The search for a home-buying company usually starts online.
Here you’ll find lots of businesses offering the service.
But it can be difficult to tell them apart.
It’s important to choose the right one for you.
To help you do that, we’ve put together a comparison of our service with one of our competitors, Sellhousefast.uk.
How long will it take to buy your home?
We Buy Any Home can buy your home in as little as 7 days if necessary.
But most importantly we’ll always agree on a completion date that’s right for you. This can be one week or two months.
Sellhousefast.uk says on its website it can buy your home within 4 weeks.
Which company is the most established?
At We Buy Any Home, we started operating in the UK in 2013. We’re now the largest home buying company in the country.
One good way to measure how established a company is is to look at how many homes it has bought recently.
We purchased more than 200 properties from Jan – Oct 2020. This is considerably more than the majority of house buying companies.
SellHouseFast.uk is younger, having begun trading in 2015.
Who has the most accreditations?
Both companies are members of:
These are the industry standard of organisations to be members of.
They will follow a code of conduct that ensures they are transparent and honest.
Which has the best customer reviews?
The quality and number of independent customer reviews are reliable ways of assessing how good a company is to work with.
As of February 2025, We Buy Any Home had a rating of 4.2 stars from 223 Google reviews. On Trustpilot we have a rating of 4.4 from more than 1,000 reviews.
SellHouseFast has no Google reviews. On Trustpilot they have a score of 4.7 from 31 reviews.
What additional benefits do they provide?
Both companies offer their service for free, and cover any legal fees.
Also, they don’t charge commission, unlike traditional estate agents.
Being cash buyers, an additional benefit is that you won’t be part of a chain. So there is no risk of suffering a fall through.
Unlike most of our competitors We Buy Any Home can also provide a license to occupy.
This means you will be able to stay in your home rent-free for an agreed period of time after we’ve bought it.
This will give you a little breathing space to organise your next move.
We can also provide a cash advance to help you out of a difficult financial situation.
SellHouseFast.uk does not mention providing either of these services on its website.
Feature comparison
| We Buy Any Home | Sell House Fast | |
|---|---|---|
| Commission on sale | No | No |
| Solicitors fees | No | Yes |
| Sales in seven days | Yes | No |
| Part of chain | No | No |
| Cash advance | Yes | No |
| Licence to remain | Yes | No |
| Fixed completion date | Yes | No |
| Guaranteed sale | Yes | No |
Why work with us?
We know how tricky it is to tell the difference between home-buying companies. What we offer is a long track record of moving sales along quickly and taking care of our customers.
We understand the ins and outs of the process and all the emotional and practical challenges you’ll be facing, because we’ve helped people through it so many times. In other words, you’re in safe hands with us.
Our reputation is built on being trustworthy, reliable and free to use. We won’t exaggerate what we’ll pay for your home to get your business and we will stick with the price, completion date and conditions we agree with you.
If you’d like to chat about how we can help you, get in touch.
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