aid: housetrip
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/housetrip.png
name: HouseTrip
description: 'HouseTrip was a London-based online vacation-rental marketplace founded in 2009 by Arnaud
  Bertrand and Junjun Chen, backed by Accel and Balderton Capital, that grew to roughly 300,000 European
  holiday properties before being acquired by TripAdvisor in April 2016. The standalone HouseTrip brand
  and its developer surface (formerly dev.housetrip.com) have since been retired; the housetrip.com domain
  now serves TripAdvisor''s HolidayLettings marketplace. This profile is retained as a historical
  consumer-sector company record in the API Evangelist network; no live first-party API, SDK, or
  developer portal is currently published under the HouseTrip brand.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/housetrip/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- accel
- balderton-capital
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Consumer
- Travel
- Vacation Rentals
- Hospitality
- Marketplace
- Defunct
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/housetrip-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.housetrip.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence