Option 1 · DIY
Go it alone
£0
- Walk in alone, get the brochure price
- Miss the incentives most buyers never know to ask for
- Hunt your own mortgage, solicitor, snagger
- No one to chase the developer when things stall
One dedicated team with you from the first viewing to the day after handover, and for the life of the home through After Keys. We negotiate the price, secure the incentives, manage the mortgage, instruct the solicitor, and line up your insurance. Nothing to pay upfront. Our £495 fee is only paid when you reserve.
Includes Lifetime After Keys membership. Protect, live, and grow in the home you’ve bought. →Nothing to pay upfront. The £495 fee is only paid when you reserve. Work starts the day you sign.
The math is honest
The smallest line item on your new build purchase, returning the biggest single saving. We aren’t paid until you reserve, and the fee is only £495 because the developer also pays us a referral fee. That means our incentive is aligned with yours: get you the right home at the right price.
You pay
£495
One‑time fee, payable only when your reservation is confirmed.
Typical buyer saves
£15k – £40k
In incentives, cashback, mortgage contributions and upgrades developers don’t advertise.
Every new build buyer makes one of three choices. Here’s how they compare on cost, coverage and outcome.
Option 1 · DIY
£0
Option 2 · Recommended
£495
Option 3 · Premium
£5k–£20k
“I bought my first new build and fell for it instantly. Then I realised the developer would have given me thousands more in incentives if I’d known what to ask for. I just didn’t know.”
Buy Assist exists so every UK new build buyer can have the same conversation with the developer that an experienced buyer would have. £495, paid only when you reserve, is what we charge to make sure you do.
You start with a Strategy Call. Only when you reserve a home is the £495 fee paid, and we run the rest of your journey for you: mortgage, legal, completion, and after-keys.
Stage One · Free
A call to understand your budget, area, timeline and what matters most. We confirm whether Buy Assist is the right fit; if so, we email you the Engagement Agreement to sign. Nothing to pay at signing.
Stage Two · Payment moment
We hand-pick your shortlist, arrange viewings, and negotiate the price and incentives package, in writing. The £495 fee is only paid the moment you reserve a home.
£495 paid hereStage Three · Included
Introduction to our whole-of-market FCA broker panel. We coordinate the application, valuation and offer with the broker, so you don’t have to chase paperwork.
Stage Four · Included
Introduction to a vetted SRA solicitor on our panel. Fixed-fee and transparent. We oversee the exchange timeline so it doesn’t stall.
Stage Five · Included
On handover, we connect you with our panel snagging inspector at our negotiated preferential rate. They attend, walk the home, document defects, and produce the written report for the developer. Independent. Paid by you, organised by us, vetted by us.
Stage Six · Lifelong
Lifestyle membership with curated retailer partners (interiors, blinds, lighting, furniture), warranty help, and a remortgage check when your fixed rate ends.
Illustrative examples of typical Buy Assist outcomes. Actual results vary by developer, plot and market conditions.
“£495 in. Tens of thousands back. We’d have paid five times that for what they saved us.”
“First-time buyers, completely overwhelmed. Buy Assist sorted everything. The £495 fee was the easiest spend of our whole purchase.”
“Buy-to-let, fourth property. As an investor, £495 to recover £15k of incentives is the best ROI I’ve done this year.”
Curated shortlist of new build developments matching your brief, budget and lifestyle. Not what’s being pushed by sales offices that week.
The price, the cashback, the upgrade pack, the stamp duty contribution, the mortgage subsidy. All negotiated in writing on your behalf.
We review the reservation form line-by-line before you sign, so the agreed incentives are actually written into the deal.
Introduction to our whole-of-market FCA broker panel. We push the application through alongside the broker.
Introduction to a vetted SRA solicitor on our panel. Fixed-fee, no surprises. We chase the exchange timeline.
Introduction to our panel insurers for buildings, contents and life cover, tied to your mortgage offer date so nothing slips.
On handover day, we introduce you to our panel snagging inspector at our negotiated preferential rate. They inspect, document and report. You pay them directly; you get the panel rate.
