Rightmove and Nationwide Building Society Launch Global-First 'Property Lending Check'

Shared 15 May, 2025

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Rightmove and Nationwide have launched a global-first real-time digital feature, which helps potential home-buyers understand if a specific property they want to view is likely to be eligible for mortgage lending.

With the new digital ‘property lending check’, homebuyers can for the first time receive real-time information about the likelihood of getting a mortgage on a home before a viewing and well ahead of the offer stage. It aims to give home-hunters more mortgage confidence, much earlier in their moving journey.

The launch comes as part of Rightmove’s mission to digitise more of the UK property market and speed up the home-moving process and joins a suite of products and tools for people to find out how much they can borrow. 

The new feature is an addition to Rightmove’s Mortgage in Principle, which has seen a record-breaking start to the year for the number of people using it to understand their affordability much earlier in their search for a new home. Rightmove’s Mortgage in Principle, powered by Nationwide, helps people to understand how much they are likely to be able to borrow earlier, before they go on viewings and make offers on homes.

Matt Smith, Rightmove’s head of mortgages, said: “This is the next step in our mission to digitise more of the UK property market – the ability to give home-movers a real-time view of whether they are likely to be able to get a mortgage on a specific property. Our ambition is to build digital solutions that make the home-buying process more efficient, giving buyers a better understanding of their affordability much earlier. This is a first rollout phase, and we’ll be making lots of enhancements to the property lending check over the coming months.”

Henry Jordan, Nationwide’s director of Home, commented: “We know that the homebuying process needs simplifying and streamlining and technology plays a crucial role in that. By working closely with Rightmove, we’ve already been able to introduce the successful Mortgage in Principle tool. However, we know that people who find a property listing they like are keen to know whether they’ll be able to get a mortgage on it. So, the launch of the property lending check feature is the natural next step.”

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BuiltAPI GmbH, the company pioneering API-driven data infrastructure for real estate investment and asset management, has successfully closed its latest funding round backed by industry leaders including Second Century Ventures, TDS, and Propertymark. The investment marks a major milestone as BuiltAPI expands its services across Europe and the UK, following its graduation from the REACH UK Accelerator Program.

BuiltAPI tackles one of the real estate sector’s most persistent problems: fragmented, siloed data ecosystems. The company provides a robust API framework that enables seamless connectivity between legacy systems, modern SaaS tools, and intelligent automation platforms — with interoperability, governance, and cybersecurity at its core.

“We’re building the backbone of real estate data infrastructure,” said Olga Dentzel, Co-Founder of BuiltAPI. “This funding and the support of the REACH UK program are accelerating our ability to deliver secure, scalable integrations to clients across borders.”

BuiltAPI’s technology is already making an impact with major real estate institutions such as HIH Real Estate and its fund service platform INTREAL, through their digital unit INTREAL Solutions. These collaborations highlight a shared vision for practical and scalable digital transformation in real estate asset and investment management.

“The industry doesn’t need yet another tool — it needs a connective tissue,” added Ivan Nokhrin, Co-Founder of BuiltAPI. “Our mission is to empower real estate professionals to access, share, and act on their data securely and without barriers.”

Graduation from the REACH UK Accelerator — the scale-up program backed by Second Century Ventures – marks BuiltAPI’s official entry into the UK market. The program has played a key role in unlocking investors support and refining BuildAPI’s growth trajectory.

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