For independent agents
Own your patch.
THE NEXT INSTRUCTION
The seller is inside the buyer
The buyer side of this trade is solved. The portals do that job well, and every agency pays them to do it. The seller side is the headache. The next instruction decides whether a branch has a good year, and nobody has given the independent agent a proper way to win it.
A patch is not a website. It sits inside homvo, where the looking happens
People come to homvo to watch homes on video the way they already watch everything else, on a phone, with no account and nothing to fill in. Your patch is what they find when they look at your town. Your videos, your homes, your name on the valuation.
They watch, and it is your video
Everyone looking at your area sees your walk-rounds, not a listing grid. Nobody has to follow you first, and nothing has to be posted again to be seen again.
They save it, and follow you
A home gets saved. Your name gets followed. Next time they open homvo your patch is already there, months before anyone is ready to move.
They check their own place
Postcode in, range out, no form, no email, nobody rings them. When they decide to sell, the enquiry comes to you and to nobody else.
Your own Instagram reaches the people who already found you. This is the rest of your town.
Three ways your patch finds the next instruction
Your window works nights
A sticker on the glass, facing out, working after you have gone home. One scan starts a straight valuation and the enquiry that follows comes to you.
Your videos keep working after completion
The walk-round you made for one house carries on introducing you long after the board comes down, to people who were never going to buy it.
Your link in bio finally lands somewhere
One address for every profile, card and email footer, taking people to your homes and your number rather than to a form.
Before anything else
When a valuation enquiry comes in, does it go to the firm or to the agent?
That one answer decides how your patch is built, how many you need, and whose name sits on the page. Everything below follows from it. Nothing else about how you trade makes a difference to us.
Two shapes, and most firms know which one they are in a second.
One patch under the firm's name, or one patch under yours
It is not about the sign over the door or whose licence you hold. A branch, an agency and a network team that allocates its own stock all end up in the first. An agent trading under his own name, with his own book, ends up in the second. Both carry unlimited videos and your whole stock.
The firm's patch
A branch, an agency, or a team where the instruction belongs to the business
- The address
- homvo.co.uk/@yourfirm, taken from the Instagram name people already know you by. It stays with the firm
- Your agents
- Up to fifteen pages under it, each with their own face and name, added when you want them. You decide which homes appear on whose page
- Where enquiries go
- Every one, from a listing or a valuation, on any agent's page, arrives in the firm's inbox
- When someone leaves
- Reassign their homes and the page closes. Every card, link and code they handed out still points at you
- What you pay for
- The patch itself, then each agent page you choose to add
Fits a high street branch or independent agency. A firm with managing partners, employed or self-employed, working a shared area. A team on a network licence that trades as an agency, where stock is allocated and enquiries come to one desk.
Your own patch
An agent trading under his own name, whoever holds the licence
- The address
- homvo.co.uk/@yourname, taken from your own Instagram name. It goes with you
- Your patch
- The postcodes you already work. Yours to name, yours to change
- Where enquiries go
- To you. Not to the network, not to a branch, not to a second agent
- If you move
- The page, the videos and the address move with you. The name above it changes, nothing under it does
- What you pay for
- One patch, yours
Fits an independent agent on a network licence, with his own book and his own patch. A partner agent with a territory of his own. An agent inside a sponsor team who brought his own business with him.
How many patches does a firm like yours need?
Not one per office and not one per agent. One per place where the stock is shared and the enquiries land together.
Shared stock, one patch
If two offices market each other's homes and the enquiries come to the same desk, that is one patch with both towns on it.
Separate stock, separate patches
If each office has its own homes, its own valuer and its own inbox, each one is a patch with its own address.
Agents are pages, not patches
Up to fifteen agent pages sit on one patch. Each is added by you and priced on its own, so you carry only the faces you want out there.
Worked example
Two offices, nine miles apart
Sales and lettings from both, one stock list between them, enquiries to one central address. Three valuers, each with their own listings.
One patch. Three agent pages. One account.
Worked example
Four branches, run as four businesses
Each branch keeps its own homes, its own manager and its own enquiry inbox. Nothing crosses between them.
Four patches. Agents on each. One account.
The question owners ask last, so we will answer it first
An agent page on a firm's patch works like a company phone. The number is issued, it is used while they are there, and when they go it stays with the business.
On the firm's patch
The homes were always the firm's. The address was always the firm's. Reassign the homes, close the page, and anyone arriving on the old link lands on your patch instead of nowhere.
On an agent's own patch
The opposite, and deliberately so. The address, the videos and the enquiries belong to the agent, and they travel. Nobody has to negotiate for them.
The fee, in one breath
Until you go public, there is no charge and no card. The day you go public starts three months at nothing, and the invoice shows the fee with a waived line against it. Leave whenever you like, with no tie-in, no notice period and no minimum term.
Agency
For an agency with a team.
£375 a month
Included
Up to fifteen agents
Each agent gets a page of their own under your firm's name, all in the one price.
Never more than £375 a month.
Personal Agent
For an agent working on their own.
£150 a month
No add-ons
One level
Your own page, your own name on it, nothing beneath.
Never more than £150 a month.
Every membership includes
Unlimited valuation. Postcode only, no form to fill in, and no limit on how many people run one.
Own Patch, your own side of homvo, opened from your link in bio, your website or your name card.
Unlimited videos. Everything you have already made, and everything you make next.
Every enquiry yours alone. Never shared, never sold on, never auctioned.
Unlimited listings. No count, no tier, no extra charge.
Nothing public until you say so. The page is built, you look at it, and one word from you takes it down.
Still not sure which one you are?
If you are not sure which one you are, we will work it out from what you send us.
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Leave your details to get started with homvo.Straight answers.
What is homvo?
homvo is where the looking starts: a video first way for buyers and sellers to find their local independent agent. Agents film real walkthroughs and real pieces to camera. People watch, follow the agents they rate, and enquire directly, and every enquiry goes to one member agency alone.
More about homvo →Is homvo a portal?
No. The portal sells your stock to buyers, and homvo sits alongside it, not in place of it. homvo is the agent's own media: your homes, your videos and your valuation on a page that is yours, winning you the next instruction rather than selling this one.
Do I have to leave the portal?
No. Members keep using the portals for what they do well. homvo is upstream of all that, at the moment the thought forms. Keep everything you have; homvo is where the looking starts, in front of it.
What does homvo cost?
£375 a month for an agency, with up to fifteen agents included, and £150 a month for a personal agent. Everything is unlimited: valuation, videos, listings.
Nothing is charged until you go public, and your first three months after that are at nothing: the invoice shows the fee with a waived line against it. Leave whenever you like, with no tie-in, no notice period and no minimum term.
How many listings can I add?
As many as you like. Listings are unlimited on both plans, no count, no tier, no extra charge, and that covers sales and lettings both. Every home carries its video, so people see the place before they see the floorplan.
Who gets the enquiry?
One member agency, alone. Nothing is shared, nothing is auctioned, nothing is resold. The people in the videos are the people who answer.
What is just value?
just value is the valuation on every member page and in every member window. A seller or landlord puts in their postcode and gets an automated estimate as a range, for reference only, never a single figure, with nothing asked of them to see it. When they press sell my home or let my property, that enquiry goes to one member on the patch, alone.
Do I need to make new videos?
No. We build your page from the videos you have already made, the work many agents already do for Instagram. A good video goes quiet on the feed in three days. On your page the whole library stays live.