Have you considered offering a "chain breaker" service? What is a chain? (provided in case this is a UK specific term) A common problem with buying & selling p

Have you considered offering a "chain breaker" service? What is a chain? (provided in case this is a UK specific term) A common problem with buying & selling property. In order to buy a new house you first want to know that your current one will be successfully sold. As such, you may have a queue of buyers all waiting for someone down the line to get a buyer for their property; as if they fail to get a buyer they drop out causing the next person in the chain to have to find a new buyer before they can buy. Equally sometimes people waiting in a chain are "gazumped" (another buyer makes a better offer to the current buyer), thus pushing out the current buyer and impacting the buyer's chain from the other end). You could provide a service whereby buyer and seller have already met, but are stuck in a chain. You'd be able to buy the seller's property and hold it for the buyer until they're ready. - If they're able to sell their property they can then pay you the price of the new property plus the "holding fee" before moving in. - If they're unable to sell their property they have the option to sell their current property to you and take the new property as described in the previous step; or to remain where they are simply paying you the holding fee for having held the original property for them, with the new property then entering your portfolio of properties to do up and sell on to the highest bidder. - These holding fees could be charged monthly up front should that prove simpler than lump sum amounts at the point of decision. Your service already avoids the need for a chain; but this alternate offering allows you to capture a part of the market of those people not interested in your full service, by having the potential buyers ask that the property be purchased by you instead of the sellers coming to you.