The View

The View is a Squarespace 7.1 template sold through the SquareKicker template store, credited there to Altitude, and it is a hotel and serviced apartments site rather than the estate agent listing template older listings described. The demo is a boutique aparthotel: a full-width hero with a book-now button, an escape-to-elegance introduction, a studios and apartments grid, an eat-and-drink section, things to do, a pool and gym block, a subscribe strip and a room page example with room details and other rooms. SquareKicker's own pitch names hotels, Airbnb hosts, real estate and travel agencies, and the layout will stretch to a holiday let or a small portfolio of rentals.

What you get

• Nine page layouts: Home, About Us, Studios and Apartments, Room Page, Drink and Dine, Pool and Gym, Things To Do, FAQs and Contact, on Squarespace 7.1 with Fluid Engine
• Nineteen SquareKicker sections including hero, hero card, studio listings, bedrooms, room details, other rooms, eat and drink, things to do, video, subscribe, FAQ and contact
• A room page layout you duplicate per room or apartment, with a booking call to action in the header
• A green, orange, white and brown palette that changes in the Squarespace style editor
• A SquareKicker desktop overlay menu
• A one-off purchase with a free 30-day SquareKicker extension trial

Who it suits

Boutique hotels, aparthotels, serviced apartment operators, holiday lets and Airbnb hosts with a handful of units, plus small guest houses that want a rooms grid, a dining page and a things-to-do page. A letting agent with a short list of properties could use the studio listings section for rentals, but it is a hospitality layout at heart.

Honest limits

There is no booking engine: the book-now button links to whatever you use (Squarespace Scheduling, a channel manager or a direct-booking widget), and there is no availability calendar. Rooms are hand-built pages, not a database, so an operator with dozens of units will find upkeep tedious. There is no property search or filtering, which is what a real estate agency actually needs, so treat the real estate label loosely. The overlay menu is a SquareKicker feature that needs a subscription to keep editing after the trial.

How it is delivered

SquareKicker templates install through the SquareKicker Template Engine onto a new or existing Squarespace 7.1 site: connect the free SquareKicker extension, pick the template and it installs in a few clicks, with the choice of keeping your existing site styles or replacing them with the template's. There is no duplicate site to copy from. The purchase is one-off and includes a 30-day SquareKicker extension trial; you need a Squarespace Core plan or higher to publish, and SquareKicker template buyers get 10 per cent off a Squarespace plan.

Related guide: compare it with the alternatives in our roundup of the best Squarespace templates for hotels and hospitality, or browse the Squarespace templates hub.