Swap-Homes.com is a website offering a new service to homeowners searching for a property and an alternative way of marketing properties for estate agents.

The service acts as a web-based national house matching service for homeowners in the UK and Northern Ireland.

It works in exactly the same way as a normal sale, but is chain-free.

Homeowners register the property they wish to sell on the site and complete a survey of the home they would like to own, for example a user may want to downsize or relocate.

Website users can either do this themselves or with the assistance of an estate agent who is registered with Swap-Homes.

Agents acts as a facilitator for the swap and are charged a fee for every property they advertise. Vendors who use Swap-Homes via an agent are still subject to an agents selling fee.

Once details of the property being sold and the property required are registered on the website, a database of other registered properties will be searched daily to identify possible swaps.

Details of all possible swaps will be made available to everyone included in the registration details, either the homeowner or the estate agent.

The website is currently waving its registration fee for all users in order to built up a wide range of properties.