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See which property actually wins.
The same cited report you get for one property, lined up across your whole shortlist. One consistent score out of 100, the lease, the real running costs in pounds and the sold-price context, ranked so the trade-off you cannot eyeball across ten browser tabs is the first thing you see.
Three real properties, ranked head to head.
Public sample reports. Every figure cited.
- Top pick82
Strong buy
Exceptional
Neckinger Estate
Bermondsey SE16 · 2 bed · 58 sqmTwo double bedrooms, low running costs, no cladding risk, 105-year lease, currently £15k below its 2016 sale price.
Longest lease, priced under last sale
£375,000
Open report - Rank 271
Reasonable buy
Very good
Falmouth House
Kennington SE11 · 2 bed · 56 sqmSplit-level 2-bed with a private terrace in Zone 1/2 Kennington. Strong primary residence, but flat capital growth since 2018 caps the investment case.
Best home, weakest investment case
£475,000
Open report - Rank 358
Caveats apply
Good
Matilda House
Wapping E1W · 1 bed · 47 sqmStrong location and price, but the 87-year lease is on a five-year fuse. Budget for the statutory extension on day one.
Cheapest, but the 80-year lease cliff is near
£350,000
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Where each property wins
Best value highlighted
Asking price
£ per sqm
Lease remaining
Service charge
Neckinger leads on lease, on price per sqm and on sold-price context, which is why it ranks first despite not being the cheapest. Matilda is the cheapest to live in month to month, but its lease is the closest to the 80-year cliff. That is the trade-off the score resolves for you.
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Why not just a spreadsheet and ChatGPT?
The two tools every buyer reaches for. Here is what neither does across a real shortlist.
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 honest verdicts
When ChatGPT alone is enough
If you want to understand what a term means, ChatGPT is genuinely good and free. Ask it what marriage value is, or how Section 20 consultation works, and you will get a solid explainer. The problem starts when you ask about a specific property. A general assistant has no live access to HM Land Registry, the EPC register or the building-safety registers, so for this address, this lease and this service charge it either declines or guesses. If a number matters enough to change your offer, it needs a source.
When the portal listing is enough
Rightmove and Zoopla show you what the agent typed. Sometimes that includes lease years and the service charge, and the portals show some sold-price history for the street. None of it is checked against the public record, and the listing has no incentive to surface the expensive parts. Many listings leave lease length, the service charge or ground rent as ask agent. The listing is the start of research, not the research.
When you need the surveyor
Always, eventually. A RICS surveyor physically inspects the building and that cannot be done from a desk. The question is sequencing. A survey costs several hundred pounds and happens after your offer is accepted. Desk research that reads the lease signals, running costs and sold comparables first tells you whether this property is worth that spend at all, and arms you with the questions the survey will not answer.
Where Flatscope fits
Before the offer and before the survey. Paste the Rightmove or Zoopla link and you get a cited report. Sold prices for the building and street from HM Land Registry, the lease position and the 80-year cliff, the service charge against the building type, EPC, building-safety signals and a verdict with a score out of 100. Every figure traced to a public record, and anything the listing omits is flagged as not stated rather than guessed. Three free reports a month, no card. Your first run needs no signup.
See it on a real property, not a promise
Three full sample reports are public. Open one, check the citations yourself, then run your own property. Three free reports a month, no card.