PropertyData vs HouseCheckup 2026: One House vs Forty
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Quick answer
PropertyData is the strongest tool in this comparison, and for property investors it is better than HouseCheckup at almost everything that matters to them. It runs yield hotspot maps, a deal analyser, construction-cost estimates, the National HMO Register, a finance finder, off-market letter campaigns, plot maps with boundaries and ownership, and ongoing planning alerts. HouseCheckup has none of that, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. What PropertyData is, is a £14–£60 per month subscription built for people who assess property continuously — sourcers, landlords, developers, agents. What HouseCheckup is, is a one-off £9.99 or £24.99 report, hand-checked by a person and emailed to you within 24 hours, usually faster, for the buyer who is assessing one house and will never assess another for five years. This page exists to help you work out which of those two people you are, because the answer decides everything else. All PropertyData facts here were observed live on 28 July 2026 and are dated inline.
| Feature | HouseCheckup | PropertyData |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | One-off — £9.99 Lite, £24.99 Complete, £109.90 Investor Pro. No subscription, no auto-renew | Subscription — Basic £14/mo, Standard £22/mo, Pro £35/mo, Unlimited £60/mo. Annual billed at the price of 11 months (observed 28 Jul 2026) |
| Free trial | None — you pay once, for one report | 14-day free trial; their terms state you "will be charged automatically at the end of the 14-day free trial period if you do not cancel" |
| Cost per property at volume | £24.99 every time — 40 properties is £999.60 | £60/mo Unlimited covers unlimited searches — 40 properties is about £1.50 each. PropertyData wins decisively at volume |
| Investor toolset | None — no yield hotspots, no deal analyser, no construction costs, no HMO register, no sourcing | Yield hotspots, Deal Analyser, Construction Costs, National HMO Register, Property Sourcing, Finance Finder, off-market letter campaigns, browser extension |
| Rental values and yields | No — we do not model rents or yields | Yes — rental data and yield hotspot mapping are core to the product |
| Land Registry title, ownership and plot boundaries | No — we link you to HM Land Registry at source instead | Yes — Plot Map shows boundaries, ownership and listed buildings |
| Planning | One-time snapshot of planning designations at the address, inside the report | Ongoing planning alerts — 2 alerts on Basic up to 10 on Pro, unlimited on Unlimited. Monitoring beats a snapshot |
| Valuation | No AVM — sold-price comparables and context only | Yes — a Valuations tool and a Comparables search, one credit each |
| Coverage | England and Wales only | Wider — Registers of Scotland is named among its sources, so Scotland is covered |
| Flood | Address-level screen including surface water, via NaFRA2 — surface water is the flood type most often missed | Environment Agency flood risk from rivers and sea (England), named among its 25+ sources |
| Coal mining | Yes — a keyless CON29M-style mining screen on the address | Not mentioned anywhere on their site (checked 28 Jul 2026) |
| Radon | Yes — screened against the UKHSA/BGS Radon Indicative Atlas | Not mentioned anywhere on their site (checked 28 Jul 2026) |
| Ground stability / shrink–swell | Yes — a ground-stability screen on the address | Not mentioned anywhere on their site (checked 28 Jul 2026) |
| How you get it | Hand-checked by a person and emailed to you within 24 hours, usually faster | Self-serve dashboard, results on screen immediately, metered by credits (20 on Basic to unlimited on £60/mo) |
Our verdict
Buy PropertyData if you look at property more than a couple of times a month. At £60/month Unlimited, forty properties cost £1.50 each; forty of our Complete reports cost £999.60, and there is no honest way to spin that. Past roughly six properties the subscription tiers are decisively cheaper per address, and the crossover comes earlier still if all you need is the commodity data. PropertyData also beats us outright on rental values and yields, HM Land Registry title and ownership, plot boundaries, ongoing planning alerts, and Scotland — which we do not cover at all. Buy HouseCheckup if you are buying one specific house to live in. You are not going to build a workflow, learn a credit system, or remember to cancel a subscription for a single purchase; you want somebody to run the hazard screens on the exact address and tell you in English what came back. That is what 15+ checks for a one-off £24.99 buys — including a coal-mining screen, a radon screen and a ground-stability screen that PropertyData does not mention anywhere on its site. The two products are not competing for the same person. If you are a portfolio buyer reading this, we would rather you went to PropertyData and came back in five years when you are buying somewhere to live.
