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Off-market BRRR sourcing · Manchester

Build a portfolio without losing your weekends.

I source, stress-test and structure off-market BRRR deals for UK professionals who want to recycle one lump of capital into a portfolio. Every deal modelled both ways before it reaches you.

Working principle

"One sourcer. Every deal personally viewed before it reaches your inbox."

Helena Vance Helena VanceFounder · 11 years in UK property
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Deals sourced in 2024, every one personally inspected before introduction.
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Investor capital deployed since founding, across Greater Manchester and the North West.
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Years in UK property as an investor, developer and sourcer.
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Of deals personally inspected before introduction. No assistants. No exceptions.
What's going wrong

You've got the capital. Where you're stuck is the time.

Every other UK sourcer treats deal flow as a numbers game. Mass email blasts. Light underwriting. Properties they've never set foot in. You deserve more attention than that.

01

Deal blasts that fit nobody

Eight hundred-strong WhatsApp groups firing off the same deal to everyone. By the time you've read the message and called the agent, it's gone to someone who didn't even read the figures.

02

Numbers that only stack in the best case

Refurb budgets quoted by someone who's never lifted a floorboard. GDVs pulled from Rightmove sold prices five streets away. No contingency. No stress-test. The deal stacks until your contractor walks the property and the bank down-values the refinance.

03

Weekends that disappear into car parks in Bury

You started investing for the freedom. Now your Saturdays are spent driving between three viewings, two of which were stitched up by the agent before you got there.

How it works

Your next deal, found, viewed and structured before it reaches you.

Three stages. Six to nine weeks from first call to keys in hand. Every step happens with one client at a time, not in a deal-blast group, which is why the standard holds.

Stage 01

The brief

A thirty-minute call to map your buy box. Target return, area, refurb appetite, exit strategy, lender appetite. Output is a one-page brief I source against. Yours to keep regardless of whether we work together.

Duration One call, ninety minutes including write-up
Stage 02

The search

I work off-market. Estate agent relationships built over nine years, probate networks, motivated vendor lists, three private sourcing networks. Every property is physically viewed by me before it reaches your inbox. Not by an assistant.

Average lead time Three to seven weeks per brief
Stage 03

The verdict

You receive a single deal at a time. Full underwriting pack with cash in, capital recycled and money left in modelled both ways. Refurb spec quoted by my trade team with a 10% contingency built in. GDVs from three independent agents. Stress-tested against the realistic case, not the best case.

Decision window You sign or pass in 48 hours, no pressure
Helena Vance, founder
Helena Vance · Manchester · 2026
The story behind the firm

The first deal I sourced where my client pulled every pound back out, I knew this was the work.

Eleven years ago I helped a new client through her first BRRR. A three-bed end terrace in Stockport. We bought at £132,000 with bridging covering 80% of purchase. Her cash covered the deposit, the refurb, the legals and the holding costs. Twenty-three weeks later the post-refurb valuation came back at £232,000. She refinanced at 75% LTV, paid off the bridge, and pulled out every pound of cash she'd deployed. Infinite return on investment. She texted me at 11pm: "Let's go again." I haven't looked back since.

"That's the work. Not finding properties. Engineering deals that hand every pound of cash back to the investor, so the next deal can happen on the same money."

Over the next four years I built the process that produces that result repeatably. Stress-tested numbers with contingency built in, not best-case spreadsheets. Three independent GDVs from agents who know the area. Refurb quoted by trades I've worked with for over a decade. Every property physically inspected. Every legal pack reviewed line by line.

Today I source for UK professionals across the North West and Greater Manchester. The standard holds because every deal still passes through my hands, end to end. That hasn't changed in eleven years and it isn't going to.

BasedManchester
Active since2017
StrategyBRRR · BTL · Refurb-to-let
What clients say

A quiet list of working professionals, quietly recycling capital into portfolios.

★★★★★
"Helena found me a deal in week three that pulled out £41k after refinance. She'd already walked it, costed the refurb with her contractor, and had legal notes from her solicitor. I made one call and signed."
James Karwoski
James Karwoski Ex-civil servant, Sheffield · Client since 2024
£41,400 pulled out in 8 months
★★★★★
"After two years of using a deal-blast group, working with Helena is genuinely the first time I've felt like someone was actually paying attention to my buy box. Three BRRRs in eighteen months. Every one stacked."
Priya Shah
Priya Shah Tech consultant, Manchester · Client since 2023
3 BRRRs · £127k recycled

This works for you if

  • You have £50,000 to £150,000 of investable capital ready to deploy
  • You earn well in your day job and don't have weekends to spare
  • You'd rather move slowly and own the right thing than rush and own three of the wrong thing
  • You want one human point of contact, not a group chat
  • You're prepared to wait three to seven weeks for the right deal to land

This is not for you if

  • You want eight deals a week so you can cherry-pick
  • You're hoping to flip in under three months
  • You need to deploy under £40k or you don't yet have access to capital
  • You'd rather negotiate everything yourself and skip the sourcer's fee
  • You expect deal alerts before you've had the kick-off call
Ready when you are

Book a thirty-minute call. No pitch. No follow-up email blast.

If we're a fit, I'll send you the brief template before we hang up. If we're not, I'll point you at the people I'd recommend instead. Either way you walk away with something useful.

Currently booking briefs for Q3 2026