Purplebricks
Purplebricks is the United Kingdom's largest online (hybrid) estate agency, founded in 2014 by Michael and Kenny Bruce and David Shepherd, selling and letting residential property across England, Wales and Scotland through a fixed-fee, remote model staffed by local property experts rather than a high-street branch network. After a 2023 sale to rival online agent Strike for a nominal one pound the combined business was rebranded back under the Purplebricks name, and in 2026 the founding Bruce brothers returned alongside Sir Charles Dunstone's Freston Ventures. It sits on the brokerage rung of the value chain, originating the seller relationship and the listing and then distributing that stock to Rightmove, Zoopla, OnTheMarket and PrimeLocation through the UK's portal feed arrangements, because the UK has no MLS and therefore no shared cooperative data exchange. Its API posture is best described as published-but-undeclared: there is no developer portal, no partner programme, no signup and no documentation site, yet the estate serves sixteen real OpenAPI 3.0.1 documents and thirteen live public Swagger UIs across api.purplebricks.co.uk and www.purplebricks.co.uk, covering property, account, valuations, viewings, messaging, lettings, branch/portal syndication, communications, conveyancing, agent, feedback, workflow and Outlook calendar sync. Every operation is Bearer-token protected with no public key issuance, errors are ASP.NET ProblemDetails (RFC 7807), and the branch service exposes the Rightmove, Zoopla and OnTheMarket syndication seam directly. RESO is absent, as expected outside North America, and the genuinely open UK property data layer it consumes for its sold-prices tool belongs to government (HM Land Registry), not to Purplebricks.
Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.
API Evangelist profiles Purplebricks the way a machine reads it — 17 machine-readable artifacts across 13 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Purplebricks scores 38.2/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 60/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Purplebricks
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Purplebricks. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 13
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Purplebricks Property API
The largest of the publicly-reachable Purplebricks microservice APIs (86 v1 paths plus an 11-path v2), covering the property record end to end: active, preactive, inactive and w...
Purplebricks Account API
Identity and account service for Purplebricks customers: authentication, user records, email confirmation, phone verification, marketing preferences and the expert-created accou...
Purplebricks Valuations API
Free-valuation funnel service: valuation intent capture, lead capture, postcode resolution, valuation reports, follow-up scheduling and a Salesforce diary pilot, plus a v2 valua...
Purplebricks Viewings API
Viewing and appointment service: appointments, open days, property access details, per-property and per-user viewing surfaces, and a Bland voice-agent integration surface. Docum...
Purplebricks Messaging API
Threaded messaging between customers, sellers and local property experts: message threads, individual messages, read state, system messages and cursor-paginated thread listings,...
Purplebricks Lettings API
Lettings integration service run by the Team Integrations squad. Creates valuation, viewing and offer enquiries in street.co.uk, handles inbound street.co.uk listing webhooks, e...
Purplebricks Branch API
Portal syndication service exposing Rightmove, Zoopla and OnTheMarket branch records alongside property operations. This is the machine-readable trace of the UK no-MLS seam: an ...
Purplebricks Communications API
Outbound and inbound communication service covering the contact-us surface, customer emails and TPS (Telephone Preference Service) screening — the UK direct-marketing suppressio...
Purplebricks Conveyancing API
Conveyancing quote service run by PB Digital, generating and retrieving conveyancing quotes for the legal leg of a Purplebricks sale.
Purplebricks Agent API
Small agent-experience service exposing team lookups for the local property experts who staff the Purplebricks model in place of high-street branches.
Purplebricks Feedback API
Single-surface feedback management service used to manage viewing and vendor feedback across the platform.
Purplebricks Workflow API
Platform workflow service exposing workflow steps and an instruct-availability check that gates whether a seller can be instructed at a given point in the journey.
Purplebricks Outlook Sync API
Agent-facing microservice that reads and toggles Outlook calendar synchronisation for a local property expert. The only Purplebricks API path disclosed in robots.txt, and the th...
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Event Specifications 1
Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.
AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.
Purplebricks Webhooks
ASYNCAPISecurity Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Purplebricks — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 3
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 11
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
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Design & Contract 6
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 2
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Learn 1
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 2
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 5
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 8
The organization behind the API
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Other 8
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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