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A short lease. A service charge about to jump. Cladding the listing never mentioned. Paste a Rightmove or Zoopla link and find what could cost you tens of thousands, before you offer. Every figure traced to a public record.

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Figures as published, every one cited.

An exposed-brick warehouse loft in Wapping with tall windows, the kind of ex-warehouse flat you would screen on Flatscope before you offer
Listing removed
£350,000

Matilda House, St. Katharines Way, Wapping

E1W 1LQ · 1 bed · 1 bath · 47 sqm

The Flatscope verdict

12 sources cited

58out of 100

Skip

0-35

Reconsider

36-51

Caveats apply

52-67

Reasonable buy

68-81

Strong buy

82-100

Caveats apply

Strong location and price, but the 87-year lease is on a five-year fuse. Budget for the statutory extension on day one.

What gives pause

  • Lease remaining

    Five years off the 80-year cliff, after which the extension cost roughly doubles. Start the statutory extension the day you complete.

    87 years

Listing status

Recently removed from Rightmove. Could be sold, withdrawn or relisted. Neutral, but worth asking the agent why.

Removed · neutral

What holds up

  • Asking price

    Level with the 2015 sale of a comparable property in the block. A competitive entry point, not a premium.

    £350,000

  • Location

    By St Katharine Docks. Three stations within seven minutes, postcode in London's safest fifth.

    Wapping

  • Service charge

    Stated in pounds, on the public record. Roughly half what the modern blocks nearby ask.

    £1,350 a year

  • Ground rent

    On the record, not omitted like most listings. A nominal figure.

    £10 a year

We don’t replace a survey, we screen before you book one.

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Informational research, not financial, legal or survey advice. Confirm with your solicitor, broker and a RICS surveyor before you exchange.

Every figure traced to a UK public record.

No invented numbers. We read the registers a listing leaves out, and anything we cannot source, we cut.

See every source we read

Read on every report

  • HM Land Registry
  • EPC register
  • Police.uk crime data
  • Ofsted
  • Environment Agency
  • Building Safety Fund register
  • Companies House
  • VOA council tax bands
  • Local authority planning

Plus flood risk, sold-price comparables and more, every panel cited back to its register.

Why this exists

The five leasehold risks the portals bury and a standard house report skips.

Flatscope checks everything before you offer.

Our study of 893 listings found 62.3% of leasehold ads omit at least one of these figures. Flatscope fills the gaps from the official record. Council tax in pounds from the billing authority, the Land Registry title, flood and an environmental check including Japanese knotweed, matched to your exact property and cited, never estimated.

  1. Too many listings, too little signal

    100+ properties viewed

    Most buyers view 100-plus properties before an offer. Decision fatigue sets in long before you have the data to choose between them.

  2. Nothing lines up to compare

    70 vs 72 sqm

    70 sqm in one listing, 72 in the next. Neither shows you what the lease, the charges or the building safety actually look like side by side.

  3. The issues that cost the most stay hidden

    Found after £600

    Cladding and Building Safety Act exposure. Section 20 major works. The 80-year lease marriage-value cliff. A survey finds it after you have paid £600, and consumer house reports skip cladding and EWS1 entirely.

  4. Service charge nobody flags

    £830 vs £4,000 a year

    £830 a year for one property, £4,000 for the one next door. The portals don't surface it, and your offer never reflects it.

  5. Value per square metre stays opaque

    £10,100 vs £5,154 / sqm

    Identical asking prices for a 48 sqm property and a 77 sqm one. That is £10,100 per sqm against £5,154, invisible until you do the maths yourself.

How it works

From a listing link to a scored decision in minutes.

Three steps, in order. Paste the listing, we read the public record it hides, and you get a scored verdict with every figure cited. Then it keeps working after the viewing.

  1. 01

    Paste your shortlist

    Drop a listing link in the hero. No form to fill in, no signup needed for your first look, and no card.

  2. 02

    We do the scrutiny

    Flatscope scores five axes of twenty points each. Lease quality, running costs, value against sold comps, energy rating, and market position. Cladding and Building Safety Act exposure is flagged separately in the building-safety section. Every threshold is published on the How we score page.

  3. 03

    Get the decision, not just the data

    Every report leads with a plain-English 0 to 100 verdict, three things to ask at the viewing, your negotiation leverage map, and the real monthly cost of living there. Every figure links to its source, never instead of one.

Then it keeps working for you

  • After the viewing

    Answer six to eight questions tied to the red flags. We re-run the verdict with what you actually saw and show what changed.

  • Share it properly

    Send a private link to your partner, your mortgage broker or your surveyor. Seven-day expiry, revoke any time. Their notes come back into your report.

Chrome extension

Scope a flat without leaving the listing.

Add Flatscope to Chrome and a pill appears on every Rightmove flat. Click it and a sourced verdict opens right there on the page, the score, the lease, the real running costs and the price against sold comps. No copy and paste, no losing your place.

  • One click, right on the listing.

