Tearing Down the Top 10 United Arab Emirates Real Estate Websites
A real estate website is a cost-effective solution for increased global reach and lead generation. It is a key tool for establishing brand reputation in the property sector and increasing your revenue with direct marketing techniques. Planning to build a real estate website to support your fastest growing property business? Here are 6 real estate businesses for inspiration that started with websites, scaled through mobile apps and are now on their way to becoming giants of the proptech sector. Share them with your web development company in Dubai and come up with a user experience that matches these websites.
1. Bayut
Bayut is already a leader in the property market of the UAE. Its website has high-end user experience with comprehensive listings, helpful resources like blog articles about real estate investments and market trend reports.
They launched their mobile app with a user-friendly interface and features like extensive listings, advanced search filters, saved searches, and property notifications. Currently, their mobile apps have 4.7 stars on Google App Store and 4.6 on the App Store for iOS.
The only downside of their website, as well as mobile app listings is the occasional outdated listings – which you can fix in your website by asking your web development team to add related code in the backend.
2. Property Finder
Property Finder is another home buying and real estate website in UAE with powerful search options area guides, super agents feature, buyers’ guide, and mortgage calculators. The website also features detailed property information with filters for residential and commercial properties. Speaking from the mindset of a web development company in Dubai, I would comment that their website’s interface can sometimes feel cluttered and you’ll also experience occasional bugs with loading time issues on low connectivity.
Their mobile app gives a rather better experience with detailed listings and in-app communication with agents. Their Android app has 4.5 stars and iOS app has 4.4 average rating.
If you need to take lessons from Property Finder’s digital transformation, think of their comprehensive listings database.
3. Dubizzle
Dubizzle is one of the most popular classifieds websites in the UAE – meaning that property listings are an important, but not the only part of this least micro-niche website. With property listings, you’ll find motors, furniture and garden equipment, jobs as well as tech accessories listings on the website.
For the property part, Dubizzle’s website has diverse categories to cater various property needs and has active community forums to respond to concerns in real-time. It has budget-conscious options with wide selection – meaning that the database is huge to choose from. Each property listing has comprehensive information with details on amenities and surroundings.
Dubizzle also has dedicated mobile apps for Android and iOS smartphones with 4.2 and 4.6 stars rating respectively.
4. Luxhabitat
This is a dedicated real estate website in the UAE with thousands of classified property listings limited to the high-end market. The website is super visually appealing with enough white breathing space for visitors and readers. It has a premium aesthetic, just as one would want to find in their luxurious real estate in Dubai. The website gives virtual property tours and sometimes personalized services with luxury housing being their core focus.
This website doesn’t have a strong mobile app as yet. But if your real estate website needs design inspiration, tell your web development company in Dubai to seek it from Luxhabitat.
5. Sotheby’s International Realty
Sotheby’s International Realty also has a website with a premium touch that matches their slogan of ‘find a home that suits your lifestyle’. Not limited to UAE, SIR has listings for 72 countries around the world.
The website represents their strong brand reputation and provides personalized recommendations and personalized service for exclusive properties. In fact, this website was their first step in creating this sophisticated realtor’s platform that now has a global reach with experts having robust market knowledge.
The website is limited to the luxury segment, which means users definitely pay higher fees for buying through the network.
They also have dedicated mobile apps for Android, iOS and Apple TV and show integrated video and virtual reality tours on specific properties. On the website as well as the mobile app, users can search by lifestyle, destinations, developments and their GPS locations.
Both the website and mobile app provide multilingual support extended to around 18 languages – with options to view pricing in local currencies.
The main inspiration you can take for your real estate website from Sotheby’s International Realty is their utilization of the web presence to create their prestigious brand reputation.
6. Damac Properties
Damac Properties is another luxury real estate group with a high-end website and focus on property development and investments. Unlike Bayut, Property Finder and Dubizzle, Damac is not a marketplace, but has a core focus on selling properties that the group develops.
The website gives insights into real estate trends with engaging visuals and tours of their projects and recent iconic developments. They also have dedicated mobile apps for Android and iOS users with 3.5 and 4.3 stars on Google Play and App stores respectively. The apps help these users manage their properties from the Damac projects.
So, the list of 6 inspirational real estate websites in Dubai concludes here. The most common factors we analyzed in 6 of these websites included listing pages with comprehensive property and agent information, search filters with rooms, areas and budget options, unique selling proposition, mortgage availability and calculators, and separate pages for buying and renting residential and commercial properties. Most websites also have Google Map integrations for closest real-time location.
If you are still in your research phase, we recommend only adding features that are important for your visitors. Add appealing ‘about us’ and contact pages on the website, with a blog section about real estate industry insights. When planning the UI and UX of your real estate website, try to keep white space as you have witnessed in most of these websites, add optimized content and catchy visuals to engage your visitors.
