LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, 10 April 2026. Property Passport UK is now publicly available across England and Wales. The platform gives each home a clearer digital place for its information, so households and property stakeholders can search, see, organise, and act without juggling disconnected sources at every step.

Buying, selling, and managing a home still depends on getting the right facts at the right time. In practice, that means the same information is reconstructed again and again: at viewings, at the point of offer, during conveyancing, at survey, in mortgage applications, and, years later, when an owner plans a refurbishment or prepares to sell. Property Passport UK is built to make that easier by replacing scattered lookups with a single structured digital record that people can return to at each stage of a home’s life.

Why fragmentation matters

Too much of what matters about a home sits in different systems, inboxes, filing cabinets, and siloed databases. Energy performance data lives in one place, planning history in another, flood and environmental information in others, and title and ownership records somewhere else again. Professionals and households end up asking the same questions repeatedly because no one view holds the whole picture, and certificates, warranties, and survey notes often surface late or not at all.

That fragmentation has a real cost. It delays transactions, introduces avoidable surprises, and makes it harder for buyers, sellers, owners, and their advisers to make well-grounded decisions. It also shifts effort onto the very people least equipped to pull it all together: individual households who move only a handful of times in their lives, and professionals who spend a disproportionate share of each transaction rebuilding a picture of the property from scratch.

A digital record anchored to the home

Property Passport UK responds with a Property Passport for each home: a digital property record built around the standard UK property identifier (the Unique Property Reference Number, or UPRN), so information is tied to the home itself rather than to a specific advert, transaction moment, or one-off query.
Because the record lives with the property, it persists through ownership changes and remains available for future moments where it matters.

From a public entry point, people can search by address or postcode, reach a property-level view, and see core information about a home in one place. Buyers can explore the context behind a property before committing. Owners and sellers can prepare for a sale or purchase with less duplicated back-and-forth. Tenants can use tenancy-focused tools where offered. Estate agents, conveyancers, surveyors, brokers, and other property professionals can collaborate from workspaces tied to the same underlying record rather than working from separate spreadsheets, inboxes, and loose files.

Where deeper decision-support is needed, users can purchase intelligence reports available to purchase where offered in the product. These reports are positioned as time-stamped, decision-oriented information products, not as substitutes for legal, surveying, or lending advice where that expertise is required.

Why free public search matters

Property Passport UK offers free public property search without creating an account. Anyone can look up an address, open a property-level view, and see core information about a home, at no cost and without signing up. That is deliberate. Information about where people live should not sit behind an unnecessary sign-up wall before anyone can ask a basic question about a home.

Free public search also changes the starting point of a property conversation. A buyer, a neighbour, a prospective tenant, or a family member helping with a move can arrive at a structured, property-level view from the very first enquiry, rather than piecing together fragments across listings sites, local authority pages, and commercial data products. That shift matters in a market where the cost of uncertainty often falls hardest on the people with the least professional support behind them.

National coverage

National coverage is central to the story. The platform includes 19.4 million searchable properties, so moving from a postcode or address to a coherent property-level starting point is a realistic first step for a large share of UK homes, not a niche index. That figure is intended to show the index is built for national use across England and Wales, rather than for a limited trial. Secure access, auditability, and ongoing product development underpin that scale.

Honest about what is known

Across these journeys, the aim is practical: fewer dead ends, fewer repeated questions, and a clearer view of what is known, and of what still needs a solicitor, surveyor, lender, or other qualified adviser, when it matters. The product is designed to be honest when data is incomplete or sourced from third parties. It signals uncertainty rather than false certainty, and it treats intelligence reports as time-stamped outputs, not as a replacement for regulated professional advice.

“Most people aren’t short of data about homes. They’re short of a single, usable place to see it. Property Passport UK exists to make property information more available, more transparent, and more accessible, and to strip friction out of buying, selling, and managing a home. If we get that right, everyday decisions get easier, and that’s what we’re building toward.” - Joe Stratton, Founder, Property Passport UK

Property Passport UK is live at https://propertypassport.uk.