How to Look Up Any Property in England and Wales

Why look up a property

There are many reasons to look up the verified data on a UK property:

• You are about to view a property and want to know the basic facts before going
• You are about to make an offer and want to verify what the agent told you
• You are researching an area before deciding to live there
• You are checking your own home for any errors in the official records
• You are researching a neighbour's property out of interest
• You are a professional doing due diligence
• You are doing a school catchment, council tax, or area research check

In every case, the underlying data exists in official UK government registers and is free to access.

Official sources by data type

You can use each of these directly. The drawback is that you have to visit 11+ different websites and manually cross-reference, which takes hours.

How Property Passport UK works

Property Passport UK aggregates the most important of these sources into one verified record per property. For every one of the 19.35 million properties in England and Wales, the platform shows:

• Address and UPRN from Ordnance Survey
• Tenure from HM Land Registry
• Full sold price history since 1995 from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
• EPC rating, expiry, and recommendations from the EPC Register
• Environment Agency flood zone
• Listed building grade from Historic England (where applicable)
• Conservation area from Local Authority records (where designated)
• Local authority for council tax and planning context

This is the same data as you would get by visiting the individual sources, presented on one page in seconds. Search any address at [/search](/search). Free, no account required.

What you cannot look up for free

Some data is held by government but is not free to access:

• Full title register and title plan from HM Land Registry: paid (around £3 to £10 per document)
• Detailed planning application documents: usually free to view on the council planning portal but downloads vary
• Specific building safety certificates for individual buildings: held by freeholders, not in a public registry
• Lease documents: paid via HMLR or via the freeholder

For most buying decisions, the free data is sufficient. The paid title register is usually only needed by the conveyancer once the transaction starts.

Practical workflow

For a typical buyer assessing a property:

1. Search the address on Property Passport UK at [/search](/search) for the verified core data

2. Check council tax band on the VOA website

3. Check school catchment on the local authority website

4. Check planning history on the local authority planning portal

5. Check crime on police.uk

6. Visit the property in person at different times

7. Get a Level 2 or Level 3 RICS survey

8. Get a conveyancer to do the legal due diligence

The first step (Property Passport UK) takes seconds and gives you the verified core data set in one place. The other steps build out from there.

Look up any UK property on Property Passport UK

Property Passport UK is the national property data registry for England and Wales. Verified data on every one of the 19.35 million properties from HM Land Registry, the EPC Register, Ordnance Survey, and the Environment Agency. Free, no account required. Search any address at [/search](/search).