The facts on any home, from its address

A home you live in, let, buy or sell: sold prices, bills, flood risk and licences. Free, with no sign-up.

Sold prices, energy rating, flood risk and council licences from one address

Owlsby gives the facts on any home in England and Wales from its address, each with its source and date, free. Nobody can pay to change an answer or the order answers come in.

Owlsby is a record of every home, for anyone buying, moving into, owning or letting one, and for letting agents and other professionals.

Example reportA two-bedroom flatIn a converted house, built 1900 to 1929, 64 m². Figures for illustration

Sold prices

Source: HM Land Registry, August 2026

£248,000 this flat's last sale, in March 2023

On the street: 14 sales in 5 years
Street median: £236,000

Rent and council tax

Source: ONS, September 2026; DWP and MHCLG, 2026-27

£1,150 a month typical for 2 bedrooms in the council

Local Housing Allowance: £950 a month
Band D rate in this council: £2,280 a year

Energy rating (EPC)

Worth watching

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register, 12 May 2021

Rated D 62 points, 7 short of the C expected by 2030

Bills a year: £1,140
Steps to C: About £4,800
Grants: 2 may apply

A92+
B81-91
C

Council licence

Action needed

Source: the council's own pages, checked 29 October 2026

Licence needed if it's let for any let in this ward

Scheme: Selective licensing
Article 4: A house share (HMO) needs permission

Flood risk

Fine

Source: Environment Agency, 1 October 2026

Very low now, from rivers, sea and surface water; low in the 2050s

Now: Very low
2050s: Low

Broadband and mobile

Fine

Source: Ofcom, October 2026

Ultrafast up to 1,000 Mbps

Mobile indoors: Good on 3 of 4 networks
Mobile outdoors: Good on all 4 networks

Also in a report, where records hold them

The home: How it's built, the plot (England), radon, coal mining, and listed or conservation status where it applies
Around it: Schools, transport, crime, noise and planning applications nearby
If it's let: Landlord registration and the renting rules for England or Wales: gas every year, electrics every 5 years, alarms, the deposit

The report opens on its own page, stays out of search engines, and you share it by link. It is not a survey, a legal search or advice, and never replaces your conveyancer's searches.

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Buying, owning or letting a home

Buying a home

Before you make an offer: the street's sold prices, flood risk, broadband and running costs.

Check it the night before a viewing, and before you pay for searches and a survey.

Coming:Years left on a flat's lease

Before you offer£25

Price per m² against every sale on the street, in a PDF dated the day you order it.

Your own home

See it the way a buyer will, and keep the boiler service, electrical certificate and guarantees in one record.

Emails when planning goes in nearby, a home on the street sells or a flood warning is issued.

Sale pack£80

Your record set out by the sections of the TA6 property form. You still answer the form.

Letting a home

Reminders before the gas safety record, electrical report (EICR) and energy certificate fall due.

England's landlord database (Renters' Rights Act) opens region by region; we'll email you when it opens for yours. In Wales, the report sets out Rent Smart Wales.

Keep a home free: emails when it changes, reminders and its record

One home stays free for good.

Planning application 120 m away
Email
Window guarantee ends in 8 weeks
Reminder
Gas safety record read and dated
Record
Record passed to the next owner
Hand-over

One home: Free for good
Up to 5 homes: £60 a year
Up to 25 homes: £199 a year
Each home above 25: £6 a year

Checking a home is free. A plan sets only how many homes you keep, each with everything above.

Check your home and keep it

Sold prices, energy rating, flood risk and council licences from one address

Owlsby gives the facts on any home in England and Wales from its address, each with its source and date, free. Nobody can pay to change an answer or the order answers come in.

Owlsby is a record of every home, for anyone buying, moving into, owning or letting one, and for letting agents and other professionals.

Example reportA two-bedroom flatIn a converted house, built 1900 to 1929, 64 m². Figures for illustration

Sold prices

Source: HM Land Registry, August 2026

£248,000 this flat's last sale, in March 2023

On the street: 14 sales in 5 years
Street median: £236,000

Rent and council tax

Source: ONS, September 2026; DWP and MHCLG, 2026-27

£1,150 a month typical for 2 bedrooms in the council

Local Housing Allowance: £950 a month
Band D rate in this council: £2,280 a year

Energy rating (EPC)

Worth watching

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register, 12 May 2021

Rated D 62 points, 7 short of the C expected by 2030

Bills a year: £1,140
Steps to C: About £4,800
Grants: 2 may apply

A92+
B81-91
C69-80
Minimum to let from October 2030
D55-68This home
E39-54
Minimum to let now
F21-38
G1-20

