HouseCheckup Lite vs Complete: which report is right for me?

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Quick answer

Lite (£9.99) is the hazard-screening half of the document — flood, ground, radon, coal, environmental registers and the checks that could not be run. Complete (£24.99) is the standard report and adds everything else: the IQ Score, sold-price history, EPC and running costs, planning, area and lifestyle, hand-checked findings and surveyor questions. Both are one-off purchases, hand-reviewed by a person, and emailed within 24 hours, usually faster. If in doubt, Complete.

Lite

£9.99

one-off · no subscription

Hazard screening only, for this one property.

  • Flood risk and flood history from the official national maps for your nation, plus flood defences nearby
  • Ground stability and subsidence screening, radon, and coal-mining area screening
  • Environmental and regulated-site registers nearby, air quality, coastal erosion where mapped, and major infrastructure projects
  • The checks that could not be run at your address, named rather than scored as a pass
  • Your before-you-offer checklist

PDF report emailed to you. Hazard screening only — no IQ Score, no sold prices or EPC, no area or planning sections, and no hand-checked findings. Coverage varies by property and nation.

Complete · recommended

£24.99

one-off · no subscription

Our standard property report — the full document.

Everything in Lite, plus:

  • The 6-factor IQ Score and the per-factor breakdown behind it, with coverage gaps identified
  • The plain-English read on what stands out at this address, red and amber flags explained
  • Sold-price records, local price context, rental yield, council tax and tenure
  • EPC records and running costs, property facts, solar, broadband and mobile, heritage and planning designations
  • Area context: amenities, crime, schools, transport, noise, deprivation and census profile
  • The registers with no API, checked by hand for your address and written up
  • Corporate ownership and building records held against the address
  • The questions to put to your surveyor, written from what your address flagged

PDF report emailed to you. Coverage varies by property and nation; the report names every check it could not run.

Our verdict

Most pre-offer buyers should take Complete at £24.99: the IQ Score, sold-price history, EPC and running costs, planning, area and surveyor questions sit around the hazard screening and are where the before-you-offer checklist earns its keep. Lite at £9.99 is the right pick for a buyer who has already researched the price, the EPC, the area and the planning picture themselves and just wants the hazard-screening half of the document on an address to confirm it. Either way, you get 15+ public-source checks and the honest list of what we could not answer at your address.

Lite£9.99

A one-off human-reviewed report on one address — the hazard-screening half of the document.

Buy Lite report
Complete · recommended£24.99

The standard pre-offer report. Hazard screening plus the IQ Score, sold-price history, EPC, planning, area, hand-checked findings and surveyor questions.

Buy Complete report

Who buys Lite

A buyer who already knows the postcode, has a view on sale prices and the EPC in the street, has read the planning picture themselves, and wants a human to run the hazard-screening half of the document on the specific address before they put in an offer. The hazard screen — flood, ground, radon, coal, environmental registers — is the core, and the report explicitly names the checks that could not be run at the location. Lite is the right pick when the question you are trying to answer is narrow and the surrounding research is already done.

Who buys Complete

Most pre-offer buyers. Complete runs the same hazard screen and then wraps it in everything else the renderer gates for Complete: the IQ Score with its per-factor breakdown, sold-price history and local market context, EPC and running costs with property facts and broadband and mobile, planning and heritage designations, area and lifestyle (crime, schools, transport, amenities, noise, deprivation), the checks a person runs by hand for your address, corporate ownership and building records, and the questions to put to your surveyor. If this is the only report you will buy before offering on this house, buy Complete.

What neither of them is

Neither is a survey. Neither is a valuation. Neither is a solicitor's official conveyancing search. Neither names the registered owner of the property — HM Land Registry's £7 title register is the only source that legally does. Every report says so on the inside front page, and the compare pages for report vs conveyancing searches and report vs RICS survey spell out exactly what sits in each lane.

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£9.99 Lite / £24.99 Complete. One-off, no subscription. Hand-reviewed and emailed within 24 hours, usually faster.

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Frequently asked questions

Both are reports for one address, emailed as a PDF, with coverage gaps named for the location and nation. Lite at £9.99 is hazard screening only — flood, ground stability, radon, coal-mining area, environmental and regulated-site registers, air quality, coastal erosion where mapped, and major infrastructure projects — plus the checks that could not be run at your address and the before-you-offer checklist. Complete at £24.99 is our standard report and adds everything else: the HouseCheckup IQ Score with its per-factor breakdown, the plain-English read on what stands out, sold-price history and local market context, EPC and running costs, property facts, broadband and mobile, planning and heritage designations, area and lifestyle (crime, schools, transport, amenities, noise, deprivation), the checks a person runs by hand for your address, corporate ownership and building records, and the questions to put to your surveyor.
Yes. Reply to your report email with the address and we will manually prepare the fuller Complete report and bill the difference. There is no subscription and no automatic upgrade — every purchase is a one-off.
Complete at £24.99 is the default for most buyers at the pre-offer stage because it brings the IQ Score, sold-price history, EPC and running costs, planning, area and surveyor questions around the hazard screening. Lite at £9.99 suits a buyer who has already researched the price, the EPC, the area and the planning picture themselves and only wants the hazard-screening half of the document on an address to confirm it. If in doubt, Complete.
No. There has never been a free tier of the report. Our postcode-area tools at /tools/ are free, but they describe the available area-level data for a postcode or outcode and do not establish anything specific about an individual building.
An Investor Pro option (£109.90) has existed in the past; it is currently unavailable for new purchases. Lite and Complete are the two options available today.
Both are hand-reviewed by a person and emailed within 24 hours, usually faster. There is no automated-only option — the whole point of the human-checked step is to pick up data that is wrong, missing, or being misread by the automated systems.