Easy Property Listings vs Essential Real Estate
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| Feature | Easy Property Listings v3.5.28 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free + paid · ★ 4.7/5 Visit Details | Essential Real Estate v5.3.4 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free · ★ 4.3/5 Visit Details |
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| At a glance | ||
| Active installs | 5,000+ | 7,000+ |
| Last updated | October 14, 2026 | October 15, 2026 |
| Editions | Easy Property Listings · Easy Property Listings add-ons ($) | Essential Real Estate |
| Pros | Separate listing types for residential, rental, commercial, land and rural; Search, map and open-home shortcodes and widgets; Contact enquiries stored and managed in the admin; Core plugin is free to start with | Full property listing, search and map pages from shortcodes; Front-end listing submission and favourites; Mortgage calculator and property comparison included |
| Cons | Many features need paid add-ons with a licence key; Map shortcode loads Google Maps; Support for the free core is not offered on the WordPress.org forums | Paid listing packages need PayPal or Stripe configured; Readme points to separate add-ons and paid themes |
| Mentioned in our posts | 1 | 1 |
| More features | ||
| Other features | Residential, rental, commercial, land, rural and business listing types, Listing search shortcode and widget, Map shortcode for listings, Contact capture form and enquiry records, Open home listing shortcode, Property gallery and recent property widgets, Business listing category taxonomy, Licence keys for paid add-ons ($) | Property listing shortcode, Property search shortcode, Property map shortcode, Front-end property submission form, Saved favourite properties, Mortgage calculator widget, Paid listing payments through PayPal, Paid listing payments through Stripe |
| Integrations | ||
| Payment | — | PayPal, Stripe |
| Social | — | WhatsApp share links |
| Plugins | Easy Property Listings add-on store ($) | — |
| Other | Google Maps | Google reCAPTCHA, Google Maps |
| Requires WordPress | 6.0 | 4.5 |
| Requires PHP | 7.4 | — |
| Tested up to | 7.1 | 6.9 |
| Phones home | No | No |
| External services | easypropertylistings.com.au | www.google.com, api.paypal.com, api.stripe.com, maps.googleapis.com |
| Shortcodes | 14 | 27 |