How to build a custom real estate listing map with Webflow CMS

For real estate business websites, adding a listing map can improve engagement and retention rates. Interactive features invite users to explore various options and properties. This visual representation can lead to longer sessions on your site, potentially increasing conversion rates. When users feel involved in their home search, they are more likely to reach out for inquiries or schedule showings.

For instance, visitors are 60% more inclined to contact agents through websites that offer interactive tools compared to those without. By creating an engaging environment, a listing map helps build a connection with potential buyers.

In this guide, we will show you how to create a professional quality real estate listing map with your Webflow CMS, including automatic data sync so all future updates are automatically synced.

How to build a custom real estate listing map with Webflow CMS

1. Create a No Code Map App account

2. Create a new map and choose the Real Estate template

3. Under "Import Data", select Webflow CMS.

4. Enter your Webflow API token and Collection ID, and set up automatic data sync

5. Select the data fields you want to import, and click on "Map My Data"

6. Customise the map to match your branding

How it works?

Step 1 - Create an account at https://www.nocodemapapp.com/

Step 2 - Create a new map and choose the Real Estate map template

Step 3-5 - Sync data from Webflow CMS

1. Click on "Import data" and select the Webflow CMS option.

2. Enter your Webflow API token and Collection ID.

3. Select your auto data sync frequency (monthly, weekly or daily etc)

4. Select the data columns you want to import (up to 50 columns)

5. Click on the "Map My Data" button and a map will be generated for you in a few minutes depending on your data size

Step 6 - Customise your map

You can customise it further to match your branding and style preferences. You can customise everything from list view, to map filters, to map markers, popup box and more.

For example, in this real estate listing map, we used several interesting customisations:

• Under "List view", we used 2-column listing view which is similar to Zillow's listing map

• Under "Image / Audio / Video", embed image to each location

• Under "Map markers", we used photo and price as map markers.

• Under "Calls-to-action", we added a call-to-action button - "See details" which opens up to the individual listing page

• Multiple map filters (e.g. beds, baths, price, size etc) which were all auto-generated based on the data.

Select "Use image link as marker" instead of a standard icon, and under "Marker label" select "Price" and "Show always (Horizontal)".

Add a call-to-action button and link it to individual listing page

Choose what you want to show in the list view. You can use "Price" in line 1 and select "Two-column" as your layout.

Under "Image / Audio / Video", select "add", and select the data field with your image links.

More tips

1. How to update data

If you don't want to use the auto data sync feature, you can also manually sync.

1. Go to "Reselect data", and

2. Click on "Sync the latest data".

2. How to change file link

If you want to change the Webflow CMS, simply click on the "Remove sync" button then you will be able to add in a new file URL.