Buying a home in the UK is one of the biggest financial decisions most people will ever make. And yet, most buyers make it with incomplete information.
The data exists. Sale prices, energy ratings, flood risk, planning history, local crime, nearby amenities — it’s all public. But it’s scattered across dozens of government databases, each with its own format, its own interface, and its own learning curve.
HM Land Registry holds the sales data. The Environment Agency maps flood zones. The EPC register tracks energy performance. Ordnance Survey provides the geography. Police.uk publishes crime figures. Local authorities log planning applications. None of them talk to each other.
For most buyers, this means one of two things: spend hours piecing it together yourself, or skip it entirely and hope for the best. Most choose the latter. They find a property on a portal, fall in love with the photos, make an offer, and only then, weeks later, after paying for surveys and legal work, the real issues surface.
In 2025, nearly a quarter of all UK property transactions collapsed. That’s over 300,000 deals where buyers lost time, money, and momentum because critical information arrived too late.
Property Looker exists to fix that.
We’ve built profiles for 25 million UK properties, each one pulling together the public data that buyers need — in one place, for free, before they commit. Price history and valuations. Energy performance. Flood risk. Crime. Planning. Street-level context. All presented so that anyone can understand it, not just professionals.
The idea is simple: if the data is public, it should be accessible. Not locked behind paywalls. Not buried in PDFs. Not held back until after you’ve made an offer.
We believe buyers deserve to research a property the way they’d research any other major purchase openly, independently, and on their own terms. Not through the lens of an estate agent whose job is to sell it to you.
That’s what Property Looker does. It organises all UK property data to help every homebuyer make informed decisions.
And when a buyer is ready to take the next step: get a survey, speak to a mortgage advisor, instruct a conveyancer — we connect them with the right professional for their situation. Not the cheapest. Not the one who bid the most for the lead. The one whose expertise matches the property and the buyer’s needs.
We’re just getting started. But the foundation is live, the data is compounding, and thousands of buyers are already using it every month.
If you’re buying a property, start with the data. Start with Property Looker.
Made by Casper Arboll, Luc Gibson and Jorg van der Ham