Our company supports the Real Estate industry and I an trying to create a page in Umbraco that load the details of the listing from an id passed in the url. I have tried several examples so far and am lost as to what the missing piece is. The data is retrieved from an external MLS database via a REST API.

I have a custom route that looks like this:

RouteTable.Routes.MapRoute(
           name: "PropertyDetails",
           url: "real-estate/{description}/{address}/{propertyID}",
           defaults: new { controller = "Property", action = "Index", propertyID = UrlParameter.Optional }
       );

For my Controller, I have tried RenderMvcController, SurfaceController, and PluginController. It currently looks like this:

public class PropertyController : Umbraco.Web.Mvc.PluginController

{
    public PropertyController()
        : this(UmbracoContext.Current)
    {
    }

    public PropertyController(UmbracoContext umbracoContext)
        : base(umbracoContext)
    {
    }

    public ActionResult Index(string propertyID)
    {
        dbzBest.Models.PropertyDetails p = new dbzBest.Models.PropertyDetails();

        umbraco.NodeFactory.Node node = umbraco.uQuery.GetNodesByName("real-estate").FirstOrDefault();
        IPublishedContent currentNode = Umbraco.Content(node.Id);

        p = zbdLibrary.GlobalFunctions.zbdAPI("property/GetDetails/" + propertyID).jsonToEntity<dbzBest.Models.PropertyDetails>();


        //***Using this line returns page as expected, but no info on the property.  I get null errors with out it.
        //return View("real-estate", CreateRenderModel(currentNode));

        //this line fails.  How do I pass this data to the view?
        return View("real-estate", p);
    }

    private RenderModel CreateRenderModel(IPublishedContent content)
    {
        var model = new RenderModel(content, CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture);
        //add an umbraco data token so the umbraco view engine executes
        RouteData.DataTokens["umbraco"] = model;
        return model;
    }
}

Can someone please tell me what I am missing?

Thanks