What is Tepilo?

Once you have found your next home, the stakes suddenly feel much higher.

You need your own property to sell. You need the chain to hold together. You do not want a missing certificate, an old planning issue, a boundary question or some paperwork you have never heard of to appear weeks into the process and put everything at risk.

That is where Tepilo helps.

We help you get your home ready for sale before the pressure is on, so you can find potential problems earlier, get the important information together, and give your sale the best chance of moving smoothly from offer to completion.

Not selling just yet?

You accept an offer.

Your buyer instructs a solicitor.

You start planning your move.

Then the questions begin.

• Where is the building-control certificate for the extension?
• Who owns the shared driveway?
• Is the EPC still valid?
• Was consent needed for those alterations?
• Where is the leasehold management information?

Suddenly, something that has never caused you a problem while living in the house is holding up the sale.

And if you are buying another home at the same time, that delay can affect far more than your own transaction.

Tepilo is designed to uncover as much of this as possible before a buyer is waiting for the answers.

You do not need to be ready to put your home on the market.

You can start with either. Tepilo builds one property record, so you should not have to keep entering the same information again.

It means doing more of the work before a buyer is waiting.

Tepilo looks at the information available about your home and combines it with a few simple questions from you.

Depending on the property, we can help check things such as:

• ownership and tenure
• EPC status
• title and boundary information
• planning history
• building-control records
• extensions and alterations
• certificates and guarantees
• shared access and rights of way
• leasehold or estate-management information
• local property restrictions
• environmental and location-specific issues

You do not need to understand conveyancing terminology.

Tepilo turns the information into simple answers:

• We have it
• We need something from you
• Worth sorting out
• Professional review recommended
• Leave this until you are selling

Because once an offer has been accepted, every delay feels bigger.

• Your buyer may be waiting.
• Your next purchase may depend on your sale.
• Your mortgage offer may have a deadline.
• Your seller may be getting nervous.
• The rest of the chain may be relying on you.

Something that could have been dealt with quietly months earlier can suddenly become the thing everyone is waiting for.

Tepilo gives you the opportunity to sort out what you can while there is still time.

As Tepilo checks your property and you add information, you will see how prepared your home is.

For example:

The score is a progress guide, not a legal certificate.

Its purpose is to show you what has genuinely been checked and what still needs attention.

A normal checklist asks:

Do you have an extension certificate?

Tepilo should be able to ask:

We found planning permission for an extension in 2017. We have not yet found corresponding building-control completion information. Do you have the certificate?

That difference matters.

Tepilo combines:

what you tell us

with

what we can independently find about the property.

When you create a Tepilo account, your property gets its own secure record.

You can keep:

• your valuation
• Sale Ready progress
• property details
• certificates
• guarantees
• planning documents
• relevant correspondence
• other useful property paperwork

Upload a document and Tepilo can help identify what it is and where it belongs.

Instead of a folder called:

house stuff

you have an organised property record ready for when you need it.

Your Tepilo record comes with you.

You can move from:

What is my home worth?

to

Am I ready to sell?

to

Which agent should I use?

and eventually:

What is happening with my sale?

Without starting again each time.

When you instruct a conveyancer, you can choose to share the relevant property information and documents with them.

The legal work remains with your conveyancer.

Tepilo's job is to help make sure they do not start with an empty file.

Selling a property involves an extraordinary amount of jargon.

• Material information.
• Restrictive covenants.
• CON29.
• Registered charges.
• Easements.
• Building-control completion.

You should not need to become an expert in any of it.

Tepilo is designed to explain property information in normal language and give you a clear next step.

In fact, starting earlier can be better.

If you think you may move in:

• a few weeks
• six months
• or even
• next year

you can begin building your property record now.

There is no need to order time-sensitive legal searches months before they are useful.

Instead, Tepilo helps you identify the things worth knowing or resolving early.

Then, when the time comes to sell, you are starting from a much better position.

Tepilo adapts the process depending on the home.

A straightforward freehold house should have a straightforward journey.

If your property has something more specialist, we ask the additional questions that matter.

This could include:

• leasehold flats
• shared ownership
• managed freehold estates
• listed buildings
• conservation areas
• extensions and structural alterations
• solar-panel agreements
• private drainage
• building-safety issues
• probate sales
• tenanted properties
• unusual title or access arrangements

You should not have to work through questions that have nothing to do with your property.

Your property record belongs to your Tepilo account.

We do not automatically send your documents to estate agents or other third parties.

You decide what to share and with whom.

As the service develops, Tepilo is designed to let you securely share relevant information with people involved in your sale, such as your estate agent or conveyancer, without handing over your entire account.

You may arrive at Tepilo asking:

What is my house worth?

That can become:

Is there anything I should sort out before I sell?

Then:

Who should I sell with?

And eventually:

What is holding up my sale?

Tepilo is designed to stay useful throughout that journey.

There is no need to know which documents you need or which checks apply to your property.

Tell us where you live and we will start from there.