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Land Registry Search: What's Free, What Costs £7 — and What the Register Can't Tell You (2026)
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, title number, tenure), sold prices and INSPIRE boundary polygons.
£7: title register (owner, price paid, mortgages, covenants) or title plan (boundaries) — electronic copies from GOV.UK. £11: per document by post.
Prices verified against GOV.UK on 4 July 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, title number, tenure) | Free | GOV.UK search service |
| Sold price history (Price Paid Data, every recorded sale since 1995) | Free | GOV.UK download — or search it free on this page |
| Property boundary polygons (INSPIRE) | Free | HM Land Registry INSPIRE open data |
| Title register (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 4 July 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).
- Search by address to see the free property summary: the address, title number, and whether the property is freehold or leasehold.
- If you need more, buy the title register (£7) for 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 — 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.
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.