Most real estate templates I looked at were finished pages, not finished systems. They held together until I added the seventh property or imagined handing the CMS to someone else.
I spent the last few weeks building the version I wanted to find: 9 pages, 9 CMS collections, 60 connected fields, 3 URL-synced filter surfaces, and no code components. A filtered view survives reload and can be sent as a link. Search indexes every page and CMS entry.
I got one thing wrong that passed my own verification: I bound image alt text through CMS variables. Framer accepted it, read it back unchanged, then published raw var(...) tokens. I replaced 51 image nodes with literal alt text and checked the live DOM, not the canvas.
The result is Marchmont, a $79 Framer template for residential brokerages: https://deckle.mdtlabs.dev/t/marchmont/
The 20-second clip is the published build, not a mockup.
For designers who hand Framer sites to clients, what usually breaks first after handoff: CMS structure, custom code, or something else?
