Provenance for houses
Every house has been somebody’s whole life.
Find out who lived in yours, what they did, and how the building changed around them. Assembled from public records, with every claim traced back to the document it came from.
England and Wales for now. Scotland has a different land register and Northern Ireland a different archive system. Both are on the list.
The building
Every sale since 1995, statutory listings, conservation areas and article 4 directions, energy assessments, and an estimate of when it was built with the reasoning shown.
The people
Census households from 1841 to 1921, the 1939 Register, probate calendars and local newspapers: each one a search already built for your address.
The evidence
Nothing is asserted without a source, a licence and a confidence rating. Where we're guessing, we say we're guessing, and we show you what we guessed from.
What this can and can’t tell you
Reliably
- What it sold for, every time, since 1995.
- Whether it’s listed or in a conservation area, and since when.
- Roughly when it was built, and why we think so.
- Where to find the census households that lived in it.
Not yet, or not ever
- Who lives there now. We won’t build that. See why.
- Planning applications nationally. There’s no address-level national dataset yet, so we send you to the right council register.
- Anything a family has held without selling. The register only sees transactions.