a house look like what it costs.

06

It outlives the sale

When the house closes, the site becomes a portfolio piece. Agents keep them and open them in listing presentations for years afterward. That's the part that compounds.

The math

The number nobody runs before the price cut.

When a listing stalls, the reflex is to reduce. Drag through your price band and look at what that reflex actually costs — you, not just the seller.

List price $1,200,000
$700K$3M
A 2% price cut
$24,000
off your seller's proceeds, permanently
Your side of it
$600
lost commission at 2.5%, on that one reduction
A property site
$500
once, flat, live in five business days

Assumes a 2.5% listing-side commission. Your split with your brokerage comes out of that figure, so the number that reaches you is smaller still. The point isn't the decimal — it's that a reduction is the expensive move and it's the one that gets made first.

What I build

Six things. Most people start with the first one.

All of it is the same job really — taking something you're already doing and making it look like it's worth what you're charging for it. Here's the whole menu, what each one actually does, and why I'd bother.

Sells the listing$500

Property website

One property, its own site and its own web address. Every photo at full size, a description written for a buyer instead of an MLS field, your name and number on the page.

Why it's worth it. The MLS gives your listing a row in a database and surrounds it with the competition. This gives it a page where nothing competes for the click and the only number on it is yours. It's a link you can text, print on a rider, or point ads at — and after it closes it becomes a portfolio piece you open in the next listing presentation.

And no, it isn't a template. You can rent a fill-in-the-blank property page for $20 a month, and it will look like a fill-in-the-blank property page. This is designed around your house — the photo order, the section that exists because that kitchen deserves one, copy written from your listing rather than dropped into a slot. Same reason you hired a photographer instead of using phone pictures.

Live in five business days
Wins you the listing$600

Listing presentation page

A private page built for one appointment — their address, their neighborhood, your plan for their home, your results. Send it the night before or open it on an iPad at the kitchen table.

Why it's worth it. This is the highest-leverage thing on the list. You're not really competing on commission, you're competing on whether the seller believes you'll do more than the next agent through the door. Walking in with a page built for their house, before you've been hired, ends that conversation early. A $1M listing is roughly $25,000 in commission — win one and this paid for itself forty times over.

3 business days · 48 hours if the appointment is tight
The smart move$230 / listing

Every-listing plan

Every listing you take gets its own site, automatically. Monthly plan, or a prepaid five-pack. Half the one-off price.

Why it's worth it. Forget the discount for a second — the real value is the sentence it hands you. "Every listing I take gets its own website" isn't a service you bought, it's how you work, and that lands very differently at a kitchen table. It also means you stop deciding house by house whether this one deserves it.

Five-pack $1,150 prepaid
Builds the business$350

Neighborhood guides

A real page about one area — Bethany, Cedar Mill, Lake Oswego, Sellwood. What it's actually like to live there, what the housing stock is, what things cost, what's nearby. Written properly, not scraped.

Why it's worth it. These work while you sleep. Buyers search neighborhoods long before they search agents, and a genuinely good page on living in Bethany keeps producing for years after you paid for it. They also double as a buyer packet you can send instead of a PDF nobody opens.

5 days each · three for $900
Wins you the listing$200

Coming-soon page

One page live before the listing hits the MLS. Photos, the address, the date it's available, and a form for people who want to know the moment it is.

Why it's worth it. Two reasons. It builds a small list of interested buyers before day one, so the listing launches with something behind it instead of hope. And it gives you a line for every future listing presentation: "I start generating interest before your home is even on the market."

2 business days
Builds the business$1,500

Your own website

A personal site that isn't your brokerage's template. Your listings, your story, your neighborhoods, your contact — on a domain you own and keep if you ever change brokerages.

Why it's worth it. Your brokerage page looks like every other agent's at your brokerage, and you don't own a pixel of it. Sellers Google you before a listing appointment — all of them do — and that page is the first impression you didn't get to make. I'd do this one after you've got cash flow, not first.

About two weeks

What's included

Inside every property site.

The $500 covers all of this. There's no upsell halfway through and no hosting invoice turning up in month two.

01A standalone site

Its own page, built around one property, live on a URL you can share the same day it's finished.

02Full-size gallery

Every photo you have, presented large, with a click-to-expand viewer and keyboard navigation.

03Rewritten copy

Your remarks turned into readable descriptions of the rooms, the layout and the lot — written from your photos and facts.

04Mobile-first layout

Most of your traffic opens the link on a phone from a text message. It's built for that screen first.

05Your contact, front and centre

Your name, brokerage, phone and email on the page — with an inquiry button that goes straight to you.

