aid: connells url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/connells/refs/heads/main/apis.yml name: Connells Group kind: company description: >- Connells Limited, trading as Connells Group, is the United Kingdom's largest estate agency and property services group, headquartered at Cumbria House in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, and a wholly owned subsidiary of Skipton Building Society. It states 1,200+ branches, 16,000+ colleagues, more than 80 local brands including Connells, Countrywide, Hamptons, Sequence, Bairstow Eves, Fox & Sons, John D Wood & Co, Gascoigne Halman and Blundells, roughly 115,000 property sales a year and about 10% market share, 165,000+ managed tenancies and £33bn+ of arranged mortgage lending. It occupies almost the entire residential value chain at once: estate agency, residential and corporate lettings, new homes, land and planning, auctions, surveys and valuations, conveyancing, mortgage services, asset management, affordable housing, EPCs and inventories, commercial agency and a research and consultancy practice. Its home market is the United Kingdom, where there is no MLS and no cooperative listing standard — residential stock reaches consumers through the Rightmove and Zoopla portal duopoly by way of agency CRM and website software rather than a shared pool, and Connells' own consumer property sites are built on the Homeflow platform. Its API posture is closed and undocumented. No developer portal exists: developer., developers., api. and docs.connellsgroup.co.uk do not resolve, and /developers, /api, /docs, /openapi.json, /swagger.json, /api-docs and /.well-known/openid-configuration return 404 on both connellsgroup.co.uk and connells.co.uk. It publishes no OpenAPI, no GraphQL, no AsyncAPI, no MCP server and no client SDK — the only first-party package on any public registry is a dormant npm colour-token file for its website. Probing on 2026-07-26 did, however, find a small live JSON surface underneath the consumer site at https://www.connells.co.uk/api: six anonymous read-only Next.js route handlers serving the branch finder, people directory, testimonials wall and place autocomplete, plus a seventh (/api/properties) that returns HTTP 500. These are undocumented internal website routes, not a product — unversioned, unsupported, rate limited by Cloudflare, capped at 12 records because no paging parameter works, and carrying application errors inside HTTP 200 bodies. Only connells.co.uk exposes them; the sibling brand sites redirect /api/* away. The group's 88-URL corporate sitemap contains no developer path — its one /developers/ page is addressed to property developers, not software developers. Integration is real but partner-only: Connells Survey & Valuation advertises delivering "totally integrated panel and risk management technology solutions to lenders" for the 40+ lenders whose valuation panels it manages, and reaches them through third-party platforms such as Cotality's LenderHub, while Countrywide Surveying Services' Geoconnect engine is described as connecting internal and external data sources through API integrations it consumes rather than publishes. There is no RESO Web API or Data Dictionary certification, no OData $metadata document and no Universal Property Identifier anywhere in the estate — RESO is a North American NAR/MLS mechanism and the UK has no MLS to certify against. Connells publishes no open data either; its research product, covering 88% of UK postcode areas from branch-level proprietary data, is sold through a brochure request and a contact form, and the genuinely open UK property layer belongs to the public sector (HM Land Registry Price Paid Data and Ordnance Survey), not to the brokerage. accessModel: pricing: unknown onboarding: partner-only trial: false try_now: false public: false label: >- No published developer surface · lender-panel and commercial integration only · an undocumented anonymous read-only JSON surface exists at www.connells.co.uk/api but is not offered, documented or supported confidence: high source: - probes - website generated: '2026-07-26' method: manual note: >- public: false is deliberate. The endpoints found at www.connells.co.uk/api are reachable without credentials but are undocumented internal website routes with no terms, no versioning and no support — reachable is not the same as offered, and Connells has published nothing inviting their use. image: https://www.connellsgroup.co.uk/Assets/images/favicons/apple-icon-180x180.png tags: - Real Estate - United Kingdom - Property Listings - Brokerage - Estate Agency - Rentals - Valuation - Conveyancing - Mortgage - Property Management - Auctions - PropTech created: '2026-07-26' modified: '2026-07-26' specificationVersion: '0.19' apis: - name: Connells Website JSON API (undocumented) description: >- An undocumented, unauthenticated, read-only JSON surface served by the Connells consumer website at https://www.connells.co.uk/api. It is NOT a published Connells