Viktorija Sulciene runs the investment and development side of The Estate Agents in Northampton. By day she works in data analytics; in the hours outside of that, she is building her own buy-to-let portfolio and sourcing larger development deals for clients. She joined Property Filter around 18 months ago through Aspire Property Group, hesitated briefly on the cost, and immediately knew she had made the right call. "I regret that I didn't see it sooner," she says. The platform has since supported approximately five deals in her personal portfolio and helped facilitate a client deal worth around £4 million.

Viktorija Sulciene's challenge before Property Filter

Before Property Filter, sourcing deals and running comparables meant navigating multiple portals in sequence. Listings on one site, sold prices on another, rental comparables somewhere else, and then the process of manually pulling it all together into something coherent enough to present to a client or act on personally. Viktorija estimates it took at least 4 hours to do what she now completes in 30 to 60 minutes each morning.

That calculation matters more than it might first appear. Viktorija carries a full-time analytics role alongside her property work. Four hours of daily research is not a workflow; it is a second job. Cutting that to under an hour is not a marginal efficiency gain. It is what makes the whole enterprise sustainable. She now uses Property Filter every single morning without exception.

The information problem she faced was not a shortage of data. It was the absence of a single place to make sense of it. For someone who approaches everything analytically, the idea of consolidating research from six different tabs into a spreadsheet was, as she puts it, "a nightmare." A more coherent tool was not a convenience. It was a necessity. For investors building a serious buy-to-let strategy alongside other professional commitments, that kind of friction adds up quickly.

"I use Property Filter maybe half an hour to an hour a day every morning. Without that, I think at least 4 hours. To have everything in one place, without the system it would be a nightmare."

How Viktorija Sulciene uses Property Filter to source deals and present to clients

Viktorija uses Property Filter for two distinct purposes: her own buy-to-let portfolio, and the investment and development work she leads at The Estate Agents on behalf of clients. The platform supports both, and in each context, the use case is different enough to highlight just how much range it covers.

For client-facing work, comparables are the primary feature. When Viktorija presents a feasibility report to a development or investment client, she needs to show not just what a property might be worth, but what comparable properties in the same area have actually achieved, within specific criteria, in a defined time window. Without Property Filter, that data would need to be sourced, verified, and consolidated from multiple places before a single slide could be built. With it, the research that underpins the presentation is ready in a fraction of the time, and it is far more precise. As someone with a data analytics background, Viktorija holds her own outputs to a high standard. Estimates are not good enough; she needs numbers she can defend.

The second feature she relies on is property history: how many times a property has been listed, how many times it has gone under offer, and how many times it has fallen through. For most investors, this information is buried across different time periods on different portals, if it surfaces at all. Property Filter brings it into one view. Viktorija uses this not just to assess individual properties, but to understand the vendors behind them. When she is working with a seller who needs support navigating the process, knowing the full history of a property is part of knowing whether the situation is one worth getting involved in.

"Comparables, first and foremost. And the other one I think is seeing the history of the property, what has happened, how many times it has fallen through. We're concentrating on the vendors that need our help."