A multi-country property marketplace for buying, renting, and short stays across Africa

A property marketplace spanning more than one African market runs into problems a single-country portal never has to solve.

• 1More than one currency, for real - listings price in FCFA in Cameroon and Kenyan shillings in Kenya. Currency cannot be a display setting bolted on at the end; it belongs in the listing model, the filters, and the price range search.
• 2Two supply sources with different needs - private owners listing one property and agents managing a portfolio want very different things from the same listing flow.
• 3Three modes in one catalogue - buy, rent, and short stay are different products with different pricing shapes. Monthly rent, sale price, and nightly stay have to coexist without the search becoming incoherent.
• 4Trust at distance - the platform's promise is verified properties, so verification has to be a real state in the system rather than a marketing line.
• 5Location that means something locally - African address structures do not map cleanly onto a generic city field, so search has to work with regions and neighbourhoods as people actually use them.

The platform is built as one catalogue with the variable parts modelled properly rather than special-cased.

• Ten property types - apartment, studio, bungalow, villa, duplex, condo, office space, shop, land, and hostel, so residential and commercial inventory share one system.
• Buy, rent, and short stay - three modes across the same catalogue, each with the pricing shape it needs.
• Owner and agent listings - both supply sources supported first-class, with the listing source shown to buyers so they know who they are dealing with.
• Self-service listing creation - owners and agents publish their own inventory rather than routing everything through an internal team.
• Map-based search and filtering - properties browsable on a map, with filters across type, location, and a price range that respects the listing's currency.
• Subscription plans - a recurring commercial model rather than per-listing fees alone.
• Engagement signals - most viewed and most favourited surfaces, plus featured placement, giving the marketplace merchandising rather than a flat list.