Housebook: the global platform we work with
People keep asking us where we look at new-build projects in other countries. The answer is Housebook. The same person runs Housebook and runs our own companies, Aster of Asia and Kalinka Thailand, which is exactly why we can write about it in this much detail.
Every number below is copied from the platform's own site. Where the platform publishes nothing, we say we do not know instead of filling the gap with a guess.
What Housebook actually is
It is a catalogue of new-build projects covering 11 countries: Thailand, the UAE, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Northern Cyprus, Georgia, Indonesia, Panama, Turkey, Chile and Saudi Arabia. Right now it holds 1215 projects from 541 developers.
The idea is simple. One place to look, instead of forty developer sites, forty brochures and forty sales managers who each swear their building is the best one on the coast.
What it gives you if you are buying
You search the way you talk. Type what you want as a plain sentence and the catalogue answers. You do not have to fight a wall of dropdown filters first.
Then you compare. Price per square metre, payment plan and yield sit side by side, project against project. Every figure carries a date and a source, so you can see when it was taken and where it came from. That habit alone settles most of the arguing about whose brochure is right.
Around the search there are legal checks, payment safety and deal tracking. You can see where your deal stands instead of calling someone to ask.
What it gives you if you sell
One account works across every market on the platform. You do not have to build a new relationship for each country.
When you hand a client over, the client is fixed to you with a timestamp taken at that moment. The deal log cannot be rewritten afterwards. That is the part agents care about, because the usual fight is over who brought the buyer, and here the record answers the question for you.
The partner network and how a deal is split
Registration and work are free, and the account opens immediately. There is no approval queue to sit in.
The flow is short. You hand over a client, a local partner on the ground closes the deal. The platform takes its share first. What is left is split between you and the local partner, and the split depends on how ready your client was at the moment you passed him on.
The remainder is split like this:
- 50/50 when the client's readiness is confirmed
- 43.75/56.25 on medium readiness
- 37.5/62.5 on a first contact
The larger share always goes to the local partner, because that is the side doing the closing. There is also a referral programme for agents you bring in yourself.
If you want to work as a local partner
You send an application. An answer comes in 1 to 3 working days. Vetting takes up to 10 working days. That is the whole timeline the platform publishes, and we are not going to invent the rest of it for you.
Three numbers the platform never publishes: the total share it takes, the size of the referral reward, and any turnover requirement. We leave them out because we genuinely don't know them, and terms can change, so check the current ones with the platform before you decide anything.
Both links below lead straight to Housebook.
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