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See sold house prices, put an asking price beside local evidence and screen nearby planning designations—using open, official data rather than a mystery valuation.
Individual HM Land Registry records and five-year postcode medians.
Compare a price with matching local sales without calling it a valuation.
Screen six official designation datasets near the postcode centre.
Read the evidence well
A local sale is a useful fact. It becomes misleading when it is treated as a valuation without checking whether the properties are genuinely comparable.
HM Land Registry records the price stated on the transfer deed for registered sales in England and Wales. Asking prices describe what a seller hoped to receive; Price Paid Data records what a completed buyer paid. Registration lag means the newest part of the market is always less complete.
A flat, terrace and detached house should not be placed in one comparison without thought. Home Check separates property types and bases its headline summary on standard price-paid transactions. Additional-category records can include identifiable buy-to-lets, repossessions and transfers to non-private buyers, so they remain visible but do not drive the median.
Some full postcodes contain only a handful of recent sales. Home Check labels the size of the sample and shows individual records so a neat median cannot hide thin evidence. If the sample is small, widen the research area carefully and compare actual homes rather than accepting false precision.
Floor area, bedrooms, condition, view, lease length, service charge, cladding, extensions, structural defects and exact micro-location can dominate value. Check the EPC, particulars, lease and title; commission the right survey; and ask the conveyancer to investigate legal matters. A lender valuation protects the lender and is not a substitute for a buyer’s survey.
A practical buying sequence
Home Check is an early research layer. A purchase decision becomes property-specific only when the address, title, building and finance have all been examined.
Compare sold records, property types, tenure and dates. Note how many genuinely relevant comparables exist.
Home Check · Land Registry · local marketReview the EPC, planning history, flood risk, title, lease or estate charges, searches and an appropriate survey.
Government services · conveyancer · surveyorModel the deposit, tax, fees, monthly mortgage, rate risk, repairs and the reserve left after completion.
Money Considered calculatorsAn offer can depend on survey findings, mortgage valuation, legal review and the cash needed for known work.
Evidence · affordability · riskMethod and limitations
The tool queries the official sources when you run a check. Money Considered does not maintain a shadow property database, estimate a current market value or turn an incomplete result into a green tick.
Individual results come from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data. The summary uses standard sales within the full postcode across a rolling five-year window ending two months before the current month. Median and 25th–75th percentile values are unadjusted nominal prices.
For English postcodes, the tool converts the postcode to an approximate centre and screens six Planning Data datasets intersecting a box extending about 250 metres in each direction. It does not test the property boundary, determine consent requirements or replace the local authority’s planning register.
Sale registrations arrive late, postcodes can change, one property can sell more than once and recorded categories can be corrected. Planning coverage varies by authority and dataset. An empty response can mean no matching record, incomplete coverage or temporary source failure.
No account is required. The postcode is sent from the browser to Postcodes.io, HM Land Registry and—where applicable—the Planning Data API to return the result; Money Considered does not store it. Method and sources last reviewed 24 August 2026.
Primary sources
Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Postcode lookup contains Ordnance Survey, Royal Mail and National Statistics data under the licences stated by Postcodes.io.
Questions
Short answers to the points most likely to change how the result should be used.
Enter a full UK postcode. For addresses in England and Wales, Home Check retrieves HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, shows individual records and summarises standard residential sales in a mature five-year window. A sale can take time to reach the register, and some transaction types are excluded from the dataset.
No. A postcode median describes the sales returned for that postcode and period. It does not adjust for floor area, bedrooms, condition, extensions, lease length, service charges, plot, exact position or improvements. Home Check deliberately calls it local evidence rather than an automated valuation.
HM Land Registry explains that the two most recent months of Price Paid Data are normally incomplete because the delay from sale to registration varies. Home Check can display a newer individual record when one is returned, but keeps it outside the main comparison window until the period is more mature.
For English postcodes, it screens Planning Data records within roughly 250 metres of the postcode centre for conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, tree preservation zones, planning flood zones and green belt. It is an early-warning screen, not a property-specific search or legal report.
No. Dataset coverage varies, a postcode centre is not a title boundary and the Planning Data API is in beta. Always search the local authority planning register, order the appropriate searches and rely on the conveyancer and surveyor for the actual property.
The postcode can be identified, but HM Land Registry Price Paid Data covers England and Wales and the automatic planning-designation screen covers England. Home Check therefore directs Scottish and Northern Irish users to the relevant official property services rather than presenting an empty result as evidence.