Twice a day, Claude Cowork searched SpareRoom, OpenRent, Rightmove, and Zoopla, filtered out student flats and 3+ bed houses, wrote personalised outreach messages for every good listing, and emailed me a digest I could act on from my phone. As a result, I put down a deposit on a decent 1-bed flat in London (within my HIGH priority areas) in just under a week, for the price people are asking for a room! Skipped all the manual trawling through new ads entirely. I've created a repo so others can borrow ideas or reuse it directly, just adapt your preferences. All done with Claude Cowork + Claude for Chrome + Gmail MCP. It cost me Claude PRO subscription and about $40 on extra usage for running twice for 5 days.
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Cowork Ran a Rent Hunt Twice a Day and Found a London 1-Bed in 5 Days
A Redditor set Claude Cowork to sweep SpareRoom, OpenRent, Rightmove, and Zoopla twice daily, reject student flats and 3+ bed houses, draft personalised outreach messages for each good listing, and email a mobile-ready digest. He put a deposit on a London 1-bed in high-priority areas in just under a week — spending only a Claude Pro sub plus roughly $40 in extra usage
★★★ Advanced 10-15 min/day (unattended) 15. April 2026
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Redditor who shared an open-source rent-hunt workflow built on Claude Cowork
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Scenario
London's rental market moves in hours — good listings vanish before you finish scrolling. The author didn't want to manually refresh four rental sites, filter out student-only flats and HMOs, and write personalised enquiry emails one by one. He offloaded the full front-end of the funnel to Claude Cowork: scheduled sweeps → filtering → personalised outreach → daily digest email. The human only steps in for the final "go see it / pay deposit" decision.
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Prompt
Twice a day, search SpareRoom, OpenRent, Rightmove, and Zoopla for 1-bed flats in my HIGH priority London areas. Filter out student-only flats and properties with 3+ bedrooms. For every listing that passes, draft a personalised outreach message to the landlord or agent referencing specifics of the listing. Email me a single mobile-friendly digest with links so I can act from my phone.
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Expected Result
Cowork ran the full pipeline twice daily: 1. **Harvest**: visits SpareRoom, OpenRent, Rightmove, and Zoopla; pulls new listings 2. **Filter**: rejects student-only flats and 3+ bed houses; keeps only listings matching the author's preferences 3. **Personalised outreach**: for each surviving listing, drafts a message to the landlord/agent that references specifics of the listing (not a template blast) 4. **Digest email**: packages the actionable set — listing links plus pre-drafted enquiries — into one mobile-friendly email **Outcome:** A deposit on a 1-bed in a HIGH-priority London area in under 7 days, at roughly the price other people pay for a single room in a shared flat. The author skipped all manual trawling; total cost was Claude Pro + ~$40 in extra usage. He published the setup as a repo others can fork by editing preferences.