Rightmove

Rightmove is the United Kingdom's largest residential property portal, operated by Rightmove Group Limited (Milton Keynes) and listed on the London Stock Exchange as Rightmove plc. It aggregates for-sale, to-let, new-homes, commercial and overseas listings supplied by member estate agents, letting agents and new-homes developers, and monetises the audience by charging those agents for advertising rather than by licensing data. The UK has no MLS, so Rightmove sits at the demand end of the value chain and its inbound feeds — not any cooperative database — are the machine-readable surface. Its API posture is publish-in, not read-out - the documented APIs let an agent's CRM or feed provider push listings into Rightmove, and there is no public API for reading listings, sold prices or valuations. A public Apigee developer portal at api-docs.rightmove.co.uk ("Rightmove APIs - Early adopters") anonymously serves a real OpenAPI 3.0.1 contract for the Commercial Listings API, and www.rightmove.co.uk/adf.html publishes the Real Time Data Feed specification, but working credentials for every environment are issued case by case by the Rightmove Data Feed Team and use is governed by a binding End User Licence Agreement. No RESO Web API or Data Dictionary certification, OData `$metadata` document or Universal Property Identifier appears anywhere in Rightmove's surface - RESO is a North American, NAR-driven standard with no UK counterpart, and Rightmove uses its own proprietary ADF/RTDF schema instead.

Rightmove publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network: Commercial Listings API. Tagged areas include Real Estate, United Kingdom, Property Listings, Property Portal, and PropTech.

Rightmove’s developer surface includes authentication, changelog, sandbox, documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, signup flow, and 26 more developer resources.

46.5/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 69/100 agent native Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
2 APIs
Real EstateUnited KingdomProperty ListingsProperty PortalPropTechRentalsCommercial Real EstateData Feed

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 46.5/100 · developing
Contract Quality 14.6 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 13.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 6.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 2.7 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 9.3 / 10
Agent readiness — 69/100 · agent native
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 9 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 5 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Rightmove Commercial Listings API

The Commercial Listings API allows commercial agents and feed providers to upload, update, retrieve and remove commercial property listings for display on the Rightmove website....

Rightmove Real Time Data Feed API

The Real Time Data Feed (RTDF) is Rightmove's incremental HTTPS/JSON interface for UK sales, lettings and overseas sales listings, used by estate agency CRM and feed provider so...

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Rightmove Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Rightmove Authentication

oauth2/mutualTLS · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Rightmove Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Rightmove Scopes

