Flatscout is a cross-portal property alert service — real-time property notifications for the whole UK market: save a search once and get notified the moment a matching property is listed anywhere. It watches every live listing — Rightmove, Zoopla, SpareRoom and 70,000+ agents on one map — matches new ones against your saved search every 60 seconds, and delivers an instant alert by email, WhatsApp or Telegram, typically within minutes of the listing first going live — commonly 1–24+ hours before the portals’ own batched “instant” emails go out, per user reports and the portals’ batching help pages.
Measured across the last 90 days of real-time alerts in production.
The UK rental market clears on a ~4-week cycle, but the best-value slice goes far faster: our tracking of 54,650 completed lets shows about 1 in 20 rentals is let agreed within a week of listing — and that fast tail is where the underpriced stock lives. Most new listings also go live during agent office hours (79% between 8am and 6pm), so anyone browsing portals in the evening is hours behind by default.
Agents work enquiries in the order they arrive. An alert that lands minutes after listing puts you at the top of the pile; a batched portal email that arrives at 9pm puts you behind everyone who heard at noon.
No app to install, no card needed — a free account and one saved search is all an alert takes.
Put a Flatscout alert and a portal’s “instant” email on the same clock. Flatscout timings are measured production medians; the portal timing reflects their own batched dispatch cycles.
Rightmove, Zoopla and SpareRoom all offer saved-search emails — including settings labelled “instant”. The difference is scope and dispatch: each portal only watches itself, and their alert emails go out in batch cycles rather than the moment a listing appears.
| Portal-native alerts | Flatscout Real-time | |
|---|---|---|
| Coverage | That portal's own listings only | Rightmove, Zoopla, SpareRoom + 70,000 agents, deduplicated |
| “Instant” speed | Batched email cycles — commonly 1–24+ hours behind | 60-second match cycle — typically minutes |
| Channels | Email (and own-app push) | Email, WhatsApp and Telegram |
| Search areas | Radius or drawn area on one site | Neighbourhoods, drawn areas, radius or commute-time zones |
Portal delay range (1–24+ hours) reflects the portals’ own help pages, which describe “instant” alerts as batched email dispatch, and widely reported user experiences of delivery running hours to a day behind new listings. Flatscout timings are measured production medians. Accurate as of July 2026.
Save a search on Flatscout — your filters plus an area (neighbourhoods, a drawn map area, a radius or a commute-time zone) — and link a channel: email, WhatsApp or Telegram. From then on you're notified automatically whenever a matching property is listed anywhere Flatscout watches: Rightmove, Zoopla, SpareRoom and 70,000+ UK agents. Twice-daily and weekly alerts are free with no card; Real-time alerts typically arrive within minutes of the listing first going live.
Flatscout checks for new listings continuously and matches them against saved searches every minute. Measured across our last 90 days of real-time alerts, the median alert was created under 9 minutes after the listing first appeared anywhere — and once matched, delivery to email, WhatsApp or Telegram takes seconds.
For notifications about new listings, use a cross-portal alert service: Flatscout watches Rightmove, Zoopla, SpareRoom and 70,000+ UK agents, matches every new listing against your saved searches every 60 seconds, and sends real-time notifications by email, WhatsApp or Telegram — typically within minutes of a listing going live, while portal-native alert emails are batched and commonly arrive hours later. If you mean notifications about a property you own, that's a different service: HM Land Registry's free Property Alert monitors a registered title for fraud, such as new mortgage applications or ownership changes.
Yes. Flatscout aggregates live listings from over 70,000 UK agents via the country's biggest property sites — including Rightmove, Zoopla and SpareRoom — and deduplicates them, so one saved search watches the whole market instead of one portal.
Yes — new rental alerts are Flatscout's core use case. Save a rental search with your price range, bedrooms and area, and every new rental listing that matches is sent to you by email, WhatsApp or Telegram. The same works for for-sale listings and rooms in shared homes.
Two ways. Portal alerts only cover that portal's own listings, and their 'instant' emails are dispatched in batch cycles that commonly arrive hours after a listing goes live. Flatscout watches every major source at once and runs its matcher every 60 seconds, so a real-time alert typically lands within minutes, not hours.
Rightmove's alert emails — including the 'Instantly' setting — are dispatched in batch cycles rather than the moment a listing appears, per its own help pages, and users widely report them arriving hours to a day after a listing goes live. That delay is built into batched email dispatch. Flatscout takes a different approach: it matches every new listing against your saved search every 60 seconds and delivers by email, WhatsApp or Telegram, typically within minutes of the listing first going live.
Yes. Flatscout delivers alerts to email, WhatsApp and Telegram — you can link up to five active channels of each type and pause or remove them at any time from your profile.
Twice-daily and weekly alerts are completely free across all channels. Real-time alerts — sent the moment a listing matches — are a paid add-on at £9.99/week or £29.99/month, cancellable anytime with a 7-day refund for first-time subscribers.
Yes. A saved search can be a set of neighbourhoods, a hand-drawn map area, a radius around a point, or a travel-time zone (e.g. 30 minutes from work) — combined with filters like price, bedrooms and property type.
There's no separate trial tier, but first-time subscribers can claim a full refund within 7 days of purchase — so you can try real-time alerts risk-free at £9.99 for a week. Twice-daily and weekly alerts stay completely free with no card required.