Features
BRICKS is the operating system for a UK property business, from the first viewing to the standing portfolio.
Find and win the deal
From the first postcode to a reasoned offer on the table.
Deal pipeline
Run every deal through nine stages, from first lead to final exit: appraisal, offer, legals, finance, refurb, snagging and out. Each stage carries its own checklist, so the searches, the chases and the certificates are tracked, not remembered.
- Nine-stage board, move a deal forward as it progresses
- A checklist on every stage so nothing is skipped
- Every live deal and its next action at a glance
Deals rarely die on price, they die in the gaps, a missed search or a chase that never happened. A pipeline that tells you what is next keeps every deal moving.
Deal Analyzer
Appraise any strategy on its own terms: buy-to-let, HMO, flip, refurb-to-refinance (BRRR) and serviced accommodation. BRICKS works out net monthly cashflow, ROI, cash left in after refinance, GDV and profit on cost, and stress-tests the deal against a rate rise so you see the downside, not just the headline.
- Five strategies, each with the metrics that matter
- Stamp duty, refurb, finance and holding costs all in
- A rate stress-test so a rise does not surprise you
Most deals look good on a headline yield and lose money in the detail. You walk into a viewing knowing the number you can pay, not the number you hope works.
Walkthrough survey
Tick through the property room by room on the viewing, flag every issue with a photo, and BRICKS turns it into a priced schedule of works. A built-in quantity-surveyor review then catches the works people forget, the companion jobs and the compliance items.
- Room-by-room snagging with photos
- An auto-priced schedule of works
- QS review catches the missing and companion works
Your refurb budget is built from what you actually saw, not a finger-in-the-air guess. The optimistic estimate is the number one deal-killer, so kill it on the day.
Site intelligence
Type a postcode and read the site before you commit: Article 4 directions, conservation areas, listed buildings, flood risk, coal mining, radon, national parks and live flood warnings, alongside sold-price comparables.
- One postcode, every planning and environmental constraint
- Live flood warnings and historic risk
- Sold-price comps to sense-check your GDV
One Article 4 direction or flood zone can turn a profit into a loss, or a house into something you cannot mortgage. Catch the deal-killers in two minutes, not two weeks into legals.
Offer letters that show the working
Generate an offer letter that lays out the reasoning behind your number, the condition, the works and the comparables, ready to send.
- Reasoned offer letters in a click, backed by your own appraisal
Agents and vendors take you seriously when the offer reads like a buyer who has done the work, not a chancer with a lowball.
Run the build
When a deal moves to refurb, the programme takes over.
Construction programme
Once a deal hits refurb, BRICKS gives you a full construction programme: a Gantt you build yourself or import from your builder's own schedule, with a linked task table underneath.
- Draggable phase bars over a dated timeline with a today line
- A task table with start, end, duration, % complete and variance
- Lock a baseline, then watch every slip against it
Overruns cost money you have already borrowed. The moment a phase slips you see the new completion date and exactly how far off plan you are.
Owners you can call from the chart
Every phase and task has an owner. Tap the owner and a contact card opens with their mobile, email and role, pulled from your contractor vault. Call or email without leaving the programme.
- An owner on every task
- One tap to their contact card, call or email
When the plasterer is late you want their number in one tap, not a dig through your phone.
Site meetings that move the programme
Log each site meeting against a proper agenda, attach photos straight from your phone, and record the decisions. Flag a delay against a phase and BRICKS pushes that phase and everything after it, and updates the completion date.
- A dated meeting log with a structured agenda
- Photos per meeting, synced with the deal
- Flag a delay and the programme redraws itself
The programme stays honest. The slip you agreed on site is on the chart by the time you are back in the car, and you can see what it did to the finish date.
Manage what you keep
The held portfolio, tracked the way a landlord actually needs.
The portfolio wall
Every property you hold on one wall, grouped by strategy, each showing rent in, costs out and net cashflow, with a growth chart over time.
- Your whole portfolio at a glance, by strategy
- Rent, costs and net cashflow on every property
- A growth chart of rent, outgoings and net cashflow
You see what the portfolio actually earns, not what you think it earns.
Compliance clocks
A compliance engine runs a colour-coded clock on every legal obligation: gas safety, EICR, EPC, insurance and licences. Green when in date, amber when due, red when lapsed.
- A clock per certificate, per property
- Amber warnings before anything expires
One glance tells you what is in date, what is due and what could cost you a fine. A lapsed gas certificate is a criminal offence, and BRICKS makes sure you never find out the hard way.
Payments Out
Forecast the cash leaving the portfolio: mortgage payments, insurance, service charges and recurring costs, filterable so you can see exactly what is due and when.
- Every outgoing in one forecast
- Filter by property, type or date
No nasty surprises at the bank. You see the money going out before it goes.
Run the business
The admin layer that holds the whole thing together.
Grout, your assistant
Grout reads your deals and your documents so you do not have to. Ask it to search a deal, turn an email thread into a list of actions, draft a quotation, tender or planning statement, or read a document you drop in and log the dates, certificates and terms automatically.
- Search and summarise any deal in plain English
- Turn email threads into actions
- Draft quotations, tenders and planning statements
- Read a document and pull out the key dates and terms
Admin is where your hours go. Grout hands them back, and makes sure the action buried halfway down an email actually gets done.
Invoices
Raise a clean invoice in seconds with your company name, number and address, for your time, your mileage at the HMRC rate of 55p a mile, and your expenses, with an optional VAT line and a tidy PDF.
- Time, mileage and expense lines
- HMRC 55p mileage built in
- Optional VAT, exported as a PDF
In a joint venture the value you bring vanishes if it is never written down. Capture your time and costs as you go and claim everything you are owed, and everything you can against tax.
Everything in one place
Comms, documents and your Google Drive sit against each deal, your diary and deadlines live in the calendar, and Planning Watch monitors your live applications so a decision finds you without you refreshing the council portal. All of it cloud-synced, offline-capable and backed up.
- Comms, documents and Drive against every deal
- Calendar for diary and deadlines
- Planning Watch for live applications
Your business should not live across a dozen apps and a notes folder. BRICKS holds the lot, keeps it safe, and lets you carry on from any device.
Everything a property business needs, from the first viewing to the standing portfolio.