A research report on the exact property you're about to commit to, buying or selling. Buyers get the fair-price band, the red flags, the walk-away number and the checklist of what to verify before signing. Sellers get the estimated sale range, what buyers' reports will find, what's worth fixing first, and when and how to list. Every material source cited. Human-reviewed, and delivered within 24 hours of payment.
Buying or selling, pick the report that fits and pay by secure card checkout (Stripe). Nothing to arrange first — no call, no quote, no waiting on us to come back to you.
Checkout asks three things: the listing link if you're buying or the address if you're selling, any documents you already hold, and your deadline or auction date. That's the whole brief. We email you to confirm we've got what we need — and if anything's missing, to ask for it.
The same evidence engine works both directions: value, land, planning, hazards, condition risks and market position. Every claim is checked against the source that made it, human-reviewed, and delivered within 24 hours of your payment.
These are genuine reports from our engine on real New Zealand properties, published as samples with the identifying details changed. The first two are the same lifestyle block seen through the $99 and the $179 lens, so you can see exactly what the extra buys: both find a pesticide listing on the land that has never been tested in thirty years, and the investor version then puts the asset through six stress tests, five of which it fails. The third is a seller’s report, and it takes apart the number its owner was about to be sold: the suburb’s headline “4.79% above rating value” turns out to be built almost entirely from land-play sales where the house is rated at $42,000. This property is the opposite.
It's the first question to ask of anyone who gives you property advice: "free" advice is usually paid for by whoever profits when you transact. Our answer is short: you do, and nobody else. Our only revenue is the report fee. We take no commissions, no referral fees, no affiliate income and no payment for leads. Not from agents, developers, lenders, inspectors or anyone else in the transaction. Our fee is the same whether you buy or walk away, and for sellers the same whatever you decide to do with the house, so the report has nothing to defend except the evidence. That's why it can, and does, conclude that the evidence doesn't support the price.
Refund rule: full refund if we miss the 24-hour delivery window, or if a report contains a demonstrated factual error material to its conclusions. The clock starts when your payment is confirmed — the one exception being that if we have to come back to you for something only you can supply, it starts when you reply. And if we can't take your property on at all, we tell you and refund you in full before doing any work. Prices in New Zealand dollars. Nothing here limits your rights under the Consumer Guarantees Act.
Unusual property — leasehold, a body corporate, bare land, something mid-subdivision? Ask us first and we'll tell you straight before you pay anything.
In development: Shortlist Watch (we watch your shortlist while you hunt) and Investor Mandate (your suburbs monitored, with alerts). Monthly products, priced when they launch. Register interest via the same form.
You don't have to — the checkout above is the whole process, and most people use it. This is for the cases where a straight answer first is worth more than speed: an unusual property, a question about what's actually in the report, or you'd simply like to know we can do it justice before you spend anything.
Send it through and we'll tell you straight, including if the answer is no. We'd rather turn a property away than sell you a report we can't do well.
The same form registers interest in Shortlist Watch and Investor Mandate when they launch.
Buying to a deadline? You don't need this form. The deadline field is in checkout, and it's what decides the running order.
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We use what you send to answer your question, prepare your report if you go ahead, and contact you about it — nothing else. See how we handle your information.
No. A registered valuation is a regulated product performed by a registered valuer. This is independent research and screening: it tells you what the evidence says, what's unverified, and what to check. Many buyers use both.
Send us your address — the property doesn't need to be listed anywhere. We research it exactly the way we research a purchase for a buyer: council valuation and its history, comparable sales each against its own rating value, hazard and planning overlays, condition risks by era, services and school zones. Then we point it the other way: the sale range the evidence supports, the red flags a buyer's report will find (so you find them first), which improvements the local market actually pays back (and which to skip), and when and how to list. You can also tell us what you've done to the house; we treat that as your statement and verify what's material against the records.
No. We don't provide financial advice, and nothing in a report is a recommendation about lending, loan structure, KiwiSaver or any financial product. A report puts the verified evidence, the risks and a price discipline in front of you so your own decision is an informed one.
It won't make the decision for you — that stays yours. What it will do is state conclusions from the evidence: that the available evidence doesn't support the asking price, that the property fails the published criteria or your stated budget, or that specific checks must be answered before anyone should commit. There's a difference between "the evidence says walk away above $1.3M" and "we advise you not to buy". We do the first, precisely, and never the second.
The research engine is AI-run against a fixed committee methodology, with every rank-moving figure checked against two independent sources and a human review before anything ships. The reviewer checks the property's identity against the official record, the material sources, the price inputs and the consistency of the conclusions — the machine does the reading; the standard does the judging.
Investor reports score a property out of 100 as the weighted sum of 11 components; the full component list and its weights are printed in every report (open the investor sample above). 75 is the investability threshold, and scores are never normalised up to flatter a property. An asterisk marks a provisional figure: one resting on a single source. "Verified" is reserved for figures where two independent sources agree. The FHB and Seller's reports carry no score — a score is an investor question.
Then it says so, with the evidence — a documented walk-away is a complete report, not a failed one. Clear evidence against a purchase, before you're committed, is the discipline you're paying for; it's often the most valuable report we produce. The seller-side equivalent: if the evidence says your house is worth less than you hoped, the report says that too, and shows you exactly which levers move the number.
Stripe emails you a receipt straight away. We then email you to confirm we have everything we need and that your report is under way. If something in the brief is missing or won't open — an expired listing link, an address we can't match to a record — that email asks you for it instead, and we start the moment you reply. If we can't take the property on at all, we say so and refund you in full before doing any work.
The clock starts when your payment is confirmed. The one exception: if we have to come back to you for something only you can supply, it starts when you reply, because until then the report can't begin. Miss the window and you get a full refund. Same if a report contains a demonstrated factual error material to its conclusions — reply to your delivery email with the evidence and we'll put it right. A report that concludes the property isn't worth the price is the product working, not grounds for a refund. Nothing here limits your rights under the Consumer Guarantees Act.
What you submit (contact details, listing links or your address, deadlines, anything you tell us about the property) is used to prepare and deliver your report, and correspond with you. It lives in the systems that run the service (checkout, form intake, email); we never sell it and never pass it to agents, developers or marketers. The property analysis itself is AI-assisted, then human-reviewed. You can ask for a copy, correction or deletion of your information at any time by replying to any email from us.
All of New Zealand. Our monitoring depth is strongest where our research libraries are warmest (Canterbury, Auckland and Wellington today), and every region library deepens with use.