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What does a buyer see when I share the home with a code?

The buyer sees the floor plan, the measurements, the areas and the 3D model in an ordinary browser — but never your photos and never your notes.

What it looks like on the other end

The buyer needs neither an iPhone nor an app. You give them a code, they type it into the website, and the home appears in the browser — on a PC, an Android phone or an iPad, it makes no difference.

What they see is:

• The floor plan, floor by floor, with the rooms drawn out as measured.
• The rooms' names and measurements and the calculated areas.
• The 3D model of the home, which can be rotated.
• The surroundings, if you have placed the house on the map — the roads around it, the slope of the terrain, and the sightlines the app has measured.

One detail worth knowing, if you are going to trust the numbers either way: the web view does not calculate anything itself. Every measurement and area is calculated in full inside the app before it is sent off. The buyer sees exactly the same figures you see on your own screen — not a separate result from a second calculation that could drift from yours.

What never comes along

Three things are deliberately kept out of the package, whatever you have sitting in the app:

• Your photos. The pictures you have taken of the rooms stay on your own device and in your own private iCloud.
• Your notes. The remark about the damp patch in the utility room, or what you yourself think of the kitchen, does not go with it.
• AI content. Anything you have had generated about the interior design is not shared.

It is not a setting you have to remember to switch off. It is cut out of the package so it cannot happen by accident.

What can come along, on the other hand — and what to think about

Fairness means the list runs both ways. The share can include the home's name, address and position on the map, if you have placed the house there, along with the surroundings data the app has worked out: the roads around it, elevation and the fall of the terrain.

For a viewing of a home that is already advertised with its address, that is exactly what the buyer needs. If the share instead goes out to a wider circle — put on a website, or forwarded around — it is worth being aware that the address and the layout, with the windows' placement, travel together in what you send.

The buyer can also pull the home into the app

If the buyer has HouseSense on an iPhone themselves, they can type the code into the app instead of the browser. The home is then imported as a real home they can walk into: floor plan, takeoff, 3D model.

The imported home lives only locally on their device — it does not sync up to their iCloud and does not become theirs. It is still your home, shared on loan. If you revoke the code, they also lose access in the app, not only on the web.

The exception is the same as with anything you have shown someone: a screenshot the buyer took while the code worked does not vanish because the code does. Revoking closes off future access.

Embedding on a website

The share can also be placed directly on a website — a real-estate agent's listing page, for instance — so the home appears inside the page rather than behind a link. That requires the page to run on https.

Just be aware that an embed is a public view. It shows for anyone who visits the page until the share expires or is revoked. For a home that is for sale, that is the whole point. For anything else, a code sent directly to one person is the right choice.

Can you see if anyone has looked?

Yes, but only in broad strokes, and that is by design. Views are counted anonymously: how many times and when. Not who, not from where. That is enough to answer the question sellers actually ask — "has the agent even opened it?" — without creating a record of who has looked at your house.

One code per recipient

If you are sharing with several people, make a code for each rather than passing the same one around. HouseSense gives every share its own code precisely so each one can be closed individually: if one buyer drops out, you close their code and let the others keep looking.

And remember that the code, in practice, is the access. Anyone with the code can see the home until it expires or is revoked. If it ends up in a group chat, you have shared the home with the group — so revoke it and make a new one for the right recipients.

Short summary

A share code gives the buyer the floor plan, measurements, areas, 3D model and, optionally, the surroundings — in the browser or imported locally into their own app. Photos, notes and AI content are never included. The address can be included if you have placed the house on the map, so think about how widely the code is sent. The share expires after 30 days and can be closed at any time.