Product Updates26 September 2026 · 4 min read

A Clearer Filter Panel: Reset in One Tap, Toggles Instead of Dropdowns

The filter panel now tells you when a search is still narrowed, resets with one button or the R key, and turns the small choices into toggles. Here is what changed and why.

Angelo Willems · Mercala

5 sections

Why we changed it
What is new
Work the panel from the keyboard
A quieter look
One habit to keep

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Why we changed it

A few of you told us the filter felt broken. Searches came back with four or five results when there should have been hundreds, and clearing did not seem to help. When we looked at what was happening, the filter was working exactly as asked. The problem was that it was hard to see what it had been asked.

Filters stay on between visits. That is useful when you come back to the same search every morning, and confusing when you start a new one without noticing that last week’s bedrooms, bathrooms and build-up limits are still in place. Land with at least three bedrooms will always return four listings.

Two things made it worse. The button that clears everything and the button that clears one dropdown were both called

What is new

The panel tells you when filters are on

At the top of the panel you now see a chip reading 5 active or None active, a headline with the live count, Showing 412 listings, and a red border around the whole panel while anything is narrowed. If the border is on, you are not looking at everything.

Reset filters, one button or one key

The panel-wide clear button is now called Reset filters and sits at the bottom of the panel with a reset icon. Press it, or press the R key anywhere on the dashboard, and every filter drops back to your defaults. The boxed R in the word Reset is the reminder. And every filter that is narrowing your search now shows its name in crimson with a dot in front, so you can see exactly which ones are on.

The keyboard shortcut used to be C. It is now R, to match the button. F still opens and closes the panel, N opens your notifications in the same panel, T jumps to table view and V cycles through table, card and map.

Dropdowns say what they clear

Inside a dropdown such as Broker or Neighbourhoods, the footer now reads 1 selected, with a small Clear this field link that resets only that one dropdown, and a single solid Done button to close it. While a dropdown is open, the rest of the panel dims behind it, so you always know which field you are editing. The list of options is also three times taller, so long lists like brokers and neighbourhoods are easier to scan.

Toggles for the small choices

Some filters only ever had two or three answers, and a dropdown was a lot of ceremony for them. Contract type (Sale or Rent), Right to land (Freehold or Leasehold), Pool and Verified are now one-tap toggles with an All or Any position on the left. Listing status is a toggle too, and you can pick more than one, so Active plus Pending gives you everything that is not closed.

A tidier layout

Related fields now sit together in boxes: island, region and neighbourhood at the top; the price, lot size and build-up ranges you type into; and the bedrooms, bathrooms and year built ranges you pick from a list. The filters that narrow a search the most come first. The panel is a little wider, and on a phone there is a clear gutter on the right so you can scroll with your thumb without hitting a control.