The honest price range
For a UK trade business, expect to pay anywhere from £500 for a basic template site to £5,000 or more for a fully bespoke build — plus hosting, usually £10-30 a month on top. Freelancers and small studios often sit in the £800-£2,000 range. Large agencies charge more for the same output because of their overheads, not necessarily better results.
Why the range is so wide
A template site — the same design used for hundreds of businesses with your logo and colours swapped in — is cheap because the design work is done once and reused. A bespoke site, built specifically for your trade and your business, costs more because someone is designing and building it from scratch, just for you. Neither is automatically "better" — but they solve different problems.
What you're actually paying for
Not the website itself — the outcome. A site that looks fine but doesn't load fast, doesn't work on mobile, and doesn't reply quickly to enquiries is expensive at any price, because it's quietly losing you jobs every week it's live. The right question isn't "how much does a website cost" — it's "how much is a website that doesn't convert costing me in lost work."
How Northora prices it
We don't charge upfront. We build a full, working demo website for your business — free — so you can see exactly what you'd be getting before spending anything. If you keep it, it's £150 a month, covering hosting, unlimited changes, and the lead system that replies to enquiries in under a minute. No setup fee, no contract.