GuidePremium

What premium unlocks

What changes when you upgrade, the two ways to pay, and what stays free.

Most first-time buyers are not seriously comparing dozens of houses at once. They are weighing up a handful of real contenders, and more often than not doing it alongside someone else. Premium is built around that moment, when three properties stop being enough and you want another person’s numbers brought into the picture properly rather than worked out over text.

The free tier

Free gets you the whole core of the app. You can add properties by hand or by screenshot or with the browser extension, and you get full scoring, the map, notes and read-only share links. The one free-tier limit is how many properties you can add, which is capped at 3.

Worth knowing

That cap counts properties you have ever added, not how many you are holding right now. Deleting a property does not give you the slot back, so once you have added three on the free tier, that is the three you get. It is worth being a little choosy about what you add rather than adding one to take a quick look and deleting it again.

What premium adds

Premium lifts the property cap and unlocks everything to do with buying alongside someone else. That means inviting and linking a partner, seeing their properties and notes next to your own, scores worked out from both sets of finances, and shared costs divided the way you have actually agreed rather than assumed to be even.

In practice the cap is gone. There is a ceiling of 75 properties on a premium account, but it exists to stop an account being abused rather than to limit house hunting, and it is far beyond what anyone genuinely comparing homes will reach. Unlike the free tier, it counts what you are holding right now, so deleting a property does free the slot back up.

Two ways to pay

Premium costs the same to use whichever way you pay for it. You can take it monthly at £6.99, or buy a one-off annual pass at £19.99 that covers a full year.

The pass comes to less than three months of the monthly plan, so it tends to suit anyone who has a rough idea of when their search will wrap up, and would rather pay once and forget about it. The monthly plan is the more flexible option if you would sooner keep things open-ended and stop whenever you like. Either way the features are identical, and either one covers a linked partner too.

Worth knowing

The annual pass does not renew. When its 12 months are up premium simply ends and you drop back to the free tier, with nothing taken automatically, so there is no recurring charge to remember to cancel. If you want to carry on, you buy another pass or switch to the monthly plan.

Inherited premium

Only one of you actually needs to pay. The moment you link with a partner, premium is shared automatically, so if either of you subscribes then both of you get the full feature set for as long as the link stays active. There is no second account to upgrade and no second subscription to keep track of.

Quick note

Sending a partner invite is the one action that requires premium, and accepting one never does. Somebody on the free tier who gets invited by a premium partner can accept freely and inherits the benefits straight away.