How estate agents can boost earnings and convert pipeline into profit faster

We’ve designed the Programme to be simple and accessible to as many agents as possible. So even if you’re in a corporate environment with many of restrictions, you can still use our service.

So, how does it work?

It's simple: We’re a buyer. That’s it.

Don’t overcomplicate it with referral programmes and things. We’re just a buyer, here to buy property.

So if you have a house to sell and your vendor’s happy and able to take a discount in order to get it sold quickly, then call us.

We can have a guaranteed offer with you within 24 hours for you to present to your client.

If your client accepts then we’ll provide solicitor details and complete in as little as two weeks. It really is that simple. (The catch, of course, is that we buy at a discount to the market value, so not all vendors will be able and willing to accept our reduced offer).

If we do purchase the property then we cover your commission, we also pay you a 1%+vat Referral Fee, and we resell the property with you once we’ve bought it - meaning up to 3%+vat per referral.

Over 10 years in this industry has taught us that price isn’t the main driver for every home seller.

We've learned that every seller is unique, and each has their own drivers and circumstances.

While there’s a preconception that a service such as ours is for “distressed sellers”, we’ve found that not to be the case.

The majority of our customers use it for the convenience, certainty, and speed it provides. And as we all know, that can be in short supply in the UK housing market – especially as we all continue battling COVID and the aftermath it’s caused.

Some agents have a list of “local investors” they know who they can call with a deal to get it sold quickly. And if that’s the case, that's great.

But sometimes, these buyers can fail to be as prompt, professional, or reliable as they may initially present themselves to be. And it can leave your vendor in a mess if they don’t deliver as promised.

With our business we survive, grow, and thrive based on those three things: being prompt, professional, and reliable. We literally don’t have a business if we can’t make offers quickly and then complete quickly, at the price we’ve agreed.

So we are like your local investor, we’re just packaged up nicely, with funds ready, and a whole infrastructure in place to facilitate quick completions for your clients, and make sure everyone's happy.

Oh, and we make sure it’s worth your while. We pay generous referral fees, we’ll re-sell the property with you too, and are often able to share leads as well. (We receive a lot of enquiries from sellers who our service isn’t the right fit for, so it’s nice to be able to direct these customers back to the best local agent for them).

Not nearly as much as you’d expect. The preconception with our service is that it’s for customers in financial difficulties, or those selling inherited properties after a bereavement and other types of issues. But in reality, that's rarely the case.

Don't believe us? Check out the language on our home page. We highlight the ease, simplicity, certainty, and speed of the service. You won't see any mention there of financial difficulties, or language like "we buy any house for cash fast", because it resonates with very few of our customers.

Distressed sellers make up a relatively small share of our business. For example, customers in financial difficult may not have the equity to be able to accept an offer less than the market value, and because lenders repossess far more slowly than they used to it means most sellers will still be able to sell their home on the open market for its full value, even while a lender is pursuing them. They won't need our service - which is a good thing in their case.

After bereavements, there are often a number of beneficiaries with a financial interest in the property, and it’s unusual for several parties to agree to accept a lower offer.

For the most part, our customers are people who view selling their home to us as a luxury service. They can cut out the wait-times and disappointments that often come with selling their home, and just have the thing done and over with quickly.

For some, the certainty, convenience, and speed is a luxury worth paying for.

Our service is really only suitable for a small subset of home sellers.

Reaching niches via marketing is always extremely expensive. It costs thousands of pounds in marketing costs for each property we buy at a discount (not to mention the infrastructure and work in the background that goes into running expensive ad campaigns).

Simply put, this means that if you can bring us acquisitions without us paying for expensive ads all over the Internet, then we can afford to pay that advertising spend to you instead.

We’d much rather put money back into our partners' pockets than hand it over to Google or Facebook too!

On completion. There 2 or 3 referral fees depending on the location of the property. Here is when each is paid.

• Sale Fee. Your standard fee for selling the property. We cover this fee on behalf of your vendor, and it’s paid on completion as normal.
• Introducer Fee. This is an extra £1,000 referral fee we pay you, which is also paid on completion of our purchase.
• Resale fee. If the property is in your local area, we’ll also instruct you on the sale of it. This fee is paid on completion of the resale.

We buy residential property in England, Wales, and in some areas of Scotland. We look at all types of properties up to around £600,000 – including properties with structural issues, legal complications and so on.

So if you’ve got a property you’d like to refer over just get in touch – we’d love to have a look at it. Call our team now if you have a specific property in mind on 0800 133 7687.