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 2 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Property API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Real Estate, United Kingdom, Property Listings, Property Portal, and PropTech.
The Rightmove catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.
Rightmove’s developer surface includes authentication, changelog, sandbox, documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, signup flow, and 29 more developer resources.
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Heartbeat67/100
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saas · RTDF End User Licence Agreement
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holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in
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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):
MCP Server+12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
A2A Agent Card+8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Delegated User Identity+6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)
Typed Event Surface+6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks
Documented Reversibility+6 pts — a reversal operation in the contract, graded up when a window is documented too
5 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.
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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...
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aid: rightmove
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/rightmove/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-api-posture: no-product-api
x-api-posture-basis: observed
x-api-posture-note: 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 valu
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.
deliveryModel:
model: saas
license: RTDF End User Licence Agreement
open_source: false
commercial: true
callable_host: true
label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
confidence: high
source:
- license
- openapi
- pricing
generated: '2026-08-28'
method: derived
accessModel:
pricing: unknown
onboarding: self-serve
trial: false
try_now: false
public: false
gated: none
gated_source:
- onboarding
gated_conflict: 'x-api-posture: private but 2 published API entries'
label: Self-serve signup
confidence: medium
source:
- authentication
- scopes
- rate-limits
- security
- sandbox
generated: '2026-11-06'
method: derived
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
tags_raw:
- Real Estate
- United Kingdom
- Property Listings
- Property Portal
- PropTech
- Rentals
- Commercial Real Estate
- Data Feed
- Real-Estate
created: '2026-07-26'
modified: '2026-10-06'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- 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
tags_raw:
- Property Listings
- Rentals
- Real Estate
- United Kingdom
- Data Feed
- Real-Estate
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
- aid: rightmove:rightmove-property-api
name: Rightmove Property API
description: Create, Updated, Remove and Retrieve properties
humanURL: https://api-docs.rightmove.co.uk/docs/property-feed-api-product/1/overview
baseURL: https://api-services.rightmove.co.uk
tags:
- Property
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/rightmove-property-api-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
common:
- url: https://www.rightmove.co.uk/news/feed/
type: BlogRSS
- type: CapabilityMap
url: capabilities/rightmove-capability-edges.yml
name: Rightmove Business Capability Map
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
url: mcp/rightmove-mcp.yml
note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived
from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
- 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
Rightmove API — frequently asked questions
Does Rightmove have an API?
Yes. APIs.io lists 2 APIs from Rightmove, including Rightmove Real Time Data Feed API and Rightmove Property API.
Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Rightmove API?
Yes. APIs.io indexes 1 OpenAPI specification for Rightmove, each linked for download from this page.
How do I authenticate with the Rightmove API?
Rightmove uses bearer-token authentication (oauth2/mutualTLS · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Rightmove Authentication.
Is the Rightmove API ready for AI agents?
Rightmove has a Kin Score of 34.1 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 36.1 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.
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