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Making Buying Your First Home Easier with With Camilla De Cesare from HNTR
What if buying your first home felt clear, organised, and actually… manageable?
For most people, the home-buying journey starts with excitement — scrolling Rightmove, booking viewings, imagining paint colours — and quickly collapses into chaos. Suddenly you’re drowning in spreadsheets, stamp duty calculators, survey reports, confusing estate agent jargon and endless to-do lists scattered across your phone.
That overwhelming experience is exactly what pushed first-time buyer Camilla to build HNTR — the UK’s most user-friendly home-buying companion designed to turn complexity into clarity.
What began as a personal tool to survive her own “monster spreadsheet” has become a beautifully designed app that guides buyers through every step of the journey: viewings, budgeting, comparing properties, understanding surveys, making offers, tracking every moving part — and even supporting the emotional side of it all through Scout, HNTR’s AI-powered support bot.
HNTR isn’t just levelling the playing field… it’s quietly fixing a broken system where estate agents work for the seller — not the buyer.
Key Takeaways:
- Estate agents work for the seller – HNTR works for the buyer.
- Most first-time buyers underestimate costs like stamp duty, surveys and legal fees.
- HNTR puts viewings, budgeting, offers and surveys into one clear, central place.
- Scout, HNTR’s emotional support bot, helps you handle the stressy bits.
- The app is 100% free, funded through referrals, with 10% of revenue donated to Centrepoint.
- Next up: home documentation, renovation tracking and a curated shop to help you kit out your place.
Chapters / Timestamps:
00:00 — Buying a first home: why is it so confusing?
01:40 — Meet Camilla & the origin of HNTR
04:00 — The crisis of viewings: photos, notes & chaos
06:05 — Leasehold, surveys & the hidden traps buyers miss
09:20 — Stamp duty & the costs no one tells you about
11:10 — The survey red flags that actually matter
12:40 — Why the system is stacked against first-time buyers
15:00 — How HNTR works: viewings, budgeting, offers & more
18:30 — Scout: the emotional support bot
21:10 — Business model: how HNTR stays free
23:00 — Giving back: the Centrepoint partnership
25:30 — New features & the future of HNTR
28:00 — Startup shout-out: Hi Guru
Links & Resources:
- Download the HNTR App: iOS | Android
- Follow HNTR: Website | TikTok
- Follow Discover Startups: TikTok | YouTube | Instagram | Newsletter
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By Georgie BrownWhat if buying your first home felt clear, organised, and actually… manageable?
For most people, the home-buying journey starts with excitement — scrolling Rightmove, booking viewings, imagining paint colours — and quickly collapses into chaos. Suddenly you’re drowning in spreadsheets, stamp duty calculators, survey reports, confusing estate agent jargon and endless to-do lists scattered across your phone.
That overwhelming experience is exactly what pushed first-time buyer Camilla to build HNTR — the UK’s most user-friendly home-buying companion designed to turn complexity into clarity.
What began as a personal tool to survive her own “monster spreadsheet” has become a beautifully designed app that guides buyers through every step of the journey: viewings, budgeting, comparing properties, understanding surveys, making offers, tracking every moving part — and even supporting the emotional side of it all through Scout, HNTR’s AI-powered support bot.
HNTR isn’t just levelling the playing field… it’s quietly fixing a broken system where estate agents work for the seller — not the buyer.
Key Takeaways:
- Estate agents work for the seller – HNTR works for the buyer.
- Most first-time buyers underestimate costs like stamp duty, surveys and legal fees.
- HNTR puts viewings, budgeting, offers and surveys into one clear, central place.
- Scout, HNTR’s emotional support bot, helps you handle the stressy bits.
- The app is 100% free, funded through referrals, with 10% of revenue donated to Centrepoint.
- Next up: home documentation, renovation tracking and a curated shop to help you kit out your place.
Chapters / Timestamps:
00:00 — Buying a first home: why is it so confusing?
01:40 — Meet Camilla & the origin of HNTR
04:00 — The crisis of viewings: photos, notes & chaos
06:05 — Leasehold, surveys & the hidden traps buyers miss
09:20 — Stamp duty & the costs no one tells you about
11:10 — The survey red flags that actually matter
12:40 — Why the system is stacked against first-time buyers
15:00 — How HNTR works: viewings, budgeting, offers & more
18:30 — Scout: the emotional support bot
21:10 — Business model: how HNTR stays free
23:00 — Giving back: the Centrepoint partnership
25:30 — New features & the future of HNTR
28:00 — Startup shout-out: Hi Guru
Links & Resources:
- Download the HNTR App: iOS | Android
- Follow HNTR: Website | TikTok
- Follow Discover Startups: TikTok | YouTube | Instagram | Newsletter