Quick comparison
Design
Customizable, high-quality design that exceeds the expectations of luxury clients
Artificial intelligence
Agentic AI that adapts to your brand & market
Lead generation & nurturing
Brand-building elements that attract target audiences, funneling/conversion tools, & guided CRM integrations
SEO
Built-in technical and on-page optimization in every plan
Non-website branding tools
Brandable mobile app, presentation & CMA software
Best for
Agents, teams, & brokerages focused on brand growth and scalability
Design
Modular, DIY templates
Artificial intelligence
Generative AI that requires prompts & oversight
Lead generation & nurturing
Primarily DIY & outsourced options
SEO
Optional add-on services
Non-website branding tools
App listed as coming soon
Best for
Individual agents with significant DIY experience
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Design |
Customizable, high-quality design that exceeds the expectations of luxury clients |
Modular, DIY templates |
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Artificial intelligence |
Agentic AI that adapts to your brand & market |
Generative AI that requires prompts & oversight |
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Lead generation & nurturing |
Brand-building elements that attract target audiences, funneling/conversion tools, & guided CRM integrations |
Primarily DIY & outsourced options |
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SEO |
Built-in technical and on-page optimization in every plan |
Optional add-on services |
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Non-website branding tools |
Brandable mobile app, presentation & CMA software |
App listed as coming soon |
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Best for |
Agents, teams, & brokerages focused on brand growth and scalability |
Individual agents with significant DIY experience |
Luxury Presence vs. AgentFire:
Alike at first glance; worlds apart in execution
Initially, Luxury Presence and AgentFire appear to have a lot in common: Both offer adaptable platforms that let you keep established workflows and access additional tools as your business grows. But look closer and the differences in impact are clear.
Website design & customization
Both Luxury Presence and AgentFire create IDX-enabled, mobile-friendly websites for real estate professionals. One system is a malleable sandbox capable of launching agent sites quickly, while the other takes a brand-first approach.
Flexible, modular templates with AgentFire
AgentFire’s basic design strategy revolves around four modular templates that give agents significant flexibility in customizing layouts, colors, and branding elements. You can also choose a custom homepage build, which includes a limited number of either preconfigured or bespoke internal pages.
To see how AgentFire templates look in action, check out the site for Swanson & Associates, a Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices team in La Jolla, California:
This modular approach lets agents build a functional, visually appealing website without committing to an entirely custom design. However, there are potential drawbacks to this flexibility:
- As this reviewer notes, brokerages and teams aiming to create a high-end experience that establishes an elite market presence might feel limited by this structure.
- Some users report delays in implementing custom requests.
- AgentFire notes that “because clients control their design and content,” the company can’t guarantee Americans With Disabilities Act compliance without their ADA Protect add-on.
Luxury Presence’s high-end, bespoke design
Here, design defines the experience. Every Luxury Presence site is fully ADA-compliant and built to load fast and showcase your brand. Standard features include:
- 250+ features and interactive elements
- Customizable lead-capture tools
- Single-property subdomains and private listing tools
- Built-in SEO and AI search optimization
- Dedicated spaces for hyperlocal blog posts, neighborhood guides, and press coverage
- Detailed analytics and enterprise-grade security
And with setup guided by an onboarding team, most sites launch in less than a month, fully branded and ready to generate new business.
Though Luxury Presence offers custom design services, its standard templates include elevated details, such as premium typefaces and intuitive layouts. To see this in action, check out this non-custom website that Regan + Hornig, a Sotheby’s International Realty team based in Edina, Minnesota, created with Luxury Presence:
IDX & listings
The power of a real estate listing goes far beyond a single transaction. Learn how Luxury Presence and AgentFire’s tools can help you make the most of this vital business asset.
AgentFire’s property partners & processes
- IDX: AgentFire’s direct MLS integration offers natural language search, lead tracking, and property alerts. Or you can choose the Bring Your Own IDX option and manage this connection separately with ShowcaseIDX, RealScout, or Ruuster. However, you may be responsible for hourly fees related to additional assistance, troubleshooting, and complex IDX switches.
- Showcasing your local expertise: AgentFire prides itself on hyperlocal authority, a value proposition it outsources to a third-party data provider called Home Junction. The company updates data on school districts, community amenities, and crime stats every six months to fuel its hyperlocal content such as Area Guides.
- Adding listings: Creating a new listing on your AgentFire site is a fairly manual process compared to competitors that use MLS autofill tools. You need to manually type in every detail and upload your photos a second time.
AgentFire does not include tools for creating comparative market analyses or presentations.
Luxury Presence’s native property tools
Luxury Presence builds listing support directly into every website’s architecture, so search feels like a natural part of your brand.
- Luxury Presence has its own native IDX solution baked into its proprietary platform, managing security, updates, and troubleshooting with local associations.
- Its intuitive property search interface offers more than 150,000 customizable filters that capture details from flooring type to architectural style (compared to less than 50 at Zillow).
- The brandable mobile app keeps clients engaged on the go with saved searches, collaboration boards, and feedback threads, all within your business’s ecosystem.
