OPENRENT
ALTERNATIVES,
IN THREE QUESTIONS.
OpenRent and five alternatives. Every price from the provider's own pricing page. Linked, dated, VAT included. The cheapest route onto Rightmove is £29.
- 1 Do you want your property on Rightmove? The largest letting portal. Our answer is always yes.
- 2 Just find a tenant, or move them in as well? Agreement, deposit, first rent and the certificates.
- 3 Which extras do you need to do this well? Referencing, inventory, photos, rent guarantee.
- = Then we add it all up The same let, priced six ways: £513 with Hello Neighbour, £631 with OpenRent.
Do you want your property on Rightmove?
Yes. Rightmove produces most of the enquiries, so the cheapest route onto it is the first number to compare. Headline prices make the online letting services look the same; each one charges differently for different things.
Leaving Rightmove out narrows the audience when demand per property is not what it used to be. Rightmove's Q2 2026 Rental Trends Tracker puts enquiries at around 10 per rental home; Hello Neighbour listings, all of which include Rightmove, average 37 (our guide to finding a tenant yourself). More on the portal data in why Rightmove is essential when advertising a rental.
Always yes.
Sources: Hello Neighbour, Lead Source Quality, 13 October 2026: full-service enquiries by source, 15 July 2025 to 29 August 2026, with phone enquiries attributed to the portal call that preceded them. Rightmove, What we say about our business, lettings claim based on Street CRM data, January 2024 to April 2025.
If you say no, OpenRent lists on its own site for free and adds Zoopla and partner sites for £29; 99home and Rentr also list free on their own sites, and 99home's Express package adds Zoopla for £39. Hello Neighbour has no free package. To judge a provider's own site, compare its total listings with Rightmove's, which we estimate at around 120,000.
| Service | Cheapest advert with Rightmove | What the price covers |
|---|---|---|
| Hello Neighbour | Cheapest advert with Rightmove £29 | What the price covers Get Listed: Rightmove, Zoopla and OnTheMarket for three months, enquiry screening, viewing management and digital offers |
| Rentr | Cheapest advert with Rightmove £45 | What the price covers Rightmove and Zoopla listing |
| OpenRent | Cheapest advert with Rightmove £99 | What the price covers £29 Portal Advertising plus the £70 Rightmove upgrade |
| 99home | Cheapest advert with Rightmove £99 | What the price covers Standard: Rightmove, Zoopla and other portals, one tenant reference and the tenancy paperwork |
| MakeUrMove | Cheapest advert with Rightmove £150 | What the price covers Up to 60 days on Rightmove, Zoopla and PrimeLocation. £75 for Good Landlord subscribers, plus the subscription |
| LettingaProperty.com | Cheapest advert with Rightmove No advert-only option | What the price covers Rightmove is part of the £199 set-up fee for its monthly plans |
The cheapest route onto Rightmove costs the same £29 as OpenRent's advert without it. We compared the two models in more detail in OpenRent vs Hello Neighbour: how the self-letting market is evolving.
A tenant found, or a tenant moved in?
An advert gets you applicants. Moving a tenant in also needs a tenancy agreement, deposit registration with a government-approved scheme, the first month's rent collected, and every certificate and licence the let requires. Most services sell these as a package or item by item. Referencing is priced per person by every provider, so it sits in question three.
Without Rightmove, OpenRent's Rent Now is £58 and Quicklister's £39 Saver includes a tenancy agreement with Zoopla advertising, though it does not say whether deposit registration is covered. Hello Neighbour's £59 is £1 more than Rent Now and includes Rightmove, which OpenRent charges £70 for. See Get Listed to Get Rented: only £30 more.
