Eight sources. One minute. One clear read.
A TrueBrick Core report pulls the public record on a property, reads it back in plain English, and lands an eight-page PDF in your inbox — before you make the offer.
1 · You enter the property
Type a postcode and the house name or number. That's all we need to identify the property and everything the public record holds on it.
2 · We fan out across the data
The moment your payment confirms, we query eight independent UK data sources in parallel. Each has its own timeout and fallback — if one is slow or down, the report still ships and the gap is recorded honestly in the coverage matrix rather than guessed.
- postcodes.io — Resolves your postcode to the property and its local geography.
- HM Land Registry (Price Paid) — Sale history and tenure for the address and the street around it.
- EPC Register — Energy rating — current and potential — plus property type and floor area.
- Environment Agency — Flood-risk zone for the property's location.
- planning.data.gov.uk — Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, and nearby planning activity.
- Historic England (NHLE) — Listed-building status and heritage designations.
- Police UK — Recorded crime in the immediate area, by category.
- Companies House — Flags when the seller or registered owner is a company.
3 · Claude reads the fine print
The structured data is turned into clear, factual prose for each section of the report. Core states facts and flags risks — flood zone, planning constraints, energy cost, comparables — without dressing them up. The deeper interpretation is what Plus, Plus+ and Expert add later.
4 · You get a decision-ready PDF
Eight A4 pages: a cover, a top-line read with four headline stats, the property and its energy, planning and heritage, environment and safety, the local market and seller snapshot, a consolidated risk scan, and a coverage matrix showing exactly what we pulled and when. That last page is the trust marker — you can see precisely which sources answered.
What Core deliberately leaves out
Core is the fast risk scan, not the full legal read. Title-charge interpretation, leasehold detail, lender suitability, named individual owners and panel-partner sign-off are reserved for the higher tiers — so Core stays fast, factual and £39.