Sri Lanka Property Platform

Wireframe and functional specification, prepared for review

Prepared by Nestopa · For Capital Trust Property Solutions (Pvt) Ltd

Version 1.0 · 12 September 2026 · Draft for client feedback

How to read this document

What is being built

A property portal for Sri Lanka. Buyers and renters search; agencies, agents and owners list. Yours: your server, your database, your search engine, your code.

At launch

  • Country: Sri Lanka
  • Language: English
  • Currency: Sri Lankan Rupee
  • Listings: for sale and for rent, from agencies, agents and private owners
  • Works on phone, tablet and desktop

Two halves

  • The public website. What buyers, renters, agents and property owners see.
  • The management dashboard. Where your team runs the portal: listings, agencies, agents, owners, enquiries and articles.

What makes it different

Other portals match keywords. This one matches meaning.

  • A visitor types “quiet three bedroom house near a good school in Colombo with a garden” and gets sensible results, even when no listing uses those words.
  • It reads the photographs too, so “open plan kitchen with an island” matches a property whose description never mentions it.
  • Listing descriptions can be written by the system from the property details.

Site structure

Public website

Home
Search results
buy / rent
Property detail
Projects
Project detail
Blog list
Blog article
About us
Contact
Sell your property
Agency profile
Sign in
Create account

Management dashboard (staff and agents only)

Overview
Live listings, what came in this week, enquiries waiting, agencies active
Listings
Every property. Create, edit, publish, take down, promote
Projects
Developments, their units, the developer, the brochure
Enquiries
Every enquiry, which listing it belongs to, where it came from
Agencies
The agencies listing with you and their public page
Agents, owners & users
Every account. Suspend, remove, or sign in as somebody to help
Articles
Write, edit and publish articles, and sort them into categories
Locations
Provinces, districts and divisions, loaded for the whole country
Settings
Portal details, the homepage, and the email addresses

How addresses on the site are built

Decided once at the start. Changing it later breaks every link already shared or indexed.

Examples

/for-sale/colombo
/for-rent/southern-province/galle/apartment
/projects/colombo
/property/western-province-colombo-mount-lavinia/modern-villa-with-pool-10428

Why this matters

  • Every province, district and property type combination becomes an indexable page.
  • Sri Lankan location data is loaded up front, down to the divisions below district level.

Gets a visitor into a search within seconds.

Home page

LogoBuy   Rent   Sell   Projects   Blog   ContactAdd listing  ·  Sign in
Full width photograph, headline, one line beneath
BuyRent
Filter search✦ AI search
TypePrice rangeBeds & baths
House
Apartment
Land
Commercial
Villa

Browse by property type, a row that scrolls sideways

Colombo
Kandy
Galle
Negombo
Jaffna

Popular locations, photo tiles, each one an indexable page

Beachfront villas in Galle
Apartments under LKR 30M in Colombo
Land for sale in Kandy
Houses to rent in Mount Lavinia

Trending searches, plain links that search engines follow

Promoted banner
DeveloperNew · 180 unitsSTARTING PRICE
LKR 38M
Marina Residences
Developer · Colombo 02
DeveloperNew · 180 unitsSTARTING PRICE
LKR 38M
Marina Residences
Developer · Colombo 02
DeveloperNew · 180 unitsSTARTING PRICE
LKR 38M
Marina Residences
Developer · Colombo 02
DeveloperNew · 180 unitsSTARTING PRICE
LKR 38M
Marina Residences
Developer · Colombo 02

Popular projects, with a View all link

PhotoVerified
3 bed house in Mount LaviniaLKR 78,000,000 3 bed · 2 bath · 2,400 sq ft
PhotoVerified
3 bed house in Mount LaviniaLKR 78,000,000 3 bed · 2 bath · 2,400 sq ft
PhotoVerified
3 bed house in Mount LaviniaLKR 78,000,000 3 bed · 2 bath · 2,400 sq ft
PhotoVerified
3 bed house in Mount LaviniaLKR 78,000,000 3 bed · 2 bath · 2,400 sq ft

Verified listings, with a View all link

Article
Article
Article

Latest articles

Agency
Agency
Agency
Agency
Agency

Featured agencies

Popular searches: columns of links by province, district and property type
Footer: navigation, agency sign up, contact, social, legal

Where visitors spend most of their time.

