Design Inspiration: 6 Property Search Engine Examples

More than 80% of time spent on a CRE company website is on the properties section. So, having a well-designed, carefully organized commercial real estate property search engine offers a number of benefits to your website visitors and potential investors or tenants.

Whether you’re planning to implement a white label plugin or to hire a development agency to build a custom property search engine, we’ve compiled a selection of six property search engine designs to reference.

Based on user experience, customization, and functionality, these examples will help you evaluate what is possible for your own property website.

Madison Marquette

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Company profile: Full Service Owner/Operator and Developer

The Madison Marquette property search engine is a good example of clean, brand-focused design.

Displaying a nationwide portfolio of 200+ properties owned, managed and available for sale or lease, Madison Marquette’s property search engine offers a number of unique features worth referencing including:

• Custom filters for “Role” including Managed Portfolio, Developed Portfolio and For Sale & Lease
• Filter options by location, property type and available space
• Keyword search field
• Map and Grid view
• Property website including a photo gallery, downloadable documents, available space and contact form

Younger Partners

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Company profile: Full Service Brokerage

Located in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, Younger Partners provides investment, leasing and management services to both commercial real estate tenants and investors. Their property search engine is designed to reflect this diversity of offerings (including over 150 listings). 

The properties can be searched by any of the following filters:

• Transaction type
• Property type
• Available size
• Advanced filters for County, City and Submarket
• Broker name
• Property listing page including a photo gallery, downloadable documents, available space and contact form

Olshan Properties

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Company profile: Owner/Operator and Developer

Olshan Properties specializes in the development, acquisition and management of commercial real estate including retail, residential, office and hotel assets, so their search engine reflects the different property types in their portfolio.

Additional filter include:

• Search by State and City filters
• Conditional unit size filters for Office and Retail availabilities
• Map and Grid view
• Feature rich property website including a photo gallery, tenants, downloadable documents, availablities and contact section

N3 Real Estate

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Company profile: Full Service Owner/Developer and Advisory

N3 is a national firm that owns, manages and develops net-leased retail assets and specializes in all aspects of retail development including site selection, planning, entitlement, construction, leasing and management.

Their retail asset search engine includes:

• Search by State, City, Size and Deal type
• Map view
• Fully branded property websites featuring property highlights, video, tenants, availabilities, site plans, photos, downloadable documents and contact section.

MMG Equity Partners

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Company profile: Owner/Operator and Developer

MMG Equity Partners’s property list reflects their current active and previously owned retail assets.

The company owns, develops and acquires commercial properties nationwide and their property search engine features over 30 active properties.

The included features in their search engine:

• Conditional unit size filter for lease and sale availabilities
• Map and List view
• Fully branded property websites featuring property highlights, tenants, availabilities, site plans, photos, downloadable documents and contact section.

Stepp Commercial

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Company profile: Investment Sales

Stepp Commercial specializes in private capital multifamily investments, so their offering is displayed in a highly visual way to emphasize photography to attract visitors.

Their property search engine features include:

• City, unit number and price filters
• Simple and clean layout
• Fully branded property sites with direct access to a document portal, investment highlights, photo gallery and contact form.

Having a search engine that aggregates and displays all of your current listings and inventory delivers some serious benefits. Check out our guide on How to Build a Commercial Property Search Engine to learn why you should include a property search on your website and how to get started.