Know before you move — schools, safety, prices, transport and more, from official UK data.
Our area insights writing, covering safety, connectivity, everyday life, healthcare — all of it built from official UK data.
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A bus stop four streets away is a transport link. So is a station running one train an hour. Here is how to check which services actually call near an address, and the three things nobody checks until after they have moved.
Outstanding, Good, Requires improvement — the four words every parent googles. Here is what they really measure, how old they might be, and the questions they cannot answer.
The NHS register tells you a surgery exists. It does not tell you whether they will take you. That gap is the whole problem with moving somewhere new and needing a doctor.
Crime maps are the most misread data on any property site. Four things to understand before you let one talk you out of a house.
Coverage figures describe what you could order, not what you would get. Here is the difference between availability, advertised speed and the speed that arrives at your desk.
Freeview is not one thing. Depending on which mast serves your address, you get the full line-up or roughly a third of it — and you usually find out after you have moved in.
A 5 from last month and a 5 from four years ago look identical on most websites. They should not, and on ours they do not.
Raw crime counts punish busy places and reward empty ones. A short guide to reading police data like an analyst instead of a headline writer.