- With data from more than 400 MLSs refreshed as often as every three minutes, tasks like creating a single-property page at Luxury Presence are quick and easy.
- Every plan includes CMA and presentation tools, allowing you to quickly integrate MLS data into elegant, instantly sharable presentations for listings, buyers, open houses, and more.
Lead generation & nurturing
While both Luxury Presence and AgentFire allow you to keep your current CRM and nurturing workflows, they take different approaches to boosting your pipeline.
AgentFire: DIY lead gen, outsourced ad support
Every AgentFire website includes:
- DIY lead generation tools such as area guides, lead pages, and calls to action
- The standard Lead Manager tool, which gathers basic information from website visitors and allows you to add notes and manage follow-up tasks to ensure timely engagement
- The ability to export lead information to outside CRMs such as FollowUpBoss and CRMGrow through direct integrations (using Zapier when direct integration isn’t possible)
Also, the $50 per month AgentFire Plus add-on gets you three hours of dedicated website assistance and access to generative AI bots that create blog articles, write evergreen guides, and turn existing website content into email, text, and social campaigns.
While many of its competitors can run ad campaigns for you, AgentFire engages other lead generation companies on your behalf through its TRIO program. It acts as an intermediary, coordinating the connection between your CRM, pay-per-click advertising platform, and website.
Your lead generation plan, powered by Luxury Presence
Banking on the long-term advantage of driving intent-driven leads to a website that’s engineered to convert, Luxury Presence helps you:
- Translate traffic into business: Every site comes with customizable lead capture tools proven to resonate and connect your brand with real buyers and sellers in your market.
- Leverage data in your workflow: Luxury Presence automatically pushes lead information and activity to your CRM, whether you use Follow Up Boss, Lofty, MoxiWorks, Compass, or virtually any other product on the market.
- Accelerate business growth: Experts can manage your ads for you, leveraging years of proprietary data on what generates high-quality leads. Or choose the AI Ads Specialist to optimize your campaigns in real time, automatically adjusting spend and targeting to increase ROI.
- Automate and personalize follow-up: The AI Lead Nurture Specialist sends instant, personalized texts to every new lead and follows up until they are ready to talk to you. Using PresenceAI to integrate contextual relevance, it studies your website content, public materials, and onboarding calls to understand your voice, audience, and goals.
- Engage with leads anywhere: Luxury Presence’s brandable mobile app makes it easy to capture leads, collaborate, share listings, record AI-transcribed voice notes, and move deals forward outside the office.
Search engine optimization
Looking to spend less money on ads and attract more organic traffic? Understanding how your website partner approaches online visibility is key to your decision-making process.
AgentFire: Multiple SEO add-on options
If you want to boost your website’s search ranking, you can choose from two different options in AgentFire’s add-on library:
The Local SEO product requires a one-time fee of $250 and includes:
- Google Analytics and Search Console set-up to help you monitor performance
- Optimization of your website’s pages through custom title tags and meta descriptions
- Editing your Google Business Profile to ensure it accurately represents your business
For a $1,000 setup fee and $500 per month per location, AgentFire will optimize your Google Business Profile by:
- Posting weekly on your Google Business Profile
- Generating business citations
- Writing responses to your Google reviews
- Managing media and FAQ updates and other on-page tweaks
- Delivering regular SEO performance reports
AgentFire notes that the success of this add-on requires you request reviews from clients and provide photo and video snippets for them to use in posts. The company also recommends those who use this service include the AgentFire Plus add-on as well.
Native SEO with Luxury Presence
Built-in SEO means better rankings without extra management. Luxury Presence builds these visibility benefits into every website:
- Optimized UX + technical SEO: Fast load times, intuitive and mobile-friendly design, accessibility tools, and SSL encryption
- Content that ranks: Modern CMS, clean structure and site hierarchy, dynamic displays, auto-generated redirects to protect existing rankings, and seamless MLS integration to enrich new content
- Future-proofing: Regular, automatic SaaS updates to keep your site compliant and competitive, plus new architecture to help you rank prominently in AI overviews
For especially competitive markets, Luxury Presence offers multiple advanced SEO options:
- Two separate AI specialists: One that autonomously optimizes your site for keywords and another that publishes geo-targeted, keyword-specific content with auto-optimized formatting
- Dedicated SEO analysts to optimize your Google Business Profile, build citations, optimize dynamic landing pages for organic traffic, analyze your competition, and craft strategic refreshes
- Custom content, such as engaging posts, neighborhood guides, and SEO-optimized bios, written and optimized for local search intent by experts
Technology & ease of use
Both Luxury Presence and AgentFire help real estate professionals avoid the walled garden that locks you into a pre-packaged, inflexible suite of software products. However, navigability and support make a big difference in real-world execution.
AgentFire: DIY fine-tuning with optional support
While the many add-ons and third-party integrations offered by AgentFire offer flexibility, agents often need to manage these relationships themselves. For example:
- Every plan includes the ability to integrate outside CRMs, but agents are responsible for following the setup guides.
- AgentFire provides many lead generation tools, but you could need an extra assistant to take advantage of all of them. Creating a call to action requires a 15-step process, which doesn’t include deployment (another seven steps) or configuring notifications.
