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Free Land Registry Search: What You Get Free, What Costs £7, and What the Register Won't Tell You
A property summary is free. The title register and title plan are £7 each, direct from GOV.UK. This guide shows you exactly where to get each, and covers the property risks neither document contains.
Free: property summary (address, description and tenure; you sign in first), sold prices and INSPIRE boundary polygons.
£7: title register (title number, owner, price paid, mortgages, covenants) or title plan (boundaries), as electronic copies from GOV.UK. £11: per document by post.
Prices verified against GOV.UK on 11 October 2026.
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What's free, what costs £7
Everything below comes from HM Land Registry. We link you straight to the official service. We never sell title documents.
| What you're looking for | Cost | Where to get it |
|---|---|---|
| Property summary (address, description, tenure; sign-in required; no title number) | Free | GOV.UK search service |
| Sold price history (Price Paid Data, every recorded sale since 1995) | Free | GOV.UK download, or search it on this page |
| Property boundary polygons (INSPIRE) | Free | HM Land Registry INSPIRE open data |
| Title register (title number, owner, price paid, mortgages, covenants) | £7 electronic / £11 by post | GOV.UK (official service) |
| Title plan (general boundaries map) | £7 electronic / £11 by post | GOV.UK (official service) |
Fees per GOV.UK, verified 11 October 2026. HM Land Registry covers England and Wales; Scotland uses Registers of Scotland and Northern Ireland has its own Land Registry.
How to run an official Land Registry search on GOV.UK
- Go to the official service: Search for property information from HM Land Registry (look for the gov.uk domain: only government services can use it).
- Sign in (you can create sign-in details if you have none), then search by address or location to see the free property summary: the address, the property description, whether it is freehold or leasehold, and whether there are any restrictive covenants or easements. The summary does not show the title number; the register does.
- If you need more, buy the title register (£7) for the title number, ownership, price paid, mortgages, covenants and easements, or the title plan (£7) for the general boundaries. Postal copies are £11 each.
- Note GOV.UK's own caveat: downloaded copies cannot be used as proof of ownership, so order certified copies if you need legal proof.
What the £7 title register shows
HM Land Registry is the government department that registers the ownership of land and property in England and Wales. Its Price Paid Data records every recorded residential sale in England and Wales since 1995. According to GOV.UK, the title register usually includes:
- the title number
- who owns the property
- how much the property was last sold for
- whether the property has a mortgage
- details of any restrictive covenants
- details of any easements
The title plan shows the property's general boundaries, though not the exact legal boundary line.
What neither the register nor the plan shows you
The £7 title register tells you who owns the property, what they paid for it, and whether there's a mortgage on it. It won't tell you if the house floods, sits over old coal workings, is in a high-radon area, has a rising local crime trend, a poor EPC, or whether the asking price is fair for its street. None of that is held on the register or the plan.
The other half of due diligence
The HouseCheckup Complete Report runs 15+ checks on the exact address (flood, coal mining, ground stability, radon area classification, crime trend, EPC, schools and sold-price context), all from official sources, as a plain-English PDF. £24.99 one-off, no subscription. Human-checked and emailed to you.
When a company owns it: the free CCOD and OCOD datasets
If the £7 register names a company rather than a person, HM Land Registry also publishes two bulk datasets you can search without buying a title at all. UK companies that own property in England and Wales (known as CCOD) lists freehold and leasehold titles registered to UK companies, with the company name, registration number and the price paid where recorded. Overseas companies that own property in England and Wales (OCOD) does the same for companies incorporated abroad, including the country of incorporation.
Both are free to use once you register with HM Land Registry and accept its dataset licence, and both are refreshed monthly. They cover registered land in England and Wales only. Individuals' names are never in them, and Scotland's equivalent is held by Registers of Scotland. Cross-check a company name on Companies House (free) for its directors and registered office.
- UK companies that own property in England and Wales (CCOD)
- Overseas companies that own property in England and Wales (OCOD)
Owner found? The register and these datasets tell you who; they say nothing about planning history, drainage, contamination or mining under the land. That is the job of conveyancing searches, priced and explained search by search.
Don't overpay: HM Land Registry's own warning about reseller sites
HM Land Registry has warned that some private companies “re-purpose our information and repackage it into bundles”, which “can sometimes lead to customers paying more for information they don't always need” (HM Land Registry blog, October 2024). Its advice: check for “gov.uk” in the domain name. Only government departments can legally use it.
We agree. Buy title documents from GOV.UK for £7, never from a reseller, and never from us. What HouseCheckup sells is a different product: the property risk checks the register doesn't contain.
What a HouseCheckup report cannot tell you
- • Owner names: those are on the £7 title register from GOV.UK, and we won't resell that.
- • Proof of ownership or legal boundary determination: that's the official register and a conveyancer's job.
- • Structural condition: that's a survey. Our report is the pre-offer check that tells you what to investigate before you spend on one.
- • Some datasets (radon classification, for example) are area-level, and the report labels them that way.