About UK Property Check

Why it exists

A listing is written to sell a home. Much of what a buyer would want to know before offering is already public: what the home sold for before, what its energy certificates say, whether the area floods, whether it is in a conservation area.

Those records are spread across separate government services, published in different formats, and rarely explained.

We bring those records together for one address, explain what each one means in plain English, and turn anything worth raising into a question for the agent and something to look at during the viewing.

Every check, tool and guide on the site is free to use, with no account.

What we are not

We are not a surveyor, a conveyancer, a valuer or a government body. A check from us is not a survey, a valuation, a conveyancing search or legal advice, and it does not replace any of them. Nobody from UK Property Check visits the home.

We are independent. None of the bodies whose data we use runs or endorses this site, including HM Land Registry, MHCLG, the Environment Agency, Natural Resources Wales and Ordnance Survey.

We do not take advertising or paid placements, and no agent, lender or broker pays to appear on this site.

How we check what we publish

Every rate, threshold and rule we state links to a source, the primary one wherever it exists: GOV.UK, gov.wales, legislation.gov.uk or the body that publishes the data.
Pages that state tax rates or rules show the date we last checked them. We recheck them after every Budget, and a daily check alerts us if the official rate pages change.
Figures we compute ourselves, such as price per square metre, say how they were worked out and how many sales they are based on.
Where the data describes an area rather than a building, we say so. Where a dataset does not cover a home, we say that too, rather than reporting nothing found.
Estimates are labelled as estimates. Energy certificate running costs, for example, use the fuel prices built into the assessment method and a standard pattern of use, so they are not anyone's actual bills.

The full list of sources, how often each updates and what each cannot tell you is on our data and methods page.

How we write and check our guides

Facts come from primary sources wherever they exist, such as GOV.UK, legislation.gov.uk and the bodies that publish the data. Market averages, such as conveyancing costs, come from named industry surveys, with their dates.
Each guide lists its sources at the end.
Every figure we work out ourselves gives its dates and the number of records behind it.
We recalculate those figures each month when the data refreshes, and recheck the guides that use them.
When we correct a mistake, we log it with the date in our corrections list.
We do not take payment to mention or link to anyone in a guide.

If you find a mistake

Please tell us. We check every report of an error against the source data. If we got something wrong, we correct it and say so in our corrections list.

If the mistake is in the source data itself, such as an energy certificate with the wrong floor area, we will tell you who publishes the record so it can be put right there.

Who runs this site

UK Property Check runs and edits this site. You can reach us through the contact page or by email at support@ukpropertycheck.co.uk.

Credits

We use data from HM Land Registry, the energy certificate register, the Environment Agency, Natural Resources Wales, the Mining Remediation Authority, planning.data.gov.uk, Historic England, the ONS and Ordnance Survey.

Each dataset's licence and attribution statement is on the data and methods page.

Some guides use photographs from Wikimedia Commons, credited where they appear; the rest are our own drawings.

The site is set in Funnel Display and Funnel Sans by NORD ID, used under the SIL Open Font License. Interface icons are from Untitled UI and Font Awesome.