Do I have to pay anything to buy a property? Certainly not to us, no! There's your usual conveyancing fees (unless you do that yourself) and, of course, the stamp duty, price of the house etc... but as for what you pay MyOwnMove... Nothing! [top]

Are the vendors serious about selling their property? Absolutely! Consider this... By advertising their property on MyOwnMove, the vendors have already laid out money. When you sell a property via an estate agent it's costs nothing until you sign on the dotted line. So if anything they're even more serious.[top]

What costs are involved with selling my property on MyOwnMove? MyOwnMove charges abolutely nothing to advetise on it's website, however, all usual legal fees associated with selling via regular means (e.g. estate agents etc...) still apply. You still save a lot on commission though! [top]

How long can I advertise my property for? For as long as you need to sell your house. Once it's on the site, it's on until YOU say otherwise. Although we would like to mention that in our Terms & Conditions it's one of the seller's obligations that they remove the property once it's sold. [top]

How many text messages notifications can I receive? As many as it takes to sell your house. They're included in the intial fee so don't worry about any extra charges. [top]

How do I remove my property? Two ways you can do this. Both are via My Move.
The first, and most drastic, is to click the "remove" button next to your property. You will be prompted to confirm that you do actually want to remove it. After which, it will be deleted from MyOwnMove.
The second is to change it's status to Sold. It will no longer appear in any search results. You can then change it back at a later date should you wish.
We hope you chose the second, and if so, congratulations on your sale! [top]

How many properties can I advertise for sale? We encourage you to advertise as many as you want. You can certainly manage them all conveniently within "My Move". Each property listed will incur an additional fee. [top]

Sole Seller or Sole Agency? How does this affect me? Please refer to the guide on this page on the Office of Fair Trading's website, with regards to the differences. Basically though, if you have a Sole Seller agreement with your estate agent then (unfortunately) they're entitled to a commission even if you sell the house privately. However most agreements are Sole Agency which does mean you can market, and sell, your house privately with no fee payable to the estate agent. [top]

How do I get on the Featured Property section? Homes are picked at random to be featured on the front page. Each time you visit www.myownmove.com, the chances are that you will see a new property. As everyone pays the same price to list their property on My Own Move, we feel that's only fair! The only requirements that we have for a home to qualify for Featured Property are that you must upload at least one photo and that the house is currently for sale (i.e. not Under Offer or Sold).

Are my details safe? Absolutely! We don't list your details publically and nor do we expect you to post any of your details on your advert yourself either. [top]

Why am I not receiving any emails? This may be caused by having the option to be notified by emails switched off. To enable email notifications simply edit your options in the "About Me" section of "My Move". Also make sure that the email address we have for you is correct. We would also strongly advise against using free email services, and in particular AOL, as they tend to be problematic. Lastly, make sure that you have room left in your inbox to actually receive emails. [top]

What's QuickProperty? It's simply a number assigned to each property so that if you see a property for sale you can simply enter it's number to find out all about it. Likewise, sellers, you can simply advertise your property as having MyOwnMove QuickProperty number of (your number) whenever you market it yourself.[top]

Can I sell AND buy on MyOwnMove? We certainly hope you'd like to do both! You can manage all your buying and selling activities from within "My Move". Easy! (we hope...) [top]

Viewing Safety It's extremely important that you're careful when going on viewings, and likewise if you're a seller when you invite people into your house! We really would advise that, if possible, when you go on a viewing that you take along a friend for safety. Plus it always helps to have a friend with you as they usually remember questions that you've forgotten to ask. Sellers, again, same principle. You're inviting strangers into your house, and while we're sure that 99.999% (roughly) of people that use our site are what we'd call safe, well, you never know! [top]

Viewing Tips It's always the way isn't it? You view a house and then you've forgotten to ask about such and such. Well, here's our cheat sheet...

• Why are the vendors selling? If they say neighbours from hell then run a mile!
• How long have you lived here? A short time might indicate they dont like the area or even the house.
• Ask how long it's been on the market - A good indicator of if they're willing to budge on the price.
• Following on from that, maybe even ask them if they're open to offers. Most vendors are!
• How quick are they looking to move?
• What are the neighbours like? - Go knock on their doors and find out if you like!
• Ask about noise levels. Who wants to live somewhere noisy?
• Practical things like council tax rates, water rates, etc...
• What have the vendors done to their house in the way of decorating?
• What features have warranties on them? Such as on the double glazing etc...
• Visit the property more than once if possible. Try and go different times like weekends, evenings, daylight etc...

• How long have they been looking to buy?
• Do they have a mortgage agreed? - Very important!
• How quick are they looking to move?

I sold my house. Thanks! Congratulations are in order! We certainly hope we played a large part in that, and that you had fun selling your house. We appreciate it can be stressful sometimes! If you have a good story of how you used this site for the sale then please let us know. We love stories with a happy ending. [top]

What's RSS? To cut a long story short, RSS is a way of web sites summarising their content in a format that people can automatically download new information to their computer without the need for having to visit the actual site. If you're the sort of person that bookmarks dozens of websites then forget what they've bookmarked, this really is for you. It will save you a lot of time! Basically you have a program on your computer, called an "RSS reader", and this is what does the checking for new content. In our case, our new content is of course, properties! This means that by using your RSS reader you can keep up to date with new properties without even having to visit us.
Some RSS readers that we can recommend (because we use them!) are:
RSS Bandit [link - new window] (Free, Windows)
Sharp Reader [link - new window] (Free, Windows)
NetNewsWire Lite [link - new window] (Free, Mac OSX)
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