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How Jen Tipper Used Property Filter Data to Secure a Probate Deal in Staffordshire

Jen Tipper, global sales director and property investor, first deal: £251K probate property in Kinver, Staffordshire

£251,000 purchase. £419,000 previous sale price. First deal. Under four weeks. Homes Under the Hammer confirmed.

Jen Tipper · Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands · Member since January 2026 · Flip / BRRR / SA - Staffordshire

AT A GLANCE

Member

Jen Tipper

Location

Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands (investing in Kinver, Staffordshire)

Strategy

First deal - flexible exit: flip, BRRR, or serviced accommodation. Three-bed detached, probate, value-add.

Result

Purchased for £251,000 - £168,000 below last sale price (£419,000). Homes Under the Hammer feature confirmed.

PF Feature Used

Listing history, probate indicator, below-market-value data, area analytics (census, crime, comparable sales)

"Every day you're sitting on the sidelines, you're losing money. You've just got to go all in."

Jen Tipper

Results like these are happening every week. See how Property Filter works.

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."

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."

Feature Spotlight

Jen Tipper's key Property Filter feature: listing history and probate data

The feature that drove Jen's deal was Property Filter's listing history - the ability to see every time a property has been marketed, at what price, with which agent, and what happened to each listing. Combined with the probate indicator, it gave her a complete picture of seller motivation before she made a single phone call.

"I could see that the property had been listed twice before. It was a probate property - and being able to see that it was truly below market value, because that is what you can't see when you're looking on Rightmove or Zoopla."

The listing history showed two previous sales at £419,000 and £385,000 - both with no refurbishment work done. Both chain collapses were confirmed by the estate agents she called. That data gave Jen the conviction to offer well below the auction guide price and hold firm through a competing builder's offer.

Jen Tipper's key Property Filter feature: listing history and probate data

The feature that drove Jen's deal was Property Filter's listing history - the ability to see every time a property has been marketed, at what price, with which agent, and what happened to each listing. Combined with the probate indicator, it gave her a complete picture of seller motivation before she made a single phone call.

"I could see that the property had been listed twice before. It was a probate property - and being able to see that it was truly below market value, because that is what you can't see when you're looking on Rightmove or Zoopla."

The listing history showed two previous sales at £419,000 and £385,000 - both with no refurbishment work done. Both chain collapses were confirmed by the estate agents she called. That data gave Jen the conviction to offer well below the auction guide price and hold firm through a competing builder's offer.

Property Filter price and status history showing a property listed with two previous agents before auction, including prior sold prices - used by Jen Tipper to identify a Kinver probate deal

£251k

£251k

£251k

£251k

purchase price (probate, first deal)

£419k

£419k

£419k

£419k

previous sale price - same property, no work done

£400k+

£400k+

£400k+

£400k+

target value post-refurb

4 wks

4 wks

4 wks

4 wks

from rejoining PF to offer accepted

6+ hrs

6+ hrs

6+ hrs

6+ hrs

saved per week vs multi-portal searching

The results: £251,000 on a property that sold for £419,000 - and Homes Under the Hammer

The negotiation unfolded over several days. The property was listed at auction with a guide price of £250,000. A pre-auction deal was on the table at £240,000. Jen offered £230,000. That was rejected. She went to £244,000 - then a builder appeared with a competing offer. The auctioneer called for best-and-final offers. Jen asked him to get the other side's best and final first, then come back to her. She settled at £251,000. Deposit paid at 6pm, the night before the auction was due to start.

"I was really pleased that I got it for £251,000, given that I knew it had sold for £419,000 and £385,000, with nothing done to it." The probate family accepted because Jen had also written a detailed email explaining exactly what she planned to do with the property - and why it mattered to the neighbours and the street. She understood that not every seller is purely driven by the bottom line.

Post-completion, the property - a three-bed detached in Kinver with a unique lower ground floor layout - is being filmed by Homes Under the Hammer. Jen's target post-refurb value is £400,000 or above. She is exploring all three exit routes: flip, BRRR, and serviced accommodation. She also secured a government-backed EV charger installation before the property had even transferred into her name. If that level of due diligence and deal-making on a probate property investment appeals to you, watch the Property Filter demo to see how the listing history and motivation data works in practice.

Watch Jen Tipper's full Property Filter story

Hear Jen explain how she researched a probate property she had never visited, negotiated against a competing builder, and closed a deal £168,000 below the previous sale price - all using Property Filter data.

The results: £251,000 on a property that sold for £419,000 - and Homes Under the Hammer

The negotiation unfolded over several days. The property was listed at auction with a guide price of £250,000. A pre-auction deal was on the table at £240,000. Jen offered £230,000. That was rejected. She went to £244,000 - then a builder appeared with a competing offer. The auctioneer called for best-and-final offers. Jen asked him to get the other side's best and final first, then come back to her. She settled at £251,000. Deposit paid at 6pm, the night before the auction was due to start.

"I was really pleased that I got it for £251,000, given that I knew it had sold for £419,000 and £385,000, with nothing done to it." The probate family accepted because Jen had also written a detailed email explaining exactly what she planned to do with the property - and why it mattered to the neighbours and the street. She understood that not every seller is purely driven by the bottom line.

Post-completion, the property - a three-bed detached in Kinver with a unique lower ground floor layout - is being filmed by Homes Under the Hammer. Jen's target post-refurb value is £400,000 or above. She is exploring all three exit routes: flip, BRRR, and serviced accommodation. She also secured a government-backed EV charger installation before the property had even transferred into her name. If that level of due diligence and deal-making on a probate property investment appeals to you, watch the Property Filter demo to see how the listing history and motivation data works in practice.

Watch Jen Tipper's full Property Filter story

Hear Jen explain how she researched a probate property she had never visited, negotiated against a competing builder, and closed a deal £168,000 below the previous sale price - all using Property Filter data.

Frequently asked questions

Frequently asked questions

How did Jen Tipper use Property Filter to find a probate deal in Kinver?

What is the listing history feature in Property Filter and how does it help investors?

Property Filter's listing history shows every time a property has been marketed, what price it was listed at, whether it sold or fell through, and how long it was on the market. For investors like Jen Tipper, this reveals motivated seller signals invisible on Rightmove or Zoopla - such as repeated fall-throughs and probate status - giving you the data to negotiate with confidence.

How can Property Filter help you research an area you don't know?

Property Filter aggregates area data - including census information, crime rates, and comparable sale prices - alongside Street View and satellite mapping in a single dashboard. Jen used this to fully research Kinver, Staffordshire without making a site visit before her offer, validating location demand and rental potential entirely from the data.

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See the listing history, probate data, and motivated seller tools that Jen Tipper used to secure a £251,000 deal in four weeks - on a property that previously sold for £419,000.

See the listing history, probate data, and motivated seller tools that Jen Tipper used to secure a £251,000 deal in four weeks - on a property that previously sold for £419,000.

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