Meridian Property Management · Real Estate
Two audiences, one confused homepage
Meridian Property Management serves tenants and property owners — two completely different relationships with two completely different needs — through a single generic homepage that served neither well. We split it in two.
The problem
A property management company's website has to do two very different jobs at once: help a prospective tenant find and lease a unit, and convince a property owner to trust Meridian with their asset. The old site blurred both into one vague “Reliable Property Management” message with a single Learn More button.
There were no available units listed anywhere, which meant every rental enquiry started as a phone call asking what was even open. For a business competing with listing sites that show real units with real photos, that was a serious disadvantage.
Existing tenants had no self-service options — rent payment, maintenance requests and lease documents all ran through phone calls and paper, generating a steady stream of office work that a portal would have absorbed.
The approach
Three moves, in order.
01
Put real units on the site
A listings page with photos, address, rent and unit count lets a prospective tenant browse actual availability instead of calling to ask what's open.
02
Give tenants a portal, not a phone tree
Paying rent, submitting maintenance requests and viewing lease documents moved online, cutting a large share of routine office calls.
03
Speak to owners on their own page
A separate owner services page covering rent collection, maintenance coordination and financial reporting makes the pitch to property owners directly, instead of hoping they read between the lines of tenant-facing copy.
The work
What we built.
The new homepage
Also delivered
A maintenance-request tracking view inside the tenant portal so tenants can see status without calling to check — the single most common reason for inbound calls before launch.
Results
First two quarters on the new site.
+62%
Leasing enquiries on listed units
71%
Of tenants using the portal within a month
−34%
Routine maintenance and rent calls
+18%
New owner accounts citing the owner page
“We were trying to talk to tenants and owners with the exact same homepage, and it satisfied neither. Splitting it made the pitch to owners actually land, and it took a huge amount of routine calling off our staff.”
Carmen VillaverdeManaging Director, Meridian Property Management
Figures are illustrative of the outcomes this engagement was designed to produce and are shown here for portfolio purposes.