Search results, desktop

LogoBuy   Rent   Sell   Projects   Blog   ContactAdd listing  ·  Sign in
+   − × Clear map area LKR 78M 12 LKR 42M 48 LKR 96M Map fills the left. Draw an area to filter
Properties for sale in Colombo
248 properties
Colombo 03 (84)Colombo 05 (62)Dehiwala (41)
Save searchSort by
PhotoVerified
3 bed house in Mount LaviniaLKR 78,000,000 3 bed · 2 bath · 2,400 sq ft
PhotoFeatured
Apartment in Colombo 05LKR 42,500,000 2 bed · 2 bath · 1,150 sq ft
PhotoVerified
Land in BattaramullaLKR 15,000,000 12 perches
PhotoVerified
Villa in GalleLKR 96,000,000 4 bed · 3 bath · 3,100 sq ft
Pagination

The map stays put while the results scroll. Moving the map re-runs the search

Nearby areas and related searches, internal links for search engines
Footer

What separates this portal from every other listings site in the market. It is not a separate page. It is the same search box in a second mode.

On the home page, the second tab in the search box

Filter search✦ AI search

Which areas have listings today, and a note that more are coming

Try one of these

Quiet 3 bed house in Colombo with a gardenSea view apartment in GalleFamily house near a good school
Find similar with a photograph

On the search page, the same thing opens over the results

The results dim behind it

Which areas have listings today, and a note that more are coming

Recent searches Clear

Villa near the beachColombo apartmentKandy

Try one of these

Quiet 3 bed house in Colombo with a gardenSea view apartment in GalleFamily house near a good school
Find similar with a photograph

What happens when they press search

1. Understand
The sentence is read and turned into filters: 3 bedrooms, house, Colombo, under LKR 80m.
2. Match by meaning
“Quiet” and “garden” are matched against the meaning of every listing and every photograph, not just the words.
3. Rank
Results are ordered by how well they actually fit, and the photograph that matched is shown first.

Where a visitor decides whether to enquire.

Property detail page

LogoBuy   Rent   Sell   Projects   Blog   ContactAdd listing  ·  Sign in
Modern villa with pool, Mount Lavinia
Part of Marina Residences · Mount Lavinia, Colombo
ThumbnailThumbnailThumbnailThumbnailThumbnail
Overview Features Location Project ♡ Save Share

These follow you down the page

PhotosMap
Summary line, then the description, with Continue reading
Price LKR 78,000,000Price per sq ft LKR 32,500 Bedrooms 3Bathrooms 2 Type HouseTenure Freehold Floor area 2,400 sq ftLand area 14 perches Reference CT-10428Updated Two days ago

Property details, two columns of label and value

Amenities
Swimming poolParkingGardenAir conditioningBalconyGym
Furnishing
Fully furnishedBuilt in wardrobes
Security and safety
CCTV24 hour security
Location map and the area around it
LKR 78,000,000
3 beds  ·  2 baths  ·  2,400 sq ft
Part of Marina Residences
180 units  ·  12 floors  ·  2027
Agency logo  ·  agent name
CallWhatsApp
Name
Email
Phone
Message, filled in for them
Send enquiry

The contact card follows you down the page

PhotoVerified
Similar propertyLKR 72,000,000 3 bed · 2 bath
PhotoVerified
Similar propertyLKR 72,000,000 3 bed · 2 bath
PhotoVerified
Similar propertyLKR 72,000,000 3 bed · 2 bath

Similar properties, full width across the bottom

Footer

A buyer picks the building and the developer first, the unit second.

