Free property check · England
Check before you rent.
Check the property, rent, landlord and your tenancy agreement before you sign.
Official and independent UK property data · No account required for the free check
One property. Multiple independent checks.
Price
Is the proposed rent reasonable?
See how the proposed rent compares with similar homes nearby.
Property
What do available property datasets show?
Energy performance, floor area, designations, recorded crime and sale history.
People
Who owns it, and can the landlord or agent be identified?
Whether a company or a private individual is the registered owner, and a company’s status and filings on Companies House.
Costs
What will it really cost you?
Council tax, energy, water and broadband, with the deposit and upfront payments checked against the legal limits.
Agreement
Does the tenancy agreement match the records?
Upload it and we check the rent, deposit, fees, landlord and licensing against the other checks, then write the questions to ask before you sign.
Free vs Complete RenterCheck
Free RenterCheck
- Basic property identity
- Energy certificate (EPC) information
- Recorded sale history
- Flood and planning designations
- Recorded crime nearby
- No account required
Complete RenterCheck — £9.99
- Everything in Free RenterCheck
- Tenancy agreement analysis
- Rent comparison with similar homes nearby
- Deposit and upfront-payment checks
- Ownership and landlord information
- Licensing checks
- Monthly costs and affordability
- Local area and transport information
- Ready-written questions for the agent
- Upload the agreement later if you need to
One-off payment · No subscription · Secure Stripe checkout · Private report link · Agreement check included
Complete RenterCheck · £9.99
Get the complete picture before you commit
1
Check the agreement
Upload the tenancy agreement and we compare its rent, deposit, fees, landlord and licensing with the records for the home, and flag terms written on old templates.
2
Check the rent and deposit
How the rent compares with similar homes advertised nearby, and whether the deposit and upfront payments are within the legal limits.
3
Check the landlord and ownership
Who owns the home on HM Land Registry, and a company owner’s status on Companies House.
4
Know the real monthly cost
Rent, council tax, energy, water and broadband together, and what you’d have left each month.
5
Get the questions to send the agent
Every question the report raises, written ready to copy or email.
No agreement yet?
Complete the property check now and upload the agreement later when the landlord or agent sends it. The agreement check is included in the £9.99 price.
Everything else included
Know what this home will really cost
Your report starts with the money:
- How the asking rent compares with similar homes nearby
- The adverts behind that comparison: each home’s rent, distance and when it was listed
- Council tax for this home, from its band
- Energy costs worked out from this home’s energy certificate
- Water and broadband, so the monthly total has no gaps
- Your share if you’re renting with others
- What you’d have left each month after rent and bills
- Whether you’re likely to pass the income check
- Whether the deposit and upfront payments are within the legal limits
It also checks the property:
Tap any item for more.
Upload the agreement you’ve been asked to sign. We compare it with the report: the address, rent, deposit and fees, who the landlord is and licensing. We flag terms written on old templates, and write the questions to ask before you sign.
From HM Land Registry. A company owner is named and checked on Companies House, so you can see whether it is still active. A private owner isn’t named: the report says so and links to the £7 title register that does. For a flat, it usually shows who owns the building.
Applications from the last three years within a quarter of a mile, with any for this building flagged, so you hear about building work before you move in.
Whether the home appears on the council register of licensed shared houses, and whether its licence has expired. For the councils we cover, whether a selective or additional licensing scheme covers the address.
Offences recorded by the police within a quarter of a mile over the last twelve months, broken down by type and set against 500 places sampled across England, so you can tell an ordinary figure from a high one.
The Environment Agency’s chance of flooding for the area around the home, with surface water from heavy rain shown separately, since the planning flood zones leave it out.
The nearest state primary and secondary schools, each with its latest Ofsted inspection and exam results against England as a whole.
The nearest train, Underground and tram stations, and the bus stops within half a mile with their routes and how often the buses run. Enter your workplace’s postcode to see how long it takes to get there on a weekday morning by public transport, car and bike, and what it costs: TfL fares in London, the bus fare cap elsewhere, and HMRC’s mileage rate for driving.
Ofcom’s prediction of EE, Three, O2 and Vodafone signal at the home, indoors and out, so you know before you move whether your phone will work there.
Ofcom’s prediction of the fastest broadband the home can get — Basic, Superfast or Ultrafast, with the download and upload speeds — so you know whether you can work from it before you sign.
The nearest GP practices and pharmacies from the NHS’s registers, the nearest stores of the major grocery chains, and the nearest public parks, with how far each is.
Defra’s noise maps for the home, day and night, and the air pollution for the area around it, set against the World Health Organization’s guidelines and the UK’s legal limits, with any council Air Quality Management Area.
Every question the report raises, about the rent, the owner, licensing and safety documents, written as a message you can copy or open in your email app.
Your report is a private link, so you can send it to anyone helping you decide or backing your application. There is no login and nothing for them to sign up to.
One complete report. Clear answers before you commit.
One-off payment · No subscription · Secure Stripe checkout · Private report link · Agreement check included
Why check if the agent provided the agreement?
- Standard-looking agreements can contain clauses written before the rules changed in May 2026.
- The rent, deposit or landlord details in the agreement may not match what other records show for the home.
- Lawful clauses can still bring restrictions or costs you should understand before you sign.
- RenterCheck writes the questions to ask, so you aren’t left to interpret the report on your own.
RenterCheck gives information about tenancies in England, not legal advice. How the agreement check works
How the free check works
Step 1
Tell us the property
A postcode and the address is enough. Add the proposed rent and the number of bedrooms if you know them.
Step 2
We check the public record
Energy performance, floor area, flood and planning designations, and any recorded sale history for that address.
Step 3
You get a plain report
Each finding says which dataset it came from, when we retrieved it, and what it does not tell you.
Where our information comes from
- Energy Performance of Buildings register
- planning.data.gov.uk
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
- Companies House
- ONS Postcode Directory
- data.police.uk
RenterCheck covers England while we build it. We show what the datasets we check record, and we say plainly when a check could not be completed rather than reporting an absence of data as a clean result. How it works.
Free tools
Each one does a single job, properly, without an account.
EPC checker
Look up the energy rating, floor area and running costs for any address in England.
Rent checker
How to judge whether a proposed rent is reasonable, and what can lawfully be charged on top.
Average rent by postcode
The official average private rent for any area in England, by bedrooms and type of home.
Holding deposit calculator
The legal maximum a landlord or agent can ask for, under the Tenant Fees Act 2019.
Property licence checker
Enter a postcode to see whether a council licensing scheme covers a rented home.
Flood risk checker
The chance of flooding from rivers, the sea and surface water around a postcode.
Crime rate checker
Recorded crime around a rented home, and how it compares with the rest of England.
Landlord and agent check
Look up the company named on your tenancy agreement on the Companies House register.
Rent affordability calculator
How much rent you can afford on your salary, and the income agents expect for a rent.