Demonstration only. Homeground is a working preview built on the Village platform. The listings, agencies and offers shown are sample data — nothing here is a live property, a real transaction, or an offer you can make. Pricing shown is planned and indicative.
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How selling on Homeground works

Here's what selling on Homeground actually looks like — one step at a time. This is the process behind the sample listings.

Buying? See how buying works, or the buyer checklists.

This is a demonstration of the planned process — nothing here is a live sale.

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Using Homeground alongside Trade Me

Trade Me is where most of New Zealand looks for property, so that's where the ad belongs. Homeground isn't another place to advertise. It's where the sale itself happens once a buyer turns up: offers go into an append-only register, the LIM sits on the listing from day one, and the conditions and method of sale are on the record.

Because they do different jobs, nothing on the ad needs to point at Homeground. The handover happens the way it always has: the buyer answers the ad, contacts the seller or agent, and the sale runs from there. Trade Me's listing rules don't allow links to other sites anyway, as with most marketplaces, so there's nothing to add and nothing missing.

Agents: check the terms of your own Trade Me agreement before changing how you list.

Why keep them separate?

Advertising and running a sale are different jobs, so keep each with the tool built for it. Offers sit in an append-only register, built so any change would show, and the fee is flat — not a commission — whatever the price.