Scapely FAQ

Scapely is a UK property intelligence dashboard for buyers, developers and investors. Search any address and Scapely returns a development appraisal, EPC and MEES context, planning and heritage constraints, permitted development eligibility, flood and PTAL scores, sale history and Companies House owner intel — all in one screen, with a one-click PDF report. A companion Chrome extension brings the same overlay to portal listings.

A Scapely Single Report costs £9.99 for one property, with no subscription required. Scapely Pro is £29.99/month for 50 appraisals, build-cost modelling, objection-risk scoring, HMO saturation, PTAL, owner intel and a 7-day appraisal history per property. Scapely Enterprise is £59.99/month for 200 appraisals plus all Pro features and priority support.

Per property: the development appraisal (GDV, build cost, fees, finance, profit on cost), EPC band and MEES context, planning and heritage flags (Article 4, conservation areas, listed buildings, AONB/SSSI), a permitted development verdict across the key classes, HM Land Registry sale history and comparables, plot intelligence (footprint, area, height) on a map, flood and PTAL scores, Companies House owner intel where the owner is a company, and HMO saturation, CIL and business rates where they apply.

For English properties the dashboard runs eligibility checks for the routes that matter most to buyers and developers: Class MA (commercial to residential), Class Q (agricultural to residential), Class L (C3 to C4 small HMO), Part 1 Class A house extensions, Class AA upward additions on houses, and Part 20 Class AA upward additions on flats and commercial buildings. Each check produces a plain-English verdict with the reason.

Pick a strategy — refurbishment, extension, new build, HMO conversion, Class MA conversion — and Scapely builds a full end-to-end appraisal: indicative GDV from local comparables, build cost from current UK benchmarks tuned per strategy, fees, finance and CIL, ending in profit on cost and profit on GDV. The same numbers feed the investment view's yield and ROI projections.

Sale history and comparables are pulled from HM Land Registry Price Paid data — real transacted prices on the same street and postcode, not portal asking prices. Scapely deliberately does not scrape listing prices from property portals.

Where available: Article 4 directions, conservation areas, statutory listed buildings, AONBs, National Parks, the Broads, World Heritage Sites, SSSIs, SPAs, SACs, Ramsar sites and Scheduled Monuments. Each constraint is flagged with a link to the source record where one exists. Coverage depends on what councils and national bodies publish, so confirm with the council.

Scapely shows available EPC data and indicative improvement routes. Current law in England and Wales: non-domestic privately rented property generally must reach at least EPC E to grant, renew or continue a tenancy, unless a valid exemption applies. The continuing-tenancy requirement has applied since 1 April 2023. Domestic letting rules and the regimes in Scotland and Northern Ireland must be checked separately. Proposals: the government's 2026 interim response withdrew the proposed 2027 EPC C milestone for non-domestic rented buildings and proposes a conditional EPC B approach by 2031 for rented non-domestic buildings over 1,000 sqm. Secondary legislation is still pending, so this is not yet law. Check the official GOV.UK guidance and the rules for the property's jurisdiction before relying on a compliance assumption.

When the registered owner is a company, Scapely pulls the live Companies House record into the dashboard — company profile, registered office, directors, persons with significant control, charges, and other companies registered at the same address. Useful for tracking down off-market opportunities and stress-testing counter-party risk.

Tenure (freehold vs leasehold) is only authoritative when sourced from HM Land Registry's Title Register. Scapely offers an optional, separately priced Title Register lookup that pulls the official record; the cost is shown before you buy and is not included in plan allowances. Without that, tenure isn't guessed — it's left blank with a Verify CTA.

Flood risk uses the Environment Agency river, sea and surface-water flood-zone datasets — the same data insurers and lenders rely on. For London properties Scapely shows the TfL PTAL public-transport accessibility score from 0 (poor) to 6b (excellent), which is the metric planners use for density and parking arguments.

Yes. The dashboard surfaces Class MA eligibility for English sites, CIL liability, current and proposed MEES context for commercial lettings, Biodiversity Net Gain risk and a Valuation Office Agency business-rates estimate for commercial floorspace.

Yes. Every property can be added to your watchlist, which appears as a horizontal carousel along the bottom of the dashboard. Appraisals are cached for 7 days per property and strategy — re-opening a saved property within that window is instant and does not use another appraisal from your plan.

Yes. The Generate Report button produces the full Scapely PDF — cover, appraisal, intel, planning, EPC and comparables — entirely in your browser using pdfmake. Nothing leaves the device during generation, so the report is safe to share with solicitors, brokers or partners.

The extension is a companion to the dashboard. When you visit a listing on Rightmove, Zoopla, OnTheMarket, Realla, Allsop or Savills auctions, it overlays Scapely's appraisal, EPC and key planning flags inline so you can triage portal listings without opening the web dashboard for each one.

Scapely's public guides cover all four UK nations, but English-only rules such as Class MA and the English higher-risk building gateways are not applied to Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland, which have separate planning and building-safety regimes. Coverage of individual data layers varies by nation, so check which layers apply to your property.

No. Scapely is a screening and underwriting tool — it tells you within seconds whether a property is worth pursuing and what the major risks are. Once a deal moves into legal due diligence or detailed planning strategy, you should still engage a qualified planning consultant or solicitor.

Scapely aggregates open data from HM Land Registry, Companies House, planning.data.gov.uk, the Environment Agency, Historic England, Natural England, Ordnance Survey NGD, the Valuation Office Agency, EPC Open Data Communities, TfL Unified API and Google Maps. Title Register data is purchased on demand from HM Land Registry.