Property Deal Summit dinnerEarl of Doncaster17 September 2026
Before the summit
Two kinds of people at this table
Already a member
You know the calculators
Tonight is about the parts you may not have opened yet: Deal Finder, the map workspace, the watchlist that emails you when something moves.
Here for the dinner
Tomorrow you'll hear one question fifty times
“Is this a deal?” Most people answer from gut and a portal listing. This is the tool that answers it with the arithmetic already done, for the strategy you actually run.
Where we all start
Finding a deal is still a manual hunt
The process hasn't changed in twenty years. It scales with your patience, not with the market.
01
Search a portal
Narrow by price, beds and postcode. The only things a portal knows about.
02
Eyeball the listings
Scroll. Judge from photographs and a guess at the refurb.
03
Shortlist a few
Whichever ones survived the scroll before you got bored.
04
Type them into a spreadsheet
Where the deal is finally judged. One property at a time, by hand.
The bottleneck isn't the market. It's step four.
The question a portal can't answer
“Is this a deal, for the strategy I actually run?”
One house. Four investors. Four completely different answers, and none of them are on the listing.
Buy-to-letHold for rental income
Worth a look
Buy, refurb, refinanceRecycle the capital
Strong fit
HMO conversionRoom-by-room let
Planning risk
FlipRefurbish and sell
Margin too thin
Illustrative verdict bands, not a forecast. Every real verdict is computed from that property's own figures.
So we turned it around
Stop hunting deals. Start choosing from the ones that already scored.
Property Compass scores the market against every strategy, continuously, in the background, before you ever open it. When you sit down, the analysis is already finished.
Deal Finder · I found it with Property Compass
Set your criteria. Get back scored, ranked deals.
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Open propertycompass.co.uk/app/deal-finder in the other window. Type Doncaster, pick the first suggestion, add Beds & baths, press Run now.
What sits behind a score
Every strategy modelled properly, not a yield box
Twenty-six strategy calculators plus a refurb cost estimator, each with its own engine: real finance structure, real cost stacks, real tax treatment, real exit.
Commercial-to-resiHMO conversionMulti-flat conversionMulti-SA conversionMixed-useGround-up new buildLand development
Commercial & specialist
OfficeRetailIndustrialHealthcareStudent (PBSA)
VAT 708 treatment on conversions, not a flat percentage
Permitted-development posture flagged where planning bites
Stress testing for rate rises, voids and cost overruns
The bit nobody else builds
It is designed to tell you no
Every scored deal carries a verdict band. Four of the five are reasons to slow down or walk away, and that is deliberate.
ExceptionalClears every threshold for the strategy with room to spare.
StrongA solid fit. Worth the twenty minutes of your own diligence.
ReviewSomething doesn't sit right. Look closer before you act.
High riskProceed with caution. The numbers or the planning are against you.
No dataWe don't know enough to say. We'd rather tell you that than guess.
A tool that flatters every deal is worth nothing. The value is in the ones it stops you buying.
What it's built on
Built on what sold, not what someone hoped to get
Every score and every district metric traces back to a named source. Nothing is invented to fill a gap, and when we don't know, we say so.
HM Land RegistrySold prices, transaction volumes
ONSRents, incomes, demographics
Bank of EnglandRate environment
EPC registerEnergy ratings, floor area
Environment AgencyFlood risk
PropertyDataRents, demand, comparables (licensed)
Live market listingsContinuously swept and re-scored
Evidence, not timers
A listing is only “gone” when we looked and it wasn't there
Never a stopwatch. A site changing its layout can't be mistaken for a property disappearing.
Flagged, not filled
Partial data is marked partial
An empty lookup carries that on its face instead of quietly substituting an estimate.
Visible degradation
Cached is labelled cached
If a page is serving older market data, a banner says so, with the time it refreshes.
Discovery · Explore
One map. Four ways in.
Sourcing tools start with a deal and tell you the numbers. Explore starts with the map and tells you whether an area deserves your time at all.
Discover
Rank the districts
2,700+ districts ranked by yield, price, growth and demand. Click one and every other view follows it.
Research
The district dossier
Prices, rents, incomes, tenure, broadband, crime, flood risk, planning and Article 4, on one page.
Properties
Live listings on the same map
Narrowed by budget, beds, type and strategy preset, with the market data underneath.
Compare
Two or three districts side by side
30+ metrics, and a branded PDF report you can take into a meeting.
2,700+Districts you can screen and rank
15Metrics on the heatmap
30+Metrics when you compare areas
1Map, shared by all four views
Discovery · Property Search
Every listing, with the homework already attached
Search the live market by postcode, radius or the map you're looking at. Open a listing and the diligence is there before you've phoned the agent.
