Bricks & Yield Platform User Guide
Learn how to use Bricks & Yield to screen UK property leads, model maximum purchase price (MPP), protect sourcing fees, and track investor responses.
The Linked Four-Pillar Underwriting Structure
- 1. Acquisition: Purchase price, stamp duty (SDLT/LBTT), legal fees, bridging finance, and initial capital required.
- 2. Build: Refurbishment costs, contingency, holding costs, and post-works gross development value (GDV).
- 3. Yield: Rental strategy (Single-let AST vs HMO room rents), management fees, insurance, licensing, and net cash flow.
- 4. Exit: Refinance LTV, capital release, cash left in, holding strategy, or sale profit.
Five-Stage Deal Readiness Pipeline
Move deals through Screening, Needs Evidence, Investor Ready, Shared, and Closed. Protect your sourcing fee by keeping property addresses redacted by default in investor packs.
User Guide FAQs
What are the four pillars in Bricks & Yield?
Acquisition (buy and finance), build (refurb and costs), yield (AST or HMO rents and operations), and exit (refinance, hold, or sale). They are linked in one model so a change in one pillar flows through MPP, cash left in, and return metrics.
What is maximum purchase price (MPP)?
MPP is the app’s reverse-engineered ceiling price that still meets your targets given GDV, works, fees, holding, and finance assumptions. Traffic-light styling (green, amber, red) compares your agreed or asking price to that ceiling. It is screening software, not a lender offer.
What is the deal readiness pipeline?
A five-stage board for deal sourcers: Screening, Needs Evidence, Investor Ready, Shared, and Closed. Each deal is a card you move as the numbers, evidence, pack, and investor response mature.
Who is Bricks & Yield for?
UK property deal sourcers and small sourcing teams who need to screen leads, prove assumptions, protect sensitive deal details, produce investor packs, and track responses in one workspace. It is not a mortgage broker platform and does not provide regulated advice.
How does listing URL import work?
On supported plans you can paste a Rightmove or OnTheMarket URL, preview extracted fields, and apply them into a new or existing deal. Always verify address, postcode, and numbers against the listing; import is best-effort and subject to daily caps.
What is the difference between Free and Pro in the workspace?
Both have no time limit. Free includes cloud sync, the same linked model and pipeline, proof checklist, one basic redacted investor link per deal, watermarked PDF summaries, daily caps on listing import, address search, and EPC lookup, and a cap on simultaneous active non-example deals, subject to our Fair Use Policy. Pro raises those limits, unlocks fuller fee breakdowns, headline return metrics, stress and sensitivity tables, multi-investor links, response tracking, and the full investor pack. See the pricing page for the live table.
Are outputs financial, tax, or mortgage advice?
No. Bricks & Yield is analysis and workflow software. You must confirm tax, legal, and lending decisions with qualified professionals and official sources (e.g. GOV.UK for SDLT). Educational Tools and Learn content are likewise not advice.
Where are the free calculators and checklists?
The Tools hub at /tools hosts the investor pack readiness checker, calculators (stress and ICR, yields, short-let revenue, BRRRR cash snapshot, SDLT and cash to complete with sourcing fee, bridging loan cost, sourcing fee return), and proof-gap checklists (Renters Rights, HMO licence, deal due diligence, refinance timeline, auction legal pack). They are for screening only.