I got fed up not knowing what houses actually sell for in my area, so I built a free map of every sale in England & Wales since 1995 🗺️🏡

I'm house hunting and wanted one place where I could see how much properties had actually sold for in the areas I'm considering to buy over over recent years. I also wanted to know what those places look like, and work out realistically where I can afford to buy. The data is all public but scattered, so I built myself a map/tool for it. It works well enough that I thought I'd share it here: Homes Index

The map free and there's no signup. The property prices are from the HM Land Registry Price Paid dataset, refreshed at the 1st of each month, with EPC floor areas joined on where they exist and ONS figures for the rents.

Search a postcode and every recorded sale in it appears on the map. You can find each properties full sale history, an estimated rent and gross yield, the EPC rating, the floor area and a price per square metre. There's also a mortgage and rent calculator on each property; monthly payment at a deposit and rate you set, against what the place on average rent for in the area, so you can see whether the rent would cover the mortgage if you rented the place out!

Short demo

Also, there is an average prices map that shades the whole country by median sold price. you can zoom from large areas england and wales down to individual houses. And under the More tab you can have an AI read the data and write you a report — you ask something like "where can I buy under £400k near Manchester" or "is M20 a good place to buy", and it plans the report, draws the charts and grounds every figure in the Land Registry data.

Known limits, so nobody wastes their time on it:

• England and Wales only — Scotland's register isn't open the same way
• New builds can trail a couple of months behind completion, because registration takes a while
• Flats in a converted house often share one address in the register, so they're hard to tell apart.

I built it, so I'm hardly objective about it. If it's wrong or missing something obvious I'd rather hear that than not. Please let me know if you like this tool and find it useful. It has been fun to build 😃