For homeowners · Cancel any time
What would buyers really pay for your home?
open for offer is the pre-market: see your value range and real buyer interest, privately, before any advert.
- Nobody is told. No board, no window card, no neighbour.
- No advert, so nothing to withdraw and no listing history behind you.
- Your figure, your window, one switch — and it takes effect immediately.
- Every number backed by Land Registry sold prices, with its date.
About 3 minutes · No photos · Your address stays private · Switch off any time
The estimate is free. £9.99 a month only if you switch on, cancel any time.
How long do you want to test for?
It switches off by itself at the end. We email you five days before and it only carries on if you say so — we never renew it for you.
What a traditional listing does
You can cut the price. You can’t un-list.
Advertise a home publicly and the clock starts in front of an audience. Take it down later and the listing history and days-on-market count stay behind.
Testing the market starts no days-on-market clock, and there is no asking price to be seen reducing.
Before the board goes up
A listing starts at nobody. This does not.
Testing the market lets buyers find your home while you are still deciding — so interest is already there when you commit.
They are looking before you are selling
They search an area for months before anything they want appears in it. Your home already has a page.They register interest against your home
Not a call, not an offer. A recorded signal against one specific home.It lands on your dashboard
You look when you want to. Nobody has your name or your address.The day you decide, someone is already there
A listing starts at zero on day one. This does not.
What you have to do
Nothing you would have to do for a listing. Testing the market is a switch, not a project.
There is none of this
- No photographs
- No viewings
- No board outside
- No address published
- No visit from anyone
- No contract to sign
- No asking price you did not set
There is this
- A value range with its evidenceModelled from Land Registry sold prices, with a confidence level and the date it was generated.
- Real buyer interest, as it arrivesCounted from actual enquiries on your home and in your postcode area. Never invented.
- A switch only you can touchOn or off, whenever you like. Nothing happens to your home unless you make it happen.
Two ways to find out what buyers think
| What differs | Testing the market | Listing publicly, the usual way |
|---|---|---|
| What becomes public | Area and property type. Nothing else. | Your address, photographs and asking price. |
| Photos and viewings | Nothing to prepare, nothing to tidy. | Photographs, floorplan and EPC. Then viewings. |
| What you commit to | Nothing. Switch it off any time. | An agreement signed before a single buyer has responded. |
| If nothing comes of it | No public record, no price history. | A price history on the home. |
| How long it takes | About three minutes, start to finish. | However long preparing an advert takes. |
| What it costs | £9.99 a month. | Set by whoever publishes the advert. |
What buyers see — and never see
Your home stays invisible while buyers signal what they’d pay — and you only ever act if an offer genuinely tempts you.
Buyers see
- Your area and property type
- That an owner is open to offers
- A way to register interest
Buyers never see
- Your address or your door
- Your name or contact details
- An asking price you didn’t set
It’s how you join the pre-market — quietly gauging real demand before you ever commit to a listing.
You can see everything, and stop anything
One dashboard: what your home is worth, who is asking, and one switch that stops it. The only email is the one five days before your test ends — and it carries on only if you say so.
Illustration — not your figures.
- Switch it on or offTesting the market, or not for sale. It takes effect immediately.
- Your estimated valueThe full range, its confidence level and the date it was generated.
- Your own figureThe number that would tempt you. Change it whenever you like.
- Buyer interest as it landsEnquiries on your home, buyers active in your postcode area, and when the last one came in.
- Where your ownership check standsEach step, and what is still outstanding.
- When your test endsThe date you chose, and a button to keep it going. We never extend it for you.
Three minutes, three steps
- 1
Find your home
Enter your postcode and pick your address — we hold the details already.
- 2
See your range & claim it
Your range appears instantly. Add your name and email, confirm with a 6-digit code.
- 3
Switch on & watch
Buyer interest lands on your private dashboard. You decide what happens next.
Who this is for
Built for the year before you sell.
You have been thinking about it for a while
And have not called anyone, because that starts something you cannot quietly stop.You would move at the right number, and only that
You are not trying to sell. You are finding out whether the number exists.You do not want the street to know
No board, no window card, no neighbour asking how it is going.You have somewhere to be, but not yet
Run it for six months, or with no end date. Timing can move.It is probably not for you if you need a sale agreed this quarter
A listing reaches more people faster. We would rather say so.
When an offer tempts you
Three ways it can go, and you pick.
Interest starts no clock. When something tempts you, these are the routes.
Do nothing at all
An offer that does not tempt you needs no answer. Nothing expires.Handle it yourself
Show them round on your own day. You have their interest and your figure.Ask us to introduce a local estate agent
You engage and pay the agent; they act for you and are regulated separately. We introduce you and take our fee from their side, not yours.
Questions homeowners ask
Find out what your home could achieve
Three minutes, completely private, and the estimate costs nothing. £9.99 a month only when you switch on and let buyers find you — cancel any time.
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