On every listing
Sold comparablesPrice per sq ftEPCTenureSchoolsBroadbandCrimeFlood riskCouncil taxPlanning historyArticle 4HMO registerPrice growthDemographics
Sold comparables near the postcode, with price per square foot, distance and tenure.
Strategy presets so an HMO search and a flip search start from different settings.
Save the search and get alerts. Daily or weekly email when a new listing matches, up to 15 saved searches.
Send it into a calculator with the price, beds and postcode already filled in.
Article 4 overlay on the map, so HMO-restricted areas are visible before you shortlist.
Once you've found it
The finder is the front door, not the whole house
Model
Every calculator
Save, load, compare side by side, export to PDF or CSV, share by link or as a WhatsApp image.
Track
Portfolio
Your properties with real financials, five-year projections, stress testing and notes that follow the property.
Watch
Watchlist & alerts
Follow districts, properties or a saved search. Weekly digests and new-match alerts by email.
Our most popular feature
Opportunity Nuggets
Every week, one page on something that changes a decision: a rule that just landed, a route to value most people miss, a cost nobody budgets for. An infographic you can read in two minutes, and a write-up when you want the detail.
Right to Rent changes on 1 OctoberWhat landlords must check
The VAT ambush that inflates your SDLTOption to tax, TOGC and the tax on a tax
No blanket pet bansWhat England's new pet rules mean for landlords
Could your shop grow up?Two Part 20 routes with different height rules
46Published since December 2025
WeeklyOne every week, checked against gov.uk
FreeThe whole archive, with a free account
SearchableBy month, by tag, by keyword, at /app/nuggets
Community
Other investors doing the same thing, in the same tool
Discussions
A proper forum
Categories, threads and replies, from first-deal nerves to commercial conversions.
Activity feed
Short posts, quick reactions
What people are seeing this week. Moderated, so it stays useful.
Directory
Find the right people
Browse members by what they do, then message them directly.
Events
Meetups and workshops
Calendar, RSVP, reminders, add-to-calendar. Tonight is on it.
Deal board
Deals, discussed
Submit a deal, get market data attached automatically, and hear what the room thinks. Plus a curated Deal of the Week.
Roadmap
You vote on what we build
A public feedback portal: post an idea, vote on others, watch it move on the roadmap.
Discussions, feed, directory and events are free. Deal board, Deal of the Week and direct messages come with Member.
New · Consultations
An hour with someone who has actually done it
Book one-to-one time with a practising-investor coach, inside the app. Each coach sets their own offering and price. You pay per session, not per month.
01
Pick a coach and an offering
Browse the live coaches and what each one offers. Request a time; the coach confirms it or proposes another.
02
Pay per session
One-off card payment with a VAT invoice. Not part of the subscription. Cancel more than 48 hours ahead for a full refund.
03
It lands in your calendar
Confirmed sessions appear on your Property Compass calendar with a join link and a reminder the day before.
Booking is a Member feature. Coaches are independent practising investors sharing experience; neither they nor Property Compass provide regulated financial advice.
What it costs
Serious analytics, without the four-figure annual commitment
Deal-sourcing CRMs£90 – £200 / monthMotivated-seller letters and pipelines. Four or so calculators. No community, no area research.
Bundled coaching programmes£80 – £250 / monthBilled yearly, plus VAT. Software, training and community sold as one package. Nothing free any more.
Premium analytics suites£179 – £1,000+ / monthGood heatmaps behind a high tier, and currently a waiting list.
AI deal-pipeline appsabout £40 / monthPaste a URL, get an analysis. Half a dozen strategies. No free tier.
Property Compass£30 / month or £300 / yearTwenty-six strategies, area research, portfolio, watchlist and community. VAT included. And a free tier that stays free.
Third-party prices as checked in August 2026; they change. Ours include 20% UK VAT.
If you want a look
Start tonight. Decide in a fortnight.
Free, no card
Have a proper poke around
Buy-refurb-refinance and flip calculators. The 170+ term glossary. The basic UK heatmap. Opportunity Nuggets, community, events and the deal board.
£0 for as long as you like
Member · 14-day free trial
The full workspace, including Deal Finder
All 26 strategy calculators with save, compare and export. The 15-metric map workspace, area research, portfolio, watchlist and alerts. Cancel inside the fortnight and the card is never charged.
£30 / month · £300 / year, two months free
propertycompass.co.uk/pricing
All prices include 20% UK VAT (VRN GB 517 7995 39). 14-day free trial under the Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013; cancel any time during the trial and your card is never charged.
Before you go
Two power banks. One draw.
Free to enter. Drawn tonight.
To finish
The deal was always out there. You just couldn't do the maths fast enough.
That's the whole idea. Everything else is interface. See you at the summit tomorrow.
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