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Start with what PropertyData is better at
There is a version of this page where we list nine things we do and PropertyData does not, declare victory, and hope you do not notice that PropertyData is a professional analytics platform and we are a report. That page would be dishonest, so here is the other one.
PropertyData beats HouseCheckup comprehensively on investor tooling. It has yield hotspot maps, a Deal Analyser, Construction Costs, a Finance Finder, the National HMO Register, property sourcing search with off-market letter campaigns, and a browser extension that overlays data onto portal listings. We have none of these. Not a weaker version — none.
It beats us on ongoing planning monitoring. Our report contains a one-time snapshot of the planning designations that apply to an address on the day it is written. PropertyData sells planning alerts — two on the £14 Basic tier, up to ten on Pro, unlimited on the £60 tier — that keep watching after you have looked away. For anyone tracking a street or a development pipeline, monitoring is categorically more useful than a snapshot, and we do not offer it.
It beats us on title, ownership and boundaries. Its Plot Map draws plot boundaries and shows ownership and listed-building status. We deliberately do not resell HM Land Registry documents; we point you at HMLR, which is cheaper at source but is obviously less convenient than having it drawn on a map for you.
It beats us on rental values and yields, which we do not model at all, and on valuations — its Valuations tool and Comparables search each cost one credit. We have no automated valuation model. We show sold-price comparables and let you draw your own conclusion.
And it beats us on coverage. Registers of Scotland sits among the 25-plus sources PropertyData names, alongside HM Land Registry, Ordnance Survey, DLUHC, HMRC, Ofsted and ISI, IBEX planning, Ofcom, Police UK, the VOA and the Bank of England. HouseCheckup is England and Wales, full stop. If your property is in Scotland, stop reading — PropertyData is your answer.
What PropertyData costs, and the arithmetic that follows
Observed on 28 July 2026: Basic £14/month (20 credits, 4 saved areas, 4 saved plots, 2 planning and 2 sourcing alerts); Standard £22/month, badged "Most Popular" (50 credits, 10 saved areas, 10 saved plots, 6 and 6 alerts, plus Postcode Data); Pro £35/month (80 credits, 15 and 15, 10 and 10 alerts, Download to PDF, Advanced data); and Unlimited £60/month (unlimited everything, branded PDFs, extra users at £25/month each). Annual plans are charged at "the price of 11 months". There is a 14-day free trial, and PropertyData states plainly that "you will be charged automatically at the end of the 14-day free trial period if you do not cancel."
Credits meter the work: "Each of the following cost one credit: Local Data search, Plot Map search, Property Sourcing search, Valuations, Comparables search, Finance Finder search." Unused credits roll over to a maximum of twice your allowance.
Now the maths, which we would rather you did with us than without us. Forty properties on the £60 Unlimited tier works out at about £1.50 per property. Forty HouseCheckup Complete reports cost £999.60. The crossover arrives long before forty: six Complete reports is £149.94, well past a month of any PropertyData tier, and if all you need is commodity data the crossover comes earlier still. If you are assessing property repeatedly, PropertyData is cheaper per address than we are and it is not close.
The honest one-line summary: PropertyData is priced for someone who checks forty properties. HouseCheckup is priced for someone who checks one. Neither price is wrong; they are answering different questions.
The one thing that does not scale: the address itself
Volume pricing is compelling right up to the moment you stop shortlisting and start buying. At that point you are no longer comparing forty properties on yield — you are trying to find out whether this house, the one you are about to commit several hundred thousand pounds to, sits on shrink–swell clay, in a coal-mining reporting area, in a radon-affected area, or in the surface-water flood footprint that the rivers-and-sea map does not show.
