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Case study / concept-realestate-data
Study
Real-time real-estate data platform
A real-estate platform that treats the price per m² as patrimony: private-bank register, serif numerals, and a market that moves live.
- Role
- Design & build, end to end
- Stack
- React · WebSocket · PostgreSQL
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Overview
- The problem
- Property portals show listings, never the market: asking prices without recorded prices, no sense of tension or real time-to-sell. Buyers decide blind on the largest purchase of their life.
- The craft
- The stance is stone: a pale mineral ground, champagne hairlines, and THE number — the median per m² — set in Cormorant at poster size. Real-time doesn’t blink: it is written down, like a market journal kept to the minute (“Sale signed, 14:02”). A property page reads its price through time — adjustments, last sale, renovation — on a single-ink step curve.
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On its real screens
In pictures
A property page — its price through time, recorded, never hoped-for
The market wire in a pocket — the journal to the minute, designed at 390 px
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In detail
The intent
Take the most-watched number in French-speaking Switzerland — the price per m² along Lake Geneva — and give it the register it deserves: a patrimony report, not a dashboard.
The number as a notarial sum
The median displays the way a sum is engraved: 13,450 francs per square metre, at giant size, its thirty-day movement beside it. Everything else — tracked listings, median time-to-sell, supply/demand tension — stands back in small capitals.
Real-time that writes itself down
Every signed sale is entered in the journal within the hour, timestamped: the recorded price, never the hoped-for one. Live is not a visual effect — it is an editorial promise: the platform states what actually happened, at 14:02.
The listing as a dossier
A property is not an ad but a piece: its price over time as a step curve, the neighbourhood median dotted underneath, today’s dossier requests. The pocket screen keeps the market wire at 390 px, designed for the morning commute.
Scope
In development. Plausible but fictional figures, no real market data — a ground to show how Burin marries real-time data with a luxury editorial register.