Property & monthly costs
- Property overview
- Council tax & true monthly cost
- Land Registry & sale history
How it works
From an address to
the full picture.
You type an address. About 30 seconds later you have a report where every figure says where it came from.
- Free core audits
- No signup
- No credit check
The process
Four steps, and only one of them is yours.
Enter the address
Start with any UK address or postcode. There is no account to create, no credit check and no footprint on your credit file.
The sources run in overlapping waves
Your address is resolved to coordinates first, because most sources need a point on the map. Everything that can then run together does — with one deliberate exception: three of the local-area checks share a piece of free community infrastructure, so we queue those rather than hammer it.
Read what the data says
The report lands as 17 sections. Each figure carries the source it came from and, where the property had to be matched to a record, how confident that match is.
Take it to the viewing
The report generates questions from your property's own risks, so you arrive knowing what to ask.
Where the data comes from
10 sources, named in full.
This is the complete list, not a selection. If a source is not on it, no figure in your report came from it.
EPC Register
MHCLGEnergy rating, running costs and improvement recommendations
Environment Agency
GOV.UKRiver, sea and surface water flood risk for the address
Police.uk
Home OfficeStreet-level crime reports and outcomes near the property
Ofcom Broadband
OfcomAvailable download and upload speeds at the postcode
Ofcom Mobile
Ofcom4G and 5G signal coverage by network operator
HM Land Registry
GOV.UKSold price history for the property and its street
Planning Data
GOV.UKConservation areas, listed buildings and planning constraints
Food Standards Agency
FSAHygiene ratings for nearby food businesses
Ofsted & GIAS
DfELocal schools with inspection ratings and catchment distance
OpenStreetMap
OSMGP surgeries, transport, shops and walking distances
Inside a report
The same 17 sections, every time.
Nothing is dropped because a source came back empty. A section with no data tells you that, and what to ask instead.
Environment & safety
- EPC & running costs
- Safety & crime
- Flood warnings & water risk
Planning & restrictions
- Planning & local restrictions
- Heritage & environment
- Development & regeneration
- HMO & rental licensing
Local services
- Daily essentials & health
- Schools & education
- Transport & commute
- Lifestyle, food & leisure
- Walkability & area suitability
Connectivity
- Broadband & mobile coverage
Match confidence
The hardest part is proving a record is about your property.
Flats share a postcode. Numbering is inconsistent. An energy certificate lodged for “Flat 2” may or may not be the flat you are about to rent. So every report says which of these four it managed, and shows it next to the figure rather than burying it in a footnote.
- HighExact UPRN match
The certificate is tied to the property's Unique Property Reference Number. This is the same address, not a similar one.
- HighExact address match
Every line of the address matches a lodged certificate character for character.
- MediumStrong address match
The house or flat number matches within the postcode, but the rest of the address is formatted differently. Worth a sense check.
- LowPostcode-level candidate only
No certificate could be tied to the property itself, so the report shows the most recent one on the postcode and says so. Never treat this as the property's own rating.
Honest limits
What a PadAudit report is not.
- Not a survey or a safety certificate. We read published records. Nobody from PadAudit inspects the property, tests the boiler or signs off on anything.
- Not legal or financial advice. A report tells you what the public record says and which questions it raises. The decision, and the verification, stay yours.
- Not a substitute for asking. Rent, deposit protection and whether a licence has actually been granted cannot be looked up. Those become questions for the agent.
Questions about the process
About 30 seconds. The sources run in overlapping waves rather than one long queue, so a report costs roughly the slowest wave rather than the sum of every call.
We resolve the address to a postcode and coordinates, then work through the 10 sources in overlapping waves, so each one waits only for the data it genuinely depends on. Each response is stored as its own report section, with the source and match confidence recorded alongside it.
We try to match by UPRN first, then by exact address, then by house or flat number within the postcode. If none of those succeed, the report falls back to the most recent certificate on the postcode and labels it as a postcode-level candidate rather than the property's own rating.
No. A report is built by querying public data sources. Nothing is sent to the landlord, the letting agent or the listing site.
The section still appears, and it tells you why the data is missing rather than leaving a blank. Coverage varies across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, and a report is explicit about which source came back empty.
Because it is something no public dataset can answer for your specific tenancy — the rent, the deposit scheme, whether a licence has actually been issued. The report turns each of these into a question to put to the agent instead of guessing at an answer.
Yes. PadAudit is built mobile-first and can be added to your home screen on iPhone and Android, so you can run an audit and open the Viewing Toolkit on your phone at the door.
A snapshot. It records what each source returned at the moment you ran it, and it is saved that way so you can come back to it. Public records keep moving — new certificates get lodged, crime and planning data refresh — so run a fresh audit if you are working from an old report.
That is the whole process. Try it on a real address.
One address, 10 sources, no account needed. Find the problems while walking away is still free.