Those are the questions HouseCheckup exists to answer. We run a ground-stability screen, a coal-mining screen in the CON29M style, and a radon screen against the UKHSA and BGS Radon Indicative Atlas on the exact address — and we say plainly when a reading is not available for a given property rather than filling the gap with something reassuring. Our flood screen uses NaFRA2, which includes surface water. Surface-water flooding is the type buyers most often miss, because the map most people check covers rivers and the sea.
None of subsidence, mining or radon is mentioned anywhere on PropertyData's site, checked on 28 July 2026. That is not a criticism — an investor analytics platform has no particular reason to carry them, and their 25-plus sources are strong on the things their users buy the product for. It is simply a different scope.
One house or forty? Pick your row
| You are… | Better fit | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Buying one house to live in | HouseCheckup Complete (£24.99, one-off) | Address-level hazard screens, plain-English verdicts, nothing to cancel. |
| A landlord or sourcer assessing many deals | PropertyData (£22–£60/mo) | Yields, deal analysis, sourcing, alerts, and roughly £1.50 per property at volume. |
| A developer checking plots and boundaries | PropertyData Pro or Unlimited | Plot Map with boundaries, ownership and listed buildings; construction costs. |
| Buying in Scotland | PropertyData | Registers of Scotland is in their source list. We do not cover Scotland at all. |
| Shortlisting three or four houses, then buying one | Free checkers, then one Complete report | Use our area checker and house check free to triage, then pay once on the one you offer on. |
| Worried about subsidence, mining or radon specifically | HouseCheckup | We screen for all three on the address. PropertyData does not mention them. |
What HouseCheckup actually is
A one-off report on one address, running 15+ checks: flood including surface water via NaFRA2, coal mining, radon, ground stability and shrink–swell, planning designations, EPC, crime, schools and sold-price comparables. It is hand-checked by a person and emailed to you within 24 hours, usually faster. It is not generated and delivered in seconds, and we will not claim it is — a human reads it before you do, and that takes the time it takes.
Equally, here is what we do not have, stated once so it cannot be missed: no automated valuation model, no rental yields, no title or ownership data, no planning alerts, no Scotland. If any of those is the thing you came for, PropertyData has it and we do not.
What neither product is
Neither is a survey, and neither is a conveyancing search. Your solicitor orders the lender-accepted local-authority, drainage-and-water and environmental searches after your offer is accepted, and a RICS survey is a separate instruction on top. A pre-offer screen — ours or anyone's — is the cheap first look that tells you whether a property deserves the expensive later ones. That is the whole job.
Key takeaways
- PropertyData is better for investors, and by a wide margin: yields, deal analysis, sourcing, HMO register, plot maps, planning alerts, finance finder. We have none of it.
- PropertyData is cheaper at volume — around £1.50 per property on the £60/month Unlimited tier, versus £24.99 every time from us.
- PropertyData covers Scotland; we do not. That is a hard limit on our side.
- We screen the address for the hazards they do not mention — ground stability, coal mining, radon — and use NaFRA2 flood data that includes surface water.
- It is a subscription with a 14-day trial that auto-charges (their terms, quoted above). Ours is a one-off purchase with nothing to cancel.
- Read next: our best UK property reports comparison, or the full list of sources we use.
Buying one house, not building a portfolio?
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References
- PropertyData pricing — Basic, Standard, Pro and Unlimited tiers (observed 28 July 2026) — PropertyData
- PropertyData — UK property market analytics for investors — PropertyData
- Check the long term flood risk for an area in England — Environment Agency / GOV.UK
- Check if a property is affected by coal mining — GOV.UK
- UK radon maps — Radon Indicative Atlas — UK Health Security Agency
- BGS GeoSure — ground-stability hazard data — British Geological Survey
- Registers of Scotland — land and property registers — Registers of Scotland
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