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The data

We pay about £7 per Land Registry search — can you do it cheaper?

Straight answer: for the official document, no. For most of the reasons people order one, you may not need it at all.

That £7 buys HM Land Registry's official copy of the title register — the definitive legal document. It's worth what it costs when you genuinely need it: a transaction, a dispute, anything a solicitor will rely on. Nothing we do replaces that.

But a lot of title searches aren't asking a legal question. They're asking who owns this, what did they pay, how long have they held it, and is there anything on the title I should know before I value it or knock on the door? Those are research questions, and they're already included with no per-search fee:

What you're checkingIncluded?
Sold prices and full sale historyYes — unlimited
Comparable sales nearby, adjusted to today's moneyYes — unlimited
The title numberYes
Owner where a company or overseas entity holds the titleYes — plus its directors
Restrictive covenant flags, where recorded in our dataYes
EPC rating, floor area, certificate historyYes
Planning constraints — conservation area, listed, Article 4, flood riskYes
Plot boundary and land area, England & WalesYes

The honest limit: where a property is owned by a private individual, their name only appears on the register itself. It isn't in the open data we work from. If you need an individual owner's name, that still means buying the official copy at £7 — and we'll point you straight to the government service rather than reselling it to you at a markup.

What it means in money. If a branch runs 20 title searches a month, that's roughly £140 a month — around £1,680 a year. If even half of those are the research questions above, most of that spend disappears into a subscription that also does your valuations, comparables, canvassing and compliance checks.

See how agency licensing works →

How should I read the property information?

Property information combines public records and licensed market data. Available records can include sold prices, corporate ownership, energy ratings, floor areas, boundaries, flood screening and planning history. Coverage varies by location and record type.

Valuations, rents and lease information may use available market data. Read the dates, coverage and evidence gaps alongside each result; a missing match does not confirm that a check is clear.

Where a number is measured we say so. Where it's estimated or assumed, we say that too — and you can change the assumption.

How up to date is it?

It varies by source, and pretending otherwise would be dishonest. Sold price data lags completion by weeks because it has to be registered first. Ownership records refresh on the publishing body's schedule. EPCs appear when they're lodged. Planning data is as current as the council's portal.

The practical upshot: a very recent sale may not show yet. That's a limitation of the registers, not of us, and it's why our valuations index older comparables to today's money rather than treating a 2019 sale as if it happened yesterday.

Which countries do you cover, including Scotland?

Yes, Scotland and Northern Ireland are included, with different data coverage. Our eight country profiles are the United Kingdom (including Scotland and Northern Ireland), Ireland, France, Poland, United States, Australia, Greece and Turkey. You can model deals using your own figures, save assumptions and generate reports. The available property data differs by country and tool:

  • United Kingdom: tools use their own geographic sources. Corporate-ownership search uses HM Land Registry's CCOD and OCOD datasets for properties in England and Wales.
  • Scotland: separate domestic EPC records, licensed sold-comparable lookups and council-area price benchmarks, plus SEPA flood checks, Historic Environment Scotland heritage checks and planning applications through PlanIt. Matches and results depend on source availability and updates; an area benchmark is not an individual sale or valuation. ScotLIS links let you check the official title separately. An unavailable check must not be read as an all-clear.
  • Northern Ireland: heritage designations from Historic Environment Division, AONB screening from a pinned DAERA dataset, and council-area price benchmarks from LPS NI HPI. These benchmarks are area statistics, not individual sold comparables. Ownership, flood and address-level sold prices are not covered. Conservation areas and Article 4 remain unknown; an unchecked result is not an all-clear.
  • Ireland (Republic of Ireland): import an official-format PPR CSV for sales evidence, or search planning applications. Planning records are not completed sales or valuations.
  • France: DVF recorded-sales searches return a bounded sample. Source availability can vary; an empty result does not prove that no sale took place.
  • Poland: RCN recorded-sales searches return a bounded sample. Geographic and property-type coverage depend on the source; complete national coverage is not established.
  • United States and Australia: manual appraisal and report profiles are available. Automated property-data access is gated and is not confirmed as available.
  • Greece and Turkey: manual appraisal and report profiles with official reference links. Automated market-data searches are not implemented.

