Housometer vs CrystalRoof: area research or a property report?
CrystalRoof (which acquired StreetCheck in 2026) is excellent free area research: crime, demographics, affluence, schools, transport and noise by postcode. Housometer answers the next question — this specific house — with a valuation, flood and ground risk, planning, lease and ownership checks, and a 0–100 score, from £5.
CrystalRoof publishes area intelligence by postcode — crime, demographics, affluence, amenities, schools, transport, air quality and noise — and acquired StreetCheck, the long-running postcode-lookup site, in 2026. Housometer is an independent England & Wales property report: £5 once for everything knowable about a specific home from 40+ official datasets — value, flood, ground, crime, noise, schools, transport, planning, lease and ownership — weighed into one 0–100 Home Confidence Score. Neither product is an estate agent or lead-generator: this page compares two due-diligence tools, and where CrystalRoof is the better fit we say so.
What each costs
- £5 — full report on one property, yours forever
- £7.99 — Report Pro: adds the AI verdict, professional briefs & Negotiation Report
- £15/mo — Unlimited reports, cancel any time
- Free — headline Home Confidence Score on any address
- Free to browse (premium plans available on their site) — Area reports
CrystalRoof prices and features as published on crystalroof.co.uk, last checked July 2026. Spotted something out of date? Tell us and we’ll fix it.
Feature by feature
What's included in a full report from each, as of July 2026.
- Deep, well-presented area context — crime, demographics, affluence and lifestyle data by postcode is their core product and it’s genuinely good.
- Free access to most area information, which makes it a useful first-pass research tool.
- Everything about the specific property, which area pages cannot tell you: what it’s worth (with comparables and £/m²), its flood and ground risk, its EPC and running costs, its council-tax band and bill, its lease term, who owns it, and what’s being built next door.
- A single 0–100 Home Confidence Score that weighs the area AND the property, so two houses on the same street can score differently.
- Buying tools: a negotiation report with a defensible offer range, AI briefs for your solicitor and surveyor, and a compare table for your shortlist.
- Area context is included too — our reports carry crime, demographics, income, deprivation, schools, transport, noise and air for the surroundings, so you don’t lose anything by starting here.
Housometer vs CrystalRoof — FAQs
Is CrystalRoof free?
Most of CrystalRoof’s area information is free to browse, with premium plans offered on their site. Housometer’s headline score and several panels are free on any address; the full per-property report is a £5 one-off.
What’s the difference between area research and a property report?
Area research tells you about a postcode: its crime rate, who lives there, how affluent it is. A property report tells you about one address: what it’s worth, whether it floods, what ground it sits on, its lease, its owner, its planning history. Both matter — the area shortlists the search, the property report protects the offer.
Does Housometer include the area data CrystalRoof shows?
Largely, yes — crime, demographics, income, deprivation, schools, transport, amenities, noise and air quality all appear in a Housometer report as context around the property, drawn from the same official sources (police.uk, ONS, Ofsted, DEFRA). CrystalRoof presents more lifestyle-style area detail; we weight everything into the score for one specific home.
Which should I use when?
Use free area tools (CrystalRoof, or our free area guides at /areas) while choosing where to look. Once you’re serious about a specific property — booking a second viewing, thinking about an offer — that’s the point of a £5 per-property report: the risks and the value evidence attach to the address, not the postcode.
See it on a real address first.
Search any address in England & Wales — the headline Home Confidence Score is free, and the full report is £5 only if you want it.
Check an address free →Compiled from crystalroof.co.uk’s public pricing and feature pages and our own product, last verified July 2026. Housometer data comes from HM Land Registry, Ordnance Survey, Environment Agency, VOA, Ofsted, Police.uk, DEFRA, ONS and 30+ more official sources. We link to no estate agents and take no referral fees — from anyone.