Editorial policy

MyStreetCheck exists to give people straight answers about homes and places using official data. This page explains how we handle that data, how we write our guides, and where the line sits between our content and the adverts that pay for the site.

The figures

Every sale price on the site comes from HM Land Registry's Price Paid data and is shown exactly as registered. We don't estimate, round or adjust individual sales. Where we show an average, a ranking or a percentage change, it is worked out from those registered sales, and we say what period it covers.

Other local information comes from the organisation responsible for it: the police for crime, the Environment Agency for flood warnings, the Department for Education and Ofsted for schools, Ofcom for broadband, the ONS for census figures and so on. Each source is listed on our data sources page with what we use it for.

We refresh the sales data each month after the Land Registry publishes its update, and other data sets as often as their publishers release them. If a figure is out of date or missing, we would rather show nothing than guess.

Our guides

Our guides are written to help people use the figures on the site sensibly: how to read sold prices, what a valuation is based on, what a survey covers, and so on. Each guide shows the date it was last checked. We review them when rules change, for example when stamp duty bands or leasehold law change, and at least once a year.

The guides are general information, not financial, legal or tax advice. Where a decision depends on your own circumstances, we say so and suggest who to ask.

Corrections

If something on the site is wrong, please tell us. We fix mistakes in our own content as soon as we can. If the error is in an official record, such as a Land Registry entry, we can't change it ourselves, but we will tell you how to get it corrected at source.

Advertising and independence

MyStreetCheck is free because it shows adverts, served by Google. Advertisers have no say over what we publish, and we don't write paid-for content. Adverts are kept clearly separate from the figures and guides.

Some pages let you ask local estate agents or other property businesses to contact you. We only pass on your details when you ask us to, and our privacy policy explains how that works.

Who is responsible

MyStreetCheck is run by Chris Pollitt of Nocturnal Media, who is responsible for the site's content. You can read more about the site or contact us.

Last reviewed: 6 November 2026