🏢 Case Study: HowardBlackstone.com

Industry: Real Estate
Platform: Custom Frontend + WordPress Backend
Project Type: Corporate Website Development
Location: United States

✅ Overview

Howard Blackstone is a premier real estate company offering luxury residential and commercial property services. They needed a sleek, modern website to represent their high-end brand, showcase their property listings, and drive inquiries from buyers, sellers, and investors.

They hired Sixtyhost to build a custom-designed frontend with a robust and easy-to-manage WordPress backend.

🎯 The Challenge

Before reaching out to Sixtyhost, Howard Blackstone had:

• No centralized online presence to showcase listings

• Outdated visuals that didn’t match their brand reputation

• A complex internal listing workflow that needed streamlining

• A need for mobile-first design due to high on-the-go usage

• Multiple teams needing access to backend content updates

🛠️ Our Approach

We delivered a fully customized, performance-optimized real estate site:

• Custom frontend UI to reflect premium branding and architecture aesthetics

• Responsive design for flawless browsing on phones and tablets

• Dynamic property listings module powered by WordPress Custom Post Types

• Integrated lead capture forms, live map view, and property filters

• Team member directory and inquiry system for agent-specific requests

• SEO-focused structure with schema markup for listings

• Training provided to in-house team for easy content updates

📈 Results

Within 30 days of launch:

• 3x more time spent on-site by visitors

• 47% increase in inbound form submissions

• Strong SEO performance: multiple listings indexed in local searches

• Agents reported smoother lead assignment process

• Brand perception significantly improved due to elevated design

💬 Client Feedback

“We’ve had clients tell us they chose to reach out based on how professional the website looked. Sixtyhost absolutely nailed the custom design and made the backend user-friendly for our team.”
— James B., Managing Broker, Howard Blackstone

🧩 Key Features

• Fully custom-designed frontend with elegant UI

• WordPress backend for simple content and listing management

• Agent directory with direct contact links

• Real-time property filtering by price, location, and type

• High-resolution media gallery and video support for listings

• Optimized for SEO and local search visibility

• Secure hosting and fast page loads

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