How it works
We check the things you'd kick yourself for missing.
A short lease that quietly kills mortgageability. Running costs that are steep against the asking price. Cladding that blocks the loan. The figures listings bury and a house report leaves to your solicitor. Paste a Rightmove or Zoopla link and get a cited 0 to 100 verdict in minutes. It is a screen to decide which properties deserve your time and your solicitor, not a survey and not legal advice.
Paste. Research. Decide. Viewing. Share.
Before you pay a conveyancer or book a survey, screen the property in minutes. We read the public record so you put viewing and solicitor time only into properties that survive the lease, the running costs and the comps.
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Paste
Drop in a Rightmove or Zoopla link
No form to fill in. One free report a month, no card. Your first run needs no signup.
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Research
Checks what the survey will not
Lease length and the cliff that wrecks value and mortgageability. The service charge and ground rent read from the listing and weighed as running cost against the asking price. Cladding and building safety exposure that can block a loan. Asking price per square metre against HM Land Registry sold prices. The leasehold figures a house report leaves to your solicitor.
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Verdict
One bottom line you can act on
A plain-English verdict (Strong buy, Reasonable buy, Reconsider, Skip) with every figure traced to a public record and an inline citation. Your negotiation leverage map from chain status, price cuts and days on market, so you know your room before you offer. Three questions to ask at the viewing. A PDF you can save or share.
The Flatscope verdict
12 sources cited
Caveats applyMatilda House, Wapping E1WStrong location and price, but the 87-year lease is on a five-year fuse. Budget for the statutory extension on day one.
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After the viewing
Tell us what you actually saw
Six to eight questions tied to the red flags in your report. We re-run the verdict with your answers and show what changed. The diff card sits above the new verdict so you can see exactly which sections moved.
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Share it properly
Per-property private links
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 and into Ask Flatscope.
The short version
Paste a Rightmove or Zoopla link. We pull every relevant public record in parallel, write a 0 to 100 verdict in plain English, then re-check every figure against its citation before you see it. If a number cannot be traced to a public record it gets pulled, and anything we could not check is shown as a gap, never guessed. You read the result in minutes, not the raw data.
More sources (refurbishment estimates, resident reviews, lease-document analysis) come online as we work through the roadmap. Every new source ships with the same rule. Cited, or cut.
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.
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.
Try it on a listing you're actually considering.
Paste a Rightmove or Zoopla link. One free report a month, no card. Your first run needs no signup. The verdict is yours in a few minutes.