Property research tools for South African estate agents
Full deeds reports out of the registry, 15 nearby registered sales with every one of them, and a map of what actually sold that gets denser each month you work a suburb.
Each section says whether it runs today or arrives with Organisations. The shipped ones work the moment you sign in. The rest are specified, not imagined.
Full deeds reports
Search an address and the title history comes back. Who owns it, every registered transfer with its price and date, the bonds and the institutions behind them, and the endorsements sitting against the title.
It comes out of the Deeds Office through LexisNexis WinDeed, so what you are reading is registry data rather than a portal's asking price. A lookup that ends not found, ambiguous or failed gives the credit back.
The price map
Every report brings back exactly 15 nearby registered sales alongside the property itself. They cost nothing extra, they are stored, and they come back as price tags on the map the next time you are working that area.
Measured across production reports, 59% of those sales repeat inside a concentrated working area. The remainder is new, which works out to 6.1 genuinely new price points per report. So one report is sixteen facts rather than one, and after a few months in the same suburb you are reading your own record of what sold instead of guessing at it.
Today that map is yours alone. Organisations pools it across the firm. There is more on where South African property data comes from in our posts on the property data market.
Roles that match a firm
The person who settles the account is usually not the person reading deeds data, and at a small agency they are often not even in the building. That is what Billing is for. They can pay the bill, buy credits and see what drove the spend, without holding a seat that spends anything.
Three roles, one per member, and a firm always keeps at least one Admin.
| Role | Org settings and invites | Billing | Fetch reports | See org library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AdminRuns the org | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| BillingPays the account | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| MemberDoes the research | No | No | Yes | Yes |
Invitations without ceremony
Paste your colleagues' email addresses into one field. Each becomes a chip you can pull back out, each gets its own role before anything leaves, and you can add a message.
Before the send control goes live, the form works out what those invitations do to your workspace count and tells you where they leave you against your cap. Sending costs nothing. A seat is counted on acceptance, not on send, and an invitation only binds to a Google account carrying the address it was sent to. Anything still outstanding can be resent or revoked from the member list.
Credits that behave
One balance for the whole firm, drawn down by everyone, and it does not expire. Two agents fetching at the same moment cannot both claim the last credit.
Auto-top-up is on by default and buys more when the balance reaches its low-water mark, bounded by a monthly ceiling the Admin sets. An Admin can switch it off. With it off, the low-balance warning goes to Billing first and escalates to the Admin if nobody acts, and because most small agencies have no Billing member at all, the chain drops straight to the Admin.
What it never does is interrupt an agent sitting in a seller's lounge. They cannot buy credits, and finding out about a billing problem in front of a client helps nobody. Buying top-ups already works today on a personal account.
Spend you can see
Every credit spent records which member spent it. Admins and Billing get usage broken down by person, so the end of the month produces an answer rather than a total.
Map-first search
Search starts on the map. Type an address, watch the pin land, and drag it if Google put it on the wrong side of the road. The deeds search follows the marker.
Saved properties draw their surveyed parcel outline, taken from the Chief Surveyor-General's cadastral data rather than a circle around a centroid. Satellite view is one click away when you need to see the roof and the yard. Sectional schemes have their own route, because a street address inside a complex returns every unit in the building and you have to pick yours.
The grey price tags scattered around your properties are the nearby sales you already own.
POPIA posture
WinDeed returns a natural person's identity number in full. A South African ID number carries a date of birth, a gender marker and a citizenship marker in one string, and nothing findproperly does needs any of it. So it is withheld by default, enforced on the page and again on the route behind it. The name and the document number already answer who owns the property.
Your library is your own. Reports one customer buys are not visible to another, and Organisations keeps that boundary at the firm rather than dissolving it. Our privacy policy sets out what is collected and why.
Search your first property
Sign in with a Google account, type an address, and read the title history. A lookup that comes back empty or ambiguous does not cost a credit.
There is a shorter version of all of this on the findproperly home page.