The company
UrbanSpace operates in the real estate space, where expectations are high and the margin for error is small.
A fast-growing real-estate agency needed to move off spreadsheets and a dated website onto a platform that could handle listings at scale across an expanding team.
The problem they faced
Listings were hard to manage and impossible to scale. The team needed rich listings, fast search, and clean workflows - quickly.
Left unsolved, this capped growth and added friction for the team and their customers alike - which is what prompted them to look for a partner who could fix it properly.
Why they came to Ecomsy
After comparing several agencies, UrbanSpace chose Ecomsy for our senior, end-to-end team - one group handling strategy, design, development, and QA - and our track record of shipping real estate products that actually perform in production.
The challenges we had to solve
- Meeting ambitious goals in real estate without blowing the budget or the timeline.
- Building something secure, reliable, and ready for real-world load from day one.
- Keeping the experience simple for end users while handling real complexity underneath.
- Making sure the UrbanSpace team could own, run, and extend the product after launch.
The options we weighed
We mapped a few possible directions together: an off-the-shelf platform, a lightly customised template, or a purpose-built solution. Off-the-shelf was fast but too rigid for what UrbanSpace needed; a template would have saved time upfront but cost far more later. We weighed cost, speed, control, and long-term flexibility side by side.
What we chose - and why
We chose a purpose-built approach on a modern Next.js stack - the option that best balanced time-to-market with the control and scalability UrbanSpace needed. It let us tailor every part of the experience while keeping the codebase clean and easy to extend.
Our approach
Discovery
We mapped UrbanSpace's goals, users, and constraints to shape a focused, realistic plan, and agreed on what success would look like.
Design & prototyping
We designed the flows and interface, then validated the direction early with clickable prototypes before a line of production code was written.
Development
Our team built UrbanSpace in milestones with clean, scalable, well-tested Next.js code - so progress was visible the whole way through.
Launch & support
We shipped, monitored performance closely, and stayed on to refine, fix, and add features after go-live.
How we solved it
Working in milestones, we built and shipped the core of the product, then layered in the details:
- Rich property listings with media galleries
- Advanced search and map-based discovery
- Agent workflows and lead capture
- An admin dashboard for the whole portfolio
- Built to grow as the agency expands
The results
“Listings that took hours now take minutes.” - Operations Lead
The impact
Today, UrbanSpace delivers measurable results - 4 mo to launch and counting - with a solid technical foundation and a partner to keep improving it. The problem that once held them back is now a strength they can build on.
What the client says
HT“Listings that took hours now take minutes. The platform scaled perfectly as our team grew.”