Brickflow, the UK's leading digital marketplace for specialist property finance, has partnered with Upstix’s investor platform, a cash-buying platform that lets investors find below-market-value properties to purchase in weeks rather than months.
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With Brickflow, every property on the Upstix investor platform comes with investment funding options already comparable. Buyers can search Brickflow’s panel of over 160 lenders against that exact listing, but lender names are not shown to them. The journey remains broker-supported throughout, with a Brickflow broker managing the deal from enquiry through to completion.
The problem Upstix is solving for sellers is real. UK sales still routinely take months to reach completion, and a meaningful share collapse before they ever get there. Upstix already solves much of that uncertainty for sellers, with a cash offer within 24 hours, no chain, and a completion date the seller chooses. In return, sellers typically accept around 80% of market value, a trade-off Upstix positions against the cost of a traditional agent (commission of around 2%) and the risk of an asking price that never quite holds up once the property is on the open market. With Brickflow, buyers no longer need to source finance separately once they have found a property.
Not every property Upstix is offering can be bought with its own capital, so many are instead marketed to investors through Upstix's investor platform on the homeowner's behalf. Upstix also uses the same platform to resell properties it has bought itself. Brickflow's funding comparison now covers both routes, giving investors the same live funding search and the same broker-supported journey whether they are buying a property listed for another seller or one from Upstix's own portfolio.
This latest partnership sees Brickflow continue its mission to join forces with other property platforms to ensure the widest range of funding options is readily available for investors.
What the Brickflow and Upstix partnership delivers:
● Live funding data on every Upstix listing, with buyers able to compare rates and terms from over 160 specialist lenders against a specific property before they make an offer.
● Every property already comes with an initial valuation from Upstix, giving buyers and their broker a starting point when the finance search begins.
● Every search leaves a clear audit trail, giving buyers and their broker proof that the wider market, not just a handful of familiar lenders, was checked before funding was agreed.
● Covers both routes onto the platform: investors buying a property Upstix is marketing for another seller, and investors buying one directly from Upstix's own portfolio.
Frazer Campbell, CRO at Brickflow, said:
"We hear the same story from investors all the time: they find a deal that stacks, and then spend the next six weeks watching someone else complete on it because they were still waiting on finance to come through. That's the moment manual loan sourcing costs people the most, not on a spreadsheet somewhere, but on the property they never got. Upstix has already taken that stress out of selling. We just wanted buyers to feel it too."
Fred Jones, CEO at Upstix, said:
"Once a seller works with Upstix, the traditional delays are taken out of the equation: the seller gets paid and isn't left waiting on chains, finance, or anyone else. Whether it is Upstix looking to sell a property or an investor wanting to move quickly to secure the best deal, no one has to wait weeks for the finance to come through. Brickflow speeds up exactly that stage, improving deal times."