Know before you move — schools, safety, prices, transport and more, from official UK data.
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Finding a house takes an afternoon. Finding out what it is like to live there takes weeks, and most people never finish the job. That gap is the reason MoveCompass exists.
Distance to a hospital matters, but so does what kind of hospital it is, what it treats, and what the inspectors found. Here is what I check when I look at hospitals near a new home.
Estate agents show you a house. Nobody shows you the street it sits on. Here is the check I run before I bother booking a viewing.
Catchment areas are not boundaries, "outstanding" may be a decade old, and the address on your application matters more than most people realise.
Meter readings, the stopcock, your council tax account and the post. A short list of things that are simple in week one and expensive in month three.
