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01 / 20 guides
Websites.
Choosing, building, and maintaining a website: cost, templates, speed, accessibility, and search, with examples from our work.
Back to topics ↑ADA and Accessibility for Commercial Real Estate Sites
ADA and WCAG for real estate websites in 2026: lawsuit figures, the California Unruh Act $4,000 minimum, DOJ Title II dates, property management site issues, and a table of fixes.
AI Search and Commercial Real Estate: What an Assistant Can Actually See
Tenant reps and buyers now start some searches in a chat window. What an AI assistant can actually read about your property, how public pages, PDFs, and access restrictions affect it, and the plain work that makes a listing citable.
Best Commercial Real Estate Website Designs: What Brokerage and Property Sites Get Right
Commercial real estate website design examples from national firms, regional brokerages and property sites, and the features that make each one work for owners, tenants and brokers.
Broker Bios That Win Business
An owner reads your bio to reduce risk, not to be impressed. What belongs on a broker's bio page, what California requires, and why they rank.
Rebranding a Brokerage Without Losing Search Traffic
A brokerage rebrand is a URL project before it's a design project. How to inventory what you rank for, map old URLs to new, and redirect correctly.
What Belongs on a Coming-Soon Page for a Development
A coming-soon page is a pre-leasing tool, not a placeholder. What to publish before the renderings are final, and how to state a delivery date.
What a Brokerage Website Needs for Each Visitor
An owner vets your firm between the referral and the pitch; a rep checks your listing after a portal. What a brokerage site owes each of them.
What a Commercial Real Estate Website Costs
Website prices depend on the pages, content, integrations, and ongoing work. What actually moves the number: scope, content production, build method, and the running costs.
CRE Website Templates: What They Actually Cost You
CRE website templates look cheap and fast — until you count speed, SEO, differentiation, and plugin upkeep. An honest templates vs. custom look.
How to Choose a Commercial Real Estate Web Design Firm
How to evaluate a CRE web design firm before you sign: what you're buying, who produces the content, and what ownership and handoff should look like.
How We Built a Listing Site in Three Days
A 2,660 SF corner suite went from raw drone files to a live listing website and a seven-page flyer in three days. The actual timeline, day by day.
Website Analytics for Listings: What an Owner Asks For
Most leasing reports are a screenshot of a view counter. The report a property website should produce: inquiries by source and suite, real demand.
Page Speed for Property Websites: What Makes Them Slow
A property website is mostly media, which is why so many crawl on a phone. What Core Web Vitals require, and a ten-minute test anyone can run.
Test the Property Inquiry Form Before the Listing Launch
A property website launch checklist that follows an inquiry from the correct suite through confirmation, delivery and a named follow-up owner.
What to do with a property website after the space leases
A practical closeout checklist for updating leased or sold property pages, brochures, inquiry forms and redirects without misleading the next visitor.
Domain Names for Property Websites: Where a Listing Lives
Buy the property a .com, nest it under a domain you own, or run a subdomain. The tradeoffs in renewal risk, search equity, and who holds the keys.
Does a home listing need its own website?
When a property website helps a home listing, what buyers look for on it, how it works alongside the MLS and portals, the California rules it has to follow, and what to do with it after the sale.
SEO for Commercial Real Estate: A Practical Guide
SEO for commercial real estate without the agency fog: what brokers can actually rank for, why property pages are your best asset, and local search.
Single-Property Websites: What They Are, When to Build
See what a single-property website includes, with the actual Marbella Plaza site, practical scope decisions, portal comparisons, and starting pricing.
Site Plans That Lease Space: Interactive Retail Plans
The site plan is the most-used element on most leasing sites. What a tenant looks for when they open one, and what interactive should really mean.
02 / 2 guides
Branding.
Names, identities, and the materials that carry them.
Back to topics ↑Commercial Real Estate Branding: What Sets a Firm Apart
Commercial real estate branding beyond the logo: positioning that commits, a system that carries every asset, and why most CRE brands look alike.
Naming and Branding a Shopping Center
A center's name goes on the monument sign, the lease, and every tenant's address. How to choose one, check availability, and what renaming costs.
03 / 6 guides
Real estate.
Leasing, owning, and managing a center or building, and the website and marketing that go with it.
Back to topics ↑After Buying a Shopping Center: The First 90 Days
A 90-day checklist for new shopping center owners: take over the domain and Google listings, audit signs and the directory, decide on the name, and rebuild the leasing package.
How to Attract Tenants to a Small Shopping Center
An owner's guide to leasing a neighborhood or strip center: what to expect from a leasing broker, and the parts you control, from suite availability to signs.
