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UK property planning tools

Research a place, plan your costs and prepare the questions for your next move.

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Property passport

Use the shared address resolver, confirm the exact registered address yourself, then see which property and area checks have cleared and which remain pending.

What you getA source-dated clearance summary for one exact address.

  • Shared postcode and address resolver
  • Explicit HMLR address selection
  • Cleared and pending checks kept separate
Open Property passport

Sold price records

Turn a postcode or address into the registered sale records for that street, choose the exact address yourself and open its property passport.

What you getThe registered sale history behind one exact address.

  • Postcodes.io geography
  • Exact HMLR sale-record selection
  • Opens the property passport report
Open Sold price records

Schools & Education

Find nearby open schools from a dated establishment snapshot while keeping admissions and catchment claims separate.

What you getA shortlist for further admissions research.

  • Dated GIAS snapshot
  • Straight-line postcode radius
  • No catchment eligibility claim
Open Schools & Education

Pub finder

The nearest pubs to a postcode or to wherever you are, each with how far it is in a straight line and a link to directions.

What you getThe five closest pubs, nearest first.

  • OpenStreetMap places held by Greathome
  • Straight-line distance from the postcode point
  • No third-party call while you wait
Open Pub finder

Restaurant finder

The nearest restaurants to a postcode or to wherever you are, each with how far it is in a straight line and a link to directions.

What you getThe five closest restaurants, nearest first.

  • OpenStreetMap places held by Greathome
  • Straight-line distance from the postcode point
  • No third-party call while you wait
Open Restaurant finder

London Crime Map

Explore recorded crime and anti-social behaviour across London’s boroughs by month and category.

What you getAn interactive borough map with monthly counts, breakdowns and insights.

  • Police.uk monthly records
  • Borough-level counts by category
  • Source coverage shown alongside the map
Open London Crime Map

Purchase cost planner

Bring tax, mortgage payments, buying fees and editable ownership allowances into one transparent model.

What you getThe true cash requirement behind an offer.

  • UK purchase-tax rules
  • Repayment mortgage arithmetic
  • Editable cost assumptions
Open Purchase cost planner

Stamp duty calculator

SDLT, LBTT and LTT band by band, including first-time buyer relief, the additional-property rates and the non-UK resident addition.

What you getThe purchase tax on your price, with its working shown.

  • Official rates for all four nations
  • First-time buyer and additional-property variations
  • Non-resident addition
Open Stamp duty calculator

Mortgage calculator

What a mortgage costs each month, on repayment and on interest only, from the amount borrowed, the rate and the term.

What you getBoth monthly figures, and the interest each one costs over the term.

  • Repayment and interest-only side by side
  • Sliders for rate and term
  • Interest over the full term
Open Mortgage calculator

Rental yield calculator

Gross and net rental yield from the price and the rent, with everything that recurs as a single operating-cost percentage.

What you getYield before finance and before tax, with the working shown.

  • Gross and net yield
  • Void allowance
  • One operating-cost percentage
Open Rental yield calculator

EPC explorer

Every energy certificate registered in a postcode, the spread of bands, and what one certificate says about fabric, heating and potential.

What you getWhat the register holds for a postcode, without pretending to match a property.

  • MHCLG energy data
  • Band spread across the postcode
  • No address-identity claim
Open EPC explorer

Leasehold question builder

The questions to put to the agent, the seller and the managing agent about lease length, service charges, ground rent and planned works.

What you getA printable list, tailored to the tenure and what you already know.

  • Hand-written, not generated
  • Changes with lease length and works
  • Ticks stay in your browser
Open Leasehold question builder

Viewing checklist

What to look at, in what order, on a viewing that will last twenty minutes — for a flat, a house, a new build or a rental.

What you getA printable checklist you can tick as you walk round.

  • Hand-written, not generated
  • Different list per property type
  • Ticks stay in your browser
Open Viewing checklist
Address identity gateEnergy certificates

Bearer access is connected and exact address matches are linked; ambiguous addresses stay unresolved until an authoritative address register is in place.

Admissions gateCatchments and admissions

GIAS discovery and Ofsted outcomes are live; policy-year catchments, eligibility and place availability remain separate local-authority evidence.

Provider gateRental evidence and live FX

No asking-rent estimate or exchange rate appears until source rights and dates are proven.