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Every week I watch first-home buyers hit the same wall.
They get a building report back, it flags a bunch of issues, and then they have 5 working days left (already used 5 working days) to figure out what it costs to fix everything - except no tradesperson will come out and quote on a house they do not own yet.
There is a tool that fixes this. It is called FixFigure.
It costs $20.
And it just helped one of my clients negotiate $10,000 off their purchase price.
FixFigure is an AI-powered building report analyser built for the New Zealand market.
Your client uploads their building report PDF, and within minutes it gives them an itemised breakdown of every flagged issue - with estimated repair costs, complexity ratings, and recommended solutions.
In this case, my client uploaded their building report and shared the FixFigure output with me.
Here is what it flagged on a 3-bedroom Titirangi property:
Each item came with the recommended solution, who needs to do the work (LBP, licensed plumber, roofer), and whether it may trigger building consent.
All generated in under two minutes from a PDF upload - by the client, not by us.
My client was a first-home buyer with a tight due diligence deadline.
The building report came back with issues. Getting tradespeople in to quote was not going to happen in time.
They uploaded their report to FixFigure themselves and shared the cost estimates with me.
We used those estimates to serve a formal request on the seller, setting out the specific items and their estimated repair costs.
Our ask was $16,000.
The seller countered.
We landed on a $10,000 price reduction - without a single tradesperson stepping foot on the property.
This is the important part.
We did not just rely on the AI estimates and go unconditional.
During the due diligence period, our client engaged a tradesperson to verify the FixFigure cost estimates.
The tradesperson confirmed the figures were in the right ballpark.
They would not commit to a number, but the right ballpark was enough.
That gave everyone confidence the negotiated reduction was fair and grounded in reality.
We then obtained bank sign-off on the reduced purchase price, confirming the bank was satisfied the price reduction reflected the identified works.
We also secured insurance for the property with no exclusions relating to the building report items.
With verified costs, bank approval, and clean insurance all confirmed - then and only then did our client go unconditional.
Clean settlement followed.
Three steps. $20. Money-back guarantee. That is it.
The FixFigure estimates get the negotiation started fast.
A tradesperson can then verify the figures during due diligence, and the lawyer handles bank sign-off and insurance confirmation - all before going unconditional.
The building report condition is supposed to protect your clients.
But when they cannot quantify the issues in time, they either walk away from a good property or accept risk they do not understand.
Either way, the deal you worked to get them falls apart or becomes a liability.
They upload the report, they get the estimates, and they share the output with their lawyer.
It removes the biggest bottleneck in the due diligence process and gives everyone - buyer, mortgage adviser, and lawyer - something concrete to work with.
And if they are not happy with the output, they get their money back.
FixFigure provides AI-generated estimates for guidance purposes.
It does not replace a qualified tradesperson’s assessment.
Final costings should be confirmed by a licensed professional where certainty is required.
✔ FixFigure costs $20 with a money-back guarantee. Built for NZ. Itemised repair cost estimates from a building report in minutes.
✔ It gets the negotiation started fast - but a tradesperson should verify the figures during due diligence before going unconditional.
✔ Clean settlement.
✔ Additional legal costs may apply depending on further work required to finalise this process.
