/vendor/rightmove/AgentRouting.json or
/vendor/rightmove/AgentContext.json directly.
rightmove.co.uk
Overview
Does rightmove.co.uk support MCP?
No confirmed MCP support was found for rightmove.co.uk as of 2026-07-01.
What agentic protocols does rightmove.co.uk support?
As of 2026-07-01, rightmove.co.uk has confirmed support for openai_apps_sdk and proprietary.
Is rightmove.co.uk's API publicly accessible or partner-gated?
Access varies by protocol: open, partner only.
Does rightmove.co.uk explicitly prohibit automated access?
Yes. rightmove.co.uk's terms of service explicitly prohibit automated or scraper access to the public website without prior written permission.
Is rightmove.co.uk agent-ready?
Partial. rightmove.co.uk supports some agentic workflows but requires a human handoff for certain operations — see the protocols and summary sections for details.
Protocols
No evidence found that Rightmove (rightmove.co.uk) has adopted, announced, or piloted the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol. Known A2A launch partners include enterprise technology firms (Google, IBM, Salesforce) and developer platforms — no UK property portal or real estate vertical participant appeared in any A2A partner list. Rightmove's own developer/API surface is not known to reference A2A.
No evidence that Rightmove has any involvement with the Agentic Commerce Protocol. Known ACP launch partners are US-focused retail/fashion brands (URBN group, Coach, Kate Spade, Revolve, Ashley Furniture, Glossier, Vuori, Spanx, SKIMS) and Shopify/Etsy merchants — none related to UK property listing. ACP's commerce-checkout model has no obvious fit for Rightmove's property search/listing business.
No evidence that Rightmove (rightmove.co.uk) is among the 60+ AP2 launch partners or has any stated involvement with the Agent Payments Protocol. Named launch partners include payment processors (PayPal, Mastercard, Adyen, Worldpay), fintechs (Revolut, Coinbase), and merchants/SaaS platforms (Etsy, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Lowe's) — Rightmove, a UK residential property portal, does not appear in any published partner list or related announcement. As a property search platform with no direct payment-processing role in agent transactions, its inclusion would be structurally unusual.
No official MCP server or MCP integration found from Rightmove itself. All MCP-branded results for rightmove.co.uk are third-party, scraper-based actors on Apify (e.g. epctex, saswave, cryptosignals) — none of these are sanctioned by Rightmove. Rightmove's own developer surface (api-docs.rightmove.co.uk) covers a Commercial Listings API and an Automated Datafeed (ADF) for estate agents and feed providers, with no MCP layer or mention of Model Context Protocol.
No evidence found that Rightmove.co.uk participates in MPP (the Stripe + Tempo multi-rail machine payment settlement protocol). Rightmove's documented payment infrastructure uses Open Banking via Ecospend for tenancy-related payments. The confirmed MPP launch partners appear to be blockchain/fintech platforms such as MultiversX, not consumer-facing UK property portals.
No evidence found that Rightmove (rightmove.co.uk) has implemented or is listed as a launch partner for NLWeb. The NLWeb protocol was announced at Microsoft Build 2025; known early adopters discussed in coverage are general web publishers and developer-facing tools, not Rightmove. Rightmove's own AI announcements focus on a ChatGPT app integration, not NLWeb /ask or /mcp endpoints.
Rightmove is a UK property listings portal with no commerce checkout surface — UCP (the Google/Shopify Universal Commerce Protocol for agent-driven checkout) has no applicable fit. Searches against rightmove.co.uk and its API documentation returned no UCP-related signals whatsoever; the only Rightmove API surface found (api-docs.rightmove.co.uk) is a property data feed for estate agent partners, not a retail checkout flow. No vendor-specific statement, integration, or deprecation notice regarding UCP was found.
No evidence that Rightmove has implemented WebMCP or declared any window.AICommands surface. Rightmove's public developer presence is limited to its listing-feed APIs for estate agents (api-docs.rightmove.co.uk), with no mention of WebMCP adoption. Known early adopters and discussion of WebMCP center on Google and Microsoft's own properties, not Rightmove.
No evidence found of Rightmove (rightmove.co.uk) participating in or adopting the x402 protocol. The x402 ecosystem's confirmed launch partners and foundation members include Coinbase, Cloudflare, Google, Visa, AWS, Circle, Anthropic, Vercel, and Solana — none of which is Rightmove. The protocol is Coinbase-originated (May 2025) and primarily targets API monetisation and AI agent use cases, a profile that does not overlap with Rightmove's consumer property-listing business model.
Read-only conversational property search: UK sales, rental, new-build, and build-to-rent listings; returns live property carousels in ChatGPT via @Rightmove mentions; no agent contact, booking, or transaction capability within ChatGPT — users are directed to rightmove.co.uk for full details and agent contact
Rightmove officially launched its ChatGPT app in early 2026, confirmed via its own press centre at https://www.rightmove.co.uk/press-centre/rightmove-becomes-first-uk-property-portal-to-launch-in-chatgpt/. The app is explicitly framed as an experiment in discovery-stage property search; it is listed in the ChatGPT app directory and invoked via @Rightmove. No transactional capability exists within ChatGPT; all further interaction (filtering, agent contact) requires redirecting to Rightmove's own platform.
