Real estate advertising is broken.
We’re fixing it.
LavaZoo is a New York real estate listings platform that brings residential, commercial, and off-market properties into one place — with a model built around lower costs and real lead ownership for agents and landlords.
One platform for every type of real estate in New York
Most listing platforms force you to choose: residential or commercial. Public or private. Exclusive or off-market. LavaZoo doesn’t make you choose. Whether you’re searching for a Brooklyn apartment, a Queens warehouse, a Manhattan restaurant for sale, or a confidential off-market opportunity — it’s all in one place.
For the first time, agents and landlords can list exclusive listings alongside off-market properties on a single platform, without being required to disclose an address. Buyers and tenants can search beyond what traditional platforms show them — and find opportunities they simply couldn’t find anywhere else.
The off-market layer of real estate
Different things to different people.
Better for everyone.
For agents
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Stop paying per listingThe leading commercial platform charges up to $131/month per listing. LavaZoo is one low monthly subscription for unlimited listings. The math isn't close.
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Your leads stay yoursThe leading residential platform sells your listing's leads to third-party agents. On LavaZoo, every inquiry goes directly to the listing agent. No exceptions.
For buyers & tenants
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Find deals you won't find elsewhereOff-market listings, commercial deals, and residential rentals in one clean, searchable platform — not buried in a sea of classified listings like other platforms.
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Post what you're looking forWith our Property Wanted feature, you post your requirements and let agents and landlords come to you. No other major platform does this.
Here's what the savings look like in the real world. This is based on a typical bill from the leading commercial platform.
That’s a 94% reduction in monthly listing costs — for more listings, with no spam leads.
Built by a broker who lived the problem
LavaZoo wasn't built by a tech company that read about real estate. It was built by someone who spent over two decades inside it.
20+ years of experience in residential and commercial real estate
Vincent is a lifelong New Yorker and licensed real estate broker with over 20 years of experience in residential and commercial real estate across New York City. As a Queens native and owner of his own brokerage, he watched the industry evolve from newspaper classifieds to today’s digital platforms — and grew increasingly frustrated with what those platforms were doing to agents.
His own brokerage is currently paying $659 a month to the leading commercial platform for listings that generate mostly spam leads. Residential agents he knows are having their leads quietly sold to competing agents on the leading residential platform. And good deals stay hidden because platforms simply aren’t built for off-market listings. He couldn’t find a single platform that solved all three problems at once.
So he built one. LavaZoo launched in New York in May 2025 with a simple mission: make real estate advertising more affordable, give agents real ownership of their leads, and open up the off-market layer of real estate to serious buyers and tenants across New York.