Velvex Labs

2025

Aurum Residences

An immersive showcase for premium property listings.

Role
Web design, Development
Stack
Next.js, Mapbox

01Problem

Real estate sites tend to prioritize search and filtering over the feeling of a specific property, losing the sense of a walkthrough that an agent provides in person.

02Research

Comparable premium listing sites over-index on grid thumbnails and filter tooling, with individual listings treated as database rows rather than places. There was room for a site that took the opposite priority.

03Solution

Each property gets a dedicated, sequenced single-listing page — neighborhood context, then room-by-room pacing — paired with a lean, secondary search index for browsing across the portfolio.

04Process

We built the single-property template first, before any search or filter tooling, since that page was the actual product experience the rest of the site exists to support.

05Technical implementation

Next.js with Mapbox for neighborhood context and a custom image-sequencing component for room-by-room walkthroughs, built to stay lightweight despite the amount of photography per listing.

06Outcome

Individual listings read as a guided tour rather than a spreadsheet row — a different starting assumption from most listing platforms.

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