- Some users report IDX failures, a manual set-up process, and issues obtaining support.
- While the company lists phone, chat, and email support as available Monday through Friday from 9 AM to 5 PM EST, users note that the team favors email for communication.
- AgentFire offers a one-time, 1-hour consult call when your website launches. But if you need more in-depth assistance, additional 30-minute calls are billed at $75 each (or you can opt for the AgentFire Plus add-on, which includes three hours of dedicated help per month for $50).
Luxury Presence: Intuitive platform with 24/7 support
The tools and backend of Luxury Presence were crafted with user experience in mind, creating a streamlined platform specifically for busy real estate professionals.
- Staff developers continuously refine content creation, lead generation, and integrations, making the platform smoother with every update.
- Every plan includes 24/7 uptime monitoring and chat and email support, including free IDX and CRM integration assistance.
- Experts update educational resources, the blog, and help center daily with the latest real estate-specific guidance and walkthroughs
- Upgrade to phone support, 24/7 emergency response, dedicated customer success managers, and monthly performance reporting.
This system ensures you spend your time on clients and prospects, not troubleshooting.
Pricing
While set-up fees and monthly subscription prices offer a good start to estimating your real estate tech investment, it’s important to take into account hidden costs and unexpected responsibilities.
AgentFire’s à la carte model
You’ll pay the same monthly fee for AgentFire regardless of the type of build you choose, which is broken down into these three options:
- Ignite includes your choice of four design templates, basic setup and branding application.
- Custom gets you access to a senior designer for your homepage, 10 pre-configured pages, and three custom pages.
- Firebrand offers a custom homepage, 10 custom pages, creative direction services, and three strategy sessions.
Initially, AgentFire is more affordable than many other providers. However, add-on tools and $50 to $150 hourly labor rates flip these calculations on their head, turning basic site management into an unpredictable line item. Even simple updates, such as swapping a logo or adding security APIs require fees of $100 to $200, prompting some users to question ongoing monthly fees.
Luxury Presence’s strategic, all-inclusive investment
Regardless of the plan you choose, your Luxury Presence subscription covers the full, integrated technology stack, white-glove setup, continuous technical updates, 24/7 support, and security.
- Launch+ helps you stand out online with a beautiful, high-converting website.
- Brand+ elevates your online presence with professional listing tools and local SEO services.
- Leads Pro helps you move up the ranks in search and attract higher-quality traffic with experts managing your ad and content campaigns.
- All In builds on Leads Pro, accelerating growth through advanced branding and content services.
The company also offers an enterprise plan focused on providing the tools and support to help larger brokerages own their markets and recruit and retain top producers.
The verdict: Luxury Presence vs. AgentFire
Both AgentFire and Luxury Presence take a flexible approach to equipping your business with what it needs to thrive, but only one gives you access to every piece of the puzzle. While AgentFire’s initial pricing may be right for new agents, add-ons swiftly add up. Luxury Presence is built to scale with your business, offering proprietary tools and data exactly when you need them.
If you’d like personalized help determining which option fits your business best, schedule a call to get a detailed plan tailored to your growth goals.
Frequently asked questions
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Does AgentFire use WordPress to create real estate websites?
No. While AgentFire sites were once exclusively available on WordPress’ open-source platform, it recently launched its own proprietary software. They no longer allow users to implement WordPress plugins.
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What’s the difference between generative and agentic AI?
Generative AI responds to prompts, producing content or completing tasks on command. One clear example of this is users asking AgentFire’s AI bots to create blog articles and evergreen guides. The bots also use existing website content to generate copy for email, text, and social campaigns.
Agentic AI makes its own plan, acts on it, and learns with every move. Luxury Presence’s AI Marketing Team illustrates this approach:
– Each specialist autonomously studies your site and audience to identify opportunities: new keywords, visibility gaps, potential content, and ways to connect with leads.
– They combine this research with fresh market data, best practices, algorithm changes, and behavioral signals, using these insights to improve your site, campaigns, and lead nurturing conversations.
Human intervention isn’t required, but you can review AI actions on a personalized dashboard. This approach delivered a 99.5% acceptance rate in beta testing.
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Why pay more for Luxury Presence if AgentFire is cheaper?
Many agents choose AgentFire because it initially seems more affordable, only to see their budget balloon with unexpected add-on costs down the road. Or they face hidden costs in the form of DIY data migrations, poor SEO execution, or delayed integrations. Luxury Presence delivers long-term ROI through seamless tech, design, and marketing that scales with your career.
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Is AgentFire or Luxury Presence better for organic leads?
Luxury Presence is the clear winner here. Each of its websites includes modern SEO architecture and best practices, empowering agents to capture high-quality organic leads. The company’s AI-powered SEO continuously delivers on-page optimizations by updating titles, meta descriptions, and headings to keep your site aligned with Google and AI search changes. Premium plans include expert human oversight and consultation.
While AgentFire offers SEO add-on services, its less comprehensive approach doesn’t take into account the ongoing work and branding attention needed to maintain ranking in search in competitive markets.
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