New Rightmove flats to rent, straight to Telegram

A one-bed near the Tube goes up on Rightmove at lunchtime, the letting agent books viewings for the first few callers, and by the evening the slots are gone — this page is about being one of those callers.

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Search on Rightmove, sort by newest

Shape your rental search on Rightmove

Choose To Rent, type the area or station and set a search radius. Add a minimum and maximum monthly rent, the number of bedrooms and the property type, flats or houses. Sort the results by newest listed and copy the address from your browser.
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Copy the link, paste it into mxsender

Paste the link into MXSender and pick Telegram

Add the search in MXSender and connect our Telegram bot with one tap. You can add email to the same search whenever you like. No Rightmove account is needed for this.
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New listings land in your Telegram

Watch the chat for new flats

Each new property on your results page becomes a card in the chat: photo, title, monthly rent and a button that opens the listing on Rightmove. A hashtag on each card tells you which search it came from.
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Track a search on Rightmove right now

Paste the Rightmove search link you want watched — we’ll check we can read it, then set up your alerts.

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Why London and city lets on Rightmove vanish by teatime

Rightmove carries listings from letting agents, and a decent flat at a fair rent in a busy city often gets more enquiries in its first day than the agent can show. Many agents simply fill the first block of viewings and stop answering.

So the race is not really about finding the flat; it is about being in the first handful of people who ask. A card in Telegram while you are on the bus is often all it takes to send that enquiry ahead of the crowd.

Sizing a Rightmove search around your commute

Draw the area around the commute you can live with, not around one postcode you love. Put your rent ceiling slightly above your real limit — some agents will discuss it, and bills-included listings can look pricier than they are.

Keep must-haves as filters and nice-to-haves out of the link. Bedrooms and furnished status belong in the search; a balcony or a particular floor is something you can judge from the photo on the card.

Before you hand over a penny to a letting agent

Never pay anything before you have viewed the flat in person, and be wary of anyone who asks you to transfer money to see it or to hold it unseen. A holding deposit is normal once you decide to go ahead, but rules limit how much it can be and when it must be returned, so ask for the terms in writing.

Expect referencing: the agent will check your income, previous landlord and right to rent. Have payslips or a contract, ID and a previous landlord’s contact ready before the viewing — being able to say yes on the spot is often what wins the flat. Ask where your tenancy deposit will be protected.

Two of you hunting from one Telegram chat

Forward any card to a partner or flatmate and the photo, rent and link go with it, so the second opinion needs a quick glance rather than a separate search.

If you run a main search and a back-up area, mute the back-up one: its cards arrive without a sound and you read them when you have a moment.

Following several UK postcodes on one plan

Free gives one search checked every 30 minutes, which is enough to test the idea. Starter at $5.99 covers five searches checked every 10 minutes — handy for several areas at once. Pro at $14.99 covers twenty searches with the fastest checks. Telegram and email are on every plan.