A family house in Ireland is being claimed as the first in the world to be sold directly via an online auction on a property portal.

Offr says it's hired former Hamptons heavyweight Peter Everett to help build its business in the UK, which already has over 1,000 accounts signed up.

Five-bedroom detached house has been sold via Irish Rightmove equivalent MyHouse.ie during a successful online auction.

Offr, the prop-tech platform digitising the buying, selling and leasing process for real estate agents and buyers, has launched in the UK & Australia to digitise the buying and selling of property.

Proptech company Offr gains new backing as it breaks out of Ireland and into two new key markets but hopes to eventually become an international platform.