How our coverage is researched

The honest version of who writes this site

BestFSBOGuide covers selling a home without an agent in 40 countries, in multiple languages, with market reports that track current figures. No small editorial team could research that surface by hand, and we will not pretend one does. Our researched collections, the country guides, the market reports, the city pages, and the platform comparisons, are produced by an editorial operation that combines automated research and source verification with human editorial control, and they are signed BestFSBOGuide Editorial rather than with individual names.

We used to present these pages under per-country contributor bylines. We stopped: a byline you cannot look up and verify is worth less than an honest team credit with a real, accountable editor behind it. The named person responsible for everything published here is Daniel Reyes, who edits, reviews, and answers for the site, and whose 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.