See 9 award-winning RentCafe websites

Dec 23, 2024

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Your property and company websites are the ultimate digital destinations for your customers. They should look good and function well to create the best experience for renters looking for a place to live.

At REACH, our team partners with property management companies to create award-winning RentCafe websites that meet (and exceed) these criteria.

While our creative services division can create custom websites, it’s not just custom sites winning awards. Our standard themes are so fast, accessible and flexible, that they’ve won too.

Check out a few award-winning RentCafe property websites to see what’s making waves in property marketing circles. Maybe you’ll get inspired for a new project or some quick updates.

MHN Excellence Awards

The MHN Excellence Awards recognize the multifamily industry’s most noteworthy people, companies, properties and more. We’ve had clients win in multiple marketing categories over the years.

The Sutton by Northland

Screenshot of the Sutton website, a Northland website made using RentCafe

In 2024, the Sutton website by Northland won gold in the Best Website category. The custom site is timeless, elegant and captivating, featuring clean copy and easy-to-follow buttons. It creates a luxurious digital experience for prospective renters.

Monmouth Row by Towne Properties

Screenshot of the Monmouth Row website, a website by Towne Properties made using RentCafe

Monmouth Row by Towne Properties also placed in the Best Website category for 2024. They won silver thanks to an intuitive layout, thoughtful color scheme, easy accessibility features and eye-catching images. In the month after launching the redone website, the property saw an 18.2% increase in time spent on the site. They also saw an 81% increase in “contact us” form conversions.

Fogelman Properties & Pangea Real Estate

When the MHN Excellence Awards were announced in December 2022, two of the three winners in the Best Website category were RentCafe websites.

Screenshot of The Edison Apartments website, a Fogelman Properties website made using RentCafe

The Edison Apartments website by Fogelman Properties won silver. Using vibrant photos, video tours and detailed copy, it invites prospective renters to explore the property. Calls-to-action encourage users to take the next step, whether that’s viewing an interactive floor plan gallery or scheduling a guided or self-guided tour.

Screenshot of the Pangea Real Estate website homepage

The Pangea Real Estate website won bronze. Pangea has since been folded into the CYM Living brand, but the company’s previous RentCafe website was a great example of a centralized corporate site that helps you find apartments by city. Fun to note, Pangea also won MHN Excellence awards for Best Marketing Strategy and Best Social Media Strategy.

Hermes Creative Awards

The Hermes Creative Awards is an international competition for creative professionals. With a rigorous judging process led by experts, the awards honor outstanding achievements in publications, branding collateral, websites, videos, advertising, marketing and communication programs.

Below are a few RentCafe sites that won Hermes Awards in 2024 and 2022. In 2023, we had several platinum award winners that you can read about here.

Venue at Orange by Cannon Management

Have you checked out the Venue at Orange website? We’ve profiled this awesome custom site before on the blog. We’re happy to share that it won gold in the 2024 Hermes Creative Awards for website design.

Screen shot of the Venue at Orange website homepage against a rainbow background

Mala Grove Townhomes by Waterton

The Mala Grove Townhomes website won gold in the 2024 Hermes Creative Awards for website design. This gorgeous site combines the strong user experience of one of our standard themes with compelling copy and design features, including interactive buttons.

Screenshot of the Mala Grove Townhomes website homepage against a rainbow background

Towne Properties: Hilltop Apartments & Galbraith Pointe

Two of Towne Properties’ award-winning websites won gold Hermes Awards in 2022 for website design: hilltopapthomes.com and galbraithpointeapts.com.

Screenshot of the Hilltop Apartment Homes website, a RentCafe template website adapted to fit Towne Properties' branding
Screenshot of Galbraith Pointe Apartments website

The team at Towne started with RentCafe website themes, then added vibrant branding, copy and imagery to bring each property to life.

Read the full story.

MFE Awards

Each year, Multifamily Executive honors the industry’s best and brightest with its prestigious MFE Awards competition.

Local by Laramar

Screenshot of Local by Laramar website

The Local by Laramar marketing campaign won an MFE Award for Marketing & Advertising. Its website was conceived as part of the campaign, then integrated and built using RentCafe. It received high praise.

Localbylaramar.com … delivers a responsive design allowing it to adapt to any device, full integration with unit pricing/availability and online leasing, a resident portal for online payments and service requests, and easy resident communication.”

Curious to see what’s possible?

Our design team is second to none. We stay on top of apartment marketing trends and work hard to match designs to your customer and community. We follow your brand guidelines and can even help you create a style guide, if you don’t have one.

Whether you’re interested in a custom site that’s 100% unique to you or a personalized standard theme, every RentCafe website is engineered to drive conversions.

Request a free consultation, and we’ll get in touch! We can’t wait to bring your website vision to life.

Natalie Mahn

Natalie Mahn is a marketing writer at Yardi. You'll find her writing for the REACH by RentCafe team, where she loves putting her creativity and agency experience to the test. Natalie is based in Thousand Oaks, California.

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