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Below Market Value property — to buy, to let, to live in.

London and the Home Counties, priced every week.

A unique source of property that we estimate is 15–35%* below market value.

*Estimates based on comparable sales and local data; not a valuation and not guaranteed.

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On the market · 40 days Ref FV-6VGSB4H

4-bed end_terrace, South East London

Gross margin
£126,197
Annualised return
21%
Asking price
£750,000
Our value
£1,267,000*

The deal sheet below deducts the costs listed in it, including the works. Those costs are our estimates and the sale price is our assessment, both based on the assumptions stated in the sheet. Change any one of them and the return changes. Verify each figure yourself.

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On the market · 78 daysTired listing Ref FV-G5H43TQ

3-bed Flat, South West London

Gross margin
£168,493
Annualised return
49%
Asking price
£525,000
Our value
£848,000*

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*Estimates based on comparable sales and local data; not a valuation and not guaranteed. Always do your own due diligence. Region shown only, and every property sits on the open market and can be sold to someone else at any time. If we find nothing worth sending in a given week, the list stays as it is and you hear nothing — we do not pad it.

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Why a seller takes less

Nobody gives money away. A seller accepts less when the discount buys them something they want more — speed, certainty, or an end to a property that is holding them up. Six situations account for most of what we send, and every deal names which one applies.

Motivated sellers

Some people need a sale more than they need the last few thousand pounds — a deadline, a job abroad, a settlement to finalise. They price to sell quickly, and a buyer who can actually move fast is worth the difference to them.

Probate

Executors want a clean, certain sale more than the last pound — and the property usually needs modernising, which puts off ordinary buyers.

Short leases

A flat with a short lease is hard to mortgage, so most buyers simply cannot buy it. The price drops to reflect the extension still to come.

Repossessions

A lender selling a repossessed property has a duty to sell, not a desire to wait. Speed is priced in.

Chain breaks

A seller whose onward purchase depends on selling now — relocation, separation, a collapsed chain — will trade price for certainty.

Tired listings

A property that has sat, been reduced, or been re-listed has lost its audience. The market has moved on; the value often hasn't.

None of this makes a property a deal on its own. That is why every one we send has been checked, valued* and written up first — and why we show you the reason for the discount, not just the size of it. Why a seller takes less explains all six properly.

*Estimates based on comparable sales and local data; not a valuation and not guaranteed.

How the list gets made

Every week, in the same order.

We price the market

207 postcode districts across London and the Home Counties, valued every week with our own tools — the same ones we use for our own buying.

We rank and rate

Everything cheap gets scored, and most of it fails. If nothing survives that week, nothing goes on the list — we would rather send you four properties a month than forty to filter.

We write it up

Address, listing, costed sheet*, comparables, market history and our reasoning — including what is wrong with the property. You get an email the moment it goes live.

You buy it yourself

Every property is on the open market. You view it, do your own checks and offer through the selling agent with your own solicitor. We are not in the middle of it and we take no fee from it.

*Estimates based on comparable sales and local data; not a valuation and not guaranteed.

Who is doing the looking

Experienced property professionals. Between us we have bought and sold tens of millions of pounds of property — houses, flats and land, short leases and long.

The analysis on this site is the analysis we use ourselves. We built it because we needed it, and it finds more good stock every week than we can take on. More about us.

London and the Home Counties, for now

It is the market we know street by street, so it is where we look. We expect to widen across the UK in time.

We name the catch

Every deal states what is wrong with the property alongside what is right, and every figure is an estimate*, marked as one.

*Estimates based on comparable sales and local data; not a valuation and not guaranteed.

Questions people actually ask

What does it cost?

Nothing today. Registration is free, there is no fee if you buy, and we take nothing out of the purchase. We are not going to tell you it is free forever — it is free while we earn your trust. If we ever charge for something we will say so plainly, in advance, rather than quietly switching it on.

Why don't you buy these yourselves?

Because there are far more of them than we can buy. Our own tools price 207 postcode districts every week and turn up hundreds of cheap properties a year; one buyer, with one set of finances and one team, gets through a handful of them. Nobody can buy hundreds. So the rest go to the list rather than nowhere — these are not the ones we turned down, they are the ones we cannot get to.

What if nothing is worth sending this week?

Then we send nothing. No email, no padded list, nothing added to keep the page looking busy. A quiet week means the market gave us nothing we would look at ourselves, and we would rather tell you that than waste your time.

Do I have to be an investor?

No. Some of what we find suits a buyer trading a property on, some suits a landlord, and some is simply a house priced below what it is worth, to live in. The deal sheet* prices the work the same way whichever you are; what you do with the property afterwards is your decision, not ours.

Do I need to be a cash buyer?

Not always, but be realistic about speed. Everything is on the open market and can go to another buyer at any moment, and some of it — short leases, heavy refurbishments — is hard to mortgage, which is a large part of why it is cheap. Every deal flags this, so you can judge whether it suits how you buy before you spend a day on it.

Are you estate agents?

No. Every property is already on the open market with an agent. We point you at it and show you our working; you view it, do your own checks and offer through the selling agent with your own solicitor, exactly as you would with any other property.

How reliable are the numbers?

They are estimates*, built from comparable sold prices, local data and our own assessment, and every deal shows the working so you can test it. Not a survey, not a valuation, and not a promise of what you will make. Do your own due diligence on every one.

How do you price a lease extension?

With the standard calculation a valuer would broadly recognise, run at a desk rather than on site: the unexpired term, the ground rent and what the flat is worth, together with the marriage-value effect that comes into play once a lease drops below about eighty years. It is an estimate*, it appears as its own line on the deal sheet, and it is not a formal valuation. The real figure is settled between the two sides' valuers, and leasehold law in England and Wales has been under reform, so take your own advice from a solicitor and a specialist valuer before you rely on ours. Short leases explains why the price drops in the first place.

How do you price the refurbishment?

Two ways at once, because neither is much use on its own. A benchmark cost per square foot, scaled to the level of work the property needs — cosmetic, full modernisation, or structural — gives us the scale. A room-by-room read of what the listing and its photographs actually show gives us the specifics. It is an estimate*, made without going inside the property, and a survey or a builder's quote can move it in either direction. Where we cannot work it out at all, the sheet says "not yet assessed" rather than treating it as nothing to pay.

How do you put the deal sheet together?

We start from comparable sold prices in HM Land Registry records, and use price per square foot wherever a floor area is on record. The cost lines go on top of that — buying, the works, a lease extension where there is one, holding, finance and selling. Anything we have not been able to establish is named on the page rather than left blank or set to nil. All of it is estimates*, and how we value a property sets out every step properly.

How long does it take to buy and sell a property?

In our own experience of the current, slow market, cash in to cash out has been averaging seven to eight months* — and it can be a good deal more or less than that. That is what we have been seeing lately, not a forecast and not something to count on: it moves with the property, the chain, how much work it needs and what the market does while you own it, and a refurbishment or a lease extension lengthens it. How to buy below market value sets out which parts of that timetable you can actually control.

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London and the Home Counties — 207 postcode districts, priced every week. We expect to widen across the UK in time, and the list will be the first to hear when we do.

*Estimates based on comparable sales and local data; not a valuation and not guaranteed.

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