GuideMap & locations

Using the map

Every property you are tracking, plotted and priced on a single map.

Every serious house hunt turns eventually into a mess of browser tabs and a half-updated spreadsheet, with no real sense of how the places you are considering sit relative to each other or to the rest of your life. The map is where The First Move starts. Everything you are tracking is plotted and priced in one view, so comparing your shortlist takes a glance rather than a reconstruction project every time you open the app.

Reading 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.

The property list

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.

Adding from the map

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.

Finding your way around

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.

On mobile

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.