How to Share Your Rightmove Shortlist With Your Partner

Published 2 March 2026

You are scrolling through Rightmove at midnight. You spot a two-bed in Clapham that actually has a garden. You screenshot it, send it to your partner on WhatsApp, and add a little "thoughts?" for good measure. They reply the next morning with "looks nice" and a link to a completely different flat in Brixton. You save that one somewhere. Probably. A week later, neither of you can remember which ones you actually liked.

If that sounds familiar, you are not alone. Searching for a home as a couple is genuinely one of the most disorganised experiences two otherwise competent adults can share. The problem is not finding properties -- Rightmove is excellent at that. The problem is keeping track of them together.

What Rightmove offers out of the box

To be fair, Rightmove does have a sharing feature. If you both create My Rightmove accounts, you can set up a Shared List. One person saves a property, and the other person can see it in their account. It works, and if you are only using Rightmove, it might be enough.

But there are a few gaps that start to bite once your search gets serious:

• Rightmove only. If you are also checking Zoopla, OpenRent, OnTheMarket, Foxtons, or any other site, those properties live in a completely separate world. No single view of everything you have found.
• No commute data. You can see the property on a map, but there is no easy way to compare "how long would it take each of us to get to work from here?" across a dozen shortlisted places.
• No ratings or discussion. You cannot rate a property, leave notes about what you liked or did not like, or have a threaded conversation about it. It is back to WhatsApp or a shared spreadsheet.
• No status tracking. Once you start booking viewings and making offers, there is no pipeline to track where each property stands. Is this one "viewing booked" or "offer rejected"? Nobody remembers.

For a casual browse, Rightmove's built-in sharing is fine. But for a proper joint search -- the kind where you are comparing twenty flats across three websites and trying to make a decision that will define your next two years -- you need something a bit more structured.

A better way: one shared dashboard for everything

MoveTwo is a Chrome extension built specifically for couples (and housemates) searching for a place together. The idea is straightforward: you browse property sites as you normally would, but instead of screenshotting and texting links, you save properties into a single shared dashboard that both of you can see in real time.

Here is what that actually gives you:

• Cross-site shortlist. Save from Rightmove, Zoopla, OpenRent, OnTheMarket, and over 30 other property sites across seven countries. Everything lives in one place.
• Commute times for both of you. Set your workplaces and see commute times overlaid directly on every listing. No more Googling directions for each flat individually.
• Independent ratings. Each of you rates the property separately -- no anchoring, no "well, you said you liked it so I said I liked it too." Then compare scores side by side.
• Comments and photos. Went to a viewing? Leave notes and upload photos. Everything stays attached to the property, not lost in a group chat.
• Status pipeline. Move properties through stages like "shortlisted," "viewing booked," "offer made," and "accepted." You can see at a glance where things stand.

The important thing is that your partner does not need to install anything. Only one of you needs the Chrome extension to save properties. Your partner can view, rate, comment on, and manage everything from the web dashboard in any browser.

How it works in three steps

That is genuinely the whole workflow. There is no importing, no copy-pasting URLs, no spreadsheet to maintain. You browse, you click save, and your partner has it.

When does this actually matter?

If you are casually browsing and only looking at three or four flats, you probably do not need this. WhatsApp and a good memory will get you through.

But the moment your search gets real -- when you are looking at fifteen properties across Rightmove and Zoopla, booking viewings on weekday evenings, and trying to remember whether that flat in Peckham had a dishwasher or not -- that is when a shared system starts saving you genuine time and arguments.

It is especially useful when:

• You are both working full-time and searching in the evenings separately
• You have different commute requirements and need to compare travel times
• You want to keep a record of viewings, impressions, and decisions
• You are looking across multiple property websites, not just Rightmove

Try it free

MoveTwo comes with a 10-day free trial, no credit card required. If you are in the middle of a property search and the WhatsApp-links-and-screenshots approach is starting to fall apart, it is worth a look.