Essential Real Estate vs IMPress for IDX Broker
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| Feature | Essential Real Estate v5.3.4 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free · ★ 4.3/5 Visit Details | IMPress for IDX Broker v3.3.1 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free · ★ 3.1/5 Visit Details |
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| At a glance | ||
| Active installs | 7,000+ | 7,000+ |
| Last updated | October 15, 2026 | September 10, 2026 |
| Editions | Essential Real Estate | IMPress for IDX Broker |
| Pros | Full property listing, search and map pages from shortcodes; Front-end listing submission and favourites; Mortgage calculator and property comparison included | Property search, showcases and city links from the MLS feed through widgets and blocks; Leads captured in WordPress and synced to the IDX Broker account |
| Cons | Paid listing packages need PayPal or Stripe configured; Readme points to separate add-ons and paid themes | Needs an active IDX Broker account before any listings appear; Sends install data including the IDX API key to a vendor endpoint unless opted out |
| Mentioned in our posts | 1 | 1 |
| More features | ||
| Other features | 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 | Property showcase shortcode, Listings shortcode (listings add-on), Lead management screen in the dashboard, Multisite management screen, Google My Business auto-posting, Scheduled listing import from IDX |
| Integrations | ||
| Payment | PayPal, Stripe | — |
| Social | WhatsApp share links | Google My Business API |
| Plugins | — | Gravity Forms, Contact Form 7 |
| Other | Google reCAPTCHA, Google Maps | IDX Broker API, IDX Broker middleware, Google token relay (AWS) |
| Requires WordPress | 4.5 | 5.3 |
| Requires PHP | — | 7.1.8 |
| Tested up to | 6.9 | 7.0.1 |
| Phones home | No | Yes |
| External services | www.google.com, api.paypal.com, api.stripe.com, maps.googleapis.com | api.idxbroker.com, hheqsfm21f.execute-api.us-west-2.amazonaws.com, mybusiness.googleapis.com, hsstezluih.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com, middleware.idxbroker.com |
| Blocks | — | 8 |
| Shortcodes | 27 | 17 |