I'm Raul C. Peña — Air Force veteran, Texas real estate broker, and the owner of Cantera Realty, LLC. BrokerMade exists because I got tired of watching agents (myself included) overpay for websites we never even owned.
I started in real estate in 2004. Like every new agent, I was told I needed a website — and like every new agent, I paid for one. Then another. Then the "premium" one with the monthly fee. Over the years I spent tens of thousands of dollars on agent websites, and here's what I learned: the moment you stop paying, your site vanishes. You never owned anything. You were renting.
"The moment you stop paying, your site vanishes. You never owned anything. You were renting."
Meanwhile, I kept climbing — agent to broker, eventually opening my own brokerage, Cantera Realty. And on the side, at 40 years old, I taught myself to code. That turned into a full engineering career: today I build and automate infrastructure professionally. Pipelines, servers, deployments — the plumbing of the internet.
One day it clicked: I now had both halves of the answer. I know exactly what an agent's website needs to do, because I've been the agent staring at the phone waiting for it to ring. And I know exactly how to build it, because building things is now my trade.
You own your files. Every template is a one-time purchase. Download it, customize it, host it anywhere. No subscription to me, ever. If I disappear tomorrow, your website doesn't.
Built for compliance. License number placement, brokerage attribution, Equal Housing Opportunity — it's already in the template, because I have to follow the same rules you do.
Real support from a real person. When you email, I answer. Not a ticket queue. Usually same day.