Using the map

Every property you add shows up as a pin labelled with its price, rounded to something readable from a distance like £450k or £1.2m. Price is required when you add a property and whenever you edit one, so every pin carries a figure. Your own properties are purple and anything a linked partner has added is teal, which makes whose is whose obvious without opening anything. Tap a pin to select it and open its panel, then tap the same one again to close it. Scores are not shown on pins, so you will need to open a property to see one.

The important places you saved in your profile show up too, as small labelled pin-and-dot markers using the same purple and teal split. From a property’s panel you can draw the actual drive or walk route to one of them straight onto the map rather than only reading a number off a list, which is covered in showing routes on the map.

Prefer a list to squinting at a cluster of overlapping pins? The "List" button opens a floating panel with one row per property, each carrying a coloured dot for whose it is alongside the title, the price and the bedroom count. Tapping a row flies the map to that property and opens its panel exactly as tapping the pin would. The list is simply a quicker way in when you already know roughly which one you are after.

The "Add" button opens the add property form, covered in full on the adding properties page. Land on the map with nothing tracked yet and a welcome prompt appears automatically, taking you straight into adding your first one rather than leaving you looking at an empty map wondering where to start.

A small chip shows the general search area you set during onboarding ("No search area" if you skipped that step), with a button that flies the map straight back there whenever you have scrolled off somewhere else entirely. Standard zoom controls sit in the corner, and the map itself switches between a light and dark style automatically, matching whichever theme you have set for the rest of the app.

If you have a linked partner, a small toast, along the lines of "Sam added ‘2 Bed Flat, Clapham’", lets you know when they have added a property while you are looking at the map. On a phone you also get a "Buying with" chip naming them, confirming you are looking at a shared view.

Not on premium and not linked to anyone yet? A small "How would premium look?" chip appears on the map instead. Tap it and it asks what would happen if you were buying with someone, then offers three fictional people to try on. Jess has a solid deposit but a lower income and needs you to carry 60% of the shared housing costs. Bella is the straightforward one, steady income and modest outgoings. Mylo brings a great deposit and treats his premium broadband, his gym membership and his subscriptions as entirely non-negotiable.

Pick one and their numbers are folded into the cost breakdown and scores of any property you open, so you can see what buying with someone would do to your affordability picture before paying for anything. The map itself stays as it was, with no extra pins, since all of this happens inside the property panel.

It is a preview built to sell the idea rather than a real shared account. Nobody is linked to you, none of the simulated figures are saved against your properties, and choosing a persona is undone the moment you remove them. The only thing recorded is that you tried it at all, so we know whether the feature earns its place.

The map takes over the full screen, with the Add/List controls sitting in a floating bar near the bottom rather than a toolbar eating into the map itself. A small toggle also lets you hide the app’s bottom navigation bar entirely, worth using if you want every extra pixel of map while you are scanning around an area.