Services · Ecommerce development · Property marketplaces
Codeeo offers property marketplace website development in Dallas for operators who want landlords, property managers and build-to-rent owners to list homes on one platform, and renters to apply and pay online. We build the listing engine, the owner onboarding and verification, the application and fee checkout, and the payout ledger that splits each payment between the owner and your platform. The result is a marketplace that earns on every lease it helps close, instead of a listings page that only sends leads.
North Texas rental supply is spread across Dallas, Collin, Denton and Tarrant counties, much of it held by small landlords and new rental communities on the suburban edge. A marketplace that verifies those owners and moves money cleanly is what makes renters trust it.
200+ companies across the US and the UAEFrom a first store to a listed developer
What the marketplace includes
A property marketplace has two sets of customers and a ledger in the middle. Owners need a fast way to list, prove they control the home and get paid. Renters need accurate listings, a clear application and a receipt for every fee. Your team needs to see each transaction, the commission it earned and any dispute attached to it. In Dallas that also means renters comparing a townhome in Frisco with an apartment near Uptown in the same session, so filters, maps and commute details carry real weight. Below is what we usually build for a first release, ordered the way money moves through the platform from listing to payout. Property listing marketplace platform development Dallas operators ask for often starts too wide, with every feature a national portal offers; we keep the first release to the flows that earn money and add the rest once real owners and renters are using it.
Landlords and managers sign up, confirm identity through the payment provider's checks, and show they own or manage the property through a deed lookup, management agreement upload or county appraisal district record your team reviews. Unverified owners can draft listings but cannot publish or receive funds.
Fewer fake rental listings, which is the scam renters fear most.
One form for a single home in Garland and another for a build-to-rent community in Celina with dozens of floor plans. Owners add photos, pet rules, available dates and the tenant selection criteria Texas landlords must share with applicants, so the criteria travel with the listing.
Complete listings without your staff chasing missing details.
Map search across the cities renters actually compare, with filters for school district, commute time to Downtown, Las Colinas or Legacy West, yard size, pet policy and move-in date. Saved searches send alerts when a match is published.
Renters find the right suburb, not just the right price band.
Applicants fill one profile, pay the application fee by card, Apple Pay or Google Pay, and send it to several listings. Each charge shows the owner it goes to, what it covers and the refund terms before the renter confirms.
Applications arrive paid, complete and easy to compare.
Payments run through a marketplace payment product such as Stripe Connect, which handles owner identity checks and payout timing. Your commission or listing fee is deducted automatically, and owners see a statement for every lease and every fee.
Your revenue is collected without manual invoicing.
Owners can buy featured placement, extra photos or a longer listing period. Plans renew or expire under rules you set, with clear notices before any charge, because Texas consumers and the FTC both expect honest renewal terms.
A second revenue line that does not depend on leases closing.
Renters request a showing or book a self tour where the owner supports smart locks, with identity checks before access codes are issued. Owners set the windows they can cover across a metro where a drive from Mansfield to McKinney takes most of an hour.
Fewer wasted trips for owners and agents.
Once an owner approves an applicant, the platform can issue the owner's lease for electronic signature and collect the first month's rent and security deposit in one checkout. Funds route to the owner or their manager, your fee is taken at the split, and the renter receives a dated receipt for each amount. Owners who prefer their own lease forms can upload them instead.
Leases close on the platform, so the platform earns on them.
A case system for refused refunds, listings that did not match reality and no-show owners, with evidence uploads and a decision log. Reviews only open after a verified application or lease, which keeps them honest.
Problems resolved on the record, not in public comment threads.
Your team approves owners, moderates listings, issues refunds and tracks commission by county, owner type and listing plan. Exports feed your accounting system and the tax reporting your payment provider prepares.
One view of supply, demand and revenue.
Who this is for
Every marketplace in North Texas has to solve the same chicken and egg problem: owners will not list where renters are absent, and renters leave when listings are thin or stale. The right first build depends on which side you already have. These are the starting points we see most often, and how the scope changes for each one. In each case we plan the payment model first, because it shapes onboarding, verification and the legal review more than any design choice does.
You have the idea and possibly a funding round, but no supply yet. We scope a first release around owner onboarding, a strong listing builder and one paid action, usually the application fee, so revenue starts with the first leases. Supply tools come before renter extras, because a thin Dallas inventory loses renters to the national portals within a visit or two. We also plan an owner referral loop and bulk import for landlords who hold several homes, since one of them can fill a neighborhood on day one.
Win owners first; renters follow inventory.
You already manage homes across Collin and Denton counties and want to let independent landlords list and lease through your platform for a fee. We connect the marketplace to your property management software, so units you manage and units you only market sit side by side but follow separate payout and responsibility rules.
New rental communities in Prosper, Forney and Princeton need leasing at volume. The marketplace lets each community list floor plans and release dates, take holding deposits where your lease terms allow them, and route leads to on-site teams. If you later admit third-party owners, the same platform already handles split payouts.
A licensed brokerage can run a leasing marketplace where agents market rentals and earn fees through the broker. We build it so compensation only flows to license holders under TREC rules, and so the brokerage notices TREC requires appear on the site where the commission places them.
Licensing questions belong with your broker and counsel; we build to their answer.
How we work together
Most Dallas clients start with a fixed scope first release covering one paid flow and one owner type, then move to a monthly retainer for new features and supply tools. Operators with a larger roadmap, such as several counties or a second marketplace for commercial space, sometimes take a dedicated team. Our team works with Dallas clients remotely, and discovery, design reviews and sprint demos all run by video call with screen sharing. Whichever route you choose, you get a named project lead, a shared backlog you can read at any time, and staging access so your team tests every release with real Dallas listings before it goes live.
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
Usually a React or Next.js front end, a Laravel or Node back end, PostgreSQL with geographic search, and a marketplace payment provider. We choose for your volumes, your existing systems and whoever will maintain the platform afterwards.
01Web
02Commerce
03Data and cloud
04Marketing and tracking
It depends on how many payment flows and owner types go into the first release.
A marketplace with one owner type, listings and paid applications is a much smaller build than one with deposits, leases, self tours and commercial space. We agree the first release in discovery, write the delivery plan down with milestones, and keep later features in a separate backlog. Waiting for payment processor approval and legal review of your terms also affects the schedule, so we start both early rather than at the end.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
Get in touchPROVEN RESULTS
React
Next.js
TypeScript
Node.js
Laravel
WordPress
Shopify Plus
WooCommerce
BigCommerce
PostgreSQL
MySQL
MongoDB
AWS
Azure
Docker
GA4
Google Tag Manager
Search Console
Meta Pixel
Looker Studio