The property had sold twice - once at £419,000 and once at £385,000. Both times the chain had collapsed. The probate family was exhausted. They listed it at auction with a guide price of £250,000 and just wanted it gone. Jen Tipper had never set foot in Kinver, Staffordshire. She spent one weekend on Property Filter.

Jen is a global sales director at a FinTech scale-up. She negotiates enterprise contracts across the world. When she saw the listing history on Property Filter and understood exactly why that property had not sold, she did what she always does: she prepared a data-backed offer, explained her intentions, and closed the deal. Purchase price: £251,000. Time from rejoining Property Filter to offer accepted: under four weeks.

Jen Tipper's challenge before Property Filter

Before Property Filter, Jen was doing what most investors do: checking Rightmove, Zoopla, and OnTheMarket separately, trying to make sure she was not missing a listing. It was time-consuming and, more importantly, incomplete. The portals show you what an agent wants you to see. They do not show you how many times a property has been listed, what it sold for before the current owners, or what signals might indicate a motivated seller.

"It was a bit of a hobby, really," she says. "It wasn't really anything taken seriously." Jen is a self-described data-driven person - she works in FinTech, negotiates global contracts, and uses AI as a matter of course in her day job. The motivated seller data and listing history available on Property Filter was a fundamentally different category of tool to anything she had tried before.

"There's a huge gap in what you can get from the portals compared to Property Filter. Something that's really important to me is the data that sits behind just looking at houses. You really need to be able to understand the history behind that as well."

Jen had actually joined Property Filter once before - and left. Not because the platform was lacking, but because the timing was wrong. She had just got married, her full-time job was demanding, and she knew that if she was going to do property, she was going to go all in. At the start of 2026, she rejoined with a clear head and a clear purpose.

How Jen Tipper uses Property Filter to find probate and motivated seller deals

Jen's approach to Property Filter reflects how she works professionally - data first, intuition second. She uses it as a property sourcing and due diligence platform that aggregates everything she needs without requiring her to cross-reference multiple portals or drive to an area she does not know.

The Kinver property came to her through a contact at an auction house - not from Property Filter directly. But the moment she had the address, Property Filter became the entire research engine. Within one weekend, she could see the full listing history, confirm the probate status, check the census data, low crime rate, and comparable sale prices, and navigate Street View and satellite mapping without leaving her desk.

"If I hadn't got that data, I probably would have just thought, I don't know enough about it, it's not close to me, I'm not going to take a gamble on something I'm not familiar with." She also called both previous estate agents who had listed the property - agents who remembered viewings from two years prior - and gathered specific feedback on why buyers had not made offers. That intelligence directly shaped her refurb plan and her confidence in the exit strategy.

"I'm paying for shortcuts, because I don't have infinite time to sit and look under different YouTube videos or look at free resources. I need something that can get me what I want answered quickly, and by credible people."