Protected disclosure. Clear introduction. Buyer-led acquisition.

How the direct opportunity route works

FPB may first present a non-identifying opportunity summary so a prospective buyer can decide whether the opportunity is broadly relevant without exposing the exact address, seller, agent, planning reference or other transaction-enabling details too early.

Where the buyer wishes to progress, FPB may require a signed Opportunity Release & Introduction agreement and an Opportunity Release and Registration Fee of £500 before full identifying disclosure. Unless different terms are agreed in writing, the standard Completion Introduction Fee is 2% of the agreed purchase price, subject to a £3,000 minimum. The £500 release fee is credited in full against that completion fee.

This direct-opportunity route is separate from FPB's ordinary full sourcing instruction, where the client commissions FPB to search against an agreed brief and pays the sourcing fee under the applicable client schedule.

Duplicate / prior knowledge protection

After exact disclosure, the buyer normally has 24 hours to notify FPB in writing, with reasonable documentary evidence, if the opportunity was genuinely known to them before FPB's introduction. Where a genuine prior introduction is established, the opportunity is not treated as an FPB introduction and the release fee is dealt with in accordance with the agreed terms and applicable rights.

FPB makes the initial seller-side introduction

Where the buyer elects to proceed, FPB will normally make or coordinate the first formal introduction to the selling agent, seller, auctioneer, receiver, intermediary or other authorised transaction representative.

This creates a clear record of FPB's introduction, protects the agreed commercial arrangement and places FPB visibly within the transaction chain. It does not prevent the buyer from building its own independent relationship with that agent or professional for future opportunities that were not introduced by FPB.

After FPB has made or coordinated the introduction, the buyer may communicate directly with the seller-side representative. FPB should remain copied into material correspondence concerning price, offer status, acceptance and transaction progress where reasonably practicable, but FPB is not intended to become a communications bottleneck or transaction manager.

Buyer response period

Following full identifying disclosure, the buyer will normally be asked to confirm its initial position within 2 business days. For auctions, tenders, receiver sales or other genuinely time-sensitive opportunities, FPB may shorten that period to 24–48 hours or another reasonable period required by the external deadline.

The buyer may respond:

• Proceed — ask FPB to make or coordinate the formal introduction;
• Hold / clarification required — identify specific information reasonably needed before deciding; or
• Decline — FPB may re-screen or reallocate the opportunity.

If there is no response within the stated period and no extension is agreed, FPB may treat the opportunity as having no active instruction from that buyer and may reallocate it, subject to any protection already created.

What FPB does — and does not do

Under this route, FPB's role is sourcing and introduction: preliminary screening, controlled disclosure, registration of the introduction and the initial buyer-to-seller-side connection.

Unless separately agreed in writing, FPB is not the purchaser, conveyancer, lender, surveyor, valuer, planning consultant, regulated financial adviser or transaction manager. The buyer remains responsible for its own legal, valuation, surveying, planning, licensing, finance, tax, technical and commercial due diligence and for taking appropriate independent professional advice.

Any GDV, value, rent, cost, yield or return figure supplied by FPB is a preliminary screening estimate unless expressly stated otherwise. It is not a formal valuation or guarantee.