1 scope · implicit

1 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Rightmove Agentic Access

4 operations · 2 acting

4 operations · 2 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 5

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 4

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: rightmove
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/rightmove/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Rightmove
kind: company
description: Rightmove is the United Kingdom's largest residential property portal, operated by Rightmove Group Limited (Milton
  Keynes) and listed on the London Stock Exchange as Rightmove plc. It aggregates for-sale, to-let, new-homes, commercial
  and overseas listings supplied by member estate agents, letting agents and new-homes developers, and monetises the audience
  by charging those agents for advertising rather than by licensing data. The UK has no MLS, so Rightmove sits at the demand
  end of the value chain and its inbound feeds — not any cooperative database — are the machine-readable surface. Its API
  posture is publish-in, not read-out - the documented APIs let an agent's CRM or feed provider push listings into Rightmove,
  and there is no public API for reading listings, sold prices or valuations. A public Apigee developer portal at api-docs.rightmove.co.uk
  ("Rightmove APIs - Early adopters") anonymously serves a real OpenAPI 3.0.1 contract for the Commercial Listings API, and
  www.rightmove.co.uk/adf.html publishes the Real Time Data Feed specification, but working credentials for every environment
  are issued case by case by the Rightmove Data Feed Team and use is governed by a binding End User Licence Agreement. No
  RESO Web API or Data Dictionary certification, OData `$metadata` document or Universal Property Identifier appears anywhere
  in Rightmove's surface - RESO is a North American, NAR-driven standard with no UK counterpart, and Rightmove uses its own
  proprietary ADF/RTDF schema instead.
image: https://media.rightmove.co.uk/assets/shared-assets/favicons/light/favicon.ico
tags:
- Real Estate
- United Kingdom
- Property Listings
- Property Portal
- PropTech
- Rentals
- Commercial Real Estate
- Data Feed
created: '2026-07-26'
modified: '2026-07-26'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: rightmove:rightmove-commercial-listings-api
  name: Rightmove Commercial Listings API
  description: The Commercial Listings API allows commercial agents and feed providers to upload, update, retrieve and remove
    commercial property listings for display on the Rightmove website. It models a property as either a BUILDING or a SPACE,
    carries media (photos, floor plans, EPCs, EPC graphs, brochures, virtual tours) as publicly reachable URLs, and processes
    changes asynchronously. Residential listings are explicitly out of scope and must continue to go through the Real Time
    Data Feed API. Authentication is OAuth2 client credentials with credentials issued by the Rightmove Data Feed Team; errors
    are returned as RFC 7807-style ProblemDetail bodies. The published OpenAPI declares two paths — GET/PUT/DELETE on /v2/property/commercial/{reference}
    and GET on /v2/property/commercial/branch — plus a staging server at https://api-services.adftest.rightmove.com.
  humanURL: https://api-docs.rightmove.co.uk/docs/property-feed-api-product/1/overview
  baseURL: https://api-services.rightmove.co.uk
  tags:
  - Commercial Real Estate
  - Property Listings
  - Real Estate
  - United Kingdom
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/rightmove-commercial-listings-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api-docs.rightmove.co.uk/docs/property-feed-api-product/1/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api-docs.rightmove.co.uk/apis
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://api-docs.rightmove.co.uk/authentication
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://api-docs.rightmove.co.uk/get-started
  - type: SignUp
    url: https://api-docs.rightmove.co.uk/accounts/create
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://api-docs.rightmove.co.uk/terms
  - type: Support
    url: mailto:adfsupport@rightmove.co.uk
- aid: rightmove:rightmove-real-time-data-feed-api
  name: Rightmove Real Time Data Feed API
  description: The Real Time Data Feed (RTDF) is Rightmove's incremental HTTPS/JSON interface for UK sales, lettings and overseas
    sales listings, used by estate agency CRM and feed provider software rather than by end developers. The publicly downloadable
    specification (v1.4.1, last updated November 2023) documents thirteen calls on https://adfapi.rightmove.co.uk/v1/property/,
    including SendPropertyDetails, OverseasSendPropertyDetails, RemoveProperty, GetBranchPropertyList, AddPremiumListing,
    AddFeaturedProperty, RemoveFeaturedProperty, GetBranchPerformance, GetPropertyPerformance, GetBrandEmails, GetBranchEmails,
    GetPropertyEmails and ErrorCodes. Calls carry a Rightmove-issued Network_ID and Branch_ID and an Agent_Ref that keys create-versus-update.
    Access is mutual-TLS - Rightmove issues an X.509 certificate and private key in a keystore by email with the password
    sent by SMS - so neither the endpoints nor the referenced JSON Schemas are reachable anonymously (probed 403).
  humanURL: https://www.rightmove.co.uk/adf.html
  baseURL: https://adfapi.rightmove.co.uk/v1
  tags:
  - Property Listings
  - Rentals
  - Real Estate
  - United Kingdom
  - Data Feed
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.rightmove.co.uk/adf.html
  - type: Specification
    url: https://media.rightmove.co.uk/ps/pdf/guides/adf/Rightmove_Real_Time_Datafeed_Specification.pdf
    name: Rightmove Real Time Data Feed API Web Services Specification v1.4.1
  - type: License
    url: https://media.rightmove.co.uk/ps/pdf/guides/adf/RTDF_EULA.pdf
    name: RTDF End User Licence Agreement
  - type: Onboarding
    url: https://media.rightmove.co.uk/ps/pdf/guides/adf/Provider_Contact_Form.pdf
    name: ADF Provider Contact Form
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/rightmove-rtdf-error-codes.yml
    name: RTDF Success/Warning/Error envelope (numeric code registry is mutual-TLS gated)
  - type: Support
    url: mailto:adfsupport@rightmove.co.uk
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/rightmove-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/rightmove-domain-security.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/rightmove-scopes.yml
  name: No scope model - scopes are not implemented (recorded absence)
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/rightmove-authentication.yml
  name: OAuth2 client credentials (Commercial) + mutual TLS (RTDF)
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/rightmove-conventions.yml
  name: Auth, idempotency, pagination, versioning, tracing, media and error semantics
- type: Idempotency
  url: conventions/rightmove-conventions.yml
  name: Idempotent upsert keyed on the client-supplied reference (PUT) / Agent_Ref (RTDF) - no Idempotency-Key header
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/rightmove-problem-types.yml
  name: Commercial Listings ProblemDetail catalogue (RFC 7807-shaped)
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/rightmove-rate-limits.yml
  name: 429 with a 60-second quota window; quota value not published
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/rightmove-lifecycle.yml
  name: Versioning, deprecation practice, maturity and SLA posture
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/rightmove-changelog.yml
  name: Dated release history for both APIs (v0.1.0 to v2.1.6)
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/rightmove-data-model.yml
  name: Building/Space entity graph derived from the OpenAPI
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/rightmove-conformance.yml
  name: Standards conformance incl. the RESO/OData absence
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/rightmove-sandbox.yml
  name: api-test staging environment and the supervised testing cycle
- type: Packages
  url: packages/rightmove-packages.yml
  name: Community libraries only - Rightmove publishes no first-party SDK
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
  name: Packaged agent skills for the Commercial Listings API
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/rightmove-llms.txt
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/rightmove-commercial-listings-overlay.yaml
  name: API Evangelist enhancements for the Commercial Listings OpenAPI
- type: Website
  url: https://www.rightmove.co.uk/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://api-docs.rightmove.co.uk/
  name: Rightmove APIs - Early adopters
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.rightmove.co.uk/adf.html
  name: Rightmove Automated Datafeed (ADF) Specifications
- type: Specification
  url: https://media.rightmove.co.uk/ps/pdf/guides/ADF_V4n_specification.pdf
  name: Rightmove Automated Data Feed v4.0n (New Homes bulk XML file feed, not an HTTP API)
- type: License
  url: https://media.rightmove.co.uk/ps/pdf/guides/adf/RTDF_EULA.pdf
  name: RTDF End User Licence Agreement
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.rightmove.co.uk/c/terms-of-use/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.rightmove.co.uk/c/privacy-policy/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://api-docs.rightmove.co.uk/apis
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://api-docs.rightmove.co.uk/get-started
- type: SignUp
  url: https://api-docs.rightmove.co.uk/accounts/create
  name: Portal account registration (does NOT yield working API credentials - those come from the Data Feed Team)
- type: Onboarding
  url: https://media.rightmove.co.uk/ps/pdf/guides/adf/Provider_Contact_Form.pdf
  name: ADF Provider Contact Form
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/rightmove
  name: 15 public repos, all hiring/interview exercises - no SDK, spec or client library
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rightmove
- type: InvestorRelations
  url: https://plc.rightmove.co.uk/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.rightmove.co.uk/news/
- type: Support
  url: mailto:adfsupport@rightmove.co.uk
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com