Real Estate Website Design in Melbourne
A Melbourne home that sits unsold for seven months can be vacant for tax purposes. Advertising a property for sale or rent does not count as occupying it, which means a slow campaign can quietly hand the owner a bill calculated on the full value of the house. That is an agency's problem as much as the owner's, and almost no agency website says so.
- Property listings with photos and key details
- Agent profiles and direct contact
- Search/filter by location or price
- Enquiry form per listing
- Mobile-first browsing experience
Melbourne's laneway cafes, established professional firms and fast-growing suburbs all expect something different from a website — a coffee shop needs Instagram-worthy photos and hours, a law firm needs credibility. WebBizora builds around what a specific Melbourne business actually is, not a single citywide template.
Why
WebBizora
WebBizora builds websites for real estate in Melbourne the same way we build them everywhere: listings and agent profiles that build instant trust. Pricing starts at $1199, with no long-term contract — and the same process covers businesses reaching into Geelong, Sunshine Coast, not just Melbourne itself.
What matters
in Melbourne
A Listing on the Market Is Not an Occupied Home
Vacant residential land tax applies where a property was unoccupied for more than six months in the previous calendar year, and the State Revenue Office is explicit that advertising for sale or rent is not occupation. A vendor who moved out in January and is still waiting for an offer in August has crossed the line without doing anything wrong. An agency that raises this early — and factors it into the conversation about pricing and campaign length — is protecting the client from a consequence of its own advice, which is a stronger trust position than any testimonial.
The Rate Compounds and It Is Charged on the Whole Property
VRLT is levied at one percent of capital improved value — the full value of the property, house included, rather than the land underneath it — and it escalates to two percent in a second consecutive liable year and three percent in a third. On a nine hundred thousand dollar house that is nine thousand dollars in year one and considerably worse if the situation persists. Owners routinely assume it works like ordinary land tax on site value. Correcting that assumption on the page is genuinely useful.
You Must Notify Even When You Think You're Exempt
The notification deadline is 15 February each year, and the requirement applies even where the owner believes an exemption covers them. Silence is not a position. The SRO has said its 2026 compliance focus targets exactly this — incorrect exemption claims, undeclared absentee ownership, missed vacancy notifications — and it cross-checks against utility usage and rental records. A page that states the date and the "notify anyway" rule is the single most useful thing an agency can publish for its owner list.
The Short-Stay Levy Changed the Airbnb Arithmetic
A levy of seven and a half percent applies to the total booking fee on short stays in Victoria, which reshapes the calculation for an owner weighing short-term letting against a long lease. Worth pairing with the vacancy point, because the two interact: an owner running a property on short stays for part of the year and leaving it empty the rest can end up inside both regimes at once.
A Site Built the Way Real Estate Actually Operate
- Home — search + featured listings
- Listings
- Agents
- About
- Contact / Enquiry
Packages for Real Estate in Melbourne
Typical agency cost: $1,499+
A focused five-page site for a small business that needs to be found, understood and contacted.
- Up to 5 pages
- Custom responsive design — no template
- Contact form with spam protection
- Speed and Core Web Vitals work
- Accessible markup (WCAG-aware build)
- Basic schema and meta setup
- 2 revision rounds
- 30 days post-launch support
- Full ownership of the finished site
Typical agency cost: $2,399+
More pages, more integrations, and the structure a growing business needs to keep adding to.
- Up to 12 pages
- Everything in Starter
- Blog or news section
- Google Business Profile and maps integration
- Newsletter or CRM connection
- Multi-location or service-area pages
- 3 revision rounds
- 60 days post-launch support
- Full ownership of the finished site
Typical agency cost: $3,799+
Booking, payments and a design built around how your business actually converts.
- Up to 25 pages
- Everything in Business
- Booking or appointment system
- Online payments (Stripe or equivalent)
- Customer portal or member area
- Bilingual build where the market needs it
- Advanced schema and AEO structure
- 4 revision rounds
- 90 days post-launch support
- Full ownership of the finished site
Typical agency cost: $5,499+
A complete online store — catalogue, checkout, tax and shipping, built to sell from launch day.
- Up to 100 products at launch
- Everything in Premium
- Full catalogue with variants and filtering
- Checkout, tax and shipping configuration
- Payment gateway integration
- Order, stock and customer management
- Abandoned-cart recovery setup
- 4 revision rounds
- 90 days post-launch support
- Full ownership of the finished site
Questions, Answered Directly
No. The State Revenue Office treats advertising for sale or rent as separate from occupation. A property must be genuinely occupied for at least six months in the calendar year to fall outside the vacancy test.
At one percent of capital improved value — the full property value rather than the site value alone — rising to two percent in a second consecutive liable year and three percent in a third.
WebBizora's real estate website packages start from $1,199 for a single-agent site, up to $4,499 for a full package with advanced search and filtering.
Yes. Notification is due by 15 February each year and is required even where the owner believes the property is exempt. Failing to notify is itself a compliance breach.