Client
Curchods / Burns & Webber
Solution
Website, property search.
Overview
Voted Surrey’s best independent estate agency in 2013, Curchods operates at the premium end of Surrey’s property market with 18 offices across two brands, Curchods and Burns & Webber.
Curchods approached Parent in late 2013 to provide an updated property search and company information site for both brands.
We designed and developed a sophisticated search site that takes a property feed from their Aspasia database into a fully responsive site.
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Art Direction, Copywriting, Illustration, Mobile, Online, Responsive
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With property search being the primary reason for site visits, the site retains a constant search panel at the foot of the browser wherever you are on the site.
A fully responsive design and build was undertaken to ensure a consistent and coherent interface regardless of device, creating a familiar user-friendly site for all visitors across mobile, tablet and desktop. Parisienne based illustrator Tom Haugomat was commissioned to provide a unique set of illustrations and iconography for use across the site and in future printed campaigns.
A significant first in property search sites is the ability to draw multiple search areas on a map returning one set of results. Perfect for users wanting search and exclude several areas and saving users valuable time.
Search results can be viewed in a range of ways depending on user preference. A dynamic user preference concept was integrated to ensure users are displayed relevant property and offers at all times based on previous search behaviour. "From start to finish the Parent team have been utterly exceptional. After initial meetings, we had great confidence in the team and decided the best way forward was to put complete faith them, giving them a long leash to go wild with the creative design whilst incorporating complex functionality and strict performance targets - and we're glad that we did. What Parent have created for us is a complete triumph, a beacon of individuality in the estate agency sector and one that we are very very happy with. It's not just the final product we've been pleased with, we were overwhelmed by their efficiency and technical competence which was matched by their dedication to helping us at every step, to create the best product possible. Their approach, creativity and teamwork, we believe are second to none and we look forward to working with them on many more projects in the future. Very happy clients indeed." GW - Marketing Manager, Curchods.
Working across two distinct brands meant re-skinning the site to work across both brand identities.
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