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Montenegro Property Search, With 360° Tours Built In

A fast, clean web app for searching every kind of property in Montenegro, with advanced filters, an interactive map and the option to view a listing through an integrated 360° camera.

The Nest360 homepage with the find-a-property search over a living room photo

Project snapshot

Location
  • Montenegro
Development period
  • May 2020 – Jun 2021

Project

Sokla Architects is a team of experts in architecture and real estate. During the first COVID wave they set out to make property listings in Montenegro accessible to people who wanted to view a home remotely before buying or renting. Supported by BESME, the goal was an innovative, reliable and transparent platform that would improve how real estate is searched and sold online in the country.

We designed and built that platform: Nest360. The name comes from its signature feature, a 360° view of a property from every angle, like a bird looking out from its nest.

Nest360 brand board with the bird logo, colour swatches, Poppins and Century Gothic type specimens and the property icon set

Brand and design system

A property search that feels like a mobile app, even in a browser.

We started with working sessions with the Sokla team to map the full requirements, agree the technical specification and wireframe the experience. The goal was a platform that stays easy to use without overwhelming visitors, and that feels like a mobile app even when opened in a browser, following a web-to-mobile principle.

Sokla provided part of the visual identity, the logo and colours, which we built on: a predominantly white interface for a clean browsing experience, with typography and iconography chosen to make key information easy to read.

360° gallery

Walk through a property without stepping inside.

The platform's signature feature is an integrated 360° view of each property, still uncommon on the local market at the time. Buyers and renters explore a home from every angle remotely, for an experience close to walking through the space in person. During a period when viewings in person were difficult, this was the whole point.

The Nest360 360-degree viewer mid-pan through a living room, with room hotspots and a thumbnail strip

Built during lockdown, for buyers who could not leave home.

The Nest360 listing grid with filter chips, and the mobile filter panel with residence type, price and structure options

Rapid search

Advanced filters that remember what you searched.

Advanced filters cover every key aspect of a property search through a full set of parameters. We added a save option too, so a visitor who set filters once sees them again when they return, instead of starting over.

The Nest360 map view of Podgorica with listing pins and a property preview card, next to the mobile map screen

Interactive map

Search on the map, in sync with your filters.

An interactive map makes searching by location intuitive. Every listing carries its precise position, and the map stays perfectly in sync with the parameters set in the filters, so map search and filter search are one motion, not two.

Faster and cleaner than the property sites Montenegro was used to.

The Nest360 listing detail page with icon-based property information and the schedule-a-viewing action
Two Nest360 mobile screens with a listing's key details, location map and neighbourhood description
The Nest360 listing detail page with icon-based property information and the schedule-a-viewing action
Two Nest360 mobile screens with a listing's key details, location map and neighbourhood description

Detailed information

Everything about a property on one screen.

A visitor finds all the key information about a property on a single screen, without opening several tabs. Icons surface the details that matter at a glance, and a quick call to action lets an interested buyer schedule an in-person visit on the spot.

The Nest360 admin panel with the property listing table, filters and global search

Admin panel

A clean custom CMS anyone on the team can run.

We designed and built a custom CMS with the same UX/UI care as the front end. It is easy to navigate and administer even for non-technical staff, the user management and listing workflow are straightforward, and a global search finds any listing in the panel fast.

Technology stack

AWS EC2Linux/UNIX
MongoDBNon-relational database
RedisCaching
Amazon S3Data storage
BackendNode.jsExpressMongooseTypeScript
FrontendJavaScriptAngularTypeScriptHTMLSCSSPrimeNG
Third partyGoogle Maps APIGeolocation API3D 360 virtual tours
REST API
Integrations
Two buyers and an agent going through a floor plan on a tablet

Developed with support from BESME, Enhancement of the Business Environment and Competitiveness of the Private Sector of Montenegro

The client says...

Web DevelopmentMontenegro

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Jovana KovačevićJovana KovačevićArchitect, SOKLA d.o.o.
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