Real Estate Club Dubai: a Dubai property advisor and off-plan radar (mobile app)
Our own product. The Real Estate Club Dubai iOS app puts the platform's AI property advisor, off-plan radar with handover alerts, calculators and service directory in a native app. It runs on the same API as the website, and nobody needs an account to look around.
- Project
- Mobile app
- Our role
- Own product, end-to-end
- Platform
- Mobile app
- Country
- United Arab Emirates
- Year
- 2026
The challenge
One backend for web and mobile
The same content, directory and tools needed to work on the website and in a native iOS app, without keeping two separate systems in sync.
No sign-up wall
Buyers should be able to ask the advisor, follow off-plan projects and run the calculators as guests. An account only makes sense once someone wants to save projects or be alerted.
Our approach
A native app on the same API
We added an API to the Laravel app so the iOS app can use the same system as the website. It uses Sanctum for sign-in, it is versioned, and it doesn't require an account. The iOS app is built with Expo, React Native, expo-router and TanStack Query, and its code lives in the same repository as the website. It reuses the advisor, directory, handover radar, calculators and lead capture from the backend. Accounts are only needed to save projects, get push alerts or have the advisor remember a buyer's budget and goals.
Built around the buyer's questions
The app is organised around the Advisor, the off-plan Radar, Tools and Explore. The Radar tracks new launches and upcoming handovers and filters by price band, area and developer. Explore links areas, projects and developers to each other. Guided journeys for buying, investing, relocating, renting and selling bring together the right guides, tools and professionals.
Screens
Inside Real Estate Club Dubai
How we delivered
From first brief to running in production
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01
DevelopmentVersioned API
Added a versioned JSON API to the Laravel platform that works without an account.
Laravel SanctumGuest access -
02
iOS app
MobileBuilt a native Expo app on that API with no login wall, reusing the advisor, directory, radar and calculators.
Expoexpo-routerTanStack Query -
03
App Store
LaunchPublished the app, with accounts only for saved projects, alerts and a personalised advisor.
Accounts for savesPush alerts
Results
What is running today
A native iOS app in the App Store
The Real Estate Club Dubai iOS app is live in the App Store. It runs on the same backend and API, so new content, listings and data show up on the web and in the app together.
Guest-first
Everything can be browsed without an account. Signing in is only for saving, personalising and alerts.
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