Frontstead Kit vs Tamaranga

Frontstead Kit is a free, open-source, MLS-ready development kit for building branded real-estate portals, including golf, waterfront, and other niche lifestyle markets. It combines a Next.js public portal, an Express 5 and Prisma REST API, and a separate RESO Web API synchronization worker. The portal supports property search, listing pages, inquiries, consumer accounts, and favorites. Supported MLS connector vendors listed are MLS Grid, Trestle, Bridge Interactive, and Spark API. Typesense can provide typo-tolerant search; without it, the kit uses PostgreSQL search. Node.js 22.12 and PostgreSQL are required, while Redis and Typesense are optional. Docker Compose is the documented portable deployment baseline, and Frontstead says no specific platform is assumed. MLS display controls start disabled, and unregistered MLS boards cause configuration to fail. The agent API is disabled by default. The project is community-supported through public repository issues. Agent HQ is separately licensed and adds CRM features. The free plan is free and self-hosted.

Tamaranga Real Estate is a self-hosted platform for launching property portals for agents, agencies, developers or property owners. It supports sale and rental listings in one catalog, with property-specific fields, filters and indefinite publication. Agency workspaces and multi-agent teams are built in, while administrators can assign verified-agent badges. Search includes Google Maps and Yandex Maps; Leaflet, OpenStreetMap and Mapbox are add-ons. Scheduled XML catalog imports are native, and CSV, YML and API imports are add-ons. A free Integration API add-on can sync listings, agencies and users with CRM or MLS feeds. More than 20 payment gateways are listed as standard add-ons. A Booking add-on supports date availability, check-in and check-out, cancellation policies and fees. Branded iOS and Android apps can be published through the customer's developer accounts. The perpetual license covers one live domain and its subdomains, and code and data transfer to the customer's server. Silver costs $4,200 one-time; a 14-day free trial runs on Tamaranga servers without a card.