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Property Finder With Area and Risk Checks

The property finder searches homes sold (HM Land Registry) and commercial premises with an energy certificate around a postcode, a place or an area you draw. Every result carries its flood zone, surface water likelihood, crime and deprivation deciles and distance to a station, and any spot on the map opens a full property risk check.

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The property finder searching 1 km around NG7 2BT in Nottingham: 19 homes sold since November 2024, each listed with its price, flood zone, crime and deprivation deciles and distance to a station, beside a map with the Environment Agency's flood zones switched on.

What You Give It

  • A postcode, a street address or a place name, and how far around it to search: 500 m, 1 km or 1.5 km for homes sold, and 200 m to 600 m for commercial premises.
  • Or an area you draw on the map.
  • Or a sentence in your own words, such as 'new-build homes sold near York station'. The finder turns it into a place and filters, shows what it understood, and you can change any filter before you search.
  • Filters, if you want them: price, type, tenure and new build for homes; use, floor area and energy band for premises; and for both, flood zone, surface water, crime, deprivation and distance to a station or school.

What You Get

  • Results on a List and a Map

    Each home sold with its price, date, type, tenure and whether it was new, or each commercial premises with its use, floor area, energy band and heating fuel.

  • Area Facts on Every Result

    The flood zone, the surface water likelihood, the neighbourhood's crime and deprivation deciles and the straight-line distance to the nearest station and school.

  • Map Layers

    Flood zones, flood likelihood from rivers, the sea and surface water, reservoir flood extents, planning designations, deprivation, recent crime, homes sold, energy ratings, schools, stations and street photo coverage. Each layer names its publisher, licence and date.

  • A Panel for Any Address

    Click a result or any spot on the map for the property risk check, street photos from Mapillary taken nearby, and the energy certificates at that postcode.

How It Works

Where the Results Come From

  • Homes sold: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, standard sales only, over the 24 months up to the day you search. Each sale is placed at its postcode centre.
  • Commercial premises: the Energy Performance Certificate register for non-domestic buildings, published by MHCLG. Each premises comes with the use, floor area and energy band from its certificate. Premises that never needed a certificate are not listed.

How Each Result Is Checked

  • Flood zone from the Environment Agency's Flood Map for Planning, which ignores defences.
  • Surface water likelihood from the Environment Agency's 2025 national flood risk assessment.
  • Crime and deprivation deciles of the small neighbourhood (LSOA) the result is in, from the English Indices of Deprivation 2025: 1 is the most deprived or the most crime, 10 the least.
  • Distance in a straight line to the nearest rail station, tram or metro stop (NaPTAN, Department for Transport) and the nearest open state school (Department for Education).

What the Filters Mean

FilterKeeps
Flood zoneZone 1 only, or zones 1 and 2
Surface waterResults outside the medium and high likelihood areas
CrimeAverage or lower (crime decile 5 to 10), or low (decile 7 to 10)
DeprivationNeighbourhoods at or above the decile you choose, from 3 to 9
Station or schoolA station within 500 m to 2 km, or a school within 400 m to 1.5 km
A search reads the 40 postcodes nearest the centre of the area, and for premises the 60 most recent certificates. In a dense area that is less than the whole circle: the finder says so under the results, and a smaller area picks up the rest.

Homes Sold Around NG7 2BT, Nottingham

In a search on 9 November 2026, 1 km around NG7 2BT found 19 homes sold since 9 November 2024 at the 40 postcodes nearest the centre, inside a circle of 3.14 km². Each came with its flood zone, crime and deprivation deciles and the distance to a station, and the flood zones layer showed which parts of the circle the Environment Agency maps in zones 2 and 3.

The Data Behind It

Every dataset and its credit line is on data sources and licences.

What It Can't Tell You

  • The residential search covers homes sold, not homes for sale or to rent today.
  • Sales and premises are placed at their postcode centre, which can be tens of metres from the building, so the flood zone and distances on a result are for that point. Click the building on the map to check the exact spot.
  • The flood checks, the deprivation and crime deciles and the school distances cover England. Homes sold and premises also cover Wales; Scotland and Northern Ireland are not covered.
  • A sale price is what one home sold for, not a valuation of another. The newest sales appear only once HM Land Registry publishes them.
  • Rateable values are not shown: the VOA rating list is licensed for business rates purposes only.
  • Street photos need the Mapillary service, and street-address search, commercial premises, energy certificates and the energy ratings layer need the EPC register. Where one is not connected, the finder says so instead of showing an empty result.

The tools are in preview: built and tested, not yet signed off as validated. They screen a place from public data and don't replace a survey or professional advice.

Questions

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Does the property finder show homes for sale or to rent?

No. The residential search covers homes sold, from HM Land Registry's Price Paid Data, anywhere in England and Wales: what sold, when, for how much and what type of home it was, with the area checks attached.

Where do the commercial premises come from?

From the Energy Performance Certificate register for non-domestic buildings. Each premises shows the use, floor area, energy band and heating fuel recorded on its certificate. You can filter by use (retail, office, food and drink, industrial and others) and by floor area.

Why does a 1 km search show only some of the sales?

Because a search reads the 40 postcodes nearest the centre. In a dense area that covers less than the full circle, and the finder says so under the results. Draw or choose a smaller area to see the rest.

How exact is the flood zone shown on a result?

It is the Environment Agency's flood zone at the postcode centre the result is placed on. For the building itself, click it on the map: the risk check then runs for that exact spot.

Can I search in my own words?

Yes. Type a sentence such as 'houses sold near NG7 2BT under £300k, freehold'. The finder turns it into a place and filters and shows what it understood, so you can check and change each filter before the search runs.

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