Search homes on Homivo

Homivo indexes homes for sale across Scotland, most of them in the Highlands, Argyll and Bute, Moray, Aberdeenshire, Orkney, and the Western Isles. It is not a UK-wide search.

Where Homivo lists homes

Homivo indexes homes for sale across Scotland, most of them in the Highlands, Argyll and Bute, Moray, Aberdeenshire, Orkney, and the Western Isles. It is not a UK-wide search.

Search from this page

Open /search?q=cottage%20with%20a%20sea%20view%20near%20Oban. The homes are on the page. Why each one matched, and what the photographs show, is in the page as JSON (reasons and survey). A different sentence is a different page. These query pages are not added to the sitemap.

Search from the API

Read GET /api/search/guide first. It lists the places that currently have homes and the only phrases that change a result. Then call GET /api/search?q=cottage%20with%20a%20sea%20view%20near%20Oban. No API key. About 30 requests a minute per IP. A 429 response includes Retry-After.

Each hit has reasons (why it matched, and whether that came from the photographs, the advert, or the map) and survey (what the photographs show, by room). ignored lists words that were not used. The contract is openapi.json.

Search from MCP

The steps for Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor are on Use in chat. The address is https://homivo.co.uk/api/mcp. No API key. The tools are search_guide, search_homes, and get_home. search_homes is about 30 searches a minute.