Verdict
homeswapper.co.uk appears legitimate.
Our checks found nothing pointing to fraud. Ordinary care still applies when you pay or sign in.
| What this site appears to be | HomeSwapper is a UK service for social housing tenants seeking mutual home exchanges, offering location, bedroom, and rent-based search options alongside registration and login access. |
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Evidence status and limitations
Evidence completeness: UNKNOWN
- Module-level completeness metadata is unavailable for this legacy report.
At a glance
The checks that decide most of this verdict.
| Malware engines | None flagged itVirusTotal | Clear |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 20 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2007510 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by DigiCert Global G2 TLS RSA SHA256 2020 CA1 | Noted |
The page as captured
No screenshot is retained for this report.
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2007.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
HomeSwapper is a UK online mutual-exchange marketplace for social housing tenants, presenting home-search filters by location, bedrooms, and monthly rent alongside tenant registration, login, landlord services, and home-swap advice.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions, phishing indicators, impersonation signals, or confirmed malicious reputation findings were observed. The homepage presents a coherent housing-exchange purpose, identifies a London contact address, and links to operational and legal information. Continuous historical presence and clean external reputation support the conclusion that this is an established service rather than a deceptive imitation.
- The homepage describes mutual home exchange for social housing tenants and provides registration and login access.
- External reputation checks recorded zero malicious and zero suspicious detections, with no blacklist or phishing finding.
- The domain was registered in 2007 (~19.56 years old).
- Historical coverage records 510 archive snapshots spanning 2007–2026 (20 years tracked).
Regulatory Verification Notes
The homepage provides links to Terms of use, Privacy, Accessibility, Cookies, Help, Contact Us, and About Us, and identifies MRI Software LLC in its copyright notice. No financial or other regulated-service license is claimed or identified; for this housing-exchange business model, that is a transparency point for confirmation rather than evidence of misconduct. The domain is registered through GoDaddy.com, LLC.
- The homepage displays the address “9 King Street, London EC2V 8EA” and identifies MRI Software LLC as the copyright holder.
- The site's hosting network is AS8075, Microsoft Corporation, US.
- TLS uses OV validation, issued by DigiCert Global G2 TLS RSA SHA256 2020 CA1 for MRI Software LLC, valid through 2026-11-10.
What to Verify Next
Before relying on a proposed exchange, confirm the applicable terms, the participating housing provider’s approval process, and the current operating entity through the site’s legal and informational pages. Any payment or tenancy commitment should be matched against independently confirmed housing-provider records.
- The homepage links to Terms of use, About Us, Contact Us, Privacy, and Help.
- The service identifies separate tenant and landlord pathways on the homepage.
- The business model is presented as a social-housing mutual-exchange marketplace rather than a financial product.
Summary Verdict
HomeSwapper presents as a legitimate, established, and trustworthy service with a coherent operating purpose and no observed contradiction-based risk. Normal interaction, including account login and standard use, is appropriate.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is protected by Cloudflare CDN/WAF infrastructure, with the observed address operating as a CDN edge endpoint and no origin candidate identified. This provides a meaningful reduction in direct origin exposure, while remaining a mitigating infrastructure signal rather than proof of legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Normal account access and standard service use are appropriate, subject to ordinary confirmation of exchange details and housing-provider approval before material commitments.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-02 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
No rule findings contributed to this verdict.
Identity verification
| Status | LIKELY |
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| Identity score | 73/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 74% |
- Trusted social count=1
Identity verification measures whether the site can be independently connected to a real-world brand or person. It is separate from the classification confidence.
What TrustSniffer observed
First-party facts recorded during the assessment of homeswapper.co.uk.
- The request stayed on homeswapper.co.uk. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under GoDaddy.com, LLC. [Tag = GODADDY]. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-01-15. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2007-02-06. Clear
- It is hosted on MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | GoDaddy.com, LLC. [Tag = GODADDY] |
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| Hosting | MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK - Microsoft Corporation, US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 20.234.23.47 |
| Name servers | rita.ns.cloudflare.com, scott.ns.cloudflare.com |
| SSL issuer | DigiCert Global G2 TLS RSA SHA256 2020 CA1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-10 |
| Domain age | 19.6 years |
| Domain expiry | 2027-01-15 |
| Archive first seen | 2007-02-06 |
| Archive snapshots | 510 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 0 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about homeswapper.co.uk at assessment time. It is a starting point for your own judgement, not a guarantee: a high score means the signals were consistent with a legitimately operated site, a low or critical score means several risk patterns were present.
TrustSniffer assesses a website from the evidence it can collect at a point in time: domain registration and age, hosting and certificate, the content the site served, and third-party reputation feeds. A score is a summary of that evidence, not a guarantee and not a legal finding. There is no human rating and no user review in it. A site can change after it is assessed.