Connells Group

aid: connells
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/connells/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Connells Group
kind: company
description: 'Connells Limited, trading as Connells Group, is the United Kingdom''s largest estate agency and property services
  group, headquartered at Cumbria House in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, and a wholly owned subsidiary of Skipton Building
  Society. It states 1,200+ branches, 16,000+ colleagues, more than 80 local brands including Connells, Countrywide, Hamptons,
  Sequence, Bairstow Eves, Fox & Sons, John D Wood & Co, Gascoigne Halman and Blundells, roughly 115,000 property sales a
  year and about 10% market share, 165,000+ managed tenancies and £33bn+ of arranged mortgage lending. It occupies almost
  the entire residential value chain at once: estate agency, residential and corporate lettings, new homes, land and planning,
  auctions, surveys and valuations, conveyancing, mortgage services, asset management, affordable housing, EPCs and inventories,
  commercial agency and a research and consultancy practice. Its home market is the United Kingdom, where there is no MLS
  and no cooperative listing standard — residential stock reaches consumers through the Rightmove and Zoopla portal duopoly
  by way of agency CRM and website software rather than a shared pool, and Connells'' own consumer property sites are built
  on the Homeflow platform. Its API posture is closed and undocumented. No developer portal exists: developer., developers.,
  api. and docs.connellsgroup.co.uk do not resolve, and /developers, /api, /docs, /openapi.json, /swagger.json, /api-docs
  and /.well-known/openid-configuration return 404 on both connellsgroup.co.uk and connells.co.uk. It publishes no OpenAPI,
  no GraphQL, no AsyncAPI, no MCP server and no client SDK — the only first-party package on any public registry is a dormant
  npm colour-token file for its website. Probing on 2026-07-26 did, however, find a small live JSON surface underneath the
  consumer site at https://www.connells.co.uk/api: six anonymous read-only Next.js route handlers serving the branch finder,
  people directory, testimonials wall and place autocomplete, plus a seventh (/api/properties) that returns HTTP 500. These
  are undocumented internal website routes, not a product — unversioned, unsupported, rate limited by Cloudflare, capped at
  12 records because no paging parameter works, and carrying application errors inside HTTP 200 bodies. Only connells.co.uk
  exposes them; the sibling brand sites redirect /api/* away. The group''s 88-URL corporate sitemap contains no developer
  path — its one /developers/ page is addressed to property developers, not software developers. Integration is real but partner-only:
  Connells Survey & Valuation advertises delivering "totally integrated panel and risk management technology solutions to
  lenders" for the 40+ lenders whose valuation panels it manages, and reaches them through third-party platforms such as Cotality''s
  LenderHub, while Countrywide Surveying Services'' Geoconnect engine is described as connecting internal and external data
  sources through API integrations it consumes rather than publishes. There is no RESO Web API or Data Dictionary certification,
  no OData $metadata document and no Universal Property Identifier anywhere in the estate — RESO is a North American NAR/MLS
  mechanism and the UK has no MLS to certify against. Connells publishes no open data either; its research product, covering
  88% of UK postcode areas from branch-level proprietary data, is sold through a brochure request and a contact form, and
  the genuinely open UK property layer belongs to the public sector (HM Land Registry Price Paid Data and Ordnance Survey),
  not to the brokerage.'
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: partner-only
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: No published developer surface · lender-panel and commercial integration only · an undocumented anonymous read-only
    JSON surface exists at www.connells.co.uk/api but is not offered, documented or supported
  confidence: high
  source:
  - probes
  - website
  generated: '2026-07-26'
  method: manual
  note: 'public: false is deliberate. The endpoints found at www.connells.co.uk/api are reachable without credentials but
    are undocumented internal website routes with no terms, no versioning and no support — reachable is not the same as offered,
    and Connells has published nothing inviting their use.'
image: https://www.connellsgroup.co.uk/Assets/images/favicons/apple-icon-180x180.png
tags:
- Real Estate
- United Kingdom
- Property Listings
- Brokerage
- Estate Agency
- Rentals
- Valuation
- Conveyancing
- Mortgage
- Property Management
- Auctions
- PropTech
created: '2026-07-26'
modified: '2026-07-26'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- name: Connells Website JSON API (undocumented)
  description: 'An undocumented, unauthenticated, read-only JSON surface served by the Connells consumer website at https://www.connells.co.uk/api.
