A bilingual mortgage website with four loan calculators for Sunshine Mortgages

Sunshine Mortgages is an Auckland mortgage advisory serving a large Mandarin-speaking client base alongside English-speaking first home buyers, investors, and refinancers. The Auckland broker market is crowded with advisers running near-identical template websites, so Sunshine wanted to stand out on two fronts.

The first was being genuinely bilingual rather than relying on a translation overlay, and the second was giving clients real tools to model their own borrowing before booking a call. The goal was a site that pre-qualified enquiries and gave both audiences a native experience.

Designed and built a high-performance Astro website with full English and Mandarin internationalisation at the route level, so both audiences get a native experience rather than a translation afterthought. Built four interactive JavaScript mortgage calculators covering repayments, extra repayments, refinance savings, and amortisation, giving clients a way to model borrowing before they book.

Created a 5-step progressive loan application form that pre-qualifies leads by capturing income, deposit, property type, and goals before they reach the broker's inbox. Integrated the Google Business Profile reviews API for live social proof and added LocalBusiness and FinancialService schema for local SEO.

Layered CRO elements throughout, including sticky CTAs, trust badges, 20+ lender partner logos, and team profiles.