Why Choose The Little House Company?

Largest Partner Network

Now in our 8th year, we are the leading multi-listing service in the UK for homeowners wishing to advertise homes privately and our partner network* is the biggest, representing incredible value for money – over 500 websites including the leading independent property portals in a simple fixed price all-inclusive package, with no hidden costs, time limits or restrictions.

We offer exposure on the broadest range of dedicated property search services used by buyers of all types and preference. There is no SINGLE best property site for online promotion, making it important to carefully select and use as many different services as possible to cover the market comprehensively, which is precisely what we specialise in bringing to our customers.

The Little House Company enjoys frequent media exposure and recently featured as the leading online private sales service on the Tonight with Trevor McDonald current affairs programme "Home Sale DIY", ITV1.

Security of Information

Our high-speed web-servers are hosted in a completely secure, monitored and protected environment, housed in a professional data centre with excellent 24hr security, fire and backup measures, dedicated internet connections and 'uptime' well in excess of industry standard (averaging 99.9%). All information on our website is protected by high-level firewall /security systems, the same as used by the MOD and Police Force.

Credit card transactions are processed separately via our service providers SecureTrading and Barclaycard Business Merchant Services, using industry-leading SSL encryption. Card details are only stored on secure servers within the banking system not accessible from the internet.

Our custom anti-spam email masking system protects your email address from misuse or 'harvesting', whilst allowing you to communicate with genuine buyers.

We do NOT share customers' personal details with any other organisations. The Little House Company is registered under the Data Protection Act and we take great care to protect your privacy and personal data. We never sell customer details.

Added Value

• DISCOUNT CONVEYANCING special rates for our advertisers
• Get FREE ADVERTISING with our CASHBACK scheme.
• Comprehensive low cost HOME INFORMATION PACKS that can use with any estate agent.

Special rates for home conveyancing for our customers mean that you can save even more money when selling with the assurance of legal work carried out by one of the UK's largest suppliers - we are confident you will not find lower rates for comparable services anywhere.

Through our advertising referral moneyback scheme, you can sell your home AND get a full refund of advertising fees simply by telling others about us, meaning the best private online home-selling service can now be had for FREE!

Home Information Packs are now required to market all homes in England & Wales. Our customers benefit from special pricing on HIPS and conveyancing when purchased with our advertising.

Legal Peace of Mind

All customer listings are subject to personal review by our highly experienced property team.

Our unique legal compliance check means that all customer property details placed with us are reviewed and monitored to ensure that advertising complies with relevant property and advertising regulations as far as possible, to avoid the wording of your particulars falling foul of the law and at the same time offering advice for optimising marketing and presentation.

Easy to Use

Our website is specifically designed to be easy to use for both experienced and novice internet users. Advertising is placed using our simple 4-step sellers form, which leads you through the process in about 10 minutes. Our system automatically formats all the information and images for you and handles all network advertising for you - there is no extra work involved.

Once registered, property details are displayed online instantly. After that, you can return anytime 24hrs a day to edit the details using the online management facility (My ACCOUNT).

Professional support and assistance is always available, just send an email or call our Customer Service team FREE during normal business hours.

Size Matters

There are actually very few established online property businesses serving the private market operating professionally in the UK, but literally hundreds of small 'back-bedroom' services.

PO Box numbers (private address), bad design, overly cheap prices and lack of VAT registration are all potential indicators of small or 'hobby' websites.

With property marketing, SIZE MATTERS because it directly affects the company’s ability to market customer homes (your home!) effectively, which includes having sufficient funding for advertising, development, future expansion, customer care, security of data, quality control and longevity.

A larger organisation such as ours has a much greater number of customers listed on our service and our network, meaning that our listings and our brand have proportionately greater exposure and public recognition and our site has far more visitors – which is part of what our customers pay for. We are also able to invest heavily in search engine placement and our network contracts so that our listings have much greater exposure and appear more readily and with higher ranking on sites like Google.

Our property listings have the same ranking on the major property search portals as any estate agents using these services to list their properties.

Our long experience, size, professionalism and funding have enabled us to build superb quality into every aspect of our business, giving us advantages in terms of the partners we deal with, the intelligent automated website systems and linking infrastructure we have developed, easy to use customer registration and online advertising management facilities, coupled with our dedicated customer service teams who provide FREE support and assistance throughout the period of advertising.

The Little House Company Multi-Listing network package:

*FISH4 combines properties from over 7,000 estate agents across the UK and alone reaches over 1 MILLION buyers a month. Fish4 provides the property search for over 250 regional and local newspaper websites and is one of the most widely known brands in the property market.

*Our package includes FREE listing on Channel 4’s property website 4HOMES at NO additional cost and NO restriction on the period of advertising. Promoted via property programmes like “Property Ladder” and “Streets Ahead” (Sarah Beeny) and “Grand Designs” (Kevin McCloud), the 4Homes website reaches 200,000 buyers each month.

*Additions to our network include DIGICITY (exclusive property data provider) offering specialist exposure in London, the Home Counties and 49 city websites around the UK - offering a further audience of up to 1½ million visitors.

*Also includes NESTORIA, the 'dedicated' property search engine which powers the property section for The Independent and The Telegraph websites.

*Also includes ONONEMAP, the property mapping search engine awarded BBC Radio 2 "Website of the Day" on the Steve Wright in the Afternoon show.

*TOUCAN - exclusive to The Little House Company - part of IDT Telecom mobile, broadband and internet service providers nationwide. Toucan's customer portal attracts 300,000 visitors per month.

*OODLE - The local classifieds search engine with over 1 million visitors per month powering classified property listings for major distribution partners including The Sun, LocalAds and Lycos.

*ACCESSIBLE PROPERTY REGISTER - properties listed in our accessible category are automatically advertised in addition on the Accessible Property Register website, specialising in accessible and adapted housing and bungalows.