Services · Website development · Property websites
Our property website development UK service is for estate agency groups, lettings networks, franchise brands, developers and property managers with offices or stock in more than one region. We build one platform that publishes listings with the right disclosures for England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, gives every branch a local page that can rank, routes valuations and applications to the correct office, and keeps your agency software, portals and website telling the same story.
Codeeo has no UK office. Our team works with UK clients remotely, running discovery, reviews and acceptance testing by video call, with a written scope, decision log and staging site that head office and regional managers can all open. Regional managers join only the sessions that concern their branches.
200+ companies servedFrom a first store to an ADX listed developer
Platform capabilities
Property law and practice across the UK are not one system. England's lettings market is moving through the Renters' Rights Act, whose first phase took effect on 1 May 2026. Scotland has its own legal system, the Home Report for sales and a statutory register for letting agents. Wales requires agents and landlords to register with Rent Smart Wales. Northern Ireland has its own tenancy law and its own land registry. Underneath, the same UK wide duties apply: UK GDPR and PECR enforced by the ICO, anti money laundering supervision by HMRC, membership of a redress scheme, and fair advertising under consumer protection law.
A national website must hold all of this without forcing each branch to remember it. These capabilities make the rules part of the templates, so a negotiator in Cardiff and one in Aberdeen publish correct listings by default. Where a rule changes, your compliance team edits one template and every affected listing updates, rather than chasing branches by email to correct hundreds of adverts by hand.
Listings know which nation the property sits in and show the matching fields: Home Report availability for Scottish sales, registration details for Welsh lets, tenancy terminology that fits each jurisdiction. Material information follows the National Trading Standards guidance for England and Wales, with equivalent disclosure elsewhere.
Correct listings from every branch without regional workarounds.
A page per branch with its team, reviews, listings, opening information and local guides, generated from structured data and edited by branch staff within limits head office sets. Franchisees get control of their content while brand, legal text and templates stay central.
Local search presence for every office under one brand.
Fees shown inclusive of tax, the redress scheme you belong to and client money protection details, published on every relevant page as the Consumer Rights Act requires of letting agents. Mandatory charges appear with the headline price rather than later in the process, in line with the drip pricing rules now in force under the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024.
Fee transparency that a Trading Standards review would expect.
Valuation requests, viewing bookings, landlord enquiries and applications routed by postcode to the right branch and department, with fallback rules when an office is closed or a postcode sits between territories. Every lead carries its source page and campaign.
No national enquiry lands in the wrong inbox.
Connections to the CRM or property management systems your branches use, including groups running different systems after acquisitions, normalised into one listing model for the website and pushed to Rightmove, Zoopla and OnTheMarket.
One consistent listing record however many systems sit behind it.
Area guides organised by region, city and town, each written by the branches that know them, with live listings and schemes attached. Housebuilders get a regional hub per division, so a buyer browsing the North West sees every open development there before choosing one to visit.
Search visibility that scales with your branch and scheme map.
When vendors or landlords agree your terms of business online or away from your office, the Consumer Contracts Regulations give them cancellation rights. We build the signing step so the right information and cancellation notice are given, accepted and stored against the client record.
Instructions taken online with the paperwork in order.
Estate agents are supervised by HMRC under the money laundering regulations, so buyers must be identified before a sale proceeds. When an offer is accepted, the site sends the buyer to the identity verification service you already use, records completion against the sale and keeps documents out of ordinary email.
Checks start at the offer stage instead of weeks later.
Where you take holding deposits, referencing payments by landlords or other fees online, payments run through a UK payment provider with Strong Customer Authentication handled by the card issuer. Amounts follow the limits in each nation's tenancy rules, set by your compliance team rather than hard coded.
Payments online without stepping outside the rules.
PECR compliant cookie consent, UK GDPR privacy notices, consent records for marketing, and retention schedules that delete unsuccessful applicant data when your policy says. Access is role based, so branches see only their own applicants. Templates are also built and tested against WCAG 2.2, since the Equality Act expects reasonable adjustments online as well as in branches.
Data handling that matches what your privacy notice promises.
Who this is for
Custom property website development UK groups commission is rarely about a new look. It usually follows growth: an acquisition that brought a second CRM, a franchise network with fifty slightly different websites, or a developer moving into a new region. We start with the operational picture, then decide what the platform must standardise and what each branch or brand keeps for itself.
Property website design UK groups rely on also has to survive turnover. Branch staff change, franchisees join and leave, and compliance wording is updated. The platform is built so these changes are routine edits, not development projects.
You bought agencies with their own brands, websites and software. We plan a platform that can keep local brands where they carry goodwill, while unifying listings, lead routing, reporting and compliance templates. Migration runs brand by brand, with redirects protecting each acquired site's search history. Reporting compares brands on the same measures for the first time. Lead routing follows each acquired office's territory from day one.
Keep the goodwill, lose the duplication.
Franchisees want local control; the brand needs consistency and compliance. We give each franchise office its own section with editable local content inside fixed templates, central approval for anything legal, and reporting that shows head office which territories produce leads and which need support. New franchisees launch from a template with their territory postcodes already routed.
Your portfolio crosses nations with different tenancy law. The site needs landlord and leaseholder information that adapts by region, repair and service charge enquiry routes, and resident portals where your software supports them. We build the content model so Scottish, Welsh and English variations are maintained without separate websites. Leaseholders can find service charge and building information without calling your office.
Developments open and close across regions every year. We build a development platform where each scheme gets plots or apartments, specification, brochures and appointment booking, launched from templates by your marketing team, and retired cleanly with redirects when the last home is sold. Regional sales teams see the leads for their own schemes only.
New schemes go live from a template, not a project.
How we work together
National platforms usually begin with a fixed scope phase covering discovery, the content model, templates and a pilot region. Rollout to remaining branches then follows as further fixed phases or under a retainer. Groups with continuous change, such as frequent acquisitions or scheme launches, often take a dedicated team. As a property web development company UK businesses work with remotely, we document scope, owners and decisions for every phase and run all reviews by video call.
Each phase ends with acceptance testing by your team on a staging site, using real listings and real postcodes, before anything is released to the public.
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 commonly use a headless CMS with Next.js for national platforms, since it handles many branches, fast search and multiple brands from one codebase. WordPress multisite suits some franchise networks. Hosting, backups and data location are agreed with your IT and compliance teams. Monitoring alerts us and your team if a feed stops updating.
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A shared platform with branch pages, nation aware listings and lead routing.
We build one platform carrying all branches and brands: listing search with material information, branch and area pages, valuation and viewing routes, landlord sections, fee and redress disclosures and integrations with your agency software and the portals. Content and permissions are structured so branches edit locally while head office controls templates and legal wording. The first release usually covers the branches and features that produce most instructions, with the rest phased in.
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