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The future of selling real estate

Redistribute the workload.

Keep every tool — the signboard, the photos, the portals, the open homes. Rethink what you pay for, and pay a professional for the part where they add the value: the buyers, the negotiation, the deal.

Listing on Yelsa is always free.

Three ways to sell. Start free, add exactly as much help as you want — and every job you keep is money you keep.

Free listing · free for everyone, always

  • Upload photos, build your listing
  • Share it to your Facebook page
  • Send the link to anyone
  • Post your open home times
  • Enquiries to you or your agent
  • Run it yourself or with an agent
  • No days-on-market shown
  • No paid placement or premium tiers
  • No exclusivity — list on other platforms too

Everything the big portals do, without the price tag. We proudly keep days-on-market off your listing, because it devalues your home.

Yelsa DIY

$89 flat, all up

One payment per property — every matched buyer, current and future, until you sell

  • See every matched buyer and invite them to view
  • Open homes and viewings, run from your phone
  • AI listing writing and marketing tools
  • Buyer feedback and negotiations in one place

Yelsa Hybrid

$9,775 all up, incl. GST

($8,500 + GST) · one flat fee · paid at settlement

  • Everything in DIY, included
  • Marketing, viewings and buyer management
  • Contract preparation and negotiation
  • Conveyancing, right through to settlement

Kick off with Yelsa DIY and do it all yourself. If you feel you need some extra support — without paying tens of thousands of dollars for it — upgrade to Yelsa Hybrid.

Yelsa Hybrid: three of you, clear roles.

You, your lawyer and your property professional run the whole job together — everyone has a role to play. That is what makes it efficient and cost-effective, with everything in writing.

Your lawyer leads

Your lawyer leads the sale and is accountable for it — overseeing every step, from the paperwork at the start to the conveyancing at settlement.

A property professional does the legwork

Your lawyer engages a property professional who manages the negotiation and contract process — visiting the property, meeting the buyers, preparing the contract — with the lawyer overseeing every step.

How a Yelsa Hybrid sale runs

  1. You list with Yelsa Hybrid— one flat fee, agreed up front. No Hybrid lawyer in your area yet? We'll secure one where there's demand.

  2. The property professional visits your property, gathers the legal information and prepares the paperwork your lawyer needs.

  3. You create your marketing with our AI tools — built to make bringing your home to life easy.

  4. Yelsa matches your buyers straight away. You show the home, run open homes your way, and manage every enquiry through the system.

  5. When someone wants to buy, the property professional steps back in — attends with the buyers and prepares the contract and negotiation, with your lawyer leading and overseeing every step through to settlement.

What selling costs today — on a $900,000 home

The typical bill, line by line.

Agent's commission at 2.75%$24,750
GST on the commission$3,713
Marketing — TradeMe, photography, house dressing and more$5,000
Conveyancing$2,000
Administration fee$500
The real bill$35,963

The old way — all-in

$35,963

commission + GST + administration + marketing + conveyancing

Yelsa Hybrid — flat fee

$9,775

including GST, administration, marketing and the conveyancing

More than $26,000 stays in your pocket.

Illustrative, at typical rates — not a quote. And unlike a commission taken from your buyer's deposit, our fee is paid at settlement — your whole deposit stays available for your next purchase.

Your buyers already exist. We've already matched them.

The moment your home goes live on Yelsa, it's put in front of buyers matched on price, location and property type — real people registered right now, counted one by one. Any buyer can enquire on your free listing. With Yelsa DIY or Hybrid, you go further: see every matched buyer and invite the ones you like to view.

Be one of the first.

List your home free at seller.yelsa.co.nz

First intake: a limited number of Nelson–Tasman homes. Every enquiry comes to Mike and Sarah personally during the beta.