About
How our coverage is researched
Every guide on BestFSBOGuide is written by a named contributor, sourced to primary records, and reviewed before it publishes. This page sets out where the facts come from, what each page passes before it goes live, and who is accountable for it.
Who writes and checks the guides
BestFSBOGuide covers selling a home without an agent across 40 countries and multiple languages, with market reports that track current figures. That coverage is written by a research editor for each region, Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, Asia-Pacific, and Africa, each working from that region's own primary sources: its land registries, tax authorities, notary or legal bodies, and official statistics.
A regional editor's job is to keep a rule tied to the country it actually applies in, since almost nothing about a sale carries unchanged across a region. Each works from the same primary sources and runs every claim through the same checks. The general how-to guides are written by Daniel Reyes, the site editor, on the same standard.
Daniel Reyes edits the site. He reviews what goes live, is the named person responsible for it, and his profile links to a verifiable public presence.
Where the facts come from
Every legal, tax, and process claim traces to a primary source: the country's land registry, tax authority, notary or legal body, official statistics office, or central bank, and for market figures the national portals and lender data that publish current numbers. Each page lists its sources at the foot, with links. Where a claim cannot be traced to a source we trust, it does not run; where a rule is genuinely a judgment call, the page says so instead of inventing certainty.
The market reports also carry our own, first-party numbers: a sampled reading of live listings, a computed cost-to-sell figure, and an explicit outlook. Anything we computed or observed ourselves is labeled as ours ("BestFSBOGuide estimate", "BestFSBOGuide sample") with the method stated, so you can tell reported figures from our own work at a glance.
What a page passes before it publishes
- Source check. Claims are checked against the primary sources listed on the page, not against other people's summaries of them.
- Adversarial review. A second pass hunts for errors in the first: wrong rates, stale figures, claims that do not match the cited source, and numbers that do not add up. What it finds gets fixed before publishing, not after.
- Editorial review. Daniel Reyes reviews what publishes and is the named person accountable for it.
- Ongoing verification. Every cited source URL is health-checked on a fixed schedule, and the results land in a public ledger. Pages with a dead citation are flagged and fixed. We do not change a page's review date unless the page itself actually changed.
Money, independence, and the one recommendation we make
The site is free to read, shows no ads, and sells nothing. Where we recommend one owner-direct listing platform, the pick is editorial, made on a fixed public rubric, with no affiliate or payment relationship behind it; the reasoning lives on the annual pick page, and how the site is funded is explained on the about page. Recommendations for local portals, lawyers, notaries, and everything else name no favorites and take no money.
Mistakes
A site covering 40 countries' rules will sometimes get something wrong. When that happens we fix it fast and say so. If you spot an error, tell us; the corrections policy explains what happens next. Email editors@bestfsboguide.com reaches a monitored inbox.