--- title: Identify & Manage your Open and Closed Chains description: To identify your ‘open’ and ‘closed’ chains it is important to ‘Close’ the top and bottom of the chain when you know there are no further chain links. --- [Skip to content](https://support.viewmychain.com/identify-manage-your-open-and-closed-chains#main-content) [![VMC logo.svg\]](https://support.viewmychain.com/hubfs/VMC%20logo.svg)](https://viewmychain.com/?hsLang=en) - [For Consumers](https://viewmychain.com/moveme) - [For Estate Agents](https://viewmychain.com/estate-agents/) - [About Us](https://viewmychain.com/about-us/) - [Blog](https://blog.viewmychain.com/) - [Contact Us](https://viewmychain.com/contact-us/) Open main navigation Close main navigation - [For Consumers](https://viewmychain.com/moveme) - [For Estate Agents](https://viewmychain.com/estate-agents/) - [About Us](https://viewmychain.com/about-us/) - [Blog](https://blog.viewmychain.com/) - [Contact Us](https://viewmychain.com/contact-us/) - - [Create a support ticket](https://support.viewmychain.com/kb-tickets/new) [Create a support ticket](https://support.viewmychain.com/kb-tickets/new?hsLang=en) Hello. How can we help you? - There are no suggestions because the search field is empty. 1. [Help Centre](https://support.viewmychain.com/?hsLang=en) 2. [Estate Agents](https://support.viewmychain.com/estate-agents?hsLang=en) 3. [How To](https://support.viewmychain.com/estate-agents?hsLang=en#how-to) # Identify & Manage your Open and Closed Chains ## To identify your ‘open’ and ‘closed’ chains it is important to ‘Close’ the top and bottom of the chain when you know there are no further chain links. ### Identify Open and Closed Chains From the ‘My Properties’ page, you can identify whether a listing has an open chain with red crosses either side of the house icons. Once the chain has been closed, the house icons change to a green tick. - Open chain![](https://support.viewmychain.com/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Jul-15-2024-08-47-48-4871-AM.png?width=688&height=219&name=image-png-Jul-15-2024-08-47-48-4871-AM.png) - Closed chain![](https://support.viewmychain.com/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Jul-15-2024-08-47-54-1562-AM.png?width=688&height=215&name=image-png-Jul-15-2024-08-47-54-1562-AM.png) ### Search ‘Open’ and ‘Closed’ Chains 1\. Select ‘My Properties’. ![](https://support.viewmychain.com/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Jul-15-2024-08-48-05-0621-AM.png?width=688&height=279&name=image-png-Jul-15-2024-08-48-05-0621-AM.png) 2\. Select ‘Advanced search’. ![](https://support.viewmychain.com/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Jul-15-2024-08-48-14-6006-AM.png?width=688&height=239&name=image-png-Jul-15-2024-08-48-14-6006-AM.png) 3\. Select ‘Chain Status’ and choose ‘Open Chain’ or ‘Chain Complete’ this will return the relevant results based on your selection. ![](https://support.viewmychain.com/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Jul-15-2024-08-48-30-3759-AM.png?width=688&height=183&name=image-png-Jul-15-2024-08-48-30-3759-AM.png) **Closing a Chain** 1\. Select the ‘Close top/bottom of chain’ option above or below the listing that you would like to close the chain. ![](https://support.viewmychain.com/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Jul-15-2024-08-48-50-7136-AM.png?width=682&height=645&name=image-png-Jul-15-2024-08-48-50-7136-AM.png) 2\. 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