Country support does not mean every dataset covers that country. Scottish corporate-ownership coverage is not verified or offered by the CCOD/OCOD dataset. Scottish EPC and sales features do not extend its geographic scope. A company's registration country is not the location of its properties, and a missing match does not prove private ownership or no record.

Check the source, date and limitations on each result. International appraisals use your entered costs; automatic currency conversion and local tax calculations are not included. Open international analysis.

Why does it sometimes say "postcode level" instead of naming the property?

Because pretending otherwise would be making things up.

Some records tie to a specific address; others only tie to a postcode. When we can't match a record to a particular house, we tell you it's postcode-level rather than implying we know which property it belongs to. Add the house number and we'll match it properly where the data allows.

It's a deliberate rule: never present postcode-level information as property-level.

For estate & letting agencies

How does pricing work for an agency with multiple offices?

We start with a walkthrough, not a price list. Bring one patch and a few representative properties. We show you the product as it is today, on your own stock, and write down any gaps.

If it fits, you get a written proposal covering users, locations, support and price. Organisations are set up by hand for now, so terms are agreed per agency. Start on the agencies page.

Can we trial it before rolling it out?

Yes. The walkthrough comes first. If it supports a pilot, the proposal names the users, locations, what you'll measure against your own baseline, and the point at which either side stops.

We don't promise an ROI figure up front; the pilot exists to measure it on your patch.

Can reports go out under our branding?

Yes. Client-facing reports carry your name, logo and colours — useful for the document you leave behind at a valuation appointment.

Does it integrate with our CRM?

There is no ready-made CRM integration. Any account can use Developer API v1 with its own API keys to run our appraisal engines from its own systems: a free Sandbox tier, and paid Developer (£49 a month) and Developer Pro (£149 a month) add-ons for volume and the Legal-Pack endpoint. Predator Business includes a calculation allowance. Business includes up to 50 standard Legal-Pack AI review attempts and a £25 monthly supplier-cost budget, shared across the app and API. Whichever limit is reached first applies. Failed AI attempts and retries count; an idempotent API replay does not start a new review. Limits reset on the 1st of each month (UTC). Standard reviews must fit a conservative 50p supplier-cost reservation and complete-reading limits; larger packs need a separate quote before AI processing. Successful reviews still use 3 lookup credits; refunded lookup credits do not erase supplier costs. It does not include property data, comparables, ownership, maps or planning tools, and the endpoints used by our own website are not part of it. See the Developers page for plans, costs and limits.

Tell us which CRM you need when you get in touch. Any other integration would need its scope and support agreed separately; it is not included by implication. See our current integration status.

Valuations & accuracy

Is this a formal valuation?

No. It's an automated estimate built from comparable evidence. It is not a RICS valuation, not a survey, and not a substitute for either.

It's designed to tell you whether a deal is worth pursuing and what a defensible number looks like. When you're committing money, get a professional to inspect the actual building.

Your number is different from the asking price. Who's right?

Possibly neither — and the gap is the interesting part.

An asking price is a marketing position. Our figure is what comparable properties actually sold for, adjusted to today's money. A big gap usually means one of three things: the property has something the data can't see (a stunning refurbishment, or a serious problem), the agent has priced it to attract interest, or the vendor is optimistic.

We show you the comparables behind the number so you can judge which it is, rather than asking you to trust a black box.

How does it handle a property that needs work?

We value at done-up condition and ask you to supply the works figure. That's deliberate.

Automated valuations are only trustworthy against a finished standard — a computer cannot see that a kitchen is 1970s or that the roof is going. And a system-generated works estimate would be guessing at spec, region and scope. You know your build costs; we know the finished value. The deal is judged on the two together.

Why won't it give me a verdict without a price?

Because a buy signal without a purchase price is meaningless — and we'd rather withhold an answer than give you a confident wrong one.

Without a price you get a market read: what it's worth, what it'd rent for, and the price you'd need to buy at for the numbers to work. Add a price and you get the spread, the yield and a stamped verdict.

Using it

What do I get for free?

