Mouseprice vs HouseCheckup 2026: Free Area Data, and the One Address It Cannot Answer

What Mouseprice does better than us

Four things, and none of them is marginal.

Coverage. Mouseprice reaches Scotland, Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. HouseCheckup is England and Wales, and nothing we say about depth changes the fact that for a buyer in Glasgow or Belfast we do not exist. That is the single most important line on this page for anyone outside England and Wales.

Immediacy. Mouseprice is self-serve. You type an area, the page renders, you read it. HouseCheckup's report is hand-checked by a person and emailed to you within 24 hours, usually faster — deliberately, because a human reads every report before you do, but it means we are slower than a page load and always will be.

Valuation. Mouseprice carries a house-price estimate built on an automated valuation lineage over twenty years old that has been sold to lenders. HouseCheckup has no AVM at all. We show sold-price comparables and the context around them. If you want a number with a model behind it, that is a real reason to use Mouseprice.

Attributes and listings. Floorplans and property-attribute data we do not source, plus live for-sale and rental listings, plus a free "My Home Dashboard". For browsing, that is a better free product than we offer, and we do not have a version of it.

The free tier is real, and it is good

This is worth saying clearly because so many "free" property sites are not. On 28 July 2026 we worked through Mouseprice's Cambridgeshire house-prices page without an account and without paying, and it returned: a five-year sold-price change; averages by property type — All £280,218, Detached £408,200, Semi-detached £295,023, Terraced £231,190, Flats £156,900; a crime block reading "Crime level is high"; a market summary comparing the area against a national average of £284,464; town-by-town breakdowns; and a map. Nothing blurred, nothing gated.

If your question is "what does property cost around here, and which way is it moving", that page answers it for free and you should use it.

The one thing you cannot find out: what Pro costs

Mouseprice Pro is the professional product, and its price is not publicly listed. We looked across the site on 28 July 2026 and the only offer visible anywhere is "Start your 7 day free trial", with the signup form carrying "Include a free 7 day Mouseprice Pro trial. Cancel anytime." and, when we signed up on 28 July 2026, that checkbox pre-selected. No price appeared at any step of the flow.

We are deliberately not going to build a price-comparison table against a price that does not exist publicly, and we are not going to guess a figure to make a point. Two honest observations instead. First: a pre-selected trial with no visible price means the number arrives after your card details do, so if you start a trial, find out the post-trial charge before day seven. Second: this is the one axis on which we are unambiguously better, and it costs us nothing to say so, because our price is on the page — £9.99 Lite or £24.99 Complete, once, no trial, no renewal, nothing to cancel.

Where an area page stops and an address begins

An average of £295,023 for a semi-detached house in Cambridgeshire is genuinely useful. It is also true of a house on a hillside with shrink–swell clay beneath it, a house in a former coal-mining reporting area, a house in a radon-affected area, and a house at the bottom of a surface-water flow path — and of the identical-looking house next door with none of those things. Area statistics cannot separate them, because they are not about the address.

HouseCheckup is built for exactly that gap. On the specific address, we run:

• A flood screen including surface water, via NaFRA2. Surface water is the flood type buyers most often miss, because the flood map most people look at covers rivers and the sea.
• A coal-mining screen in the CON29M style, on the address rather than the town.
• A radon screen against the UKHSA and BGS Radon Indicative Atlas.
• A ground-stability screen, including shrink–swell.
• Planning designations, EPC, crime, schools and sold-price comparables for the same address — 15+ checks in total.

An important piece of precision, because it is the sort of thing other sites fudge: we run these screens and we report what comes back, including saying plainly when a reading is not available for a given property. We do not guarantee that every address returns a value for every hazard, and any product that implies it does is overselling.

Which to use, by situation

If you are buying outside England and Wales

This deserves its own heading rather than a footnote. HouseCheckup runs address-level screens for England and Wales only. Scotland has its own registration system and its own hazard datasets; Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands each have their own again. We do not cover any of them, so if your property sits outside England or Wales, nothing on this site can screen it for you — and Mouseprice, which covers all four, is the more useful place to start.

What we would suggest in that case is to use Mouseprice for the price picture and then go to the national source for the hazard picture, since the equivalents exist and are usually free at the point of use. Buying an English-and-Welsh product for a Scottish property would be paying for a gap.

Using both, in order

The sensible sequence for an England-or-Wales buyer costs almost nothing until the very end. Browse Mouseprice free to learn the area and sanity-check asking prices. Run our free checkers on any address that survives the shortlist. Then, on the one house you actually intend to offer on, buy a single Complete report at £24.99 and have the address screened properly before you commit. Total outlay: one payment, at the only point where the answer changes what you do.

What neither of us is

Neither Mouseprice nor HouseCheckup is a survey, a conveyancing search or a mortgage valuation. Your solicitor orders local-authority, drainage-and-water and environmental searches once your offer is accepted; a RICS surveyor inspects the building itself. Everything on this page happens before that, and its purpose is to tell you whether a property is worth spending those larger sums on.

Key takeaways

• Mouseprice's free tier is genuinely free and genuinely useful for area sold prices — use it.
• Mouseprice covers Scotland, NI, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. HouseCheckup does not cover any of them.
• Mouseprice has an AVM and floorplans; we have neither. No hedging on that.
• Mouseprice Pro's price is not published — only a 7-day trial whose box was pre-selected when we signed up (28 Jul 2026). Ours is on the page.
• We screen the address, they describe the area: flood including surface water, coal mining, radon and ground stability, with a plain statement when a reading is not available.
• Read next: best UK property reports 2026 and our data sources.