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Product thinking for real estate

Tools and products I've built from real estate and housing operations experience, including OfferIntel, a live product in active use. Each case study covers the problem, the users, how the workflow was designed and the decisions behind it. What has shipped, what is planned and which metrics are only proposed are labeled separately.

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Housing Affordability Explorer

Estimate the all-in monthly cost of a purchase — principal and interest, taxes, insurance and condo fees — and compare two scenarios side by side, such as 2015 and 2025 DC condo prices.

Problem
Buyers compare list prices, but the monthly bill depends on rates, taxes, insurance and condo fees.
Built for
Prospective buyers, agents and readers of the DC working paper.
Key decision
Side-by-side scenarios, so a price change and a rate change can be seen separately.
Guardrails
Illustrative defaults are labeled; no underwriting or affordability verdicts.

Case studies

Product case studies

LiveIn active use

Market intelligence · Offer management · Transaction workflow · Product strategy

A live real estate platform used by real users. OfferHub collects and compares offers and carries an accepted offer through to closing, with OfferIntel's aggregated market intelligence underneath.

In preparation

Further case studies will be added as projects progress.

The template

Nine sections, every time

Each case study follows the same structure so readers can compare decisions across projects — and so gaps in evidence are visible rather than hidden.

  1. 01

    Problem

    What is broken, for whom, and why it matters now.

  2. 02

    Users

    Primary and secondary users, their goals and constraints.

  3. 03

    Discovery

    What was learned from the work itself, and which questions remain open.

  4. 04

    PRD

    Requirements, scope, and non-goals — with each capability's status labeled.

  5. 05

    Prioritization

    How candidate features were ranked and why.

  6. 06

    Wireframes

    Key flows and screens, shared once they expose no client data.

  7. 07

    Roadmap

    Phased plan and decision points.

  8. 08

    Metrics

    How success would be measured. Proposed measures are never shown as results.

  9. 09

    Launch & Lessons

    What shipped, what happened, what changed.