    A Flatscope pill sits on every Rightmove flat. Click it and the sourced verdict opens in the page. No new tab, no copy and paste.

  • The figures that move the decision.

    The score out of 100, the lease position, the service charge and ground rent, and the price against sold comps. Every figure read from the public record.

  • Free, and quiet about your browsing.

    The first verdict is free. The extension reads only the listing URL of the tab you are on, nothing else. No tracking, no scraping.

  • Open the full report in a click.

    Tap through to the complete breakdown on flatscope.co.uk, the pros, cons, risks and comparables, saved to your account.

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Works on any Rightmove flat. No account needed to try it.

On the listingRightmove
rightmove.co.uk/properties/...

Cordage House, E1W

1 bed flat

£280,000

Analyse with Flatscope
The verdictCaveats apply
58out of 100

87-year lease, on a five-year fuse. Service charge matches the public record. Strong location for the price.

Every figure traces to a public record. When the listing does not state something, the verdict says so rather than filling the gap.

Also on WhatsApp

Take your property research into the viewing.

Flatscope is the same account on the web and on WhatsApp. Text it a listing link to scope a property, ask which of your shortlist scores best while you stand in the hallway, or add a figure the agent just told you and watch the score update. Whatever you do in one place shows up in the other.

  • Walk in prepared, ask from the hallway.

    Get the three things to check and the questions to put to the agent before you go. Then while you stand in the property, ask what to make of what they just told you, and drop in a figure to watch the score move.

  • Ask about any property, get the photo and the report.

    Message it the way you would a friend who knows property inside out. Every figure comes from your own reports, never a guess, with a tap-through to the full breakdown.

  • Compare your shortlist on the spot.

    Ask which one scores best and why, and the answer comes back in seconds with the lease, the running costs and the price against local comps.

  • One account, two ways in.

    Start on the web or start on WhatsApp, it is the same workspace either way. Your saved properties and reports live in both, always in sync.

FlatscopeIn the hallway

Standing in the second property now. Agent says service charge is £2,400. Better than the first one?

This one scores 71 to the first property’s 58. Longer lease, 142 years, and that £2,400 matches the public record. The first had 81 years and no charge stated.

Anything I should ask before I leave?

Ask for three years of service-charge accounts, whether the block has an EWS1 form, and the exact lease length in writing. I have added all three to your viewing checklist.

Every reply reads from your own reports. When the listing does not state a figure, it tells you so rather than filling the gap.

Say hi on WhatsApp

Already have an account? Connect WhatsApp from Settings.

The honest question

Why not just a spreadsheet and ChatGPT?

The two tools every buyer reaches for. Here is what neither does across a real shortlist.

A chatbot and a spreadsheet
Flatscope does it

ChatGPT answers the question you thought to ask. It will not warn you about the trap you did not know to look for.

Tells you what to do next

The one thing that should change your mind, the three questions to ask at the viewing, and exactly where you have room on price. Guidance, not just answers.

A chatbot talks about one property in one chat. A spreadsheet only holds the numbers you typed in yourself.

Compares your whole shortlist

Three or four properties lined up on the same metrics, lease length, service charge, area median and price per sqm, at once. Not one property per conversation.

ChatGPT has no live line into the UK property registers, so it invents numbers it cannot source or refuses outright.

Reads the records a chatbot cannot reach, and cites every one

Live HM Land Registry sold prices, the gov.uk EPC register, Environment Agency flood data, police.uk crime, Ofsted ratings, council tax bands. Read fresh for the exact property, and you can click any figure to open its source.

A chat is frozen the second you send it. It never tells you the price dropped or the listing came back.

Watches the property after you leave

Price-drop and off-market alerts on every report, and the score re-runs the moment a figure changes, so a stale answer never costs you an offer.

A chat thread evaporates the moment you close the tab.

Remembers your whole search

Every report you have run, every viewing note, every question you saved is here when you come back next week.

Forwarding a chat means copy, paste, and the context goes missing in a separate email thread.

Brings in your partner, broker, or surveyor

Send a private link with seven-day expiry. They sign in, leave per-property comments and notes, and their input lands inside your report.

The limits

What Flatscope will not do, said plainly.

Naming the limits up front. Flatscope is one tool inside a buyer's stack, not a replacement for it.

  • We don't value your property

    Land Registry comps give a range. Pricing the offer is a conversation with your agent and your mortgage broker. We give you the figures to bring to that conversation.

  • We don't replace a survey, we screen before you book one

    Before exchange, instruct a Level 2 or Level 3 RICS survey. Flatscope screens the lease, the service charge, cladding and the price first, so you know which flats are worth the £600. A surveyor finds what only a torch in the loft will.

  • We don't talk to the agent for you

    We give you three questions to ask at the viewing and where you have leverage on price. The conversation is still yours.

  • We don't invent figures

    If Rightmove didn't list it and the public registers don't have it, we say so. Better to mark a gap than fill it with a guess.

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