For real estate agents
Custom map boards of any lake, river, bay, or coastline, with your client's own place marked on it. Handmade in Mississauga, shipped across Canada and the United States.
Why a map
We mark the exact location of their new place on the map, with the family name, the lake name, and GPS coordinates if you want them. Send an address or a set of coordinates and we lay it out.
Waterfront or twenty minutes off it, people who buy near a lake say they are on that lake. The board is about the water they just became part of, and the place they will associate with the move for years.
A bottle gets finished and a gift card gets spent. A map of the place they chose to live gets hung up. Years later they still remember who gave it to them, and so does everyone who asks about it.
Three formats
Same map, same personalization, same process. What changes is how the water is made and what the piece costs.
Engraved and framed
$50.00 CAD to $475.00 CAD Six sizes, 5×7 up to 24×36 inches
The shoreline engraved into real maple, cherry, or walnut veneer, framed behind acrylic. Five frame finishes. The marker is cut in the same pass as the map.
See sizes and options →
Epoxy pour
$350.00 CADOne size, 16 × 10.5 inches, unframed
The water is tinted resin poured into the board and sanded back by hand, so the lake sits flush in the wood as its own surface. The most involved piece we make and the one people pick up to look at closely.
See the epoxy boards →
3D printed
$199.00 CADOne size, 10.75 × 8.75 inches, framed
Elevation printed in relief rather than engraved flat, so hills, valleys, and shorelines stand off the board. The marker is a metal pin set by hand after the print comes off. Coordinates go on the title plaque.
See the terrain pieces →How it works
Pick a format and size, then send the lake or coastline, the address or coordinates to mark, and any names or text you want on it.
Usually within one to two business days. You see exactly how the board will look, spelling included, before anything is built.
Or ask for changes. Wrong spelling of a family name, marker in the wrong bay, title you want reworded. We fix it and send it again.
One to two weeks in the shop, then three to six days in transit with tracking, to you or straight to your client.
Plan on two to four weeks from order to doorstep. That covers the mockup, the build, and shipping. If you are working to a firm closing date, start three or four weeks out and you will have it in hand with room to spare. Tighter than that, email us before you order and we will tell you honestly whether the shop can make it.
The Keyway Atlas
Every piece we finish gets a pin on the Atlas. Open the map, find the water your client just bought on, and see the board we built for it, including the detail shots and how it was made. If it is not there yet, it only means nobody has asked for it.
Pin colours on the map
For repeat closings
If you work waterfront and cottage country, every buyer you close has a lake. Same process every time, nothing to stock, nothing to commit to.
Scales with how many you order through the year. Email us a rough number and we will quote it.
One board is a normal order. Try it on a single closing before you make it your default.
We can engrave your name, brokerage, or logo, as long as you hold the rights. Send the artwork.
Tell us at checkout whether it goes to your office or straight to the client's new address.
Every piece is made to order, so there is no inventory, no stock to guess at, and no leftovers.
Used to place the marker and nothing else. We keep it in house and do not sell or share it.
Questions
Something tied to the specific place rather than to the transaction. A map of the lake they just bought on, with their own spot marked, is about their decision and not about the sale. It also survives the move, which most closing gifts do not.
There is no standard, and agents we hear from work anywhere from under a hundred dollars to several hundred depending on the sale. Our engraved boards start at the smallest size and go up from there, which is why most agents settle on one format and change the size to suit the closing.
Any that appears on Google Maps. Lakes, rivers, reservoirs, bays, islands, and stretches of ocean coastline, anywhere in the world. The Atlas shows what we have built so far, which is a fraction of what we can build.
That is what the mockup step is for. You see the layout, spelling, marker position, and text before anything is built, and you can ask for changes as many times as you need. Because each piece is made to order it cannot be returned once built, so the mockup is worth reading closely.
Yes, provided you hold the rights to the artwork. Send us the file and we will place it on the mockup so you can see it before anything is built. Most agents put it small on the lower edge or on the back.
Three to four weeks before the closing date is comfortable. Total lead time runs about two to four weeks, covering one to two business days for your mockup, one to two weeks of build time once you approve it, and three to six days of shipping. Inside that window, email us before you order rather than ordering and hoping.
It depends on where you practise and how your business is structured, and both Canada and the United States limit business gift deductions in their own way. We are not able to advise on it. Your accountant can tell you what applies to you.
Pick a format above, or send us the lake and the closing date and we will tell you what fits, what it costs, and whether the timing works.
Not sure which one? Email us the lake and closing dateMade to order in Mississauga, Ontario. Prices shown in your local currency. Custom pieces cannot be returned, which is why we send a mockup for approval before anything is built.
