Questions about Rigove

Rigove takes a Rightmove property listing and shows you other places the same property has been listed — the agent's own site, another portal, wherever a visitor has added a link. Paste a Rightmove listing URL on the lookup page, or edit the address bar directly (rightmove.co.uk → rigove.co.uk) while looking at one.

Yes. The same address-bar trick works on a Rightmove search-results link too — edit rightmove.co.uk to rigove.co.uk on a search link (or paste one on the homepage) and Rigove shows you that same search on Zoopla, OnTheMarket, and PrimeLocation instead. It covers for-sale, to-rent, and new-homes searches, by postcode/area or by Rightmove's own search-results link — Rigove doesn't run a search of its own, it just points you at the same one elsewhere.

No. Rigove is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Rightmove in any way. It links out to the original Rightmove listing so you can view it there directly.

Because one company deciding the only way you can find or be found for a property isn't good for buyers or agents. One of the things agents hate about Rightmove: its own rules ban them from putting a website address, phone number, or email in a property description, profile page, or virtual tour — so on any surface Rightmove controls, a listing can never legally point anywhere but back to Rightmove itself. Rightmove is also a FTSE 100 company with a reported ~70% profit margin, and agents currently have little practical choice but to pay its fees — analysts put the average bill at around 7.2% of monthly sales commission, rising to 13.5% in Glasgow. In April 2026, agents and developers filed a £1.5bn claim against Rightmove at the Competition Appeal Tribunal over exactly this, backed by 250+ agencies. Buyers face a related problem: listings written to clear a search filter rather than describe a property honestly, and no easy way to check whether one portal's version is the only one. Rigove doesn't replace Rightmove — every lookup starts with the Rightmove listing itself — but it gives agents and buyers a way to work around the no-link rule, so Rightmove doesn't have to be the only place either side can be found.

No — and that's a deliberate design choice, not just marketing. Every past challenger to Rightmove has rebuilt the same portal shape with kinder intentions, and kinder intentions don't survive the same commercial pressure once the challenger has its own captured audience. Rigove works differently in three ways: it routes you onward, to the agent's own site or wherever else a listing legitimately lives, instead of trying to keep you on Rigove; the crowdsourced link map stays open to any source that adds value, not narrowed to serve Rigove's own traffic; and it doesn't charge a fee agents can't avoid — any support is voluntary. Rigove has no toll to hold over anyone, so it only survives if agents actually find it worth funding.

They're not allowed to. Rightmove's Agent and Developer Technical Guidelines say contact details, "including web addresses, phone and email details," must not appear in a property description, and the same rule applies to office profile pages and listing videos. It's a written rule, not an oversight or a missing feature — Rightmove keeps every enquiry flowing through its own channels by design. Rigove exists because that link has to live somewhere: an agent (or anyone else) can add it here instead, outside Rightmove's control.

No. Rigove doesn't scrape, copy, or compete with Rightmove's own listings — the only data it stores is what a visitor or agent chooses to submit themselves, and it links back to the original Rightmove listing on every property page. The goal is narrower than "against Rightmove": one company shouldn't be the only way a buyer can find a property or an agent can be found. That's a statement about healthy competition, not an attack on a specific business.

Two reasons, and only one of them is obvious. The obvious one: every link an agency adds makes the next buyer's lookup on a completely different property more useful too — the map only gets richer, never diluted, the more agencies use it. The less obvious one: one agency quietly adding a link is easy for Rightmove to ignore. A few hundred doing it in the open, and agents telling other agents about it, isn't something any portal gets to wave away as noise. Rigove doesn't need every agent in the country before that starts to matter — it needs enough of them talking to each other.

Visitors add them. Anyone viewing a property page can submit another URL where the same property is listed — the agent's own site, Zoopla, OnTheMarket, or elsewhere. It's held for review before it appears (see the next question) — once approved, it's shown to every future visitor of that property page.

Yes, in two stages. First, automatically at submission: protection against bot abuse (rate limits, a cap on links per property), Rightmove links are rejected since the point is to find other places a listing lives, and the page itself is checked for basic signs it's actually a property listing (a price, bedroom count, "for sale"/"to let", that kind of thing) before it's even saved. Second, every submission that passes those checks is still held for review and isn't shown to other visitors until approved. Neither stage confirms a link points at *this* property specifically, or that its details are current — always confirm listing details directly with the agent.

Not yet — the lookup only recognises Rightmove listing URLs and IDs today. Links to other portals can still be added as alternative listings once you've found a property via its Rightmove page.

No. Submitting one link to a property page never requires an account — just paste the URL. An account is only needed if you want to submit links in bulk or manage what you've added later (see the next two questions).

Two things a single anonymous submission can't: bulk add, where you paste a list of rightmoveId,url pairs and submit up to 20 at once instead of working through each property page individually, and a dashboard listing everything you've submitted, where you can edit a URL or remove it. It's free — sign up with just an email and password.

Only if you were logged in when you added it. It'll show up on your dashboard, where you can change the URL or remove it any time. Links added anonymously (the default, no-account path) can't be edited afterward by anyone, including you — that's the trade-off for not needing an account.

Yes, there's no charge to look up a listing or add a link.

Rigove has no ad budget, no investors, and no portal quietly paying the bills — it stays online for as long as people who want an alternative to Rightmove think it's worth backing. It's voluntary, pick what you can afford: see the support section for the details.

When you add a link, Rigove stores the URL and page metadata (title, description, image) fetched from that site — never from Rightmove itself. See the Privacy Policy for the full picture, including what's collected if you subscribe to updates.

You'll see the direct Rightmove listing and an empty list, with the option to add the first link yourself if you know of one.