StreetCheck Has Gone. Here Are the Best Free Postcode Area Report Alternatives (2026)
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Quick answer
StreetCheck was acquired by Crystal Roof — announced on 23 March 2026 on CrystalRoof's blog — and streetcheck.co.uk now returns a 301 permanent redirect to crystalroof.co.uk (observed July 2026). CrystalRoof offers a free tier; full access is a subscription (£7.99/week or £12.99/month as of July 2026). For free area browsing, CrystalRoof's free tier works. For a free check with no signup and no subscription — crime, sold prices, EPC, flood, schools — use the HouseCheckup area checker, then run a one-off £24.99 Complete report on the specific address when you get serious about one house.
| Feature | HouseCheckup | StreetCheck |
|---|---|---|
| Status (July 2026) | Live — free area checks, no signup | streetcheck.co.uk 301-redirects to crystalroof.co.uk (observed July 2026) |
| Price model | Free area checks; one-off £24.99 Complete report on a specific address — no subscription | Was free to browse; the domain now resolves to CrystalRoof, where full access is £7.99/week–£12.99/month (as of July 2026) |
| Signup required for free data | No signup, no card | None (as StreetCheck was) |
| Crime data (police.uk) | Yes — free area crime data | Yes — showed police.uk crime data free (as it was) |
| Postcode demographics | No — not in the free area check | Yes — a core StreetCheck feature, free (as it was) |
| Housing types | No — not in the free area check | Yes — a core StreetCheck feature, free (as it was) |
| Broadband availability | No — not in the free area check | Yes — showed broadband availability free (as it was) |
| Sold prices (HM Land Registry) | Yes — free area sold-price data | No longer verifiable — the pre-redirect site is offline |
| EPC data | Yes — free EPC lookups | No longer verifiable — the pre-redirect site is offline |
| Flood risk (Environment Agency) | Yes — free area flood check | No longer verifiable — the pre-redirect site is offline |
| Schools (Ofsted) | Yes — free schools data | No longer verifiable — the pre-redirect site is offline |
| Address-level paid report | Yes — £24.99 Complete, 15+ checks on the exact address, human-checked and emailed to you | No — StreetCheck was area-only; CrystalRoof sells subscription access to its on-screen report |
Our verdict
It depends on what you used StreetCheck for. If your job is browsing demographics, housing types and broadband across many postcodes — StreetCheck's core free offer — CrystalRoof's free tier is the direct successor, since StreetCheck's data now lives there; be aware that full access is a £7.99/week–£12.99/month subscription and its checkout lists "access to blurred data" among what a plan unlocks (as of July 2026). If you want a free, no-signup area check on crime, sold prices, EPC, flood and schools, HouseCheckup's free tools do that with no account and no card. Both draw on the same police.uk and other open-government data; the difference is what happens when you need one specific address answered — and whether you pay once or weekly. When you are serious about one house, the HouseCheckup Complete report runs 15+ checks on the exact address for £24.99 — one-off payment, no subscription — human-checked and emailed to you.
Run the report on the property you're actually looking at
One report, one price — £24.99 Complete, no subscription. 15+ checks on the exact address from official sources (HM Land Registry, Environment Agency, MHCLG EPC, police.uk and more), reviewed by a person before it's sent.
Try or search any UK postcode
£24.99 one-off · no subscription · Human-checked and emailed to you. See a sample report
What actually happened to StreetCheck?
Two verifiable facts. First, Crystal Roof announced on 23 March 2026, in a first-party post on its own blog, that it had acquired StreetCheck — "one of the UK's most widely used postcode and neighbourhood data websites" in the announcement's words. Second, as of July 2026, streetcheck.co.uk returns a 301 permanent redirect to crystalroof.co.uk — type any old StreetCheck postcode URL and you land on CrystalRoof. The announcement stated no integration timeline. That is everything that can be verified; for the fuller timeline, see what happened to StreetCheck.
Check any postcode free — no signup
If what you want is the thing StreetCheck used to give you — a free postcode report with nothing gated — run the HouseCheckup area checker. It renders crime, schools, flood and sold-price readings for any UK postcode on-page, free, with no signup and no card. Results in seconds. Each figure names its official source: police.uk, Ofsted, the Environment Agency and HM Land Registry, published under the Open Government Licence v3.0. One honest label to know up front: it is a postcode-area reading, not a property-level assessment.
This is the area. What about the house?
A postcode-level check is a starting point. The HouseCheckup Complete report runs 15+ checks on the exact address you're considering — flood, coal mining, ground stability, radon area class, EPC, sold prices, crime trend and more, all from official sources, with a plain-English verdict on each.
