Review Criteria

The criteria that have been used to review the property websites feature here have been carefully selected to be as comprehensive and objective as possible. Each criteria has been explained in full allowing readers to easily verify the information presented here for themselves, ensuring total objectivity in our review process.

We've broken the criteria down into 5 categories, enabling us to produce a summary score for each. A summary of the fields used in each category appears on the right of this page.

Exposure offered

The main reason for using a private house sales site over just putting the details online yourself is to attract more potential buyers. All property sites are however not the same and the level of exposure they can offer for your property varies greatly.
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Advert features

Once you are happy that your chosen private house sales site is going to attract potential buyers you want to be sure that your property is going to be presented in a way that will ecourage those buyers to make an enquiry. The advert features criteria deal with the options that you will have at your disposal to to just this.
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Security

In the process of creating your advert you will have to divulge information that you probably do not want circulated around the internet. Our security criteria deals with how each private property selling site handles your personal, payment and property details and what assurances they provide against misuse.
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Management

Once your advert is live you may need to make changes to it, get help from customer support and monitor it's performance. The management criteria covers these factors and other "post sale"
issues.
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Site Issues

How your choice of private house sales site performs generally will have an effect on how likely your advert is to generate enquiries. These criteria deal with the property site itself.
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