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A New Way to Search for Properties
Rightmove is the UK’s number one property portal. Since 2000, its mission has been simple but powerful: make moving home easier.
A key part of that mission lies in delivering accurate, real-world location insights. Because when it comes to finding a home, location is everything. It shapes every decision a homebuyer makes.
To transform how people discover properties, Rightmove recognised that property search itself needed to evolve. People don’t just search by postcode; they search by possibility, and house hunters ask real questions like:
- How long will my commute take?
- Can I walk the kids to school?
- Will I be able to get into the city easily on public transport?
- Is this area bicycle-friendly?
Today, millions visit Rightmove each month to find the perfect place to live. And their search is powered by TravelTime.
POI Search Powered by TravelTime
TravelTime’s technology sits behind Rightmove’s familiar interface, powering a dynamic location-based experience.
For the My Places feature, the TravelTime API calculates personalised commute times from each property listing to the user’s key points of interest.
This means every home search includes real-time insights into how long it takes to reach the places that matter most—whether that’s a workplace, school, gym, or family home.
Those travel times are then displayed directly within the Rightmove interface, making the experience more intuitive and personal.
Set personal POIs
Users can define their own personal Points of Interest, such as Mum’s House, Lucy’s School, or New Office.
These aren’t generic landmark POIs or arbitrary location scores. My Places are personal to the user and reflect what truly matters when searching for a property.
Because what’s more important than living close to the things that define your life?
Multi-modal travel times
From walking to cycling, driving to public transport, TravelTime delivers accurate, real-world journey time across every mode.
Rightmove users can visualise how connected each property is to the places that matter; however they want to travel.
TravelTime is uniquely positioned to deliver commute insights and accurate routing by any mode of transit across the UK and beyond.
Personalised experience
Once users add their My Places preferences, they are saved to the user’s session and persist across every property they view.
Powered by TravelTime, the journeys are automatically calculated and displayed, offering a personalised and search experience.
Scalable performance
With millions of monthly visitors, Rightmove demands performance, accuracy, and scalability, without compromise.
Using TravelTime’s high-performance API, the platform serves millions of queries for personalised journey-time calculations every second. With zero lag or latency.
The result is an interactive experience that’s personal, effortless, and instant. All powered by TravelTime’s commute calculations.
Why Rightmove chose TravelTime
Rightmove’s integration with TravelTime has transformed the way people search for property. The UK’s number one property portal chose TravelTime for several reasons: performance, scalability, accuracy, pricing model, and more.
High performance at scale
Rightmove’s high-traffic platform demands a technology partnership that can scale effortlessly—and that’s why they work with TravelTime.
TravelTime’s API is built for high concurrency and performance. and large-scale property platforms, handling millions of simultaneous requests with speed and reliability.
Built for large-scale location-based applications, including property portals, TravelTime handles millions of simultaneous requests with speed and reliability, ensuring every user gets fast, accurate results, every time.
Accurate travel time calculations
TravelTime models real-world transit networks including scheduled public transport, real walking and cycling paths, driving routes, and transfer times.
We allow for complex requests using advanced parameters, accounting for time-of-day variations, connection wait times, and more, to reflect how people actually travel.
This quality of data and routing logic ensure that the commute times shown on the Rightmove property portal are trustworthy and credible, making it a go-to for millions of users. Our multi-modal routing engine, built from the ground-up, ensures that every travel time shown to a user reflects the real-world.
Non-transactional pricing model
TravelTime’s fixed annual license model offers unlimited requests. This is a game changer for large-scale platforms like Rightmove. Re-calculating the travel times to every POI, using multiple transport modes, for millions of daily searches would simply not be possible in a transactional model.
TravelTime’s fixed annual licence model offers unlimited requests—an essential advantage for large platforms like Rightmove.
Unlike PAYG or transactional pricing models, where costs grow with usage, the TravelTime model allows Rightmove to innovate freely and serve millions of users without cost spikes.
This means Rightmove can re-calculate the travel times to every POI, using multiple transport modes, for millions of daily searches, with ease.
Alternative location APIs, including Google, HERE, TomTom, and Mapbox, use pay-as-you-go models to scale cost linearly with queries.
TravelTime support and partnership
TravelTime has been built from the ground-up. Our support team consists of engineers that built and continuously optimise the API.
Alongside our best-in-class documentation, TravelTime support enables Rightmove to continuously roll out commute features with confidence.
Benchmark our API accuracy and performance against Google, Mapbox, HERE, and TomTom to see for yourself. Get started in Github.
Redefining Property Search
With TravelTime, Rightmove has reimagined how people search for their next home.
This partnership transforms property discovery into something more personal and dynamic, by using journey time data that reflects how people move through the world.
It marks a shift from property seekers searching by where a property is to how it fits into their lives. Made possible by TravelTime.
That’s why leading property portals like Realtor, Rightmove, Zoopla, CoStar, and Jitty choose TravelTime. We are the number one choice for commute time calculations to power a more personal property search experience.
Discover how TravelTime can transform your property portal. Get started today.