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Search current properties
Filter public listings by country, property type, location, price, date, and auction status where the source data supports it.
How it works
From property search to source checks
DistressScope brings public auction and distressed-property listings into one searchable catalogue. It helps you compare the available facts before carrying out full due diligence with the original source.
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Compare the listing facts
Review the guide price, sale method, date, location, source, and available property information before opening the full record.
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Check the original source
Use the source listing and legal documents to confirm current dates, fees, bidding terms, tenure, condition, and any changes to the sale.
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Save what matters
Signed-in users can keep a watchlist, save searches, and manage alerts for new public listings that match their criteria.
Start with the property data
Opportunities
Search current public listings and compare the core property and sale information.
Markets
Review current country coverage and the sale types represented in each public market.
Guides
Read practical guides on process, pricing, costs, and due diligence before you commit to a listing.
Property intelligence methodology
How sold-price history is matched
Eligible England and Wales opportunity pages may include official historical transactions alongside DistressScope's own listing observations and clearly labelled calculations.
Source and coverage
Historical sold prices come from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data for England and Wales. Scotland and Northern Ireland use different data systems and are not included in this first release. HM Land Registry updates Price Paid Data monthly, and recent transactions or corrections may take time to appear.
Conservative property matching
DistressScope compares structured postcode, primary address, street and, for flats or units, the exact secondary address. Property type, tenure and town information provide additional checks. Ambiguous buildings, missing unit numbers and conflicting records are deliberately omitted from public pages, which is why some opportunities have no sold-price history.
Calculations and terminology
Gross price gain is the arithmetic difference between two recorded sale prices. Percentage change uses the earlier recorded price as its base. Annualised growth uses the elapsed time between transactions and is omitted for periods shorter than 90 days. These figures are not investment profit and exclude taxes, stamp duty, financing, refurbishment, maintenance, legal fees, selling costs and rental income.
Guides are not sale prices
A current auction guide is an indication published with a listing, not a completed sale or valuation. DistressScope therefore displays a guide separately and describes only its difference from the last recorded transaction. Buyers should verify the listing, legal pack and current conditions with the original source.
Source-price quality controls
DistressScope retains published source records, but excludes a guide from derived comparisons when its numeric value cannot be normalized confidently from the source wording. This prevents address numbers, unit numbers and ambiguous abbreviated prices from becoming market statistics while preserving the underlying listing for diagnosis and source checking.
Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Market intelligence methodology
How market snapshots are calculated
DistressScope combines current public listing records, official HM Land Registry sold-price data and changes observed during source monitoring. The resulting figures are DistressScope calculations, not property valuations.
Inventory and observed activity
Current inventory includes supported public GB listings that are upcoming, live, postponed or not yet assigned a final status. New-listing counts use the date DistressScope first observed each source record. Guide reductions and auction-date changes are counted only when a stored before-and-after event supports the change; absence from a feed is not treated as a result or relisting.
Robust statistics and minimum samples
Property-price metrics use medians because property values are skewed by unusually high and low observations. Medians require at least 10 valid properties. Guide-to-sale percentages require at least 20 high-confidence matched properties. Markets with fewer than 10 current opportunities do not receive an advanced snapshot, and unavailable metrics are omitted rather than estimated.
Historical comparisons
Latest and previous recorded prices come only from high-confidence England and Wales matches. Historical percentage change compares recorded transactions for the same matched property. Annualised growth uses the elapsed time between those records and is not shown for intervals shorter than 90 days. Gross price gain cannot show owner profit because it excludes financing, taxes, refurbishment, maintenance, income and transaction costs.
Freshness and provenance
Snapshots are recalculated from the public data at most daily and display the latest underlying source observation date. Raw HM Land Registry records remain official public data; DistressScope's contribution is the conservative matching, source-history tracking, exclusions and aggregate calculations.
What DistressScope is for
DistressScope is an independent search and monitoring service for auction and distressed property. It does not replace the legal pack, the source listing, professional advice, or the buyer's own checks.