Rightmove Sold Prices API vs HM Land Registry: Which to Use

Rightmove's sold house prices are HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, so the price and date of every sale are the same in both. If you need every sale in an area, a price index or bulk analysis, download Price Paid Data: it is free, covers England and Wales back to 1995 in full files, and is fresher. Use a Rightmove sold prices API such as Scavio's when you also need what Land Registry does not record: bedrooms, photos, the home's last listing, and each address's full sale history grouped in one response. That is the honest split, and the numbers below, from live calls on October 10, 2026, show where each one wins. We build Scavio, so weigh that as you read.

Google's own AI Overview for "rightmove sold prices api" already makes the point: the data comes from Land Registry records, which you can query directly. A top-voted reply in an r/HousingUK thread about Rightmove data asks the other half of the question: "Are you using RightMoves API to access this data?" Rightmove has no public read API. So the real choice is between the free government files and an API over Rightmove's enriched view.

What each source gives you

When Land Registry is the right answer

Bristol alone has 144,436 sold addresses in Rightmove's records (October 10 and 11, 2026). One query reaches 1,000 of them. If you are building a price index, training a valuation model, or need every sale in a postcode district for a month, Price Paid Data is the better tool: you download the whole file once, it costs nothing, and on October 10 it held a month more of sales than Rightmove did. Its columns are price, date of transfer, postcode, property type (detached, semi-detached, terraced, flat or other), new build, tenure, the address, and a category flag. If the licence matters to you, it is published under the Open Government Licence v3.0, with the address-data conditions spelled out on the same GOV.UK page.

When a Rightmove sold prices API earns its credit

Land Registry tells you a house sold for £450,000. It does not tell you it had two bedrooms, what it looked like, or how it was advertised. A filtered call returns that per address:

import requests

r = requests.post(
    "https://api.scavio.dev/api/v1/rightmove/sold",
    headers={"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_SCAVIO_KEY"},
    json={"location": "Bristol", "property_type": "detached",
          "tenure": "freehold", "sold_within_years": 2},
    timeout=90,
)
d = r.json()["data"]
print(d["total"], "addresses,", d["max_page"], "pages")
print("average last year:", d["summary"]["average_price_last_year"])
print("newest sale on record:", d["data_coverage"]["most_recent_transaction"])
home = d["properties"][0]
print(home["beds"], "beds,", len(home["transactions"]), "recorded sales")

Output from the re-check on October 11, 2026 (933 addresses the day before; the two-year window rolls daily):

Narrowing by type, tenure and years brought Bristol's detached freehold sales to 931, inside the 1,000 cap, so every one is reachable. One sold-property call on a detached house in BS16 returned seven sales, from £98,000 in 1999 to £450,000 in July 2026, with the percent change between each (+43% since 2018), plus its last listing: two bedrooms, two bathrooms, ten key features and the photos. That combination is what a comparables tool, a valuation report or an AI agent answering "what did this house sell for, and what was it?" actually needs, and it sits next to live listings, rentals and estate agents on the same key in the Rightmove API.

Cost and limits

Every call is 1 credit: $0.002 on the Growth plan billed yearly, $0.01 pay-as-you-go. A sold call returns 25 addresses with their histories, so $0.08 per 1,000 addresses. Pulling all 931 Bristol detached freehold sales from the last two years is 38 calls, about $0.08.

The limits, stated plainly: England and Wales only, like Land Registry; 1,000 addresses per query, so slice large areas by property type, tenure, years or postcode; sold records trail Land Registry's own release by about two months (on October 10, 2026 the newest was July 31); and calls take 1 to 4 seconds. If you only need prices and dates, the free files are the better answer, and we would rather you use them.

If your product needs the enriched view, joining sales to bedrooms, photos and the last listing across many postcodes and keeping that join working is the ongoing work. That is the part Scavio's Rightmove API absorbs, with live listings, rentals and estate agents on the same key, from $2 per 1,000 requests on the Growth plan billed yearly.

Get 50 free credits, no card, enough for 1,250 sold addresses, or try the sold call in the playground.

Reference: Rightmove API overview · sold docs · sold-property docs · search docs