Register with every estate agent in one email
Ask about homes, and estate agents will call to register you. Ask about a lot, and you’ll get a lot of calls, often during work hours.
- Agents usually register buyers by phone, because it’s quicker for them.
- This tool writes one email with the details they usually ask for.
- If you can’t talk when they call, ask for their email address and send it.
- Sending it shows you’re organised and ready to buy, which helps agents put you first.
Your answers stay on this device, unless you email them to yourself or open them in Gmail or Outlook.
Your agent email
Answer the questions, and your agent email appears below them. This card ticks off what it covers.
What agents usually ask
- What you’re looking for, when you’d like to move and how you’re buying.
- Agents sometimes call registered buyers about new homes before they go online.
What agents usually ask, ticked once your agent email answers it:
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General guidance, not advice. Checked 31 October 2026 against Which?, HomeOwners Alliance and The Property Ombudsman’s Code of Practice.
Questions about registering with estate agents
Quick answers to what buyers ask most.
Where our guidance comes from
- Registering, and hearing about homes before they go online: Which? on how to buy a house (29 May 2026) and HomeOwners Alliance on getting estate agents on your side.
- What agents ask: HomeOwners Alliance (above) and Rightmove’s guide for agents on handling enquiries (2020).
- Choosing your own mortgage adviser and conveyancer: the Estate Agents (Undesirable Practices) (No. 2) Order 1991, Schedule 2, paragraph 1; The Property Ombudsman’s Code of Practice for Residential Estate Agents (in force from 1 June 2019), paragraphs 9d and 10b; and its guide to conditional selling (2026).
- All checked 31 October 2026.
Why register with estate agents?
When you ask about a home, the agent will usually call to register you as a buyer. Registering is free, and you don’t have to commit to anything.
Agents sometimes call registered buyers about new homes before they go online. The clearer your answers, the better they know which homes to call you about.
What do estate agents ask when you register?
Usually where you’re looking, your price range, the home you need and what you’d be flexible on, and when you’d like to move.
They’ll also ask how you’re buying: whether you need a mortgage, how far you’ve got with it and whether you have a home to sell. Your agent email gives your answers to what you fill in here, so you don’t have to go through them on every call.
If you have a home to sell, add a line about it before you send it.
Why give agents a price range?
It’s how agents find homes that fit. Most will ask for it when you register.
Do I have to use the agent’s mortgage adviser or conveyancer?
No. Many agents can introduce a mortgage adviser or conveyancer, and you’re free to use them or choose your own.
Whatever you choose, the agent must pass on your offers and treat you the same as other buyers.
If you’re already working with an adviser or conveyancer, your agent email mentions it.
We’re buying together. What should we send?
Add the other person’s name under About you. The email then asks the agent to register you both, and signs off with both your names.
Agree which of you is the main contact, so agents know who to call.
When should I send it?
When you ask an agent about a home, or when an agent gets in touch after you’ve asked about one. You can reply to their email with it.
If you can’t talk when an agent calls, ask for their email address and send it.
You can also send it to agents in the areas you’re looking in, before you’ve seen a home with them. Their email addresses are usually on their own websites.