Rightmove price history: every way to see it in 2026

Rightmove knows the full price history of every listing on it. It just doesn't show you.

What you get on a listing is a polite summary: "Added on 14th March", maybe "Reduced on 2nd June". What you don't get is the shape of the story: the starting price, how many cuts, how big, how far apart. Which is a shame, because that shape tells you more about the seller's state of mind than anything in the description.

Here's every way to get at it, what each one actually shows, and where each one stops.

The quick answers

How do I see price history on Rightmove itself? You can't, not fully. Rightmove shows the date a property was added and, if it's been reduced, the date of the most recent reduction. For the complete asking-price history you need a browser extension (more on those below).

How do I see what a house previously sold for? That's sold price history, and it's public record. Rightmove's own "Sold House Prices" section, Zoopla, and HM Land Registry all publish it free. Search by postcode.

Are asking prices and sold prices the same thing? No, and mixing them up gets expensive. Asking-price history tells you about the seller today. Sold-price history tells you about the property over decades. You want both.

What Rightmove shows you natively

On the listing itself:

• "Added on 14 March" tells you when this listing went live. Note: this listing. If the property was taken down and relisted, which agents do precisely to reset that date, the clock starts again and the property looks fresh when it isn't.
• "Reduced on 2 June" is the most recent cut. Not the size of it, and not any cuts before it.
• Sold House Prices is a separate section of Rightmove, fed by Land Registry, showing what properties actually completed for, by postcode, going back to 1995. Genuinely useful, and nothing to do with the current listing's asking price.

So natively you get the last chapter and the ancient history, but not the middle of the book.

The browser extensions

A small ecosystem of free extensions exists to fill the gap. They watch listings over time and overlay the history onto the Rightmove page as you browse.

Property Log (Chrome) is the best known. Free, Rightmove-only. It shows every asking-price change it has recorded for a listing, and its party trick is linking relisted properties back to their earlier listings, so a reset "Added on" date doesn't fool you. Some of that relist-linking is crowd-sourced from its own users, which means coverage is good on busy patches and thinner where fewer people browse.

PaTMa's extension is free with an account, works across Rightmove, Zoopla and OnTheMarket, and adds yield and ROI estimates alongside the price history. More investor-oriented, same underlying idea.

Property Tracker and a handful of others on the Chrome Web Store do variations of the same job. Try one or two. They're free, and they coexist happily.

Two honest caveats apply to all of them:

1. They can only show you history they, or their users, actually witnessed. If nobody was watching a listing when the price changed, the change may be missing. There's no official feed, so every extension is reconstructing history from observation.
2. They break when Rightmove changes its page structure. It happens every year or two. The extensions go dark for a while, then catch up. Not a reason to avoid them, just don't build your business on one.

Sold prices: the official record

For what properties actually sold for:

• HM Land Registry is the source of truth for England and Wales. Free, official and complete, but it lags. A sale can take three to six months to appear after completion, because it's registered after legal completion, not at "sold STC".
• Rightmove Sold House Prices and Zoopla both republish Land Registry data with a friendlier interface, and Zoopla adds its own estimates on top. Treat those estimates as scenery, not evidence.

Sold prices are how you sanity-check an asking price. A house asking £240,000 that last sold for £180,000 in 2022 is telling you something. So is one asking £240,000 whose neighbours all completed at £190,000 last year.

The structural limit nobody mentions

Here's the thing about every tool above, including the good ones: they answer questions about the property you're already looking at.

Stand on a listing and an extension will tell you its price history. What none of them can do is turn the question around and show you every property in your patch that's been cut twice, or come back on the market after a sale fell through, or sat unsold for over 90 days.

That isn't a flaw in the extensions. It's the shape of what a browser overlay is. It decorates the page you're on. It can't search a market it can only see one page at a time.

So the workflow most investors actually run is this: browse Rightmove manually, hover over candidates, check each one's history individually, and keep notes somewhere. The history exists; the search doesn't. If you've ever thought "I just want a list of everything reduced in my postcode this month", that's the gap, and no extension can close it.

What to actually do

• Install a price-history extension (Property Log or PaTMa's, both free). From today, every listing you look at comes with its backstory.
• Check sold prices before you view, not after. Land Registry via Rightmove's sold-prices section, for the street, not just the house.
• Distrust "Added on" dates. If the kitchen in the photos looks familiar, it probably is. Relisting to reset the clock is routine.
• Read reductions as information, not just discount. One small cut after two weeks is repricing. Two cuts and 120 days is a seller running out of road, and that's a conversation worth having.

The searching half is what we're building. BrickSift watches the whole market (every cut, every relist, every fall-through) so that instead of checking listings one at a time, you ask for "everything reduced twice in L15" and get a list. Join the waitlist to get it first.