You pick the completion date. We work backwards from it.
We buy your house directly. The price we agree doesn’t change — and if we complete late, we pay you £500 for every day we’re over.
Terraces, semis, bungalows, flats, ex-council and non-standard construction. Tenanted, empty, or in a state. We buy all of these — and we tell you what we won’t buy before you spend any time on us.
The trade-off, stated up front
The price isn’t a view on your house. It’s the price of a date we’re willing to put in writing — and the tighter that date, the more it costs.
Two things set the number: how fast you need it, and what condition the property is in. The first one is yours to choose. Here’s what it costs.
- What you gain
- Money in your account in seven days. A date you can take to a court, a lender or the people you’re buying from, today.
- What you give up
- Around a third of the value. This is the most expensive way to sell a house in Britain and we’d rather you took a slower rung if you can.
- What you gain
- A completion date inside the month, with time for searches and for your solicitor to do the job properly. Our typical purchase completes in 24 days.
- What you give up
- Just over a quarter of the value.
- What you gain
- Enough time to sort removals, storage, a rental or an onward purchase without doing it at a run.
- What you give up
- Between 18% and 27% — we’ll confirm the exact figure on your call.
- What you gain
- The best price we pay, with the date and the certainty still guaranteed. No board outside, no viewings, no chain, and it still can’t fall through.
- What you give up
- Under a fifth of the value — and the wait. If you have the time, this is the rung to take.
These are the ranges we work in. Your figure depends on the condition of the property and what it would realistically sell for locally, and we’ll show you how we got to it in writing before you decide anything. We won’t change it afterwards.
Try the numbers yourself
What would your date be worth?
Put in what you think the house is worth, pick a date and a condition, and see the shape of the calculation — before you’ve told us anything about yourself.
Completion date
Condition
Enter a figure above and this becomes your illustration.
An illustration built on your own figure — not an offer. Your written offer depends on the condition we find and what similar homes have actually sold for locally, and once you accept it, it doesn’t change.
Who this is for
Whatever’s behind it, the problem is usually a date
Not on this list? It doesn’t matter — the process is the same. Tell us your date.
Houses other buyers struggle with
If a lender has said no, start with your exact problem
Each of these pages explains why the mortgage market walks away — in the lender's own language — and the honest routes out, including the ones that don't involve us. We buy every one of these as it stands, on a date you choose.
Spray foam in the loft · Airey & PRC houses · A flat with a short lease · Subsidence or underpinning history · Japanese knotweed · Shale & red ash floors · A sitting tenant · A rental with a low EPC
Selling for a different reason? See how choosing your completion date works, or selling before a relocation. Selling a whole building? See blocks of flats and commercial property.
Where we buy
Across Britain, house by house
We buy houses, flats and bungalows across England, Wales and Scotland. Northern Ireland isn’t covered yet — we’d rather tell you that now than take your details and waste your week.
Tap a nation, or check your postcode.
How it works
How it works, day by day
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TodayYou tell us the date
Four questions about the property, then your name and number. Two minutes. We ring you back the same day, usually within the hour.
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Within 48 hoursWe make you an offer in writing
Built on what houses like yours actually completed at nearby, with our reasoning attached and the date you asked for. No obligation — take it to your solicitor, your family or your agent.
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Two working daysYou accept — papers to your solicitor
The only thing we need from you, and the thing that makes the date possible. Once your solicitor has what they need, the clock is ours.
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Typically 24 daysWe complete on your date
The money reaches your account on the day we agreed. If it doesn't, we pay you £500 for every day we're late.
Our typical purchase completes in 24 days. We’ll tell you what’s realistic for you before you decide anything.
The guarantee
What we mean by “guaranteed”
We will buy your house and complete on the date you choose. If we complete late, we pay you £500 for every day we’re over.
What that’s subject to — all of it, right here:
You have to own it or have the authority to sell it. The title has to be transferable, and if there’s a problem with it we’ll find that out early and tell you straight away. You have to tell us what’s wrong with the property — everything; it won’t change the offer, because we make the offer knowing about it. And you need to get your information to your solicitor within two working days of accepting.
The £500 a day is capped — the cap is a set number of days and it’s stated in your written offer, not hidden in terms. If something at your end holds things up, the date moves by the same number of days and the £500 applies to the new date instead. You don’t lose the guarantee. It moves with you.
How can we promise this?
Because whoever ends up owning the house, your contract is with us — and so is the guarantee. Some of the houses we buy, we keep. Some we buy alongside, or sell on to, partner purchasers: every one of them vetted and pre-approved before we ever agree a purchase. That partner network is why we can help hundreds of sellers at a time instead of a handful — and it changes nothing on your side. The price, the date and the £500 a day are ours to honour in every case, and we never move a purchase to a partner without telling you and getting your agreement — that’s written into the contract, and under the industry code we stay responsible for anyone we bring in.
