A new website for owners and landlords to advertise their properties for sale or let has opened - but so far has a meagre five properties on its books.
Against the trend of recent web offerings, which have prided themselves as being estate agents operating online, MoveGroove appears particularly pleased that neither its service nor the individuals behind it have any experience at all in the sale of property.
For anyone familiar with uploading a listing to eBay, MoveGroove is not much different. Simply classify your property type, select the number of bedrooms, add a few more details and you are ready to post your own description of the house along with some eye catching images says company founder James Moore.
The site makes reference, in its terms and conditions section, to the need for properties being marketed to have a valid EPC but it does not make reference to specific consumer legislation surrounding the marketing of properties.
The site suggests that a first step for a would-be advertiser is to prepare a description of the property, a selling or rental price, and a bit of information on the property specifics and number of bedrooms.
The press release announcing the launch of the service places much emphasis on owners and landlords being able to use it free of charge, and the release and the site dedicate much space to comparing a free sale with hypothetical agency fees.
But towards the bottom of one screen on the site there is the reference: At the moment MoveGroove is totally free to use...
James Moore has told Estate Agent Today that he is a home owner who thought there should be an easy way of selling without an agent. He says once the site develops further there will be new features offered to users, starting with a For Sale sign which will be available for an unspecified fee.
The site has only just launched so is clearly in its earliest stages but when Estate Agent Today reviewed it overnight, it had only four properties to sell (three in Yorkshire and one in Lanarkshire) and just one Yorkshire property to let.
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