• Public listing site
  • Map search
  • Broker CRM
  • Brochure engine
  • Retailer maps
  • Census demographics
  • E-signature gating
  • Syndication feeds
  • Email campaigns
  • Client reporting

Case study · Crest Commercial Real Estate

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Crest Commercial Real Estate

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Crest Commercial Real Estate

Crest owns its platform.

A Dallas–Fort Worth brokerage paid Buildout monthly, plus extras per brochure and retailer map, for a platform it couldn't change. We replaced it in five weeks. They own it.

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Brief to production
5 weeks
One codebase
2 apps
Subscriptions
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crestcommercial.com
Crest Commercial home page with a Dallas skyline hero and live listing counts.

The brief

Rented. Rebuilt. Owned.

  1. Step 01

    Challenge

    A monthly subscription for the platform, upcharges for the collateral, and the client list sitting in Buildout's database rather than Crest's.

  2. Step 02

    Approach

    One codebase, two applications — a public listing site and a broker admin — that between them absorb the subscription and every paid extra on top of it.

  3. Step 03

    Launch

    In production, off Buildout.

  4. Step 04

    Ownership

    Crest owns the code, the database, and every client relationship running through it.

Before and after

What broke. What replaced it.

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  • A monthly subscription for a platform they could not change.

  • Brochures billed per property, locked to Buildout's template.

  • Every enquiry landed in Buildout's database, not Crest's.

  • Retailer maps commissioned per property; demographics a separate data spend.

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