One brief, matched to the homes that fit

Describe the home you need once. Oscar checks it against public listings and private homes that agents choose to share, and the selling agent handles every viewing.

Free for people searching

No fees, no subscription and no charge if you buy. Oscar plans to earn from agents, for the tools they use to share homes and reach the right buyers.

Whatever an agent pays, it never changes where a home appears in your matches.

Step 1

Describe what you need, once

Say it in your own words. Oscar asks the follow-up questions an experienced buying agent would, and saves your answers as a brief you can edit or delete at any time. Anything Oscar guesses stays marked until you confirm it.

A notebook with a sketched floor plan beside a small white model house.

Your brief

Example

Home: Four-bedroom house; You said
Budget: Up to £4.5m; You said
Must have: A garden; You said
Prefer: A quiet street; You said
Schools: Walk to a good primary; You said
Condition: Happy to renovate; Oscar’s guess

Step 2

See what fits, public and private

Oscar checks public listings it has permission to use, and private homes: homes for sale that aren’t advertised, where the selling agent chooses who hears about them. Every match says why it fits, where it falls short and where it came from.

Public listing

Example

Period house with a west-facing garden

Guide £4.25m

Against your brief

Fits: Four bedrooms and a garden
Fits: Inside your £4.5m budget
Fits: Six minutes on foot to a good primary
Falls short: On a bus route, and you prefer a quiet street
Not known yet: Whether the loft has been converted

From the selling agent’s website, checked this morning.

A public listing, linked back to the original.

A model house under a glass dome, set apart from the houses around it. — A private home, shown discreetly until the agent chooses to share more.

Step 3

Share more only when it matters

You can look around without signing up. Oscar asks for more only when a particular home calls for it, and tells you why.

Browsing: Nothing at all.
Saved brief: Your email, so your brief is kept.
Still looking: A quick check every few weeks that you’re still searching.
Ready to buy: How you’d fund it and your timing, such as proof of funds, when you choose to move.
A private home: Whatever the selling agent needs for that home, such as a confidentiality agreement. You see the list before you share anything.

A hand opening the lit front door of a white model townhouse.

Step 4

The agent takes it from there

The selling agent decides who hears about a home, what they see and when. Oscar makes the introduction and steps back. If a private home later goes on the open market, your notes on it stay in your brief.

1
You
Ask about a private home that fits your brief.
2
You
Choose which parts of your brief the agent can see.
3
Agent
Reviews your interest. If it isn’t the right fit, you’re told clearly and your details go no further.
4
Agent
Shares the full details and arranges a viewing directly with you.

What Oscar won’t do

Sell your place in the list

Nobody can pay to move a property higher up your matches.

Pass on your details without asking

The selling agent sees only the parts of your brief you choose to share, for the home you asked about.

Speak for the agent

Agents talk to you under their own name. Oscar never pretends to be them.

Claim to see everything

Oscar tells you where each property comes from and never claims to cover the whole market.

Start with one sentence

It’s free. Tell Oscar what you’re looking for, refine your brief as you go, and nothing is shared without your say-so.

Start your brief