Council licence

Action needed

Source: the council's own pages, checked 29 October 2026

Licence needed if it's let for any let in this ward

Scheme: Selective licensing
Article 4: A house share (HMO) needs permission

Flood risk

Fine

Source: Environment Agency, 1 October 2026

Very low now, from rivers, sea and surface water; low in the 2050s

Now: Very low
2050s: Low

Broadband and mobile

Fine

Source: Ofcom, October 2026

Ultrafast up to 1,000 Mbps

Mobile indoors: Good on 3 of 4 networks
Mobile outdoors: Good on all 4 networks

Also in a report, where records hold them

The home: How it's built, the plot (England), radon, coal mining, and listed or conservation status where it applies
Around it: Schools, transport, crime and noise nearby
If it's let: Landlord registration and the renting rules for England or Wales: gas every year, electrics every 5 years, alarms, the deposit

The report opens on its own page, stays out of search engines, and you share it by link. It is not a survey, a legal search or advice, and never replaces your conveyancer's searches.

Check a home

Buying, owning or letting a home

Buying a home

Before you make an offer: the street's sold prices, flood risk, broadband and running costs.

Check it the night before a viewing, and before you pay for searches and a survey.

Coming:Years left on a flat's lease

Before you offer£25

Price per m² against every sale on the street, in a PDF dated the day you order it.

Your own home

See it the way a buyer will, and keep the boiler service, electrical certificate and guarantees in one record.

Emails when a home on the street sells or a flood warning is issued.

Sale pack£80

Your record set out by the sections of the TA6 property form. You still answer the form.

Letting a home

Reminders before the gas safety record, electrical report (EICR) and energy certificate fall due.

England's landlord database (Renters' Rights Act) opens region by region; we'll email you when it opens for yours. In Wales, the report sets out Rent Smart Wales.

Section 13 rent increase pack£25

For England: dated rent evidence and Form 4A filled in.

Keep a home free: emails when it changes, reminders and its record

One home stays free for good.

A home on the street sold
Email
Window guarantee ends in 8 weeks
Reminder
Gas safety record read and dated
Record
Record passed to the next owner
Hand-over

One home: Free for good
Up to 5 homes: £60 a year
Up to 25 homes: £199 a year
Each home above 25: £6 a year

Checking a home is free. A plan sets only how many homes you keep, each with everything above.

Check your home and keep it Prices

Every home you handle, in one register

For letting and estate agents, block managers, conveyancers, surveyors, valuers, lenders and letting websites: the same answers anyone gets for the same home.

Working now, for letting agents and landlords

One register and map, from a spreadsheet
A read-only view for each landlord, and colleagues by role
Gas safety records, EICRs and EPCs read in a batch, each expiry filed to its home
A seller's record and sale pack for the buyer's solicitor
A Monday email of what needs doing, home by home

£199 a year for 25 homes, then £6 a home.

Coming:A monthly plan, billed for the homes you hold that month, lets or listings

Estate agents

The parts of material information public records answer, for every listing, and the sale pack to suggest to a seller at instruction.

Coming:Title and tenure, from HM Land Registry

Conveyancers and solicitors

The seller's record and sale pack, as a PDF and a PDTF file.

Coming:Case PDFs under your case reference

Surveyors and lenders

Sold prices, floor area, flood and radon, each dated.

Coming:An API by UPRN, the national property reference

For professionals

Every home and every council in England and Wales

Now

A free report for any address in England and Wales
Emails, reminders and a record for every home you keep
Packs for buying, selling and a rent increase
Council licensing checked in 311 of 318 councils, last updated 29 October 2026

Plot outlines are England only for now.

On the way

Postcode pages, region by region, West Midlands first
Plain-English guides to the rules, from primary sources
From HM Land Registry: the title, company owners, plot outlines in Wales, and local land charges for councils on its register
An owner check, so a buyer can see the record was kept by the owner
Leasehold flats: years left on each lease, and a building's leases in one order
Lets below band C: a log of spending towards C, and the papers for an exemption

Scotland and Northern Ireland come later.

Homes by council

Licensing schemes with the day we found them, rents, council tax and prices.

All councils

Council licensing, council by council

Where every answer comes from

Each answer names its record and date: HM Land Registry, the energy register, the Environment Agency, Natural Resources Wales, Ofcom, the ONS, HMRC, Ofsted, police.uk and each council.

How we check How we work out the figures

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