The case for honest property intelligence.

Buying property abroad is the largest financial decision most people will ever make outside their home country — and it is run, almost everywhere, on agents’ goodwill and Google translations. The selling agent introduces the lawyer, the lawyer hands you forty pages in a language you don’t read, and three signatures later you own a flat that turns out to have unlicensed extensions, an expired tourist-rental permit, or — in Spain — an empty-property okupa risk nobody mentioned.

Outpost exists to compress the gap between “I’m a foreign buyer with no local contacts” and “I’m treated like a private-counsel client”. We do this with software, not staff.

• Independence matters. We don’t take referral fees or kickbacks from selling agents, developers, lenders, or solicitors. When we connect you to a vetted independent professional, you pay them — never them paying us.
• Specifics beat platitudes. “Always consult a local lawyer” is true but useless. We name PEUAT, AL containment, DPE class G, EWS1, leasehold tail risk — so you know exactly what to ask.
• Free public data should be free for buyers too. HM Land Registry, DVF, INE, Catastro are public registers paid for by taxpayers. We make them digestible so you don’t have to learn SPARQL on a Sunday.
• Honest AI labelling. Where we use AI estimates instead of registry data — chiefly Portugal and Spain — we say so on the report.
• Pay once, not forever. Most people buy one or two properties abroad in a lifetime. Charging a recurring subscription for a one-off life event isn’t customer-friendly. So we don’t.

Outpost runs on three engines: a transaction-data pipeline (DVF for France, HM Land Registry for the UK; for Portugal and Spain we currently use clearly-labelled AI estimates), a tax and cost calculator maintained by hand against published 2025-2026 rates, and a Local Intelligence layer that names region-specific laws and risks. The narrative is written by Gemini, but every fact-bearing field is constrained to data we can cite. Read the full methodology →

Outpost is built by a small, independent team. We’ve worked across data engineering, machine learning, real-estate analytics and consumer product — and we’ve bought, attempted to buy, and walked away from properties across the supported countries. The product is the tool we wish had existed when we did.

We are not VC-funded. We don’t need to grow at the expense of trust. If you have feedback, write to hello@outpost.tools — every email is read by one of us.

• 2026 H1: Italy, Greece, Cyprus
• 2026 H2: tax-residence simulator, mortgage-readiness analyser, currency-transfer optimiser
• 2027: Croatia, Malta, German Bundesländer

See the public roadmap for live status and vote on which countries we tackle next.