Housometer vs HomeBuyerCheck: which property check should you buy?
Both are low-cost, independent pre-offer checks built on official UK open data. HomeBuyerCheck is a strong £4.99 risk report; Housometer costs £5 and adds what it lacks: a valuation estimate with comparables, £/m², noise and air quality, live planning applications, commute tools, school performance data and a 0–100 Home Confidence Score.
HomeBuyerCheck sells a £4.99 per-property risk report (with a £6.99 Premium+ tier adding AI briefs), emailed in about a minute and built on UK government open data. It covers England and Wales, like Housometer. 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 HomeBuyerCheck 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
- £0 — postcode-level basics — Free check
- £4.99 per property — Premium report
- £6.99 per property — Premium+ (AI briefs & negotiation)
HomeBuyerCheck prices and features as published on homebuyercheck.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 Spotted something out of date?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.
- A genuinely cheap, fast risk report — ground risk, radon, flood (with climate projection), tribunal history and building-safety flags are all in its £4.99 tier.
- Corporate-ownership checks via Companies House, like ours.
- Clear sample reports and a permanent shareable report URL.
- A valuation estimate with a confidence range, £/m² and mapped comparable sales — HomeBuyerCheck has no valuation at all, which is half the offer decision.
- Environmental quality of life: DEFRA road/rail/aircraft noise (day and night) and air quality at the address.
- Live planning applications at the property and next door, not just planning designations.
- Door-to-door commute times, walk times to stations and amenities, and school performance benchmarks (not just proximity).
- One 0–100 Home Confidence Score with ten weighted sub-scores, and a compare tool to put up to three homes head to head.
Housometer vs HomeBuyerCheck — FAQs
Is Housometer better than HomeBuyerCheck?
They overlap on risk data (flood, ground, radon, crime, ownership). Housometer adds a valuation estimate with comparables, £/m², noise and air quality, live planning applications, commute tools, school performance and a 0–100 score — for £5 vs £4.99. If you only want a risk sheet, either works; if you want the whole buying decision on one page, that is what Housometer is built for.
How much does HomeBuyerCheck cost?
As of July 2026: a free postcode-level check, a £4.99 Premium per-property report, and a £6.99 Premium+ tier that adds AI briefs and a negotiation report. Housometer is £5 for the full report, £7.99 for Report Pro with all AI analyses, or £15/month unlimited.
Do both cover England and Wales?
Yes — both products cover England and Wales only, because both are built on the official datasets (HM Land Registry, EPC register, Environment Agency and others) that stop at the border. Scotland and Northern Ireland use separate systems.
What does Housometer include that HomeBuyerCheck doesn’t?
The biggest gaps: any valuation at all (ours comes with a confidence range, £/m² and mapped comparables), DEFRA noise and air quality, live planning applications next door, lease years remaining, commute and walk-time tools, school performance benchmarks, demographics, the Home Confidence Score and a three-home compare tool.
Are either of these a survey?
No. Both are desktop reports from official records — the £5 step before the £400+ survey. Neither replaces a RICS surveyor physically inspecting the building; both tell you whether the property justifies that spend, and what to ask the surveyor to look at.
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 homebuyercheck.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.