The Nelson & Tasman demand board
Before you list, see the demand. These are anonymised buyer searches — people who've saved what they're looking for, and how ready they are to buy. Before listing, a seller usually hears about buyer demand second-hand. Here it's on the board — anonymised and in bands — where you can read it yourself. The numbers on this page are demonstration data for a sample region; nothing here is a real buyer.
For agents: what you see here is the seller-facing view, on sample data. A per-area demand view for member agents — verified interest as market intelligence, not a lead list — is in development and subject to legal review before it's offered. This preview shows the shape of it, not a live tool.
Most-wanted right now: a 3-bedroom house, $650,000–$800,000, in Stoke, Richmond or Motueka.
Budgets are shown in bands, never exact. Any area or category with fewer than three searches isn't shown, so no single household can be identified. A search that goes quiet for 30 days drops out of these counts, so the numbers reflect only active searches — nothing is carried or padded.
What buyers are looking for
Anonymised by design — a card never carries a name, contact details, or anything that could point to one household. Homeground never tells a seller who a buyer is, and never tells a buyer who a seller is, until both are inside a listing each chose to be part of.
See the demand for a home like yours
On a live board, a seller with a three-bedroom home in Stoke or Richmond would see the searches above — how many, and how ready. The day a listing publishes, the buyers whose saved searches fit it are alerted.
You order your own LIM up front — directly if you're listing yourself, or through your agent — and Homeground hosts it on the listing, on the record before buyers offer. One report, ordered once, read by every buyer's lawyer — instead of each serious buyer often buying their own copy later. That LIM up front is the whole point: buyers' checks start before anyone offers, not after. It runs both ways: a Homeground listing shows a buyer how ready the seller is — the LIM and title already on the record before anyone offers.
How "verified" works — a ladder, not a wall
Anyone can watch. The more a buyer confirms about how ready they are, the more weight their search carries on the board — and the more they can do the day a home that fits it is listed. We ask people to attest; we never hold their bank documents.
A verified email and a saved search. Gets listing alerts. Not counted on the board.
Verified identity (through a New Zealand service) and a full saved search. Counted on the board; alerted when a home that fits it is listed.
The buyer's own statement that they hold a pre-approval — the lender and date, no documents uploaded, and not verified by Homeground. Carries more weight on the board.
A lawyer confirms they're engaged and ready to act; the buyer separately attests their pre-approval (lender and date, no documents held). Can lodge a structured offer the day a home that fits their search is listed (planned).
Finance-attested and lawyer-ready are the buyer's own attestations — Homeground verifies identity (through a New Zealand service), never finances, and never holds anyone's bank documents.
Looking to buy in Nelson or Tasman?
Save a search for what you're after. We'll alert you the moment a home that fits it is listed — and sellers can see (anonymously) that buyers like you exist, which is how the first homes come onto the board.