Property Portals and Property Search Websites
Most property searches do not stay inside one portal. A buyer may use Rightmove for coverage, Zoopla for price information, OnTheMarket for agent listings, OpenRent for private rentals, and specialist sites for rural, student, retirement or unusual homes. Some websites are general property portals. Some are rental specialists. Some are search engines or aggregators. Others are useful only for particular searches, such as farms, land, auctions, retirement homes, student accommodation, shared ownership or unusual properties.
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UK Property Portals
Rightmove
Rightmove is one of the best-known UK property portals. Many buyers and renters use it to search for houses, flats, new homes, rental properties and sold prices. Because it has such a large reach, it is often one of the first places to register for property alerts.
Zoopla
Zoopla is a major UK property portal, useful for homes for sale, homes to rent, house price research and local area searches. Many people use Zoopla alongside Rightmove because listings, filters and alerts can differ between portals.
OnTheMarket
OnTheMarket is useful for a UK property search because it covers homes for sale and rent, but also includes categories such as new homes, retirement property, farms, land, student accommodation and overseas property. It is worth including in a serious search because some agents use it actively and some properties may appear there early.
PrimeLocation
PrimeLocation is a UK property portal focused especially on middle and upper-market homes, including country houses, apartments, farms and premium properties for sale or rent. It can be useful when a search is more focused on distinctive, higher-value or rural property.
Home
Home.co.uk is a UK property search and market-data site, combining homes for sale and rent with house-price information, local data and agent information. It may be useful for buyers who want to compare current listings with wider market evidence.
Placebuzz
Placebuzz is a UK property search website covering homes for sale and rent across England, Scotland and Wales. It can be useful as another broad search source, especially where users want to compare listings and alerts from more than the largest portals.
Nestoria
Nestoria is a UK property search engine that helps users search flats and houses for sale or rent across the UK. Because it aggregates adverts from different sources, it can be useful for wider discovery, although some properties may also appear on other portals.
OneDome
OneDome is a UK property platform that combines property search with services around the buying process, including agents, mortgages and conveyancing. It is useful to mention because some property websites now go beyond listings and try to support more of the home-buying journey.
PropertyHeads
OneDome is a UK property platform that combines property search with services around the buying process, including agents, mortgages and conveyancing. It is useful to mention because some property websites now go beyond listings and try to support more of the home-buying journey.
Rental and Rooms
OpenRent
OpenRent is specifically useful for renters. It is not a general house-buying portal in the same way as Rightmove or Zoopla, but it is an important part of the UK rental search because it gives renters access to many private-landlord listings.
SpareRoom
SpareRoom Student is useful for students looking for rooms, flatshares, replacement housemates or group rentals. It is especially relevant where the search is for a room rather than a whole property.
Gumtree
Gumtree offer classified property sales and rentals.
Research / Comparison Tools
NetHousePrices
NetHousePrices is best known for sold house price information, but it also includes property search areas such as homes for sale, homes to rent, new builds and auction properties. It is more useful as a research companion than as a main property-alert source.
The House Shop
TheHouseShop is a UK property marketplace used by private landlords, homeowners, estate agents and developers. It is worth checking alongside the main portals, especially for renters or buyers interested in private listings as well as agent-listed properties.
Get Agent
Compare estate agents online for free with GetAgent. Data-driven rankings on fees, sale times & success rates.
MousePrice
Mouseprice is the UK’s best site for property prices, and for helping home buyers and tenants understand the fair value of properties for sale and properties
Specialist Property
Rural / land / plots
UK Land & Farms
UK Land & Farms is more specialist. It is useful for farms, smallholdings, land, equestrian property, woodland and rural homes. If your property search includes land or countryside property, it is worth checking specialist portals as well as the general property websites.
Plot Browser
UK plot-finding service for self-build plots, land, redevelopment, conversion, renovation and modernisation opportunities, with plot alerts and planning reference details.
BuildStore PlotSearch
PlotSearch is a free database of self-build plots, with thousands of opportunities, plot alerts and only genuine building opportunities where planning permission has been granted.
Planning Portal: Land Match
Land Match service helps connect land buyers with trusted land sellers.
Distinctive Homes
Waterside Properties
Waterside searches are different from ordinary location searches. Buyers may be looking for coastal homes, river frontage, marina access, lake views, moorings, fishing, boating or simply a home close to water. Specialist waterside pages can be useful because these features are not always easy to search for on a general portal.
The Modern House
One of the most recognisable UK names for architect-designed and modernist homes.
Inigo
Characterful/design-led homes.
