House Network, which claims to have been Britain’s first online estate agent, has been named in a winding up petition published in the London Gazette.

The petition has been presented by a firm called Reditum SPV 42, of Queen Street Place, London, which claims to be a creditor of the company. Reditum SPV 42 is a company that grants credit.

The petition will be heard at 10.30am on April 10.

The petitioner is represented by Clarion Solicitors in Leeds.

Publication of the winding up petition follows weeks of rumours, with the normally publicity-friendly House Network declining to make any comment.

The firm was co-founded 2004 by Mark Readings and Graham Lock.