| Service | Advert plus tenancy set-up, with Rightmove | How it is made up |
|---|---|---|
| Hello Neighbour | Advert plus tenancy set-up, with Rightmove £59 | How it is made up Get Rented: the Get Listed advert plus compliance and licensing checks, holding deposit, tenancy agreement with digital signing, first month's rent and deposit registration with mydeposits |
| Rentr | Advert plus tenancy set-up, with Rightmove £85 | How it is made up £45 listing, £15 tenancy agreement, £25 deposit registration. Rent collection by Direct Debit is £10 a month if you want it |
| 99home | Advert plus tenancy set-up, with Rightmove £99 | How it is made up Standard: advert with Rightmove, tenancy paperwork and one tenant reference |
| OpenRent | Advert plus tenancy set-up, with Rightmove £128 | How it is made up Rent Now at £58 (shown as reduced from £108) plus the £70 Rightmove upgrade |
| MakeUrMove | Advert plus tenancy set-up, with Rightmove £220 | How it is made up £150 advert, £35 deposit collection, £35 tenancy documents. £110 for Good Landlord subscribers, plus the subscription |
| LettingaProperty.com | Advert plus tenancy set-up, with Rightmove £199 plus from £59 a month | How it is made up Rent Collect: set-up covers eight weeks of advertising, two tenant checks, agreement and deposit registration. A £120 fee applies at the end of the tenancy |
£59 with Hello Neighbour against £128 with OpenRent; the gap is almost entirely OpenRent's £70 Rightmove upgrade.
Which extras do you need?
Not every service sells every item, and the gaps matter as much as the prices. A total that leaves out rent guarantee cover is not low, it is incomplete, and it means a second supplier for a single let. On referencing, the cheapest check is not always the most useful one; our article on combatting letting fraud explains what a reference needs to catch.
Our recommended minimum
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Tenant referencing, per person
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Independent inventory
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Professional photographs with a floor plan
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Rent guarantee insurance
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Mid-tenancy inspections: worth doing, less essential, priced separately
The four ticked items are the basket we total in the next section.
| Service | Reference (per tenant) | Inventory | Photos and floor plan | Rent guarantee insurance | Mid-tenancy inspection |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hello Neighbour | Reference (per tenant) £30 | Inventory from £95 | Photos and floor plan £79 | Rent guarantee insurance from £250 | Mid-tenancy inspection £85 |
| OpenRent | Reference (per tenant) £30 | Inventory from £95 | Photos and floor plan from £79 | Rent guarantee insurance from £299 | Mid-tenancy inspection from £82 |
| Rentr | Reference (per tenant) £15 | Inventory £70 | Photos and floor plan £75Floor plan only, no photography listed | Rent guarantee insurance Not offered | Mid-tenancy inspection £45 |
| 99home | Reference (per tenant) IncludedOne included, then £40 each | Inventory from £99 | Photos and floor plan £149 | Rent guarantee insurance Not listed | Mid-tenancy inspection Not listed |
| MakeUrMove | Reference (per tenant) £48 | Inventory Offered, not priced | Photos and floor plan £204 | Rent guarantee insurance £300a year, rent up to £2,500 a month | Mid-tenancy inspection Offered, not priced |
| LettingaProperty.com | Reference (per tenant) IncludedTwo included, then £59 each | Inventory Offered, not priced | Photos and floor plan Not priced | Rent guarantee insurance Rent Assured planpriced by rent | Mid-tenancy inspection Not priced |
Rentr is the cheapest item by item, but a landlord using it would need to buy photography and rent guarantee insurance elsewhere. 99home does not list rent guarantee cover either. MakeUrMove covers most of the list at a higher price and leaves its inventory unpriced, while LettingaProperty folds much of this into a monthly plan rather than selling it separately.
The same let, priced six ways.
The basket we would recommend to most landlords: Rightmove, a tenant moved in, one tenant referenced, an inventory, professional photos with a floor plan, and rent guarantee insurance.
