Why this exists

When my partner and I were house-hunting, what baffled us wasn't a lack of information — it was the randomness of it. Estate agents had wildly different data from one viewing to the next: one would know everything about a street, the next would shrug at basic questions. And even the good conversations only ever scratched the surface — nobody covered the things that actually mattered to us. Was the price right for the area, or just right for the seller? What would the place really cost to run? What weren't we being told?

So I started pulling the data myself — Land Registry sold prices, Environment Agency flood maps, EPC records, crime figures — and building side-by-side comparisons of the houses we'd shortlisted. Somewhere around the third spreadsheet, two things became obvious: everything we needed was already in official, public sources, and nobody was putting it in front of buyers at the moment the decision actually gets made.

House Tiebreaker is that spreadsheet, grown up. You bring the two or three homes you're torn between; we pull the official data, check every figure against its source, and give you what we wished someone had given us — not another pile of numbers, but a verdict, with the reasoning shown and every source named so you can check our work.

We hope it helps you the way it helped us.

— House Tiebreaker