06Two rounds of revisions

Copy tweaks, photo swaps, reordering. Price changes and status updates after launch are free for 60 days.

How it runs

Five days, and almost none of them are yours.

Day 0
You send photos

A Dropbox link, a Drive folder, or the originals from your photographer. Plus the listing sheet. That's the whole ask.

Days 1–3
I build it

Layout, gallery and fresh copy written off your facts and photos. No check-ins required.

Day 4
You review

You get a private link. Send back changes in one batch — I turn them the same day.

Day 5
It goes live

Live on its URL. Send it to your seller first — it's the easiest good-news call you'll make this month.

Using it

Seven places the link earns the $500 back.

Building the site is the easy part. This is the part most people skip — and it's where the money actually comes back. You get this list whether you hire me or not.

  1. Send it to your seller first

    Before anyone else sees it. It's the easiest good-news call you'll make on that listing, and it buys you patience you're going to want in three weeks.

  2. Put a QR code on the sign rider

    People parked outside the house are the warmest traffic that listing will ever get. Right now you're handing them to a portal that will show them four other houses.

  3. Text it to the buyer's agents who work that band

    The twenty agents with buyers at that price. A clean link gets opened on a phone between showings. An MLS number gets ignored.

  4. Drop it in your email signature

    For the run of the listing. Every email you send for the next two months becomes a free impression on the house you're trying to move.

  5. Hand it out at the open house

    Everyone who walks through will look at that house again tonight. You get to decide whether that happens on your page or on Zillow's.

  6. Put paid traffic behind it

    Even thirty dollars a day beats a boosted post — but housing ads run under Meta's Special Ad Category, so no age, gender or ZIP targeting and a 15-mile minimum radius. That's why boosted listing posts get rejected or quietly underperform. Set up correctly, it works.

  7. Open it in your next listing presentation

    On your iPad, in front of the next seller, before you've said anything. This is the one that wins you work — and it keeps working long after the house has closed.

Price

Flat rates, half up front, no retainer to sign.

Everything below is a fixed price, not an estimate. Half to start, half when it goes live. If you'd rather see one built before you spend anything, I'll do that first — send photos and decide after.

Not sure yet?

$0

Send me photos of a listing and I'll build one so you can see it.

  • No cost and no commitment
  • You send photos and the listing sheet, nothing else
  • If you like it we finish it and put it live
  • If you don't, you're out nothing
Send me a listing

The one I'd actually pick

$230

Per listing, on the every-listing plan.

  • Half the one-off price
  • Every listing gets one, automatically
  • No deciding house by house whether it's worth it
  • And it gives you the line that wins listings
Ask about the plan

Questions

The things people actually ask.

Can't I just use one of the $20-a-month template services?

You can, and for some listings that's the right call. What you get is a form: you upload photos, it drops them into the same layout everyone else's listing uses, and the copy stays exactly as it reads on the MLS.

What I build is designed around your house — which photo leads, what gets its own section, copy written from your listing rather than pasted into a slot. It's the same reason you hired a photographer instead of using phone pictures. If the house doesn't warrant that, honestly, use the template.

What do you need from me?

Photos and the listing sheet. That's genuinely it. A Dropbox link, a Drive folder, or the originals from your photographer — whatever's easiest. No meetings, no kickoff call, no questionnaire.

How fast, really?

Five business days from the moment photos land. You get a private link on day four to review, changes come back in one batch, and I turn them the same day. If you're up against a listing appointment or an open house, tell me the date and I'll work to it.

Who owns it, and what happens after the house sells?

You do. It stays up as long as you want it — plenty of agents keep them as portfolio pieces and open them in listing presentations for years. I'll swap it to a sold banner whenever you say, free.

What if I don't like it?

Two rounds of changes are included, so most of that gets solved. But if you'd rather remove the risk entirely, send me photos of a listing and I'll build one before any money changes hands. If it's not for you, you're out nothing but the time it took to send a link.

Do you do the photography too?

No — I work from whatever you've already got, and good listing photography is its own craft. If you don't have a photographer you like, I know the going rate in Portland is roughly $100 to $400 for stills, and the site will look considerably better on the higher end of that.

Is my brokerage going to have a problem with this?

Not usually — a single-property site is standard listing marketing, and it carries your name and your brokerage. That said, brokerages differ on branding and disclosure rules, so it's worth a quick check with your compliance person before it goes live. I'll adjust whatever they need.

Get started

Send me the address and the photos.

I'm Joe Fitzhugh. I grew up in a real estate family and ended up on the building side of it. I make property sites for Portland-area listings — one property, one page, five days. If you've got a listing you want to look like it's worth what you're asking, this is the cheapest good idea on the table.

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