Data sources and registers
We tell you where the truth is written down.
As with a vehicle history report, trust comes from sources. Scan my Home researches live against public market data and shows you, for every property, exactly the official registers in which you can check ownership, encumbrances, energy, natural hazards and zoning yourself. Nothing is glossed over.
What we can check here
Before you pay anything: these are the official sources genuinely available for this country.
Vereinigtes Königreich · Data coverage partial
4
official registers
3
official map layers
2.7 %
purchase costs
What we check first
- HM Land Registry · Ownership, charges, boundaries
- Local Planning Authority / Planning Portal · Zoning, permits
- EPC Register (England & Wales) · Registered energy certificate
official map layers: River and sea flooding, 4 risk classes (Environment Agency), Surface water in heavy rain (Environment Agency), Land parcel (England, HM Land Registry)
What suits this level of data
The official sources for this country are broad enough for the complete verification report. The full assessment only pays off once you have documents such as an energy certificate, minutes, or a draft contract.
This applies to the country, not to a single address. What holds at your address is what the report tells you. Country figures as of: 2026-07.
Check a propertyHow Scan my Home works with data
Live research
For every analysis, current market data, comparable properties and land values are searched live on the web. The sources used are listed in the report.
A guide to the registers
For ownership, encumbrances, the energy certificate, natural hazards and zoning, Scan my Home names the responsible official body with a link, so that you can check it yourself.
Document comparison
In the full assessment your documents are read alongside. Contradictions with the listing are reported as a warning, and the documents take precedence.
How wide the check goes
12
countries with official maps over your property
12
map layers, each one switched on separately
128
official bodies, from which your report names the responsible one
Which body is responsible for your property depends on the country and the municipality. That is why it is named in your report and not on this page.
Official maps, right over your property
You switch on what you want to see, each layer on its own, with a legend and a visible source. By default everything is off, so the map does not overwhelm you. None of it is invented.
Flooding
Shows whether your property lies in an area that goes under water in a major flood. This is the layer with the widest coverage.
Heavy rainfall
The cloudburst, not the river. The map shows how high the water stands at the house when a great deal of rain falls in a short time. That is exactly what floods cellars, often far away from any watercourse.
Zoning, zones and building
What is allowed on the plot: housing, commercial use, open land. Zoning decides what you may build and how you may use the property.
Natural hazards
Hazards from nature mapped by the authorities: landslide, avalanche, rockfall, ground movement, earthquake. Where such a zone lies, building conditions often apply and insurance becomes more expensive.
Cadastre
The legally binding plot boundary, that is, which area really belongs to the property, together with the official size in square metres. Exactly that appears in no listing.
Heritage protection
Where conversion work and the facade need permission. That feeds straight into cost and value, often also for houses without protected status of their own that merely stand next to a listed building.
Radon
A radioactive gas from the ground, odourless and invisible. According to the World Health Organization it is the second most common cause of lung cancer after smoking. How much of it gets into the house depends on the geology and on the way the house is built.
Noise
How loud it is at your address, as a figure in decibels. What is measured is the level averaged over the whole day, with evening and night weighted more heavily because they disturb more.
Solar potential
How well the roof lends itself to photovoltaics, depending on the roof area and the position of the sun.
Industrial risk
Zones around dangerous installations such as chemical works, refineries or gas storage. Additional requirements apply there when you build.
Contaminated sites
Plots with recorded or suspected contamination in the soil, mostly from former industry. An obligation to clean up can follow from it.
Planned development
The binding development plan for your plot and the neighbouring plots: what may actually be built there, with the plan number and pending procedures that may soon change what is allowed. The only layer here that looks ahead instead of describing what already exists.
Further countries and regions are added continuously. Every source is checked before it goes live, so that the map carries nothing but real, official data.
For further countries Scan my Home names the national registers responsible there (land register, cadastre, energy certificate register, statistical office). Scan my Home is independent and is not connected to any of the bodies named.