Its own footage
The hero walls and reel strips play the studio's own listing films and agent reels, and each one loads only when it plays.
Chicago Real Estate Photography
A real estate media studio near Chicago needed a website that shows its work and answers an agent's questions before the first call.
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Key details
We redesigned Chicago Real Estate Photography's website and built it in WordPress and Elementor, with the studio's own films in the heroes and a page for each featured listing. It went live on their domain on 12 October 2026, and an SEO pass and a spam filter on the enquiry form followed that week.
- Client
- Chicago Real Estate Photography
- Industry
- Real estate photography
- Location
- Chicago area, Illinois, USA
- Year
- 2026
- Live site
- chicagorealestatephotography.com
chicagorealestatephotography.com
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Scene 01 / Home
The first screen says what an agent gets, beside a wall of the studio's own listing films.
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Scene 02 / Services
The services page opens on a strip of moving films, then the three main services and what every shoot includes.
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Scene 03 / Portfolio
Listing photos turn in a ring around the title, then the work is sorted into photos and videos.
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Scene 04 / Featured listing
One listing's full package on one page: the reel, photos, drone, floor plans and its property website.
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Scene 05 / Studio
The content studio in Carol Stream, with reels filmed on its sets that play with sound.
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Scene 06 / About
The founder's story in his own words, then how the crew runs a shoot.
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Scene 07 / Contact
Three ways to reach the studio, then the enquiry form and what happens next.
Overview
Chicago Real Estate Photography shoots listings for agents and brokerages across Chicago and the suburbs: photography, video, drone, floor plans, Zillow 3D tours, property websites and social media reels, in one visit. Its own crew shoots every listing and its own team edits it. In Carol Stream it runs a content studio where agents film videos with a teleprompter and a videographer directing. Its Content Partner Program plans, films and edits a month of reels for them.
This page covers the old site, the design and the WordPress build, the launch and the work since.
The challenge
The old site hid the copy that explained the studio, and the new one had to answer an agent's questions on the page.
A hidden first screen
The old home page's headline and introduction were set to hidden, so no visitor read them. The studio's own description of itself sat only in code that search engines read.
What every shoot includes, in a footnote
The floor plan, sky and TV replacement and the other extras included with every shoot sat in a footnote on the old site.
Broken and thin pages
The footer linked to a contact page that did not exist, and a set of near-identical area pages stood in for real coverage.
Answers before the call
Agents needed to see the work, what a shoot includes and when the files come back, without phoning the studio first.
A library of films
The studio had a library of agent reels and listing films, and the site had to play them without every page downloading them up front.
What we did
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Designed first, then built in Elementor
We designed the site first, as a working design site the studio could review. Then we built it in native Elementor on WordPress, matched to the design section by section on desktop, tablet and phone.
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Widgets the studio can edit
Where Elementor has no widget for a section, such as the film walls and reel strips, we built custom widgets with their own controls. Photos, films and text change in the editor, not in code.
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Their own films, up front
The home page and the services page open on walls of the studio's own listing films, each loaded only when it plays.
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Reels that play with sound
Reels sit in strips of phones. Tap one and it opens large and plays with sound, and on the home page a phone rises and plays reels as you scroll.
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A page for every featured listing
Each featured listing has its own page with the photos, aerials, floor plans and reel the studio delivered, so an agent sees a whole package before booking.
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How a shoot works, on the page
What comes with every shoot and the three steps from booking to delivery are on the home page, in a few words each.
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Launched with an SEO pass
Live on its domain since 12 October 2026. Yoast is the one source of titles and descriptions, structured data describes the business and its FAQs, and the old site's URLs redirect. A month of guides for agents followed, one a day.
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Every enquiry kept, spam set aside
The enquiry form saves each lead in WordPress. A spam filter scores every message, moves spam to its own list where it is never forwarded, and deletes it after 30 days.
Built with
- WordPress Content management
- Elementor Page building, native containers and widgets
- Hello Elementor Theme
- Xpro Theme Builder Header and footer templates
- Yoast SEO Titles, descriptions, sitemaps and schema
- Rich Showcase for Google Reviews Google reviews feed
- Custom Elementor widgets Film walls, reel strips, listing pages and the spam filter
- Cloudflare In front of the Hostinger hosting
Services
- Web design and development
- Website redesign
- WordPress development
- Website copywriting
- SEO setup
Related categories
Site plan
- Reviews from the studio's Google profile, updated daily
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What Chicago Real Estate Photography has now
- A website on its own domain that leads with its own films and says what every shoot includes.
- A page for each featured listing, with the photos, aerials, floor plans and reel the studio delivered.
- A portfolio sorted into photos and videos, and reel strips that play with sound.
- Google reviews that refresh each day, and an enquiry form that sets spam aside.
- Titles, descriptions and structured data kept in one place, and a new guide for agents each day.
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Why it worked
It works because the site is made of the studio's own work
The listing photos, films and reels on the site all come from the studio's own shoots. The design gives them room, and the copy says plainly what an agent gets.
Answers on the page
What every shoot includes, how a shoot works and when the files come back sit on the pages agents read first.
Edited in Elementor
Native containers and custom widgets with their own controls let the studio change photos, films and text without code.
Ready for search
Yoast holds every title and description, the old URLs redirect to their new pages, and structured data describes the business and its FAQs.
Client stories
What clients say
On camera and in writing — swipe through the founders and teams we’ve helped design, build and grow.
In their words
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About this project
Questions about this engagement
What clients ask us after reading this case study.
WordPress and Elementor on the Hello Elementor theme, with Xpro templates for the header and footer and Yoast SEO. Custom Elementor widgets draw the film walls, reel strips and listing pages.
Yes. We designed it first as a working design site for the studio to review. Then we built that design in Elementor on WordPress and moved it onto their domain on 12 October 2026.
Each film is encoded as WebM with an MP4 fallback and a poster frame. It loads only when it plays, so a page never downloads every reel up front.
A filter scores every enquiry on signals such as a hidden trap field, how fast the form was filled and known spam phrases. Spam goes to its own list and is deleted after 30 days. A real lead flagged by mistake comes back with one link.
Yes. We start from an audit of what the old site says and carry its facts, prices and terms over. Old URLs redirect to their new pages. See our website redesign service.
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