PicAHome

PicAHome

About this app

Point your phone at a home and find out its story.

PicAHome uses your camera and your location to work out which house you are standing in front of, then tells you what is on record about it. No address to type, no listing to find first.

EVERYTHING FREE

• Unlimited Discoveries — point at as many homes as you like
• Sold price history from HM Land Registry, going back decades
• What is on the market on that street, with links to the listings and the agent selling it
• Planning applications on the street and bigger schemes nearby, with the last day to comment
• Flood zones, conservation areas, listed buildings and Article 4 directions
• EPC rating, yearly running costs, and what the house is built of
• Nearest stations and bus stops with walking times
• Schools and GP surgeries nearby
• Protected trees

SEARCH ANY STREET

Not standing outside it? Type a postcode, a street name or an address and see every home on the street: what each one last sold for and when, how prices there have moved over the years, what is for sale right now and who is selling it. Filter by type, tenure, last sold and price, see the homes on a map, and open any one of them for its full story.

WATCH A STREET

Follow any street and choose what you hear about: homes coming up for sale, price cuts and homes going under offer; planning applications going in or being decided; and sales completing, with the price HM Land Registry recorded. Homes that come back on the market are called out, with their previous price. Everything lands in Alerts, in three tabs, and saved homes are always a tap away.

CHALLENGE A FRIEND

Send any home to a friend and see if they can guess what it last sold for. They don't need the app: the link opens in their browser with your photo of the house and a slider. The moment they guess, you get a notification with their name and how close they were, and a leaderboard shows who came closest.

HOW IT WORKS

Stand outside a home in England or Wales, open PicAHome, and take a photo. We work out which house you meant from where you are standing and which way you are facing, and show you what we know. If we pick the wrong one, the whole street is right there to choose from.

WHAT IT IS NOT

PicAHome is for general information. Sold prices come from HM Land Registry and appear two to three months after a sale completes. Some information is estimated, and some homes have very little on record. It is not a valuation, and it is not advice: check with an estate agent, surveyor or conveyancer before acting on anything you see here.

England and Wales only. Sold price data is not published for Scotland or Northern Ireland.

Free, with no in-app purchases and no subscription.

What’s new

Watch any street and choose what you hear about: homes coming up for sale, planning applications (with the last day to comment), or sales completing with the Land Registry price. Alerts rebuilt in three tabs. Homes back on the market are called out with their previous price. "Listed with" names the agent. Completed sales open the home's own page. Search by street name or address, no postcode needed. Filters by type, tenure, last sold and price.