A free account gets you the deal scanner, the map with full plot boundaries for England and Wales, all the calculators, and a small monthly allowance of live data lookups.

The calculators and map are genuinely free and unmetered. The live lookups — the ones that pull fresh valuation and market data — are the metered part, because each one costs us money.

No card needed to sign up.

What's a "lookup" and why is it limited?

A lookup is one call to live market data — a valuation, a rent estimate, a lease check. Each one has a real cost to us, so plans include an allowance and you can top up if you need more.

Anything built on open data — sold prices, boundaries, planning, EPC — isn't metered at all. That's a deliberate line: free data stays free, and your plan decides how much of it you see, not how often.

Your remaining allowance is always shown at the top of your dashboard.

I've been given a code. Where do I put it?

Create your free account first, then scroll down your dashboard to "Got a code?", type it in and hit Apply.

The one thing that catches people out: the code box only exists once you're signed in, so you won't find it on the front page. Codes aren't case sensitive.

Does it work on a phone?

Yes — it's built to work on a phone, including the map and the photo location tool, which are genuinely more useful when you're stood outside the property.

Billing

How do I cancel?

From your account, any time. Access continues to the end of the period you've already paid for — we don't cut you off the moment you cancel.

Full detail in the refunds and cancellation policy.

Do my tokens expire?

Allowances included with a plan reset each billing period. Top-up packs you've bought don't expire while your account is open.

Can we pay by invoice rather than card?

Individual plans are card only, through Stripe. For agencies, billing is agreed in the written proposal after the walkthrough. Get in touch via the agencies page.

Where do my card details go?

To Stripe, who handle the payment. We never see or store your card number — it doesn't touch our systems at any point.

Your property & your privacy

My property appears in your data. What are my rights?

You have the same rights as a customer, and you don't need an account to use them. Email privacy@propertypredator.com and tell us the property or name concerned.

You can ask for a copy of what we hold, ask us to correct it, ask us to delete it, and object to us showing it. We'll act on that.

One useful thing to know: because this information comes from public registers, correcting it at the source fixes it everywhere rather than just with us — so we'll also point you to HM Land Registry or Companies House as appropriate.

I'm at risk if someone finds my address. Can you remove it?

Yes, and quickly. If you're at risk from someone locating you — for example if you've experienced domestic abuse or are being harassed — email privacy@propertypredator.com and we'll suppress your information promptly.

You don't have to explain your circumstances in detail, and we won't ask you to prove anything.

We'll also point you to HM Land Registry's own process for restricting your address on the register itself, which is the permanent fix — a suppression with us doesn't remove the underlying public entry.

The browser extension

What does the extension do?

It reads the listing you're already looking at on Rightmove, Zoopla or OnTheMarket and shows real sold comparables, whether it's priced above or below the local median, risk flags, and — with a free account — the registered owner and any covenants.

Full detail on the extension page.

Does the extension track my browsing?

No. It reads the page you're on and sends only the bare facts needed to work out the numbers — postcode, price, bedrooms, type, size. It doesn't copy or store portal content, and it does nothing at all on sites outside the ones it supports unless you press the button yourself.

The full detail is in the extension privacy notice.

Affiliates

How does the affiliate programme pay?

30% of each payment an account you referred makes — subscriptions and every renewal for as long as they keep paying, Deal Reports, top-up packs and letter packs. The rate rises to 35% once your lifetime referred sales reach £5,000 and to 40% at £15,000. A refunded or disputed payment earns nothing, and its commission is reversed. Earnings vary and are never guaranteed.

Anyone signing up through your link may also get an introductory discount on their first subscription payment and bonus lookup credits, applied automatically.

The full rules are in the Affiliate Programme Terms; you accept them when you join.

See the programme →

How and when do I get paid?

Monthly, by hand, once you're owed £25 or more; smaller amounts carry forward. Before your first payout, accept the Affiliate Programme Terms and add your details in your affiliate dashboard — PayPal, a UK bank account, or an IBAN if you're outside the UK — with confirmation that the account is in your own name.

We pay in pounds sterling. If you're outside the UK your bank or PayPal may convert it and charge its own fees; check which costs less for you.

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