Mission
Give UK tenants a voice
The mission is to create a better, more informed renting experience through honesty, shared experience, and fairness.
About Borrowed Bricks
The review platform for rental reality
Borrowed Bricks is designed to become the Trustpilot for rentals: a property-level, address-first review platform that helps tenants understand the reality of a home before they commit.
Vision
Make transparency the standard
The long-term goal is simple: every tenant should know the reality of a property before signing a tenancy agreement.
Movement-built
Designed around lived experience, not listing polish
The visual language can scale into editorial campaigns, trust signals, and city-based storytelling without losing clarity.
Core values
What the platform is built around
Borrowed Bricks is platform-neutral and review-led. It exists to raise standards through transparency, not pure confrontation.
Honesty
A place for real tenant truths, including the details listings leave out.
Transparency
Property history should be visible, searchable, and easy to scan.
Fairness
The platform celebrates good landlords while holding poor standards accountable.
Security
Users can contribute anonymously in public while still meeting legal safeguards.
Independence
Borrowed Bricks remains independent from letting agents and listing feeds.
Usability
Fast-loading, minimalist design helps tenants search on the go and read quickly.
Who it serves
Built for renters first
The primary audience is UK tenants, including students, professionals, and families who want confidence before moving. The secondary audience is decent landlords who want transparent positive feedback to differentiate themselves.
What makes it different
Address-first, review-led, map-friendly
Unlike Facebook groups or Reddit, every story is anchored to a property address. Unlike portals, the platform is not a listing site. Unlike agent-led systems, it stays independent and community-built.
Competitive landscape
Borrowed Bricks sits between portals and review platforms
Direct competitors include Trustpilot-style review platforms and tenancy review sites. Indirect competition comes from Facebook groups, Reddit, and portals like Rightmove.
Direct
Trustpilot, Marks Out Of Tenancy, and AllAgents all validate the need for review transparency.
Indirect
Community groups and portals contain fragments of the truth, but not structured property histories.
USP
A Rightmove-style map experience combined with verified, property-level tenant feedback.