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Your site gets opened on a phone, outside a property, on a weak connection, while the person is deciding whether to knock. That's the environment it has to work in.

What's different here

Property sites are specified in a meeting and used in a car park. The gap shows up as heavy image galleries that stall on mobile data, map interfaces that fight a thumb, and search filters organized around how the listing feed is structured, not how anyone decides. Meanwhile the feed itself (the thing the entire site depends on) is usually the least engineered part of the build.

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Vertical-specific tactics

What web development looks like for brokerages, property managers and proptech platforms.

These are the plays that wouldn't appear on a generic web development page. They only make sense in real estate & proptech.

01

Treat the listing feed as production infrastructure

Feeds break, stall and go stale, and when they do the site silently shows properties that are gone and hides ones that are available. We build monitoring, staleness alerts and a visible last-synced state, because the failure mode otherwise is an agent finding out from an annoyed caller.

02

Budget images properly or the site is slow

Galleries are the entire payload on a property page. Correct formats, responsive sizes, lazy loading below the fold and an aggressive budget on the first screen. This is the single largest performance lever in the category and it's almost always left at whatever the theme did.

03

Retire listings without breaking the URL

Sold and let properties accumulate into thousands of pages. Removing them wastes accumulated links; leaving them live frustrates searchers. The workable pattern is keeping the page with clear status and routing to similar available stock. Good for the visitor and it preserves the equity.

04

Build search around decisions, not around the schema

Commute time, pet policy, parking, deposit, chain-free, availability date. Filters that mirror the data model are easy to build and produce a lot of abandoned searches; filters that mirror how people choose take longer and are the reason anyone comes back.

The constraints

What holds brokerages, property managers and proptech platforms back

01

Portals own your demand

A large share of inquiry arrives through listing portals that charge for access to customers who are, in effect, theirs. Every year that dependency deepens, the negotiating position weakens, and the cost per lead rises regardless of what you do.

02

Vacancy cost is invisible

The cost of an empty unit (vacant days, turnover, re-leasing fees and the discount to fill it fast) sits in operations, while the marketing budget sits in acquisition. The two numbers rarely appear on the same page, so retention never wins the argument.

03

Local search across many locations

Multi-office brokerages and multi-site managers compete in dozens of local results simultaneously. Most run one generic site and a set of near-identical location pages that rank for nothing, which is a structural problem, not a content problem.

04

The transaction cycle outlasts the attribution window

Someone browsing today may transact in eighteen months. Any measurement built on a ninety-day window will conclude that brand and content do nothing, and the budget will move accordingly.

Scope & process

Same rigor, applied here.

The full web development scope and process are identical whoever the client is. What changes for real estate & proptech is the tactics above, not the delivery model.

What's included

Conversion strategy & wireframesCustom UI design systemNext.js buildHeadless CMSTechnical SEO foundationAnalytics & trackingAccessibility to WCAG 2.2 AA30 days of post-launch support

How it runs

  1. 01Teardown & strategy — Week 1
  2. 02Wireframe & copy — Week 1–2
  3. 03Design system & UI — Week 2–3
  4. 04Build & integrate — Week 3–5
  5. 05Launch & optimize — Week 6+
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Investment

Scoped like the core service, no surcharge.

Every engagement is quoted from your actual brief. There's no vertical surcharge for this combination. Request a quote and we'll scope it properly.

Launch

Startups and small teams needing a credible, fast site quickly.

Scoped to your brief

  • Up to 8 pages
  • Custom design system
  • Next.js + CMS
  • Technical SEO setup
  • GA4 + conversion tracking
  • 30-day support
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Growth

Companies where the website is the primary revenue channel.

Scoped to your brief

  • Up to 25 pages
  • Full conversion strategy + copywriting
  • Custom animation & motion design
  • Headless CMS with page builder
  • CRM + marketing automation integration
  • A/B testing infrastructure
  • 90-day optimization retainer
  • Programmatic SEO templates
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Enterprise

Multi-region, multi-brand, or complex commerce platforms.

Scoped to your brief

  • Unlimited pages & locales
  • Multi-language / multi-region
  • Design system documentation site
  • Custom integrations & APIs
  • Dedicated squad + Slack channel
  • SLA-backed support
  • Quarterly CRO roadmap
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All engagements start with a free audit. Prices exclude media spend, which you pay directly to the platforms on accounts you own.

Questions

Real Estate & PropTech questions, answered straight.

If your site is a formality and your inquiry all comes through portals, then yes. Build the cheap one and put the money into the portal. But that is a decision to stay a tenant of someone else's demand permanently, and it should be made deliberately, not by default. The case for owning the site is the same as the case for owning your database: it's the only channel whose cost per inquiry falls over time instead of rising with a rate card you don't control.

Web Development × Real Estate & PropTech

Let's talk about your growth constraint.

Your site gets opened on a phone, outside a property, on a weak connection, while the person is deciding whether to knock. That's the environment it has to work in.

Our commitment: If your new site doesn't beat your old site's conversion rate within 90 days, we keep optimizing free until it does.