An early flood screen for conveyancers’ clients
An early, plain-English flood read for clients, before instruction — alongside the regulated searches, never instead of them.
Clients increasingly want to understand flood risk before they commit to a purchase, and before they commit to your fees and search costs. A Property Search Screening gives them an early, plain-English read from official data. It sits before the regulated searches you’ll order later; it doesn’t replace them.
Where it fits in a transaction
Before instruction. Buyers can screen a property before they offer, so fewer transactions start on a property the client later abandons over flood risk.
Explaining results. The report takes each flood source in turn, with maps and plain-English notes. Clients who have read it tend to understand an environmental search result more quickly.
Knowing when to go further. Where the screen flags risk, a flood search or a site-specific Flood Risk Assessment is the next step. The Property Search can arrange an FRA through our flood-risk consultancy.
How it compares
Questions we get asked
Can I rely on the screening in a report on title?
No. It is an automated open-data screen with no reliance, professional indemnity or redress. Order your usual regulated searches.
Is it produced under the Search Code?
No. It does not carry the insurance, standards or complaints route of a search produced under the Search Code.
How is this useful if we order an environmental search anyway?
Timing and explanation. It is available before instruction, it explains each flood source separately, and it adds property context that environmental searches don’t cover.
See the flood & environmental picture for your property
Every open flood source, plus ground, environment, value and context — a plain-English PDF report for the exact plot you draw, for £20.