Home Journal
Notes on where Britain lives.
Market insight from our own data, product news, and the odd strong opinion. From the team at Home.
Best estate agents in Birmingham 2026: how to find the right one
Birmingham spans everything from Edgbaston's prime Victorian streets to Digbeth's regeneration corridor. Here is how to find the right estate agent for your specific area and price point.
How we stopped our AI from making up property prices
AI models can generate confident but wrong answers. Home's valuation system is designed to surface honest uncertainty rather than invented precision, using multiple independent models and explicit confidence intervals.
Inside the multi-LLM valuation council: how Home prices a property with AI
Home uses a council of AI models rather than a single algorithm to estimate property values. Here is how GPT-4o-Vision, algorithmic comparables and cross-model consensus work together to produce an honest range.
The rating fidelity problem: how we guarantee AI never alters a condition rating
A RICS condition rating carries professional and legal weight. Otto's RatingFidelityChecker ensures the AI can never change a rating set by the surveyor. Here is how it works.
Two months in: what we got right and what we are fixing
Two months after acquiring home.co.uk, an honest look at what has worked, what has not, and what we are building next.
We acquired a 30-year-old portal and rebuilt it from scratch. Here is why.
When Homemove acquired home.co.uk in November 2025, they chose to rebuild the platform rather than inherit the old stack. Here is the reasoning.
Building a property company during the most unusual housing market in a generation
HM Haus Group has been building since January 2022, through a post-pandemic transaction surge, a sharp rate-driven correction, and a 2025 market defined by high stock and more cautious buyers. Here is what that shaped.
Why listings on Home are free for estate agents
Every estate agent in the UK knows what it costs to list on the major portals. On Home, it is free. Here is why, and what that means.
What Homemove was before it became Home
Homemove was founded in 2022 as a moving platform. Here is what we built before acquiring home.co.uk, and why the two fit together.
home.co.uk is 30 years old. Here is what comes next.
home.co.uk launched in 1995. Under new ownership since November 2025, here is what the next chapter looks like: new technology, same independence.
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