Screen a property before you buy it.
Paste the listing, add the floorplan and photos, and choose how you would let it. Acquire checks planning, licensing, rents, value and the risks a listing does not mention, and ends with a go or no-go verdict. For properties in England, Scotland and Wales.
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An example listing
- Article 4 & licensing
- In an Article 4 area: planning permission may be needed for an HMO
- Room-count estimate
- 4 candidate rooms from the floorplan
- Rents & value
- Room rents, HMO valuation, recent sales
- Before you buy
- EPC D · Flood Zone 1 · no lease flags
Indicative screening, not a survey, valuation or investment advice.
Three steps to a verdict
Bring the listing
Paste a Rightmove link to fill in the address, description, price and bedrooms, with the floorplan and photos where the listing has them. Or paste the description from any agent and upload the files yourself.
Choose the strategy
An HMO, a single let, or a council or guaranteed-rent lease. Each one asks different questions of the same property, so each gets its own report.
Read the verdict
Proceed, Caution, High risk, or Insufficient data when there is not enough to form a view, with the reasons that drove it at the top and the sources named on every section.
One property, three ways to let it.
Say what you would do with it, and the report checks what matters for that plan.
HMO
Rooms let to separate households sharing a kitchen or bathroom.
- Article 4 and licensing, and planning history nearby
- A room count read from the floorplan, each room checked against the minimum room sizes
- Room rents, an HMO valuation and recent sold prices
- A conversion-cost ballpark, scaled by the condition the photos show
Single let
One household rents the whole property.
- Market rent for the whole property, local sold prices and recent sales
- Gross and net yield on assumptions you can change, including the purchase tax
- Any Article 4 matches, shown for information
Council or guaranteed-rent lease
Leased for years to a council or housing provider, usually at the Local Housing Allowance rate.
- The Local Housing Allowance for the area and bedroom count, beside the open-market rent
- A checklist of what a council or provider usually needs, each line met, an issue, or to confirm
- The yield at the LHA rent, including the purchase tax
- Where to take it: the council's leasing scheme and the regional asylum accommodation contract
Before you buy: the checks every purchase needs.
Whatever you plan to do with the property, the report ends with these, from public data where it exists.
EPC
The current and potential rating, the recommended improvements, and whether the rating meets the minimum to let.
Flood risk
The flood risk at the postcode, from the flood maps for that country.
Conservation area and listed buildings
Whether the property sits in a conservation area, and listed buildings nearby.
Tenure and lease red flags
From the listing: a short or unstated lease, ground rent, service charge, shared ownership, cash buyers only, non-standard construction, an auction, sold as seen.
Defects visible in the photos
Damp or mould, kitchen and bathroom defects, floors, decoration and plaster, exposed pipes or cables, windows and doors, the roof or gutters, cracks and signs of movement, electrics and heating. Each is listed only when a photo shows it, with its room and how serious it looks.
What only a surveyor or solicitor can confirm
A fixed list on every report, from subsidence and structure to knotweed, electrics and gas, so nothing here passes for a survey.
England, Scotland and Wales, each on its own rules.
Housing law and purchase tax differ across the border, so the report uses each country's own sources and rules. Where a check is not available, the report says so and points to the official place to check instead. A missing check never counts as a pass, and it stops a report reading Proceed.
| Check | England | Wales | Scotland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Planning for an HMO | Article 4 directions | The national rule: a small HMO needs planning permission everywhere | No Article 4 system: the national rule (a house above 5 residents, or a shared flat, usually needs permission) and the council's HMO policy |
| HMO licensing and room sizes | Yes | Yes, Welsh rules (room sizes are a labelled screening default) | Yes, Scottish rules |
| Flood risk | Environment Agency | Natural Resources Wales | SEPA |
| Conservation area and listed buildings | Yes | Cadw and Welsh Government data | Historic Environment Scotland |
| EPC | Yes | Yes | Not yet: the report links the Scottish EPC Register |
| Rents and sold prices | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Purchase tax in the yield | Stamp Duty (SDLT) at the higher rates | Land Transaction Tax at the higher rates | LBTT with the Additional Dwelling Supplement |
| Local Housing Allowance | Yes | Yes | Yes |
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Share a report with a link
Send a read-only link to one report to a partner, a lender or a broker. Choose whether it expires after a week, a month or never, and stop sharing at any time. Your notes, the listing you pasted and your account details are never shown.
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What it is not
An indicative screening from public data and AI estimates. It is not a survey, a valuation or investment advice. Check planning and licensing with the council, and the building with a qualified surveyor.
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