What Homivo does
Homivo searches live listings in Scotland by the character of the home, shows the evidence for each match, and sends the buyer to the estate agent who is selling it.
Search in plain language
You describe the home the way you would to a friend: a cottage with a sea view near Oban, somewhere quiet that is not overlooked, a house with a loch in sight. Homivo turns that into a search across the listings it has indexed.
The outcome is a shortlist aimed at the life you want in the house, so you spend less time opening adverts that only matched a bedroom count.
Show the evidence for every match
A match is not a bare tag. Homivo reads the listing text, looks at the photographs, and checks the geography, then keeps the reason a home was included. If a search asks for a sea view, the result can show what in the advert supports that.
The outcome is a search you can trust enough to act on, and a selling agent who receives interest from someone who already understands the house.
Send buyers to the selling agent
Homivo is not the estate agent. Each listing page points back to the advert on the agent’s own website, where the enquiry, the viewing, and the sale stay with them.
The outcome for an agent is extra exposure: buyers who never typed the town name can still arrive on that original advert because they searched for how the home feels.
What makes Homivo different
Homivo is a character search with evidence and a link back to the agent. Rightmove, Zoopla, and OnTheMarket are filter searches, and the enquiry often stays on the portal.
| Topic | Homivo | Rightmove, Zoopla, OnTheMarket |
|---|---|---|
| How you search | A sentence about the home | Price, beds, and location filters |
| Why a home is shown | Evidence from the advert, the photos, and the map | The listing matches the filters |
| Where the enquiry goes | The estate agent's own website | Often stays on the portal |
| Cost to search | Free, with no account | Free to search |
| Cost to the agent | No fee and no contract to be indexed | Set by each portal |
Search by character, not only by filters
Rightmove, Zoopla, and OnTheMarket are built around price, beds, and location checkboxes. Homivo is built around the sentence a buyer actually says: private, a real view, original fireplaces, a garden that is not overlooked.
Those portals are the place to see the full market in a postcode. Homivo is the place to find the homes in that market that fit a way of living.
Every match keeps its evidence
A portal result tells you a house is for sale. Homivo also tells you why it matched, from the listing copy, the photos, and the map. A claimed view that the geography does not support can be flagged rather than repeated as fact.
Buyers get a reason. Agents get enquiries that already reference the thing that makes the house worth seeing.
The listing stays with the agent
On the big portals, the enquiry often stays inside the portal. On Homivo, the listing page links to the agent’s own advert. The agent keeps the relationship.
There is no fee and no contract for an agent to be found. If they would rather not be indexed, they contact the team and the listings come down.
Built for how these places are actually searched
Drive time, a sea view, a quiet lane, and a town you can reach in half an hour matter in a way a bedroom checkbox does not capture. Homivo indexes homes for sale across Scotland, most of them in the Highlands, Argyll and Bute, Moray, Aberdeenshire, Orkney, and the Western Isles. It is not a UK-wide search.
A buyer can ask for a cottage with a sea view near Oban, or a quiet house within 45 minutes of Fort William, and get matches shaped by that request.
Free to use, with no lock-in
Searching Homivo costs nothing and does not require an account. There is no 12-month contract of the kind some property software sells to agents, because agents are not sold a seat on Homivo.
People use it when they are looking. Agents stay listed while their adverts are public, and can leave whenever they ask.
Who uses Homivo
Homivo is used by people choosing a home in the places it indexes, and by the estate agents whose public listings those people find.
- People looking for a home in Scotland who already know the feeling they want, and need the houses that match it.
- Movers weighing a sea view, a loch, and the drive from a town they already know.
- Estate agents in Scotland who want public listings found by those searches and the enquiry sent back to their own site.
The team behind Homivo
Homivo is a small, independent team. The public contact address is ted@homivo.co.uk. This page was last updated on .
Homivo started because UK home search still forces people to translate a clear wish into a stack of filters. The product is the public search, the evidence behind each match, and the path back to the agent who is selling.
How Homivo works
For someone looking for a home
A buyer finds a home in three steps. There is no account to create and no message thread inside Homivo.
- Open Homivo and describe the home in a sentence.
- Read the matches and the evidence for each one.
- Open the listing and continue to the selling agent’s advert.
For an estate agent
Homivo indexes listings that are already public on the agent’s website. The agent keeps the enquiry on their own site.
- Live adverts on the agent’s site are indexed.
- When a set of listings is ready, the team emails an example and a link to this page.
- A buyer who matches is sent to the advert on the agent’s own website.
Questions and removal requests go to the same team inbox. There is no onboarding call and no contract to sign.
Key facts
| Company name | Homivo |
|---|---|
| Type | Property search |
| Headquarters | Scottish Highlands |
| Website | https://homivo.co.uk |
| Core offering | Search homes by what they are actually like, with the evidence behind each match. The index covers Scotland, most of it in the Highlands, the islands, and the north-east |
| Pricing | Free to search. No fee to the homebuyer. |
| Contract terms | No subscription and no minimum term for people searching. Estate agents can ask for their listings to be removed at any time. |
| Services | Natural-language home search, evidence-backed matches, and listing pages that link to the selling agent |
| Communication | Email the team from the About and Agents pages. Replies go to the same inbox. |
| Customers served | Homebuyers searching in Scotland, and estate agents whose public listings there are indexed |
| Competitors | Rightmove, Zoopla, and OnTheMarket |
| Contact | ted@homivo.co.uk |
| Last updated | 5 November 2026 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Homivo an estate agent?
No. Homivo is a search engine for homes that are already on the market in the places it indexes. The estate agent who instructs the sale remains the agent. Homivo sends people to that agent’s advert.
How does Homivo decide that a home matches?
Listings are read from the public advert: the description, the photographs, and the location. Those signals are turned into attributes such as a view, a fireplace, or a drive time, each with evidence. A search then ranks homes by how well that evidence fits the request.
Characteristics are estimates. The selling agent and a viewing are still how you confirm a house.
Does it cost anything?
Search is free. Homivo does not charge homebuyers and does not sell agent subscriptions or annual contracts. Agents are not billed to have a public listing indexed.
How does an agent get their listings removed?
Email the team and say which site should come down. Homivo removes that agent’s listings from the website and stops crawling them. The address is on the Agents page and in the key facts above.
Where does Homivo cover?
Homivo indexes homes for sale across Scotland, most of them in the Highlands, Argyll and Bute, Moray, Aberdeenshire, Orkney, and the Western Isles. It is not a UK-wide search. Searches can name a town, the coast, and a drive time. Coverage grows as more agency sites are indexed.