    It is NOT a published Connells Group product — the group publishes no developer portal, no documentation and no specification,
    and makes no commitment about these routes. They are Next.js App Router route handlers backing the site''s branch finder,
    people directory, testimonials wall and place autocomplete, with content sourced from the Homeflow estate-agency platform
    that powers the Connells consumer estate. Six operations answered anonymous requests on 2026-07-26 — listBranches, getBranch,
    listStaff, listTestimonials, listLocations and searchPlaces — while a seventh, /api/properties, returned HTTP 500 on every
    probe, so no property listings are available. The surface is unversioned, read-only (Allow: GET, HEAD, OPTIONS), rate
    limited by Cloudflare with HTTP 429 and Retry-After but no forward RateLimit headers, and hard-capped at 12 records per
    collection because no paging parameter is honoured despite pagination metadata advertising 162 branches and 841 staff.
    Application errors ride inside HTTP 200 bodies rather than in status codes. Only www.connells.co.uk exposes these handlers;
    the sibling Connells Group brand sites redirect /api/* away. The OpenAPI in this repo was derived by API Evangelist from
    live response captures, not published by the provider.'
  humanURL: https://www.connells.co.uk/
  baseURL: https://www.connells.co.uk/api
  tags:
  - Real Estate
  - Estate Agency
  - Branch Locator
  - United Kingdom
  - Undocumented
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    name: Connells Website JSON API (API Evangelist derived)
    url: openapi/connells-website-openapi.yml
  - type: Examples
    name: Captured live response examples
    url: examples/_index.yml
  - type: Authentication
    name: Authentication profile (none required)
    url: authentication/connells-authentication.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    name: Observed rate limits
    url: rate-limits/connells-rate-limits.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    name: Observed error catalogue
    url: errors/connells-problem-types.yml
  - type: Conventions
    name: API conventions
    url: conventions/connells-conventions.yml
  - type: DataModel
    name: Derived data model
    url: data-model/connells-data-model.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    name: Lifecycle posture
    url: lifecycle/connells-lifecycle.yml
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/connells-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/connells-domain-security.yml
- type: OpenAPI
  name: Connells Website JSON API (API Evangelist derived)
  url: openapi/connells-website-openapi.yml
- type: Examples
  name: Captured live response examples
  url: examples/_index.yml
- type: Authentication
  name: Authentication profile (none required)
  url: authentication/connells-authentication.yml
- type: RateLimits
  name: Observed rate limits
  url: rate-limits/connells-rate-limits.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  name: Observed error catalogue
  url: errors/connells-problem-types.yml
- type: Conventions
  name: API conventions
  url: conventions/connells-conventions.yml
- type: DataModel
  name: Derived data model
  url: data-model/connells-data-model.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  name: Lifecycle posture
  url: lifecycle/connells-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  name: Standards conformance and regulatory registrations
  url: conformance/connells-conformance.yml
- type: Compliance
  name: Required disclosures — FCA, ICO, Property Ombudsman, Modern Slavery Act
  url: https://www.connellsgroup.co.uk/required-disclosures-inc-modern-slavery-act-statement/
- type: Packages
  name: First-party packages
  url: packages/connells-packages.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  name: llms.txt
  url: llms/connells-llms.txt
- type: AgentSkill
  name: Agent skills
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: TermsOfService
  name: Legal Notices — Terms and Conditions
  url: https://www.connellsgroup.co.uk/legal-notices/
- type: Website
  url: https://www.connellsgroup.co.uk/
- type: Website
  name: Connells Estate Agents
  url: https://www.connells.co.uk/
- type: Website
  name: Countrywide
  url: https://www.countrywide.co.uk/
- type: Website
  name: Hamptons
  url: https://www.hamptons.co.uk/
- type: Website
  name: Sequence Home
  url: https://www.sequencehome.co.uk/
- type: Website
  name: Connells Survey & Valuation
  url: https://www.connells-surveyors.co.uk/
- type: PropertySearch
  name: Connells Properties for Sale
  url: https://www.connells.co.uk/properties/sales
- type: PropertySearch
  name: Connells Properties to Let
  url: https://www.connells.co.uk/properties/lettings
- type: Research
  name: Connells Group Research — Our Data
  url: https://www.connellsgroup.co.uk/research/our-data/
- type: Blog
  name: Connells Group News
  url: https://www.connellsgroup.co.uk/news/
- type: Contact
  url: https://www.connellsgroup.co.uk/contact-us/
- type: Careers
  url: https://www.connellsgroup.co.uk/careers/work-with-us/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.connellsgroup.co.uk/privacy-policy/
- type: CookiePolicy
  url: https://www.connellsgroup.co.uk/cookie-policy/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/connells-group
- type: ParentCompany
  name: Skipton Building Society
  url: https://www.skipton.co.uk/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com