Commercial Property Management Website Examples (2026)
Ten Southern California commercial property management websites checked in September 2026 against a 10-point owner and tenant checklist, with the method.
Orange County Shopping Center Websites: The 2026 Index
We checked 298 Orange County shopping centers in September 2026 for websites, available space, site plans and leasing contacts. Results by city and center type, and what the top centers do.
When Management Changes: Who Owns the Property Website, Domain and Photos
A handoff checklist for owners and incoming property managers: domain and DNS, hosting, Google Business Profile ownership, photo licenses, listings, sign files and analytics.
Property Management Website Design: The Everyday Site
A PM firm's site is used by tenants daily and judged by owners once. What belongs on it: availability, a 9pm service path, an owner pitch page.
04 / 13 guides
Brochures & OMs.
Documents, property facts, and financial information people can read.
Back to topics ↑The Deal Room: Sharing an Offering Memorandum Without Losing Track of It
A buyer you have never met asks for the rent roll. A deal room is the gated half of the listing site that hands over the file, records who took it, and keeps the version current. What to gate, how the confidentiality agreement gets recorded, and what to report to the owner.
Commercial Real Estate Flyer Design: What Belongs in One
A leasing flyer design guide with actual Lincoln brochure pages: cover hierarchy, plans, location data, PDF export, and project scope.
Winning the Listing: What Belongs in a Leasing Pitch
Every broker in the room knows the corridor. What wins the assignment: research done before you're hired, four documents instead of forty slides.
Sample Offering Memorandum: Alder Court, Page by Page
Explore a complete 12-page retail offering memorandum, with page previews, rent roll, operating statement, market map, and a downloadable PDF.
The Tour Book: What a Client Carries Out of a Site Tour
Six stops in a day and the client goes home with six landlord flyers in a bag. What belongs in a tour book, how to build the comparison page, and how to produce one on 48 hours notice.
Leasing Package vs Sale OM: What Tenant-Reps Use
A leasing package is not a shorter sale OM. What tenant-reps use, what to leave out, and stealable industrial and retail blocks.
What an Offering Memorandum Costs to Produce
What an offering memorandum costs in 2026: a cost-driver table, published prices from template subscriptions, freelance gigs, AI drafting and studio design, and how Endcap quotes design.
Offering Memorandum Template and Source Checklist
A free, editable 12-page offering memorandum template for PowerPoint and PDF, with a section-by-section guide, the records to request, and a source checklist.
Offering Memorandum vs Flyer vs Brochure: Which You Need
An OM, a lease flyer, and a brochure do different jobs for different audiences. How to tell which one a listing needs — and what produces waste.
Before sending a property PDF, check more than the cover
A pre-send checklist for property brochures and offering memoranda: searchable text, reading order, tables, mobile readability, links and approved facts.
How to Present a Rent Roll So Buyers Can Read It
The rent roll is where buyers spend the most time in an OM, and it's routinely the least legible page. What to include, cut, and how to typeset it.
Trade Area Analysis for Retail Leasing: The Tenant's Math
How to build trade-area demographics a tenant can trust: census tracts weighted to true rings, and traffic counts from city GIS, not broker folklore.
What Is an Offering Memorandum in Real Estate?
A clear explanation of a real estate offering memorandum, the information it needs, and illustrated pages from Endcap’s Alder Court sample.
05 / 32 guides
Property marketing.
Listings, campaigns, photography, and the information a prospective tenant or buyer needs.
Back to topics ↑3D Tours & Matterport for Commercial Real Estate
Where 3D tours earn their cost in commercial real estate: which spaces to scan, Matterport vs. video walkthroughs, and what scanning costs.
California AB 723 Photo Disclosure for Commercial Listings
What California AB 723 (B&P Code §10140.8) requires when OM, flyer, website or LoopNet photos are edited or AI-altered, and how to disclose them.
Co-Listed Deals: Two Firms, One Marketing Campaign
Two firms sign the listing and two marketing departments produce two versions of the truth. How to settle production, billing, and lead routing.
Commercial Real Estate Direct Mail: When It Still Works
Owner mailing addresses are public record. Email addresses are not. Where direct mail still earns its cost in CRE, and what belongs on the piece.
Commercial Real Estate Email Marketing That Gets Opened
CRE email marketing, practically: the list, the announcement that gets clicked, deliverability, and why the link matters more than the blast.
Commercial Real Estate Lead Generation, Without the Gurus
Where commercial real estate leads actually come from — sign calls, portals, referrals, search, email — and how to stop losing the ones you have.