Artistry Property
Unique period and modern homes
Unique Property Company
Unique Property Company are estate and letting agents, based in London. Since 1996, we’ve been helping people like you find some of the UK’s most remarkable properties.
Wow Haus
The home of hip houses and stylish interiors.
Jitty
Jitty is an AI-powered UK property search engine that revolutionizes how people find homes. Founded by former Deliveroo executives, it uses advanced AI and computer vision to analyze photos, floor plans, and descriptions. This allows buyers to search using natural language for precise, visual, and lifestyle-driven.
Property Auctions
Auction House
UK’s largest residential and commercial property auction company, with national online auctions.
EIG Auctions
39,000 properties come to auction every year from hundreds of auction houses nationwide, with guide prices, results, legal documents and lot details.
SDL Auctions
UK live-streamed property auctioneer with properties for sale and valuation services.
First for Auctions
A national online property auction platform.
Allsop Auctions
A national online property auction platform.
Pugh Auctions
Pugh Auctions are one of the UK’s leading online property auction houses, with over 25 years of dedicated residential and commercial auction experience.
Retirement Property
Retirement Home Search
UK retirement property specialist with more than 30 years of experience and over 1,000 retirement homes for sale.
McCarthy Stone Resales
pre-owned McCarthy Stone retirement homes across the UK.
Retirement Villages
Retirement homes for sale and rent in UK retirement villages..
Housing 21
Manages over 24,200 properties across England for Retirement Living and Extra Care.
Student Housing
Accommodation for Students
Search the UK’s No.1 Student Accommodation website for Student Houses, Halls, Flats & Studios. Find student accommodation in over 130 locations.
Student.com
Student.com is an international student housing marketplace, useful for students moving to a new city or country and comparing purpose-built student rooms, studios and shared accommodation.
StudentPad
StudentPad provides student accommodation search sites connected with universities and higher education institutions. It can be useful because some listings are linked to local university accommodation systems rather than appearing only on the general portals.
UniHomes
UniHomes focuses on student homes with bills included, which can make comparison easier for groups who want to understand the real weekly or monthly cost of a shared student house.
Shared Ownership / affordable ownership
Share to Buy
Shared ownership and affordable home ownership.
Co Housing Network
Co-housing and co-operative living are different from an ordinary property search. They are often about community, shared facilities, resident involvement and long-term living arrangements, not just a house or flat listing. These searches may involve networks, schemes and waiting lists as much as normal property portals.
Moving Soon
Properties for Rent, Shared Ownership Houses, Property for Sale & Moving House Help including Checklists, Quotes & Discussions.
SOWN
Discover shared ownership homes and part buy, part rent schemes across the UK. With simple steps and flexible mortgages, own your home the smart way.
New Builds
New Homes for Sale
The largest new homes portal in the UK — bringing you thousands of new home developments throughout England, Scotland and Wales.
What House
Leading UK property portal and digital marketplace exclusively dedicated to new build homes. It connects buyers, renters, and investors with new developments from top housebuilders across England, Scotland, and Wales.
Regional
ESPC
Some parts of the UK also have strong regional property portals. For example, Northern Ireland has its own property-search patterns and local portals may be important there.
s1homes
Some parts of the UK also have strong regional property portals. For example, Northern Ireland has its own property-search patterns and local portals may be important there.
PropertyPal
Some parts of the UK also have strong regional property portals. For example, Northern Ireland has its own property-search patterns and local portals may be important there.
Trovit Homes
Trovit Homes is a classified-search style property website that searches UK property listings from many websites. It can be useful as a broad secondary search tool when checking whether a property appears outside the main portals.
Mitula
Mitula Property is a property search engine covering UK homes for sale and rent, including houses, flats, rooms, land, farms and commercial property. It is more of an aggregator/search-engine site than a traditional UK portal.
International Property Portals
Green-Acres
Green-Acres is a useful portal for people searching for property in France, especially when searching in English or comparing French regions from outside France. It is also familiar to many international buyers looking for second homes or relocation properties.
SeLoger
SeLoger is one of the major French property portals. It is useful for buyers and renters who are comfortable searching in French and want broad coverage of apartments, houses, rentals and local market information.
Bien’ici
Bien’ici is another important French property website. Its map-based approach can be useful when location is central to the search, especially when comparing towns, villages, transport links and nearby services.
LeBonCoin Immobilier
LeBonCoin is widely used in France and includes property listings as part of a much broader classified-advertising marketplace. It is useful because some owners and smaller advertisers may use it directly – a broad classified site with an immobilier/property section rather than a pure property portal.