Friday · 6:00 am Sydney
Twenty auctions land on the picks page.
We curate them from Domain’s Saturday schedule. Mix of suburbs, mix of price ranges, a couple of trophy listings, two to four with no published guide. The week’s form guide.
Foresyte·How it works·~5 minutes
← Back to landingHow a week in Foresyte plays out.
You sign up, pick five Sydney auctions every Friday, type a dollar number for each, and find out Sunday morning how close you got. That’s the whole game. Everything below is the detail.
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In thirty seconds
Sydney has roughly 200 auctions every Saturday. We hand-pick 20 of them on Friday morning. You read the cards, choose 5, and type what you reckon each one will sell for. Saturday morning the picks lock. Saturday and Sunday they settle. The closer you got to the actual sale price, the more points you score.
It’s free. There’s no entry fee, no cash prizes, no peer-to-peer wagering. We sit outside Australian gambling regulation by construction — and the words we use here (predict, reckon, call it) reflect that.
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The week, in five steps
Anytime Friday or Saturday morning
Choose five. Type your dollar number.
Read the cards. Pick the ones you have a feel for. For each: type a dollar amount (e.g. A$1,820,000) and pick a Confidencelevel — Low, Medium, or High. Your picks auto-save as you go. There’s no “submit” button at the bottom.
Saturday · 6:00 am Sydney
Picks lock.
The window closes server-side. From this moment your picks are read-only, the cards on /locked show what you committed to.
Saturday afternoon → Sunday morning
Auctions happen. Domain reports. Cards settle.
Most properties go under the hammer between 9:30 am and 1 pm. We sweep Domain’s public results page at 11 am, 7 pm, and Sunday morning. Each sale price is compared to your prediction; the closer you were, the more points you score.
Sunday · 8:00 am Sydney
Final scores land. Provisional rank.
You’ll get an email with your week’s total. Some auctions take longer to resolve — the ones that pass in or sell with the price withheld. Those settle over the following weeks; bonus picks credit forward when they don’t.
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How a single pick is scored
One worked example. A property sells for A$1,600,000. You called A$1,620,000with High confidence on a guided auction. That’s 1.25% off → 11.5 points:
base = 10 × (1 − 1.25% / 15%)
= 10 × (1 − 0.083)
= 9.2 base points
× 1.25 (High confidence)
× 1.0 (auction had a guide)
= 11.5 final pointsYou match expert-level accuracy at within ±15%. You beat it at within 2%. Beyond ±15% you score zero — the cliff is sharp on purpose. Over a season the leaderboard rewards consistent accuracy, not lucky single calls.
- Low confidence is 0.5×, Medium is 1.0×, High is 1.25×. High multiplies your win andyour loss — picking High when you’re unsure is a fast way to lose points.
- No published guide (the agent says “contact for price”) gives a 1.5× multiplier. The hardest reads pay best.
Theoretical max on a single pick: 18.75 points (perfect call · High confidence · no guide). Realistic upper-end Saturday: in the 30s.
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Auctions don't always settle on Saturday
Foresyte resolves every pick into one of five states. You see the shape on the results page:
Sold at or after auction with a disclosed price. Compared, scored, done.
Passed in on Saturday. Resolves against the private sale within 30 days. Voids if it doesn't sell in that window — bonus pick credited.
Sold under hammer; price withheld. Resolves against NSW Valuer-General data, typically 6–12 weeks later. Voids at 90 days if VG hasn't published.
Vendor pulled the listing, or the property sold pre-auction. Not your fault. Bonus pick credited to next week.
A bonus pick means you choose six of the next twenty instead of five. They compound across weeks, so a four-voided week credits four bonus picks the following Friday.
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What's a tier?
Your calibration tier is a measure of your accuracy over your last three months of resolved picks. ELI5: average how far off you were each time, in percent. Lower is better.
PlatinumUnder 5% MAPE — within A$80k on a A$1.6m sale. Top decile of engaged players.
Gold5–8% MAPE — the sweet spot for an above-average-but-not-superhuman player.
Silver8–12% MAPE — most engaged players live here at first.
UnratedFewer than 20 resolved picks. Calibration is unreliable below that, so the tier holds off until you have a real track record.
Tier shows up next to your name on the leaderboard, on your profile, and as a multiplier when your picks contribute to the crowd’s published median. Higher tier means your picks count more. There’s nothing to do for that to happen; it’s just how good you are.
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Common questions
Do I have to live in Sydney to play?
No. Sydney is the only market we cover, but you can play from anywhere. The lock time always shows in your local timezone next to Sydney’s.
How much time does it take?
~10–15 minutes Friday morning to read the cards and pick five. Then nothing until Saturday night, when the results emails start landing. You can dial in with as much or as little research as you want.
Is any money on the line?
No. Foresyte is unconditionally free to play. No entry fees, no cash prizes, no peer-to-peer wagering, no “shares” in outcomes. We don’t take payment details and we never will.
Where does the auction data come from?
Domain’s public Saturday schedule and results page, paired with the NSW Valuer-General feed for properties whose sale prices are withheld at auction. We attribute Domain on every results surface.
What if I'm new and bad at this?
You’ll start Unrated. Most engaged players land in Silver (8–12% MAPE) within their first two months — within A$192k on a A$1.6m sale. The point of the calibration system is to tell you, honestly, where you sit, so you can improve.
What about the prices that are withheld?
About 8–15% of Sydney auctions sell with the price withheld. NSW Valuer-General catches up 6–12 weeks later. In the meantime, the card on your results page asks if you heard what it really went for — neighbours, partners in real estate, mates at the open home. You can submit a tip privately. It never affects your own score; it feeds a separate community estimate.
Why an email magic link instead of a password?
A free game shouldn’t accumulate password-reset support tickets. Magic links keep the friction floor low, and avoid an entire category of credential-stuffing risk. Same email works on Foresyte (the deep-report tool) — one account, two products.
Ready when you are
Sign up on the landing →One email, one click. Two minutes to your first five picks.