Lifestyle perks with our retailer partners, warranty help, and a remortgage check when your fixed rate ends.
Your £495, paid only at reservation, is the only money that ever moves between us. Everything else is paid by the panel partners we introduce you to: the developer at completion, the mortgage broker, the solicitor, the insurer. Their fees to us don’t change your price one penny.
We disclose this on day one because you should always know who pays your adviser. None of those panel splits change the price you pay them.
This is not a discount we’re hiding for ourselves. The developer’s incentive budget is theirs to deploy. We just help you ask for it.
| Your fee to us | £495 |
| Developer commission (paid to us) | varies |
| Mortgage broker referral (if panel used) | varies |
| Conveyancing referral (if panel used) | varies |
| Insurance referral (if panel used) | varies |
All referral fees are paid out of partner margins, not added to your price. You are free to use any provider outside our panel. You just pay your £495 at reservation for our Buy Assist service either way.
Vetted by us, paid by us, and working for you. You don’t have to find, brief, chase, or co-ordinate any of them. That is our job inside your £495.
Whole-of-market and FCA-authorised. Sourced, briefed, and chased on your behalf, from agreement in principle through to offer.
Learn how mortgage works → 02 · LegalSpecialist new build SRA-regulated firm. Fixed fee, no surprises. We chase them, so you don’t have to, from instruction through to exchange and completion.
Learn how legal works → 03 · ProtectionBuildings, contents, and life cover, all from one trusted broker. Cover is tied to your mortgage offer date so nothing slips between exchange and completion.
Learn how protection works → 04 · QualityIndependent inspection arranged by us. You pay the snagger directly at our negotiated panel rate. They walk the home, document defects, and produce the written report. We follow up with the developer in your After Keys window.
See snagging inside After Keys →We disclose all panel commissions on day one. They are paid out of partner margins and are never added to your price. See our full transparency table →
Your £495 enrols you into After Keys automatically. The three pillars (Protect, Live, and Grow) cover everything from snagging to remortgage, with no expiry, no annual fee, and no upsell.
Snagging follow-up, warranty navigation (NHBC, Premier, LABC), Ombudsman support and service charge audits. We chase the developer when they go quiet.
Your new build lifestyle, at member rates. You get curated partners for paint, lighting, furniture, blinds, and art, plus vetted removals, cleaning, locksmiths, and landscapers.
Remortgage check at fixed-rate end, annual insurance review, yearly property check-in, and sale support when you eventually move.
Included with every Buy Assist plan · no extra charge, ever
We work best with serious buyers. Here’s who Buy Assist is for, and who it isn’t.
At reservation. After your free Strategy Call, if we agree we’re a fit, you sign the Buy Assist Engagement Agreement, with nothing to pay at signing. Work begins the day you sign. When you reserve a home we’ve negotiated, we send one payment link for the £495. If you never reserve, you never pay.
Nothing, in most cases. You pay nothing at signing, so there is nothing to refund. If you change your mind before reserving, just tell us and we part as friends, with nothing owed. The £495 only becomes payable once you reserve a home we’ve negotiated, and UK consumer law still gives you a 14-day cooling-off period from signing the Agreement.
UK new build developers operate referral programmes for introducers who bring them prepared, serious buyers. When you exchange contracts, the developer pays us a commission out of their marketing budget. It is not added to your price. Their margin is the same. Your price is the same. The only thing different is you walked away with thousands more in incentives.
If the deal falls through for reasons outside your control (developer pulls out, valuation issues, mortgage refusal), we re-run Buy Assist on the next home at no extra charge. Your £495 covers you until you’re in a home, not just one attempt.
Book a Strategy Call. Tell us where you are in your search and we’ll show you exactly what we’d negotiate. If we’re a fit, you sign the Engagement Agreement and work begins that day. The £495 is only paid when you reserve.
Book your Strategy Call → Prefer to talk? Call 0330 016 9999, Mon to Fri 9am to 5pm. Not ready yet? Grab the free 18-page Buyer’s Guide first.