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2 weeks

Brief to live

100+

Photographs, in 8 areas

10

Chapters in the walkthrough

What changed.

  • The listing online

    BeforeNowhere of its own. Six portals and a competitor's video

    After211beachside.com, a dot-com the listing controls

  • Its own address

    BeforePortals ranking first, some listing it as sold

    AfterThe property's own site answers for its own address

  • What a buyer can see

    BeforeA photo carousel inside someone else's template

    After100+ photos in 8 areas, a 10-chapter walkthrough, the film

  • Booking a showing

    BeforeA portal contact form routed to a portal

    AfterA showing request that lands with the broker directly

  • On a phone

    BeforeWhatever the portal decided

    AfterBuilt for it. Most of the traffic arrives that way

  • Time to launch

    BeforeNo prior site to migrate

    After2 weeks, live July 2026

The brief

What was broken before we showed up.

211 Beachside Drive is a 1.27-acre oceanfront residence in Orchid Island: the largest house in one of Florida's most intimate luxury enclaves. MaxxCity Realty took the listing and needed a presentation that matched the property: not a card on a brokerage homepage, but a site of its own.

Most luxury listings get a slug page on a generic real-estate site: templated photo grid, agent header, the same booking widget every other listing uses. That template flattens every listing into the same conversation. For a property at this price tier, the conversation is the conversation.

We built 211beachside.com as a fully independent Cloudflare Worker. Its own domain, its own design language, its own deploy cadence, but plumbed into the brokerage's shared photo CDN (R2 + Image Transformations on a Cloudflare-proxied custom domain) and showing-request inbox. The brokerage's `/listings/211-beachside-drive` URL 301-redirects here, and the showing form posts cross-origin back to the brokerage API. Buyers get a bespoke trophy presentation; MaxxCity keeps a single operational inbox.

What we built

Shipped in 2 weeks.

  • Standalone Cloudflare Worker on its own vanity domain (211beachside.com + www + three variant redirects)
  • Editorial single-page presentation: hero film, story, chapters, gallery, specifications, community, showing
  • Chaptered photo storytelling: themed groups of photographs with editorial supports, not a flat grid
  • Brochure-grade specifications panel with collapsible groups (Setting, Architecture, Kitchen, Owner's Suite, Amenities)
  • Ambient Cloudflare Stream hero loop + click-to-play long-form film tour, unbranded player
  • Orchid Island community overview: neighborhood context buyers at this tier actually evaluate
  • Showing-request form posting cross-origin to the brokerage's central inbox
  • Shared R2 photo bucket via `images.maxxcityrealty.luxe`: edge cache compounds across the brokerage and every listing
  • Three vanity-domain variant 301s to the canonical URL, preserving path + query

Next.js · Cloudflare Workers · R2 + Image Transformations · Cloudflare Stream

A tour of the build

Specific pages doing specific jobs.

211 Beachside Drive chaptered photo presentation
Photography organized as editorial chapters: themed sequences with display headlines and supporting images. A buyer at this price tier doesn't scroll a flat grid; they want a guided tour of the property's character. The chapter structure delivers that without a single video.
211 Beachside Drive Orchid Island community overview
The community section other listing sites skip. Orchid Island context: a private gated barrier-island enclave north of Vero Beach, ocean-to-river geography, one continuous gate. Buyers at this tier evaluate the address before they evaluate the address.
211 Beachside Drive chaptered tour index
Ten named views, numbered and captioned, each with its own image strip: the arrival, the infinity terrace, the dune crossover, the owner's suite. A buyer browses the estate the way they would walk it, instead of scrubbing an undifferentiated photo grid.
211 Beachside Drive mobile homepage
Most discovery traffic lands here from a phone: text from a friend, link from an off-market broker, share from a magazine feature. The mobile fold preserves the hero film and the property title without the desktop's editorial chrome competing for attention.

The film

What the still tour cannot show.

The long-form film tour that plays inside 211beachside.com's unbranded video player. Same cut, same colorwork: a walking tour of the estate at the tempo a buyer at this tier expects.

In their words

Matt at NovraScale is simply exceptional. I worked with Matt to develop and execute the go-to-market strategy for a multimillion-dollar luxury oceanfront estate, and the experience exceeded my expectations at every level. From strategy and positioning to the digital execution surrounding 211 Beachside, Matt brought an incredible combination of creativity, technical knowledge, marketing insight, and attention to detail. I’ve worked with a lot of technology and marketing professionals over the years, and Matt is truly one of the best.

Bruce Malyon

Broker / Owner

MaxxCity Realty · Orchid Island, FL · Single-listing site engagement

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