Home for Home buyers
If we asked you to hand over £500,000 after looking at something for 20 minutes, you'd say no. That's how buying a house works in this country. Almost everything useful about a property turns up after you've made an offer. We're trying to fix that.
Why we started Getkeys
We bought homes ourselves and it was a mess. Offers accepted, offers collapsed. Searches came back weeks later with things we'd have wanted to know before we bid. One survey told us on day fifty what we could've found out on day one.
The annoying part is that none of it was secret. The lease length, the covenant, the planning application on the land behind the garden. All of it was sitting in a public record the whole time. It just wasn't anywhere you could get to it while it still mattered.
None of it was secret. It just turned up too late.
So we built the thing we wanted. One search, everything we can find about a property, before you make an offer instead of after.
Buying a house happens in the wrong order
Here's what you actually get to see before you commit hundreds of thousands of pounds.
- Photos and a floorplan
- The asking price
- Whatever the listing decides to tell you
- One or maybe two 15 minute viewings
- Covenants that limit what you can do
- Local authority searches
- The planning application next door
- The survey
- How much nearby properties sold for
- Nearby crime
- Local services
- Closest recycling
The one number we care about
Number of buyers assisted
Not reports sold, not revenue. How many buyers we've assisted. That includes everyone who read a report and decided not to buy the house. If we talk you out of a bad purchase, that's just as good as helping you make a good purchase.
We'd rather show you too much than too little
We want to show you every piece of information about a property that we can find and that's what our reports contain. If there's a planning application that could hurt the value, or a restriction on what you can or can't do with the property, you should see it before you offer, not after.
