About HomeBid
HomeBid Ltd was founded in 2025 by Rob Penman, a COINS ERP solution architect with seventeen years inside the systems UK housebuilders run on. It exists to fix one thing: the sale that is accepted and then falls over, because nobody checked the buyer before saying yes.
What HomeBid is
HomeBid turns a property and a buyer into a verified, transaction-ready deal, then hands it to whoever completes it. It lists plots and homes, qualifies every bidder with a documented score, verifies identity, source of funds, source of wealth and sanctions status before the seller accepts, and delivers a package built to the Property Data Trust Framework to the solicitors within 48 hours of acceptance.
It deliberately stops there. Conveyancing, exchange, completion and registration stay with the solicitors and the settlement rails, as they do today. HomeBid's package is an accelerant for their work, not a replacement for it, and HomeBid never represents its checks as discharging a solicitor's own obligations.
We launch with housebuilders in late 2026, inside the sales process their teams already run, including COINS, the ERP used by the majority of the UK's top housebuilders. Buyers and their solicitors come with them.
Why housebuilders first
Supply
A new-build sales team already has the plots, the prices and the buyers, and it runs them in one ERP. HomeBid connects to it rather than asking anyone to double-key.
Timing
Most collapsed sales collapse in the first four weeks after acceptance. Verification at the point of reservation addresses the failure at its source rather than reporting it afterwards.
Honesty
Consumer-first property technology has to create buyers and sellers at the same time. HomeBid needs one sales director to say yes; the buyers are already at the sales office.
Founder
Founder and CEO
How we work
Company
Developers can request early access now. Buyers can register to be verified once and reserve with confidence.