Supply-side property listing feed API (REST, OAuth2) for estate/letting agents and developers to create, update, and delete residential and commercial property listings on rightmove.co.uk; separate sandbox and production environments exist, with credentials issued by Rightmove's Data Feed Team on request.
Documented at api-docs.rightmove.co.uk under an 'early adopters' label, indicating the REST interface is still maturing. Access is not self-serve — credentials must be requested from adfsupport@rightmove.co.uk. Commercial and residential properties require use of separate API endpoints per property type.
Legacy Automated Datafeed (ADF) for estate and letting agents to push residential, overseas, and new-homes property listings via XML web services; supports add, update, delete, product application, and reporting data retrieval.
The ADF predates the REST API and uses XML schemas validated against Rightmove-specific BLM XML formats (specs published as PDFs, e.g. 'Real Time Datafeed API Web Services Specification'). Access requires contacting adfsupport@rightmove.co.uk to schedule a testing period. This is a distinct integration path from the newer REST API, with different auth mechanisms, wire format, and onboarding process.
Direct HTTP checks for /llms.txt, /agents.md, /.well-known/agent, and /.well-known/agents.json on rightmove.co.uk all timed out (HTTP 000), meaning network-level blocking prevented fetching. Web searches found no evidence that Rightmove has published any self-declaration files at predictable well-known paths. Search results related to Rightmove only surfaced their estate agent directory pages and API docs for commercial feed partners, not any agent-discovery convention files. Not recorded as unable_to_verify for the self-declaration check specifically because the search surface (indexed content, third-party references) was accessible and returned no evidence — the timeout only affected direct fetch, not the broader signal space.
Summary
Has agent interface: partial
Monitor Rightmove's ChatGPT app for capability expansion (currently read-only property search with no transactional layer); separately, evaluate whether the partner-only REST listing feed API or legacy ADF could serve a supply-side agent use case, and if so, contact adfsupport@rightmove.co.uk to request credentials and onboarding.
AgentContext
Verified discrepancies
Vendor claim: Rightmove states that estate agents are contractually responsible for ensuring listings are accurate and current, and that sold or tenanted properties are removed promptly when a sale completes or a property becomes tenanted.
What actually happens: Documented reports show that properties already let or sold continue to appear as available on Rightmove, including cases where a London estate agency (Portico) was found to have re-listed already-let rental properties. Rightmove attributed the re-listings to a technical issue in the agency's software and removed them manually only after a blogger publicly raised the issue with screenshots. MoneySavingExpert forum users report contacting agents about multiple Rightmove-listed properties only to be told all were already sold subject to contract (SSTC), suggesting listings are routinely kept live to generate leads rather than reflect genuine availability.
Agent guidance: Before treating any Rightmove listing as confirmed available, an agent should independently verify availability directly with the listing estate agent by phone or email before proceeding with any further steps (e.g., arranging a viewing, making an offer, or presenting the listing as available to a user). Do not rely solely on the Rightmove listing status as proof of availability.
- The Negotiator reports that a blogger documented ghost rental listings on Rightmove by a named London estate agent (Portico), with properties re-listed after already being let; Rightmove blamed a technical glitch and removed them manually only after public pressure.
- MoneySavingExpert forum thread contains user accounts of inquiring about multiple Rightmove listings only to be told all were SSTC, with agents accused of keeping listings live deliberately to build buyer lead lists.
- Rightmove's own FAQ acknowledges the problem, stating it is the estate agent's responsibility to remove sold/tenanted properties but that Rightmove can investigate reports.
Human handoff required for
Verify actual availability of any Rightmove-listed property directly with the listing estate agent before presenting it as available, arranging a viewing, or advancing any offer — Rightmove listing status alone is not reliable confirmation of availability because already-sold or already-let properties routinely remain live on the platform, including cases of deliberate re-listing of tenanted properties by agents.
- The Negotiator and MoneySavingExpert forum users document that properties already let or sold routinely stay listed as available on Rightmove, with Portico specifically named for re-listing already-tenanted properties; Rightmove only removed listings manually after public exposure.
- Rightmove's own FAQ places responsibility for removing completed listings on the estate agent, creating a structural gap between displayed availability and actual availability.
Five categories were checked for rightmove.co.uk: (1) Pricing discrepancies — no consumer-facing hidden fees or checkout price gaps found; complaints identified relate to B2B subscription fees charged to estate agents, not to property seekers. (2) Availability discrepancies — a finding was confirmed: documented and named instances of already-let or already-sold properties remaining live on Rightmove, with MoneySavingExpert forum evidence and a named estate agent (Portico) specifically cited. (3) Identity/merchant-of-record — no finding; Rightmove does not process consumer payments and no ambiguity about legal counterparty was documented. (4) Policy enforcement discrepancies — no finding; no regulatory actions or verified reports of policies being applied differently from how they are stated were found. (5) Undisclosed constraints — no finding; Rightmove's portal-only nature (no on-platform transaction completion) appears consistently communicated through platform design, and no mid-transaction capability failures were documented. Scans were not blocked in any category, though the B2B-focused nature of most Rightmove complaints means consumer-facing evidence was limited in scope across several categories.