Realtorbibie's Real Estate Platform
Full-Stack Real Estate Platform & CMS
Role
Solo Full-Stack Developer
Year
2025
Tech Stack
8 Technologies
Status
Completed
Overview
A Texas realtor operating across four cities needed a fast, professional website she could fully control — blog posts, property listings, a customizable intake form, and lead tracking — without monthly SaaS fees. I built the entire platform from scratch: a public marketing site using Server Components for SEO performance, and a full admin CMS for managing every piece of content. The site is live in production and the admin dashboard is in daily use.
The Problem
Independent real estate agents need a strong online presence — but most rely on cookie-cutter templates from brokerage platforms that offer zero control over content, lead capture, or SEO. Bibie Obazu, a realtor operating across Houston, Dallas, Austin, and San Antonio, needed a fast, professional website that she could fully control: publishing blog posts, managing property listings, customizing her intake form, and tracking every incoming lead — without paying monthly SaaS fees or depending on a third party.
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Challenges
Building a complete CMS with a visual form builder, rich text blog editor, and lead management — all within Next.js's hybrid server/client rendering model where public pages need SSR and the admin needs full interactivity.
The visual form builder needed to support 7 field types with drag reordering, live preview, validation toggles, and nested state management for type-dependent field options.
The lead capture system was the business-critical feature — collecting detailed buyer preferences while preventing spam without external infrastructure.
Solutions
Split the architecture cleanly: public pages are Server Components that query the database directly for maximum SEO performance, while the admin dashboard uses Client Components for full interactivity.
Built a visual form builder that persists the entire form structure as a database document, with a live preview panel, drag reordering, and per-field validation toggles across all 7 field types.
Built a blog CMS with a rich text editor, draft/publish workflow, and SEO metadata fields. All public-facing HTML is sanitized before rendering to prevent XSS.
Key Highlights
Lead Capture System: Multi-step intake form collecting detailed buyer preferences. Admin dashboard tracks leads with read/unread status, timestamps, and follow-up notes.
Visual Form Builder: The client customizes her intake form without touching code — add, edit, reorder, and delete fields across 7 types with a live preview panel.
Blog CMS: Rich text editor with draft/publish workflow and SEO metadata. Full property listings manager with multi-image galleries and featured flagging.
SEO Engineering: Schema.org JSON-LD on every public page, Open Graph tags, Twitter cards, and dynamic metadata per blog post for maximum search visibility.
Scale & Scope
~15,800
Lines of Code
127
Source Files
18
Pages / Routes
7
Database Models
39
Git Commits
Technology Stack
Outcome
Live at realtorbibie.com, serving a real client across four Texas cities. The admin dashboard is in daily use for managing leads, properties, and blog posts.