Project search

LogoBuy   Rent   Sell   Projects   Blog   ContactAdd listing  ·  Sign in
+   − 14 6 Same split as property search
Developments in Sri LankaSort by
Promoted banner
DeveloperNew · 180 unitsSTARTING PRICE
LKR 38M
Marina Residences
Developer · Colombo 02
DeveloperReady · 96 unitsSTARTING PRICE
LKR 22.5M
Hill Crest
Developer · Kandy
DeveloperNew · 64 unitsSTARTING PRICE
LKR 51M
Ocean Terrace
Developer · Galle
DeveloperReady · 120 unitsSTARTING PRICE
LKR 18M
Park Vista
Developer · Negombo
Pagination

The project card carries its price, developer and location over the photograph

Footer

Project detail page

Marina Residences
Developer name · Colombo 02 · Completion 2027
OverviewFacilitiesUnitsLocation
About the development
Facilities
Swimming poolGymParking24 hour security
Available units
Location and what is nearby
From LKR 38,000,000
180 units  ·  1 to 3 bed  ·  ready 2027
Developer logo and name
CallWhatsApp
Name
Email
Phone
Register interestBrochure
DeveloperNewSTARTING PRICE
LKR 29M
Nearby development
Developer · Colombo
DeveloperNewSTARTING PRICE
LKR 29M
Nearby development
Developer · Colombo
DeveloperNewSTARTING PRICE
LKR 29M
Nearby development
Developer · Colombo

Other developments nearby

Footer

Search traffic from people not yet looking at a specific listing. Buying guides, area profiles, market notes.

Blog list and article

LogoNavigationSign in
Featured article
AllBuyingRentingAreasMarket
Article card
Article card
Article card
Article card
Article card
Article card
Pagination

Article page

Home › Blog › Buying › This article
Article title, author, date, cover image
Article body: text, images, headings, quotes
Share
Related articles
Contents
Looking for a property?
Start a search
Popular articles
Footer

About us

Headline and introduction
Who we are
What we do
Why us
Team, if you want one
Call to action: list with us, or start searching

Contact

Send us a message
Name · Email · Phone · Subject · Message
Send
Office address, phone, email, hours
Map
Footer

Four routes in, all supported from launch.

1. An agency agent
Signs in and creates the listing through the dashboard, uploading photographs and details.
2. A private owner
Registers on the website and lists their own property for sale or rent, without going through an agency.
3. Your team
Capital Trust staff create listings on behalf of an agency, which is how most portals start.
4. An automatic feed
An agency publishes a file of its listings and the portal reads it on a schedule. Connecting each agency is a one-time technical task.

The private owner route. Brings stock onto the portal that no agency holds.

Sell your property page

LogoBuy   Rent   Sell   Projects   Blog   ContactAdd listing  ·  Sign in
Headline: list your property, reach buyers across Sri Lanka
Start your listing
1. Create an account
Name, email, phone. Confirm the email address before you can publish.
2. Add your property
Details, photographs, location, price. The description can be written for you.
3. It goes live
The listing publishes and enquiries come straight to the owner. Your team can unpublish anything at any time.
Why list here
Frequently asked questions
Footer

An agency's own page, carrying its details and all of its listings.

Agency profile page

LogoBuy   Rent   Sell   Projects   Blog   ContactAdd listing  ·  Sign in
Cover image, agency logo, name, location, Call and WhatsApp
AboutListingsAgentsContact
About the agency
PhotoVerified
Mount LaviniaLKR 78,000,000 3 · 2 · 2,400
PhotoVerified
Mount LaviniaLKR 78,000,000 3 · 2 · 2,400
PhotoVerified
Mount LaviniaLKR 78,000,000 3 · 2 · 2,400
PhotoVerified
Mount LaviniaLKR 78,000,000 3 · 2 · 2,400
Pagination
124 listings
8 agents  ·  Colombo
Message the agency
Name
Email
Phone
Message
Send

This page is the search page filtered to one agency, with its own header

Footer

One way in, for buyers, owners, agents and your own team.

Sign in and create account

Sign in
Email
Password
Forgot password
Sign in
Create account
Choose: private owner, or agency
Name
Email
Phone
Agency name, if agency was chosen
Password
Create account

On signing up a confirmation link is emailed. Listing is unlocked once it is clicked