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Property marketplace website development Birmingham, for founders and operators who want a platform where many landlords, letting agents and property service firms list, sell and get paid in one place. We build the public marketplace, the vendor dashboards and the payment layer that collects listing fees, takes your commission and pays providers out. It is designed for how Birmingham renting actually works: licensed wards, student houses, city centre apartments and a steady flow of compliance jobs that landlords need booked.
A marketplace earns its keep when both sides trust it. Renters need listings that are honest and current, providers need to see what they are owed and when it lands, and you need a clear record of every listing, payment and dispute so the platform stays defensible as it grows.
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What the marketplace can include
Most property portals stop at listings. A Birmingham marketplace has room to do more, because landlords here juggle selective licensing in 25 of the city's 69 wards, HMO rules for shared houses and a calendar of safety certificates. That gives you two revenue lines: paid listings from landlords and agents, and paid bookings for the trades and assessors who keep those homes legal to let.
The features below are the ones we most often scope for that mix. Each sits on one shared account system, so a landlord who lists a Bournville semi can book an EPC assessor for it from the same dashboard, and you take a commission on both.
When a landlord enters a postcode, the listing form checks whether the property sits in a selective licensing ward and asks for the licence reference before it can go live. HMO listings get their own fields for licence status and permitted occupancy, which renters can see on the listing.
Unlicensed homes in licensed wards never reach the public site.
Vendors sign up, verify identity and business details, confirm redress scheme membership where they act as an agent, and add payout bank details through the payment provider rather than your own forms. Your team reviews flagged accounts from one queue.
Every vendor is checked before their first listing appears.
Room counts, bills included or not, group tenancy options and distance to the University of Birmingham, Aston University and Birmingham City University campuses, shown as plain facts rather than marketing claims, so a group of five can compare houses in Selly Oak quickly.
Student groups shortlist faster and enquire about the right houses.
Renters send an enquiry or request a viewing slot from the listing, and the message lands in the vendor's inbox on the platform with the property attached. Contact details stay masked until the vendor replies, which cuts spam and keeps the conversation, and the eventual fee, on your marketplace rather than drifting to a phone number.
Leads stay on the platform, where you can measure and charge for them.
Gas safety engineers, electricians, EPC assessors and inventory clerks list their services, coverage areas and availability. Landlords book and pay online, the provider gets the job, and the certificate can be uploaded back to the property record when the work is done.
A second income stream from work landlords must commission anyway.
Each payment is split at the point of capture: your commission is retained and the provider's share is scheduled for payout through a regulated platform payments provider. Vendors see every transaction, deduction and payout date in their own statement.
Providers trust the numbers and stop chasing you for payment.
Paid boosts for a listing, bundles for agents with many properties, and simple pay per listing options for private landlords. Headline prices include every compulsory charge, which the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 now requires.
Clear packages that convert without surprising anyone at checkout.
When a landlord says a job was not done, or a provider says they were not paid for a cancelled booking, both sides submit their account and evidence in one thread. Your staff can hold a payout, issue a partial refund or close the case, with every step logged.
Disagreements are settled on the record, not over the phone.
Only a landlord who paid for a completed job, or a tenant whose tenancy was arranged through the platform, can leave a review. Moderation rules are written down and applied the same way to everyone, so the reviews stay credible and lawful.
Ratings that reflect real transactions, not friends and rivals.
Filters for neighbourhoods such as the Jewellery Quarter, Digbeth, Edgbaston and Harborne, plus Sutton Coldfield in the north, along with commute time to the city centre and whether a property is in a licensed ward.
Renters find homes in the parts of Birmingham they actually want.
Who this is for
A marketplace is harder to launch than a single company website because you have to attract supply and demand at the same time. The right first release depends on which side you already have. These are the four situations that come up most often with Birmingham operators, and how the build changes for each one.
You already manage homes in the city and want private landlords to list through you for a fee. We start with landlord onboarding, paid listings and enquiry routing, keep your managed stock clearly marked, and add trades booking once listing volume justifies it. Your existing CRM stays the source of truth for managed properties, with the marketplace feeding it new leads.
Your current stock gives the marketplace day one supply.
Supply here is a few hundred landlords around the campuses and demand peaks well before the academic year starts. The first release covers house listings, group enquiries and holding deposits handled within the limits of the Tenant Fees Act, with clear refund rules. Later releases add bills packages and guarantor checks from third party providers.
Timing the launch to the house hunting season matters more than features.
Your vendors are tradespeople and assessors, not landlords. The build focuses on provider verification, insurance and qualification uploads such as Gas Safe registration, service areas across Birmingham and Solihull, booking, payment capture and payouts. Listings of homes may never be needed.
Provider verification is the product here, so it gets the most design time.
Developers and build to rent operators around the city centre want one place to show new schemes. Vendors are fewer but larger, so the build puts weight on developer accounts, plot and unit availability, reservation requests and reporting rather than many small landlord listings.
Fewer vendors, but each one expects reporting they can take to a board.
How we work together
Codeeo has delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US, with a team of 80+ across Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi, and is rated 4.7 from 23 Google reviews. We do not have an office in the UK, so we work with Birmingham clients remotely, with discovery, design reviews and release demos held by video call. Most marketplaces begin as a fixed scope first release, then move to a monthly retainer, while larger platforms take a dedicated team of named engineers who stay with the product as it grows.
A defined build with a deadline
We agree what the product has to do, write it down with a price and a date, and build exactly that. Changes are priced before they are made, not discovered on the invoice.
A product that keeps evolving
Named engineers who work your hours, join your standups and stay on the codebase. You direct the backlog; we own the quality of what ships.
Something live that needs looking after
A monthly block of hours for improvements, fixes and the small requests that otherwise wait months. Unused hours carry for a quarter.
Technology
We choose the stack around your marketplace model, not the other way round. A Laravel or Next.js build with a platform payments provider suits most property marketplaces, and the choice is explained in writing so a future team can take it over.
Hosting sits in a UK or EU region with backups, monitoring and error alerts from day one, and every credential is stored in your accounts rather than ours.
01Web
02Commerce
03Data and cloud
04Marketing and tracking
It depends on how many vendor types you launch with and how payments flow.
A marketplace with one vendor type, such as landlords paying to list, is far quicker to build than one where landlords, agents and trades all transact. We agree the release order in discovery and put dates in writing before design starts. For student platforms we usually plan backwards from the house hunting season, because launching after most groups have signed is the most expensive delay you can have. If you only need to test demand, we can launch with listings and enquiries first and switch payments on in a second release.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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