And the contract cuts both ways. Up to exchange of contracts you are free — no tie-in, no option agreement, no exclusivity, and no fee if you walk away. At exchange, we’re both bound: you to sell, us to buy at the fixed figure and complete on your date. That isn’t a trap — it’s the only mechanism in English law that makes a completion date real, and it binds us harder than it binds you, because the £500 a day starts running against us from that moment. We pay both sides’ legal costs at completion; because we’re carrying those, the same contract holds you to the timetable you chose. Stated plainly, because that’s the deal.
For context: The Property Ombudsman resolved 7,681 complaints across the property industry last year and awarded £1.75 million in total. The average award in property sales was £616 — for an entire complaint, after months of process. Our guarantee passes that figure on day two, and you don’t have to complain to anyone to get it.
Compared to the alternatives
Estate agent, auction, or us
Three honest routes. Which one is right depends entirely on how much time you have and how much certainty you need — including the parts that don’t flatter us.
| Estate agent | Auction | Us | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What you’re likely to get | The most, when it works. 95–100% of market value | Varies. The buyer’s fee suppresses what they’ll bid | 65–82%, depending on the date you pick |
| Time until the money’s in your account | Around five to six months from listing, with 10–12 weeks of that after you accept an offer | 28 days to exchange plus 28 to complete — around 56 days, if it sells | 7 days to 6 months. You choose. Typical is 24 days |
| Will it definitely happen? | No. Around one in four agreed sales collapses before completion | No. The reserve may not be met, and the hammer is a reservation, not a contract | Yes. And if we’re late, we pay you £500 a day |
| What it costs you | 1.2–1.8% inc VAT; average 1.42%, about £3,900 on a £275,000 house, plus your legal fees | Usually nothing from you — the buyer pays 4.5% inc VAT, minimum £6,600, on top of the price | £0. We pay your legal costs too |
| Viewings | Every one of them, at their convenience | Block viewings, plus surveyors | One inspection, by appointment. No board, no portal listing |
| Can the price change after you agree? | Yes. 18% of fall-throughs involve a buyer renegotiating after survey | Yes, on a conditional sale | No. In writing |
When the estate agent is the right answer, and we’ll tell you so on the phone: your house is in reasonable order, it would sell at a sensible price, and you have five or six months and no hard deadline. You will end up with more money. That is not a close call and we are not going to pretend otherwise.
When the auction is the right answer: the property is unusual and the value is genuinely hard to pin down. Auction can beat us on price on lots like these. It cannot beat us on certainty.
Want to try auction first? Ask us for an introduction
We keep a short list of traditional auction houses we rate — no modern-method buyer-fee traps. They pay us a small introduction fee if you sell with them, and we’d rather tell you that than pretend the recommendation is free. If they beat our offer, take theirs. New to auctions? See how auctions actually work. Say “auction introduction” when Sophie calls, or ask on 0191 249 3969.
When we’re the right answer: you have a date you can’t move, or you’ve been trying and it isn’t happening, or no lender will lend on it. In other words: when certainty is worth more to you than the last few per cent.
Sources: HomeOwners Alliance (agent fees, Feb 2026; time to sell, Mar 2026) · Quick Move Now fall-through index, Jan 2026 — published by a company in our own sector, which is why we say so · iamsold (auction fees).
Proof
What we’ve actually done
Proof required
The price record — a running published record: purchases completed, how many at the agreed figure, how many not and why.
Everyone in this trade promises the price won’t change. We publish whether ours did.
Proof required
The date record — purchases completed, dates met, days late, £500 paid.
Proof required
Sellers we’ve bought from — three case studies with the situation, the deadline, the date agreed, the date completed and the seller’s own words. One should be a case where something went wrong.
Our reviews aren’t all five stars and we wouldn’t want them to be. The National Association of Property Buyers lists a perfect score as a warning sign — and mixed reviews across independent sites as a good one.
Questions
The questions people actually ask
How much less will I get?
Will you drop the price before completion?
Is this a scam?
Can you really complete by my date?
What happens to my mortgage?
Do I have to pay anything?
Do I have to clear the house, or fix anything?
Will the neighbours know?
What if I change my mind?
Tell us your date
There’s no obligation and nothing to sign. We’ll give you a figure in writing, with our reasoning, and you can take it to anyone you like before you decide.
Sophie will ring you back — usually within the hour, always the same day. Your details go to your solicitor and nobody else. We never sell or pass on enquiries.
Or call us: 0191 249 3969 · 8am–8pm, seven days