Maison Garonne

Context

Maison Garonne does not exist: it is a fictional agency in Mérignac, created to show in practice the site I can build for a real-estate agency. The listings and their photos are examples. The site itself is complete: an enquiry sent from the demo really arrives by email and in the back office. The demo is in French.

Challenges

• Present properties as well as the big portals do, but on the agency’s own site: photos, map, energy rating, and a search that finds “merignac” typed without its accent, or a postcode.
• Let the agency publish and update its listings itself, without going through a developer.
• Meet an agency’s obligations: fee schedule displayed (required by French law), legal notice, visitors’ data protected.

What was built

• Listings and search

  Sales and rentals, filters (property type, budget, surface area, rooms), detail pages with photo gallery, map, energy and emissions ratings, amenities, and a monthly payment calculator on properties for sale.

• Agency back office

  Secure agent area: creating and editing listings with photo upload, status (draft, online, sold, rented), “featured” highlighting, and an inbox for contact and valuation requests.

• Online valuation

  A step-by-step form for owners who want to sell (property type, address, surface area, condition): the request arrives by email and in the back office.

• Adaptable to your agency

  Name, logo, contact details, opening hours and fee schedule: the agency’s whole identity lives in a single configuration file.

Under the hood

• Agent area protected on the server (every action checks the session) and public sign-up disabled: only accounts created for the agency can log in.
• Forms protected against spam without a captcha (honeypot field and minimum delay), visitor input escaped before being emailed, drafts never visible to the public.
• Accent-insensitive and case-insensitive search directly in the database, with automated tests (Vitest).
• WCAG AA contrast, light and dark mode, no analytics cookies (so no cookie banner), and the demo excluded from Google results.