A firm which offers a selling service for under £300 and says it has been designed by estate agents “so you don’t need one” is listing on Rightmove and Zoopla.
A Zoopla spokesperson declined to comment on Solo Homes, but confirmed that the site does not allow private listings. Rightmove has also been approached for comment.
EYE understands that in Zoopla’s case, Solo Homes meets the portal’s criteria.
On both Zoopla and Rightmove, Solo Homes claims that it will save “thousands” on estate agency fees by helping “you to do it yourself”.
One reader told EYE: “Zoopla and Rightmove can deny it all they want, but they are letting FSBO all over their pages.”
Below, from Solo Homes’ own website, and beneath that, part of its entry on Zoopla
Comments (7)
Lets face it, the portals are past caring who advertises on them, take the money and run. No concern for the companies that have been supporting them for years.
In the end it will be them that lose out went the agents numbers die out or better still when a new advertising medium comes along and we drop them like a hot potato!
Time the industry did something serious to protect itself. Everyone should refuse to pay their next month’s subscriptions until RM and Zoopla remove these cowboys from their sites .Shameful they have let them in It’s a mark of utter disrespect to those off us who have been supporting them over the years.
Another one?!
And these experienced estate agents are who exactly?
because our Industry has allowed customers to think being on rightmove is all they need. It’s game over as far as I can see.
Because unfortunately a large swell of agents think that’s the case as well.
I suppose if you spent a week as a trainee neg you’ve had experience as an estate agent…