Case Study

York Region Renovations

A renovation firm that also lends
York Region Renovations renovates houses across the region, and will fund the work when the owner would rather settle later. The site has to explain nine trades and a financing programme to three groups of people who want quite different things from it.
IndustryHome Services
ServicesWeb Design & Development
PlatformWordPress, PHP, MySQL +4 more
The York Region Renovations website shown on a laptop and a phone
The Challenge
Most renovation sites sell a trade. This one also sells money, and that raises questions a photograph cannot answer: what the repayment options are, who values the property, who carries the risk, and what happens if the house does not sell. Three groups ask all of it differently, because a landlord, a seller and a family living in the house want different outcomes.
  • The site sells a trade and a loan at once
  • Owners, landlords and sellers want different ends
  • Money questions cannot be answered by a gallery
  • Who values the house, and who carries the risk
  • Nine trades still need pages of their own
  • Permits and design partners are part of the story
  • The programme must read as a plan, not a pitch
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A Look at the Finished Work

Our Solution
The financing programme was given its own page and written as an argument rather than a leaflet: who it suits, the repayment options next to each other, the steps from valuation through to payment, and a worked example with the arithmetic on show. The trades keep their nine pages, so somebody who only wants a bathroom quote never has to read about borrowing.
  • The pay-later programme on a page of its own
  • Repayment options set out next to each other
  • Six steps, from valuation through to payment
  • The arithmetic laid out, not merely asserted
  • Addressed in turn to owners, landlords, sellers
  • Nine trades keep their own service pages
  • The valuation and design partners named
  • One quote form, reachable from anywhere
A page from the York Region Renovations website: yorkregionrenovations.com/renovate-now-pay-later/
  • The arithmetic shown

    A worked example, not a claim

  • Six steps

    Valuation through to payment

  • Three readers

    Owner, landlord and seller

  • Trades stay separate

    Nine pages, no lending detour

Outcomes

What Changed After Launch

  • The programme reads as a plan

    Repayment options, the steps and the worked example are laid out together, which is what somebody needs before they will ask about borrowing.

  • Each group finds its own case

    Owners, landlords and sellers are addressed in turn, so a landlord is not reading advice written for a family about to move house.

  • Building work kept apart

    The nine trade pages carry the construction, so a request for a bathroom quote never travels through a page about finance.

  • Partners named, not implied

    The valuation and design partners have a page naming them, which is the difference between a claim and one a reader can check.

Client Feedback

What York Region Renovations Says

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Technology Stack

Built With a Modern Stack

The platform, languages and tools the finished site runs on.
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