Velha Cap Homes: Sistema web para otimizar a busca e locação de imóveis na cidade de Oeiras-PI

Abstract

The increasing urbanization and social dynamics of small cities impose informational challenges to real estate rental, especially in municipalities like Oeiras – PI, where the local market still relies on informal channels scattered across social networks. This work describes the development of a web system, named VelhaCap Homes, designed to centralize real estate rental listings in that city, connecting landlords and tenants in a single structured platform. The research, of applied nature and qualitative approach, adopted the classic Waterfall life cycle model and a layered architecture based on the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern. The system was implemented with a modern stack, comprising React 19, Vite, TanStack Start and Tailwind CSS on the front-end, and Node.js, Express, Prisma and PostgreSQL (Neon) on the back-end, with image persistence on Cloudinary, JSON Web Token (JWT) authentication and data validation through the Zod library. The requirements analysis yielded fifteen functional requirements and six non-functional requirements, covering user registration and authentication, property management, image upload, search and filters, landlord dashboard, statistics dashboard and contact mechanisms. The system was deployed to a production environment, with the back-end hosted on Render, the front-end on Vercel and the database on Neon, and was subjected to system tests that evidenced compliance with the non-functional requirements of usability, performance, security, reliability, availability and portability. It is concluded that the developed solution showed potential to mitigate the informational fragmentation of the real estate market in Oeiras – PI, indicating paths of evolution for future iterations.