What Happened to StreetCheck?

Short answer: Crystal Roof acquired StreetCheck (announced 23 March 2026) and streetcheck.co.uk now permanently redirects to crystalroof.co.uk. Here's what that means for you — and where to get a free postcode report now.

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Quick answer

StreetCheck, one of the UK's most-used free postcode information sites, was acquired by Crystal Roof. The acquisition was announced on 23 March 2026 on CrystalRoof's blog, and as of July 2026 streetcheck.co.uk returns a 301 permanent redirect to crystalroof.co.uk. CrystalRoof offers a free tier; full access is a subscription (£7.99/week or £12.99/month as of July 2026).

The verifiable facts, dated

  • 23 March 2026: Crystal Roof announces the acquisition in a first-party blog post, “Crystal Roof Acquires StreetCheck”, calling StreetCheck “one of the UK's most widely used postcode and neighbourhood data websites.” No integration timeline was stated.
  • July 2026 (observed): streetcheck.co.uk — homepage and postcode pages — returns a 301 permanent redirect to crystalroof.co.uk.
  • July 2026 (observed): CrystalRoof's pricing: free tier plus subscriptions at £7.99/week, £12.99/month or £29.99/3 months (“Cancel anytime”), with “access to blurred data” listed among what a paid plan unlocks.

What this means if you used StreetCheck

StreetCheck's model was simple: type a postcode, get the whole report free — demographics, housing types, broadband, crime — nothing gated. The site the redirect now lands you on works differently: CrystalRoof has a genuinely broad free tier for area browsing, but full access is sold as a subscription (£7.99/week or £12.99/month as of July 2026), and some sections are visible but blurred until you pay. Neither model is wrong — but they are different products, and if you bookmarked StreetCheck for a free, everything-visible postcode report, that specific thing no longer exists at that address.

Where to get a free postcode report now

  • CrystalRoof's free tier — the direct successor for demographics and housing-type browsing; that is where StreetCheck's data now lives. The subscription only applies to the gated sections.
  • The official sources, directly — police.uk for crime, GOV.UK for flood risk, HM Land Registry for sold prices, Ofsted for schools. All free; each answers one question at a time.
  • HouseCheckup's free area checker — crime, schools, flood and sold-price readings for any UK postcode in one place, no signup, no subscription, no blurred rows. When you get serious about one house, the £24.99 Complete report covers the exact address — one-off payment, no subscription.

For the full feature-by-feature roundup — what StreetCheck showed, what each alternative covers and what each can't do — see the best StreetCheck alternatives, compared.

Want the old StreetCheck experience?

Check any postcode free — crime, schools, flood and sold prices from official sources, rendered on-page. No signup. Results in seconds. One honest label: it's a postcode-area reading, not a property-level assessment.

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Researching a house you might buy?

The free area check above covers the postcode — and the HouseCheckup Complete report covers the house. 15+ checks on the exact address from official sources (Environment Agency, HM Land Registry, Coal Authority, police.uk and more), £24.99 one-off with no subscription. Human-checked and emailed to you as a PDF you can share.

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Data: police.uk · Ofsted · Environment Agency · HM Land Registry · Coal Authority — published under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Frequently asked questions

As of July 2026, streetcheck.co.uk returns a 301 permanent redirect to crystalroof.co.uk — the site no longer serves its own pages. Its data and audience have moved to CrystalRoof following the acquisition Crystal Roof announced on 23 March 2026. CrystalRoof's announcement did not state an integration timeline, so we only describe what is observable: the redirect is live and permanent-coded.
Crystal Roof. It announced the acquisition in a first-party post on its own blog on 23 March 2026, titled "Crystal Roof Acquires StreetCheck", describing StreetCheck as one of the UK's most widely used postcode and neighbourhood data websites.
No — it is a different product that now owns StreetCheck. Both cover UK area data (crime, demographics, schools, amenities), but StreetCheck showed its postcode report free with nothing gated, while CrystalRoof pairs a free tier with a subscription for full access: £7.99/week, £12.99/month or £29.99 for 3 months as of July 2026, with its checkout listing "access to blurred data" among what a plan unlocks.
CrystalRoof has a genuinely broad free tier for area browsing. Full access, however, is a subscription — £7.99/week, £12.99/month or £29.99 for 3 months, cancel anytime, as observed on its pricing page in July 2026. So it is free to browse, paid to see everything.
HouseCheckup's free area checker renders crime, schools, flood and sold-price readings for any UK postcode on-page with no signup, no account and no card, using official sources (police.uk, Ofsted, the Environment Agency, HM Land Registry). The official sources themselves are also free directly, one dataset at a time. For the full comparison of alternatives, see our StreetCheck alternatives page.

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