How To Advertise Your Buy-To-Let On Rightmove

UPDATE: This article no longer remains valid. Please go here, How Landlords Can Advertise And Find Tenants On Popular Websites Like Rightmove for an updated and more useful article.

A Landlord friend of mine asked me whether he could advertise a buy-to-let property on Rightmove, even though he’s a private landlord. Most people know that Rightmove only deals with Estate agents and Letting agents. While that is true, there is still a way for a private landlord to advertise on Rightmove for an extremely reasonable price.

There’s a site called www.letmatch.co.uk, which lets landlords advertise their property for free. I’m not entirely sure how popular or affective their service is, but I imagine it’s no way near as effective as Rightmove. But the good news is, it’s a free service. Yes, you get to advertise your property for free!!

Anyways, if you register to letmatch and create a profile for the property you want to let. While you create the profile, towards the end of the process, you get the option to add the listing to Rightmove for a fee of £25. It’s a fair deal.

Simply tick the box and follow the instructions. It’s as simple as that.

How does Letmatch do it?

They work in partnership with a letting agent. In fact, this is what their disclaimer says:

This unique offer is only available due to the our partnership with Visum Lettings and their ‘tenant finding service’. You are not signing any contract with the agency for any further services; they simply have an advertising agreement with us which facilitates this amazing offer.

So Visum Lettings subscribes to Rightmove as a letting agent, and then work in partnership with Letmatch to help get rental properties in the books. From what i’m aware of, Rightmove charge £495 per month for an estate agent to advertise properties on their site.

I’m pretty sure that’s how the system works. However, don’t quote me on the actual Rightmove subscription charge of £495, that’s just something I heard from the grapevine, but it sounds about right to be honest.

So that’s it. If you’re a private landlord and want to appear on Rightmove for £25, go over to Letmatch and register for free, and tick the Rightmove option when you create a profile for your property.

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Talk / 15 Comments left so far

Steff wrote this on 2008-12-15 15:51:19 I have had my fee returned, they say they have technical issues with rightmove. 1

Mark wrote this on 2009-02-09 11:19:10 Working just fine as of Feb 09. Price has risen slightly, but you get on Primelocation and some other sites as well. 2

Nick Dardalis wrote this on 2009-04-26 08:50:29 Im doing research on this as we speak and the results are very interesting. You will find a wide variety of sites for the london market but outside of london these sites advertise very little. Letmatch had 6 Gloucestershire properties (not town or city specific) none with photos.
cant imaging they would be effective. 3

Artur wrote this on 2009-05-12 16:50:41 Nick, I think you're missing the point. LetMatch is free, but we're not worried about whether their performance as an advertiser is good - it's Rightmove that will advertise your property if you pay up. I did it and it works fine. 4

Danielle wrote this on 2009-06-05 09:35:47 I have tried to find their listings on rightmove but cant does anyone know how to find them ? 5

Lisa Williamson wrote this on 2009-08-11 16:29:12 I would be interested in getting my property advertised on rightmove as I am looking to end the contract with the letting agrncy as they are getting a lot of money for doing almost nothing.

I would be interested in anyone who says it is worth it. Does the Ad appear on rightmove in the right area etc... or has anyone come across any hiccups.

Many Thanks

Lisa 6

The Landlord wrote this on 2009-08-11 18:10:11 Hey Lisa,
I used the service. I wrote my thoughts here: My Experience With Letmatch To Advertise A BTL On Rightmove 7

Sue wrote this on 2009-12-05 10:52:33 Lisa and anyone else looking for ways of advertising on RIGHTMOVE, I used the services of company called FLAWLESS (www.flawlessuk.com) and they provide a service which is very good. They advertise on their site as well as rightmove and more importantly they dealt with all enquiries and arranged viewing etc. for me which was great. They were doing this for just under £70 but if you ask nicely they will do it for LESS:-) Hope this helps! Sue 8

Sue wrote this on 2009-12-05 10:54:35 I forgot to mention FLAWLESS also keeps your Property on rightmove as well as their site UNTIL LET for the same fee!!!! 9

ADE wrote this on 2010-02-10 23:52:37 Is there a service out there where I can advertise my property FOR SALE on RIGHTMOVE as a private seller.

THANKS. 10

Paul wrote this on 2010-02-17 13:36:03 I have used a very good company called Graphite Homes (www.graphitehomes.co.uk) to help me let my property.
They do a whole range of services including a national advertising only service. They will advertise your property on 5 websites including Rightmove.

They only charged me £60 and provided an excellent service including vetting any prospective tenants to my requirements.

I would definately recommend them to anyone.

A1 service!!! 11

Stephen Hallis wrote this on 2010-05-06 17:51:50 I recently used a company Ashton & Grosvenor 01244318115 they put my property on rightmove I was bombarded with response from people intereseted in my home and found tenants for my house 2 days later, the service cost me £59, not sure how they do it but I didnt pay a penny till after I got the responses. 12

Andrea Thacker wrote this on 2010-05-17 14:52:49 Well I bought a package off ebay. Put in "rightmove" on the search bar of ebay and it comes up with the deal.
They charge £25 a month and send all leads straight to you. Fantastic! 13

Mark Smith wrote this on 2010-09-02 09:56:20 UPDATE: LetMatch do not advertise on rightmove - they have changed their business model (i.e. rightmove have pulled their account) 14

The Landlord wrote this on 2010-09-02 10:39:21 Hey Mark,

Many thanks for letting me know. I have updated the article with a disclaimer :)

The new LetMatch website is MUCH improved. I didn't think it would ever happen! 15

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