GuideProperties

Sharing a property

Generate a password-protected, read-only link to a property's cost breakdown, no account required to view it.

Buying a first home rarely happens in isolation. There is usually a parent or two keeping half an eye on things, maybe the bank of mum and dad quietly involved in the deposit, or a friend you trust enough to sanity-check a big decision with. Sharing a property gives you a proper, professional-looking cost breakdown to send them, rather than a screenshot of a spreadsheet or a garbled explanation over text.

Creating a share link

Open a property, expand it to the full view, and use the share icon in the row of buttons alongside the tabs. On desktop the share icon only appears once you have expanded the property from the narrow quick-view drawer, so if you cannot see it, expand the property first. On mobile, properties always open full screen, so it is there straight away.

You set a password when you create the link. Anyone opening it has to enter that password first, so a link on its own is no use to whoever finds it. Once the link is ready you are handed both the link and the password to pass on, and it is worth sending them separately, by different messages or apps, so the password is not sitting in the same place as the link it protects.

What a viewer sees

Whoever opens the link is first asked for the password you set. Once they enter it, they see a read-only breakdown of that property, with no account or sign-in required on their end. Before you send one, it is worth being clear about exactly what is on that page, because it is more than just the property.

They see the property itself, meaning its title and price, the bedrooms and bathrooms, the council tax band and postcode, a link back to the original listing, and the full monthly breakdown of mortgage, council tax and bills. They also see the following about you, and about your linked partner if you have one.

  • Your first names.
  • Your monthly take-home pay.
  • Your share of the costs, and the split percentage between you.
  • Every one of your personal outgoings, itemised by name and amount, so a car loan or a credit card is listed individually rather than rolled into a total.
  • What each of you would have left over each month.

Read this before you send one

In other words, a share link exposes your salary and your debts, by name, to whoever holds it. That is genuinely useful when you are showing a parent helping with a deposit exactly where you stand, which is what the feature is for, but it is not the sort of link to drop into a group chat.

The link is a long, randomly generated code, so nobody is going to stumble onto it by chance, the page is hidden from search engines, and it is protected by the password you set, so a leaked link alone reveals nothing. What it cannot do is be withdrawn once sent, as covered below. Treat it the way you would treat handing someone a copy of your bank statement, and send it, and its password, only to people you actually mean to.

Expiry and replacing links

A share link stays valid for 7 days, then stops working on its own. Whoever opens it sees a live countdown ticking down to the exact minute it expires, so it is always obvious how much longer it is good for.

It shows live figures the whole time, rather than a frozen snapshot from the moment you sent it. Edit the property’s price or bills afterwards and the link does not break, whoever holds it simply sees the updated numbers next time they open it.

Sharing again replaces the last link. Every time you share a property you set a fresh password and get a brand new link, and the previous one is retired the instant the new one is made. It stops working straight away, password and all, so only ever one link per property is live at a time. The app warns you of this before you create the new one.

That is also how you pull back a link you have sent to the wrong person: share the property again, and the old link dies on the spot. If you would rather not create a replacement, deleting the property removes its links too. What you cannot do is pause a single link and bring it back later, since retiring one is permanent.