rightmove.com
Rightmove.com redirects to Rightmove.co.uk, the United Kingdom’s largest online marketplace for homes to buy or rent (Rightmove).
What is Rightmove?
Rightmove brings property adverts from estate agents, letting agents, home builders, commercial agents, and overseas sellers into one searchable website and app.
It is not an estate agent, so it does not own the homes, arrange surveys, negotiate offers, or complete sales.
Its main job is to help people discover properties and contact the professional responsible for each advert.
The platform carries more than one million properties for sale or rent, while its UK sales section alone advertises more than 900,000 homes (Rightmove Safety Centre, UK property listings).
What can you do on the website?
You can search by town, postcode, railway station, price, property type, bedroom count, and many other details.
The “Draw a Search” tool lets you mark your own area on a map, which is useful when a normal town boundary includes places you do not want.
A free account lets you save homes, store searches, create instant alerts, and keep a record of messages sent to agents (Rightmove account features).
Alerts can report matching new listings and price cuts, which gives active buyers a better chance of arranging an early viewing (Rightmove property alerts).
Rightmove also provides sold-price records, school information, mortgage calculators, commercial property, student housing, retirement homes, new developments, and overseas listings.
Its valuation service uses public sale records, Rightmove listing history, nearby homes, and machine-learning models to estimate a property’s current value (Rightmove valuation tool).
Why is Rightmove so powerful?
Rightmove benefits from a simple loop in which many listings attract many visitors, and those visitors make agents feel they must advertise there.
Property hunters spent 16.8 billion minutes on Rightmove during 2025, while six in ten Rightmove users did not visit Zoopla or OnTheMarket during that year (Rightmove 2025 results).
About 10,000 properties were uploaded each day, and the company held more than 100 million historical listings and one billion property images by the end of 2025.
This scale gives Rightmove something more useful than a large advert board because it can see what people search for, save, view, and ask about across most of the country.
That information supports valuations, market reports, agent tools, and better recommendations, so the data advantage becomes stronger as people continue using the site.
How does Rightmove make money?
Searching is free for ordinary users because property professionals pay Rightmove to reach them.
Agents and developers buy memberships, listing packages, extra promotion, data services, and lead-generation products.
Rightmove had 19,272 agency branches and new-home developments as members at the end of 2025, up one percent from the prior year.
Average monthly revenue per advertiser increased six percent to £1,621, helping total annual revenue rise nine percent to £425.1 million (Rightmove 2025 results).
The company produced £297.7 million in underlying operating profit, showing that a digital marketplace can serve another visitor or listing at a low extra cost.
Its business is therefore built less on selling houses and more on selling access to people who already want to move.
What should users check carefully?
An asking price is only the seller’s starting figure, so it should not be treated as the home’s final market value.
Rightmove’s House Price Index also measures prices on newly listed homes rather than the amounts buyers finally pay.
Online valuations are useful starting points, but they may miss extensions, repairs, poor interiors, unusual designs, and other facts that an agent or surveyor can see.
A listing may also become unavailable before its page changes because the advertising agent controls much of the property information.
Users should compare local sold prices, inspect the home, commission the right survey, check legal records, and calculate the full monthly cost before making a decision.
Rightmove checks advertisers and requires agents to belong to an approved redress scheme, but users should still avoid sending deposits or private information before verifying the agent (Rightmove Safety Centre).
What is the main risk to the business?
The same market power that makes Rightmove valuable also creates tension with the agents paying its fees.
A £1.5 billion Competition Appeal Tribunal claim alleges that Rightmove abused its position through excessive charges, while Rightmove says the claim has no merit and plans to defend itself (Reuters).
The case does not change how consumers search today, but it shows the central issue in Rightmove’s model: users want every listing in one place, while agents do not want dependence on one costly gatekeeper.
Is Rightmove worth using?
Rightmove should be the first stop for most UK property searches because it combines unmatched listing reach with strong maps, alerts, price records, and planning tools.
It should not be the only source, since the safest decisions still require local research, direct agent contact, financial checks, legal work, and a proper inspection.