# HouseTrip

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/housetrip/  
**Website:** https://www.housetrip.com  
**APIs profiled:** 0

HouseTrip was a London-based online vacation-rental marketplace founded in 2009 by Arnaud Bertrand and Junjun Chen, backed by Accel and Balderton Capital, that grew to roughly 300,000 European holiday properties before being acquired by TripAdvisor in April 2016. The standalone HouseTrip brand and its developer surface (formerly dev.housetrip.com) have since been retired; the housetrip.com domain now serves TripAdvisor's HolidayLettings marketplace. This profile is retained as a historical consumer-sector company record in the API Evangelist network; no live first-party API, SDK, or developer portal is currently published under the HouseTrip brand.

## Kin Score — 5.0 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 5.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Housetrip Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Consumer, Travel, Vacation Rentals, Hospitality, Marketplace, Defunct

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/housetrip/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.