- Advert and set-up£59
- Recommended extras£454
- Still missingNothing
- Advert and set-up£128
- Recommended extras£503
- Still missingNothing
| Service | Advert and set-up | Recommended extras | Total | Still missing |
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| Hello Neighbour | Advert and set-up £59 | Recommended extras £454 | Total £513 | Still missing Nothing |
| OpenRent | Advert and set-up £128 | Recommended extras £503 | Total £631 | Still missing Nothing |
| Rentr | Advert and set-up £85 | Recommended extras £160 | Total £245 Gaps filled at cheapest price: £574 | Still missing Photography (£79) and rent guarantee insurance (from £250), bought elsewhere |
| 99home | Advert and set-up £99 | Recommended extras £248 | Total £347 Gaps filled at cheapest price: £597 | Still missing Rent guarantee insurance (from £250), bought elsewhere |
| MakeUrMove | Advert and set-up £220 | Recommended extras £552 | Total £772 Gaps filled at cheapest price: £842 | Still missing Inventory (£70), bought elsewhere |
| LettingaProperty.com | Advert and set-up £199 plus from £59 a month | Recommended extras Not priced | Total Not computable | Still missing Advert and tenancy set-up and rent guarantee insurance priced as a monthly plan; inventory and photography not priced |
Of the services that can supply the whole list, Hello Neighbour is £513 and OpenRent £631, £118 apart. Drop Rightmove at OpenRent and it falls to £561, still £48 more than the Hello Neighbour package that includes it. A mid-tenancy inspection then adds £85 with Hello Neighbour, from £82 with OpenRent or £45 with Rentr.
Rentr and 99home total less because they leave items out. Add rent guarantee cover bought separately, and photography in Rentr's case, and the gap disappears, with more than one supplier to manage. All of Hello Neighbour's options are in our guide to our lettings packages.
Every service above assumes you do it yourself.
A landlord who wants the whole process run by someone else needs a different product. MakeUrMove's fully managed service is 10% of rent and LettingaProperty's Complete Care is a monthly plan. For anyone happy to show the property and wanting a person to call when a question comes up, a DIY package with support does the job for a fraction of that.
Photography, floor plans, accompanied viewings, referencing and the tenancy paperwork, all included. Fixed fee, paid on move-in.
The DIY package from question two. Our team answers the phone and email throughout, so there is a person to call when a question comes up.
THE CHEAPEST ROUTE ONTO RIGHTMOVE IS ALSO THE FULLEST.
Three questions, four tables, one answer. Pick the package that matches the way you want to let, and check every price against the provider's own page before you decide.
All prices include VAT and were read from each provider's own pricing page on 1 October 2026.
Want the whole process handled? Get Rented Pro is £1,440 incl. VAT, paid on move-in.
Keep reading.
How to find a tenant yourself and let your property without an agent
The whole process step by step, from advert to move-in, with the numbers behind each stage.
Why Rightmove is an essential part of advertising your rental property
The portal data in depth: enquiries per listing, share of completed tenancies, and what leaving it out costs.
OpenRent vs Hello Neighbour: how the self-letting market is evolving
The two models compared in detail, package by package.
Sources
- Hello Neighbour, Lead Source Quality, 13 October 2026: full-service enquiries and tenancies by source, 15 July 2025 to 29 August 2026, phone enquiries attributed to the Rightmove, Zoopla and OnTheMarket call logs.
- Rightmove, What we say about our business, lettings claim based on Street data, January 2024 to April 2025: rightmove.co.uk/claims
- Rightmove, Rental Trends Tracker, Q2 2026, as cited in Hello Neighbour, How to find a tenant yourself, 26 September 2026: hello-neighbour.com/insights/find-a-tenant-yourself
- Hello Neighbour, Get Listed, Get Rented and extras pricing: hello-neighbour.com/self-service
- OpenRent, pricing: openrent.co.uk/pricing
- Rentr, pricing: rentr.co/pricing
- 99home, letting packages and pricing: 99home.co.uk/letting and 99home.co.uk/pricing/lettingprice
- MakeUrMove, pricing: makeurmove.co.uk/pricing
- LettingaProperty.com, Rent Collect and lettings plans: lettingaproperty.com/rent-collection and lettingaproperty.com/landlord/lettings
- Quicklister, lettings: quicklister.co.uk/lettings