Note: Lumière Estate is a portfolio project, not client work. It was built to answer a specific technical question: how do you build a real estate platform that feels premium and editorial, instead of like one of a thousand generic property listing sites?
The challenge
Most real estate platforms treat filtering and display as separate concerns: a map view here, a list view there, often with noticeable lag switching between them. For a luxury real estate platform, that's a problem — the target audience expects a smooth, high-end experience, not loading spinners.
The technical approach
Interactive map with Leaflet. Instead of a generic Google Maps embed, Leaflet was chosen for more control over styling, marker clustering, and performance when displaying many properties at once.
TanStack Query for data management. Changing filters (price range, location, property type) doesn't trigger full page reloads. Results are cached and refreshed in the background instead — the experience feels instant rather than a wait.
Framer Motion for editorial transitions. Page transitions and property presentations use deliberate animation to create the "editorial" feel you'd associate with glossy magazines — but sparingly enough not to distract from the actual content.
Booking widget as a self-contained component. Viewing requests are built as an isolated, reusable component — testable and swappable independently from the rest of the page.
What the project demonstrates
That complex, interactive filtering logic doesn't have to come at the cost of performance or design, as long as data management and animation are considered from the start — not bolted on afterward.
View the live demo · Code on GitHub
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