STREETWISEsales.co.uk is a new business aimed at enabling people to advertise, sell, buy, rent or swap their houses.
Visitors to the site first see a page of advertisements showing the latest properties to be added to the database. There's a search facility on the left hand side, and an advice tab. Sellers' contact details are clearly shown and buyers simply get in touch direct.
Users wishing to advertise their properties click the 'sell' tab and go through a few steps to set up their ad, up to and including payment.
Unusually this client provided an excellent visual brief 
which, by being decisive early, cut down on development costs.
I like the spirit of this website which seems to be very well tied to what the Internet is all about .. enabling people to connect. Here, people are able to make arrangements to buy or sell their homes without an intermediary, which may well save them thousands of pounds. And there's lots of potential for growth and development.
The site took about six elapsed months to complete, and 130 hours of actual work, requiring an investment of just over £5,000.
The client said "Wow! I'm really pleased you have started to put into pixels what's in my mind, looks really good so far", "I think what you have said so far has been absolutely spot on! So I'm more than happy just to let you get on with things", "Really pleased LOOKS FANTASTIC", and "I love the look and feel of the search button design, wow, looks great doesn't it!".
Update: 11/02/2007: This client has subsequently taken the site to another developer and I notice the site is now 'under development', so I can't lay claim to what the site looks like now. The site was delivered late, but with the client's agreement that I was to concentrate on quality rather than our self-determined deadline. Update 28/02/07: it came up again briefly with a slightly more modern look and my name removed, but it was substantially the same. It's gone 'under construction' again. Update 27/03/07: it now seems to be up and running with the slightly different 'look' but same functionality, which is curious because the 'look' I provided was the one requested from day one.