Category guide
Sourcing tools vs underwriting tools
Sourcing tools find motivated sellers and off-market owners and help you write to them at scale. Underwriting is what happens when one of them says yes: what's it worth, what will it cost, and what's the most you should offer. Most people buy the first and improvise the second.
What a sourcing tool is for
Filters for motivated sellers, off-market owners and below-market listings, letter campaigns, a pipeline to track who you've written to. If your bottleneck is leads, you want one.
The expensive moment is the reply
A lead is free to get wrong. An offer isn't. When the owner calls back, you need the number in minutes, and you need to still believe it a week later when the survey, the finance and the solicitor have all had their say. That's underwriting, and it's a different job from sourcing.
What PropertyPredator does
- Back-solves the maximum offer from the margin you need, with every cost line shown
- Takes the end value from real sold prices on the street, not asking prices
- Names the company behind a title and its directors, for England, Wales and Scotland, so the letter goes to the right people, and drafts it
- Letters posted through PropertyPredator carry an opt-out and are checked against our do-not-contact list first
- Runs flip, BRRR, buy-to-let, HMO, conversion and ground-up appraisals with the working shown
- Saves the deal with its figures: pipeline and PDF reports
If you already pay for a sourcing tool, keep it. When a lead replies, bring the address here for the number. See how it works, with the working shown →
Finding a deal is the easy half.
Whichever category you buy from, the expensive mistake comes when you decide what to offer. Overpay once by £10,000 and no subscription saving gets it back. So before you pay for any tool, run this on a property you already know.
- 1 · Pick a property you know the answers for.One where you know the owner, what it sold for and what's happened to it since. You're marking the tool's homework, not learning the property.
- 2 · Who owns it?Ask for the company behind the title and the people who run it. In PropertyPredator: Owner X-Ray names the company and its directors, for England, Wales and Scotland. A private owner's name is only on the official register copy.
- 3 · What's it really worth?Ask where the end value comes from. In PropertyPredator: real sold prices on the street, not asking prices.
- 4 · What's the most you should pay?Ask for a maximum offer worked back from the margin you need, with every cost line shown. In PropertyPredator: the Deal Analyser back-solves it, and your first one is free.
- 5 · Can you defend it tomorrow?Save the deal with its figures and come back to it. In PropertyPredator: saved deals, a pipeline and PDF reports, so the number you offered is the number you can show.
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