Group product — the group publishes no developer portal, no documentation and no specification, and makes no commitment about these routes. They are Next.js App Router route handlers backing the site's branch finder, people directory, testimonials wall and place autocomplete, with content sourced from the Homeflow estate-agency platform that powers the Connells consumer estate. Six operations answered anonymous requests on 2026-07-26 — listBranches, getBranch, listStaff, listTestimonials, listLocations and searchPlaces — while a seventh, /api/properties, returned HTTP 500 on every probe, so no property listings are available. The surface is unversioned, read-only (Allow: GET, HEAD, OPTIONS), rate limited by Cloudflare with HTTP 429 and Retry-After but no forward RateLimit headers, and hard-capped at 12 records per collection because no paging parameter is honoured despite pagination metadata advertising 162 branches and 841 staff. Application errors ride inside HTTP 200 bodies rather than in status codes. Only www.connells.co.uk exposes these handlers; the sibling Connells Group brand sites redirect /api/* away. The OpenAPI in this repo was derived by API Evangelist from live response captures, not published by the provider. humanURL: https://www.connells.co.uk/ baseURL: https://www.connells.co.uk/api tags: - Real Estate - Estate Agency - Branch Locator - United Kingdom - Undocumented properties: - type: OpenAPI name: Connells Website JSON API (API Evangelist derived) url: openapi/connells-website-openapi.yml - type: Examples name: Captured live response examples url: examples/_index.yml - type: Authentication name: Authentication profile (none required) url: authentication/connells-authentication.yml - type: RateLimits name: Observed rate limits url: rate-limits/connells-rate-limits.yml - type: ErrorCatalog name: Observed error catalogue url: errors/connells-problem-types.yml - type: Conventions name: API conventions url: conventions/connells-conventions.yml - type: DataModel name: Derived data model url: data-model/connells-data-model.yml - type: Lifecycle name: Lifecycle posture url: lifecycle/connells-lifecycle.yml common: - type: AgenticAccess url: agentic-access/connells-agentic-access.yml - type: DomainSecurity url: security/connells-domain-security.yml - type: OpenAPI name: Connells Website JSON API (API Evangelist derived) url: openapi/connells-website-openapi.yml - type: Examples name: Captured live response examples url: examples/_index.yml - type: Authentication name: Authentication profile (none required) url: authentication/connells-authentication.yml - type: RateLimits name: Observed rate limits url: rate-limits/connells-rate-limits.yml - type: ErrorCatalog name: Observed error catalogue url: errors/connells-problem-types.yml - type: Conventions name: API conventions url: conventions/connells-conventions.yml - type: DataModel name: Derived data model url: data-model/connells-data-model.yml - type: Lifecycle name: Lifecycle posture url: lifecycle/connells-lifecycle.yml - type: Conformance name: Standards conformance and regulatory registrations url: conformance/connells-conformance.yml - type: Compliance name: Required disclosures — FCA, ICO, Property Ombudsman, Modern Slavery Act url: https://www.connellsgroup.co.uk/required-disclosures-inc-modern-slavery-act-statement/ - type: Packages name: First-party packages url: packages/connells-packages.yml - type: LLMsTxt name: llms.txt url: llms/connells-llms.txt - type: AgentSkill name: Agent skills url: skills/_index.yml - type: TermsOfService name: Legal Notices — Terms and Conditions url: https://www.connellsgroup.co.uk/legal-notices/ - type: Website url: https://www.connellsgroup.co.uk/ - type: Website name: Connells Estate Agents url: https://www.connells.co.uk/ - type: Website name: Countrywide url: https://www.countrywide.co.uk/ - type: Website name: Hamptons url: https://www.hamptons.co.uk/ - type: Website name: Sequence Home url: https://www.sequencehome.co.uk/ - type: Website name: Connells Survey & Valuation url: https://www.connells-surveyors.co.uk/ - type: PropertySearch name: Connells Properties for Sale url: https://www.connells.co.uk/properties/sales - type: PropertySearch name: Connells Properties to Let url: https://www.connells.co.uk/properties/lettings - type: Research name: Connells Group Research — Our Data url: https://www.connellsgroup.co.uk/research/our-data/ - type: Blog name: Connells Group News url: https://www.connellsgroup.co.uk/news/ - type: Contact url: https://www.connellsgroup.co.uk/contact-us/ - type: Careers url: https://www.connellsgroup.co.uk/careers/work-with-us/ - type: PrivacyPolicy url: https://www.connellsgroup.co.uk/privacy-policy/ - type: CookiePolicy url: https://www.connellsgroup.co.uk/cookie-policy/ - type: LinkedIn url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/connells-group - type: ParentCompany name: Skipton Building Society url: https://www.skipton.co.uk/ maintainers: - FN: Kin Lane email: kin@apievangelist.com