Commercial Real Estate Listing Sites: LoopNet, Crexi, and the Alternatives
Where to search for commercial property for lease or sale in 2026: LoopNet, Crexi, CoStar, CommercialCafe and the alternatives, with a site picker and search tips.
Commercial Real Estate Marketing Plan: A Working Checklist
A practical property marketing plan: approved facts, website and brochure, distribution, review calendar, and meaningful inquiry measures.
Commercial Real Estate Photography: Shot List and Costs
A property photography guide illustrated with Marbella Plaza: ground views, aerials, shot planning, project costs, and usable image exports.
Commercial Real Estate Social Media: What Actually Works
The deal audience and the shopper audience are not the same account. Which channels matter for a listing, what to post, and how to measure it.
Virtual Staging for Commercial Space, Done Honestly
Commercial virtual staging: rendering a vacant suite as the café it could become — where it moves deals, what it costs, and the disclosure rules.
Google Business Profile for Shopping Centers
A shopping center is a place on Google Maps before it's a listing on a portal. How to claim the profile, set it up, and connect it to leasing.
A Grocery-Anchored Listing Is Not a Portal Slot and a PDF
Grocery-anchored listings usually ship as a portal slot and a one-page flyer. What shipped for Marbella Plaza, and why a rep can underwrite it.
What a home listing marketing package costs in Orange County
Published Orange County prices for listing photography, 3D tours, drone, twilight, video and property websites, what buyers value most, what changes the price, and what to ask before you book.
How to Market Commercial Real Estate: A Field Guide
How to market commercial real estate: positioning the asset, portal hygiene, a dedicated property website, photography, and the follow-up.
How to Write a Commercial Listing That Gets Inquiries
How to write a commercial listing: the facts reps scan for, a structure that survives skimming, and what to cut — all caps, adjectives, 'won't last'.
Leasing Signs and QR Codes That Actually Get Scanned
Most leasing QR codes are printed too small, aimed at a PDF, and never measured. How to size it, where to place it, and where it should point.
When a Listing Stops Getting Calls: A Diagnostic
A quiet listing is four problems wearing the same coat. How to tell exposure from presentation from product, before you reduce the rate.
The Cell on the Listing Sign Is the Wrong Number
Drivers call the listing sign and hit the broker's voicemail. Vendors use the same line. Why the panel needs a number that belongs to the listing.
Marketing a Mixed-Use Development: Three Audiences
A mixed-use project is several leasing problems sharing an address. How to structure the site, and what the ground-floor retail rep actually needs.
Marketing a Commercial Property for Sale: The Package
Sale marketing is a different job from leasing: a small known buyer pool, a gated diligence set, an OM, and a clock that belongs to the buyer.
Marketing a Restaurant Space: Second Generation and Shell
A restaurant tenant eliminates space on infrastructure before they ever call. What a second-generation listing must publish, and how to state a shell.
Marketing a Vacant Anchor Space: Backfilling the Box
When the anchor goes dark, the leasing problem changes shape. The inventory a box needs before it's priced, and the three deals you're marketing.
Marketing an Industrial Building for Lease
Industrial tenants eliminate buildings on specs before anyone tours. What to publish about clear height, power, doors, and yard — and how to shoot it.
Marketing an Office Building for Lease
Office space is chosen by a committee, and most of it never tours. What to publish about load factor, parking, and delivery — plus the spec suite.
Marketing Land and Pad Sites: Selling What Could Be Built
Land is the only asset class with nothing to photograph. What a pad-site buyer is really underwriting, and what belongs on the page instead.
Marketing Medical Office Space for Lease
A medical tenant underwrites the cost of turning your shell into a clinic, not your asking rent. The infrastructure facts that belong on the page.
5801 Lincoln: A Property Marketing Package From Photography to Website
Inside the photography, brochure, and website for 5801 Lincoln Avenue—and how a property marketing package comes together.
Portal Listing Hygiene: More Out of LoopNet and Crexi
LoopNet and Crexi listing tiers as of September 2026, the completeness pass most listings fail, duplicate records, and when paid placement is worth buying.
Real Estate Video Marketing for Commercial Properties
Video marketing for commercial properties: the three videos worth making — aerial film, walkthrough, firm reel — what they cost, and where they work.
Shopping Center Marketing: Filling Space, Keeping It Full
Shopping center marketing runs on two tracks: attracting tenants to vacant space, and driving traffic for the tenants you already have.
Marbella Plaza: Shopping Center Photography, Brochure, and Website
A closer look at the photography, leasing brochure, and website for Marbella Plaza in San Juan Capistrano.