- ✓ 15+ checks from official sources
- ✓ One-off payment, no subscription
- ✓ Human-checked and emailed to you as a PDF you can share
When CrystalRoof is enough
Honest concession: if you used StreetCheck to browse many postcodes — comparing demographics, housing types and broadband across areas you don't yet know — CrystalRoof's free tier is the natural place to keep doing that. Its free area browsing is genuinely broad, it draws on official sources, and it is where StreetCheck's own data now lives. The subscription (£7.99/week–£12.99/month as of July 2026) only becomes relevant when you want the gated sections. And a parity admission: CrystalRoof and HouseCheckup draw on the same police.uk and other open-government data. The difference is what happens when you need one specific address answered — and whether you pay once or weekly.
When HouseCheckup wins
- One-off price, not a subscription: £24.99 once for the Complete report — no auto-renew, no account needed. The free tools never ask for your card.
- No signup for free data: the area check renders in full on-page — no email wall, no blurred rows.
- Address-level paid report: 15+ checks run against the exact address, not just the postcode.
- A PDF you can share: the report is human-checked and emailed to you, so you can forward it to a partner or solicitor.
- Honest area-vs-property labelling: every free result says plainly when a reading is postcode-level — the paid report is what closes that gap, and we say so rather than blurring it.
Other genuinely free alternatives, honestly listed
- GOV.UK long-term flood risk — the Environment Agency's own checker, free. What it can't do: anything beyond flood — no crime, prices or schools.
- police.uk crime maps — official street-level crime data, free. What it can't do: put crime alongside prices, schools or flood in one view.
- HM Land Registry sold-price search — every recorded sale in England and Wales, free. What it can't do: tell you anything about the area beyond price.
- Ofsted reports — official school inspection reports, free. What it can't do: rank or map schools against a specific postcode's other data.
All four are excellent — they are the sources this site builds on. The trade-off is that each answers one question at a time; a StreetCheck-style report answered several at once, which is the gap the free HouseCheckup area check fills.
Why £24.99 once instead of a subscription?
£24.99 once. Not £7.99 a week or £12.99 a month — three weeks of a CrystalRoof subscription costs more than one Complete report, and you only need the answer once. For scale on the rest of the buying process: conveyancing search packs typically run £250–£450 and a RICS survey £400–£1,500 — the Complete report is the £24.99 first look that tells you whether to spend that money. (All third-party figures observed July 2026.)
What this page cannot tell you
A free area check — ours or anyone's — is a postcode-area reading, not a property-level assessment. Neither the free check nor the paid report is a survey, a valuation or a set of conveyancing searches; if you buy, you will still need those at the right stage, and we say when. Data on this page about StreetCheck and CrystalRoof was observed in July 2026 and is dated inline; if their status changes, this page gets updated (see the last-updated date above).
Key takeaways: StreetCheck alternatives in 2026
- StreetCheck is gone as a standalone site: acquired by Crystal Roof (announced 23 March 2026), with streetcheck.co.uk now 301-redirecting to crystalroof.co.uk (observed July 2026).
- CrystalRoof is the direct successor for area browsing — free tier for browsing, £7.99/week–£12.99/month subscription for full access (as of July 2026).
- The official sources are free: police.uk, GOV.UK flood, HM Land Registry, Ofsted — one question at a time.
- HouseCheckup is the no-subscription route: free, no-signup area checks (crime, sold prices, EPC, flood, schools), then a one-off £24.99 Complete report on the exact address — human-checked and emailed to you.
- Read next: what happened to StreetCheck, or try the free area checker, crime check and house check.
References
- Crystal Roof Acquires StreetCheck (announcement, 23 March 2026) — CrystalRoof
- Crystal Roof Acquires StreetCheck (mirror post; streetcheck.co.uk now redirects to crystalroof.co.uk) — StreetCheck / CrystalRoof
- CrystalRoof — homepage and subscription pricing (observed July 2026) — CrystalRoof
- Police.uk — street-level crime and outcome data — Home Office / Police.uk
- Check the long term flood risk for an area in England — Environment Agency / GOV.UK
- Price Paid Data — search sold prices — HM Land Registry
- Find an Ofsted inspection report — Ofsted
Done comparing? Check a real property.
The £24.99 Complete report runs 15+ official-source checks on the exact address you're considering — flood, subsidence, coal mining, radon, crime, EPC, sold-price history and more — with a plain-English read on every one.
Try or search any UK postcode
£24.99 one-off · no subscription · Human-checked and emailed to you. See a sample report