Transparency
Real data. Not AI guesswork.
Every NestMatch result comes from official datasets and live APIs — not a chatbot’s memory. Here’s what powers your search.
Speed
< 1 min
20 areas, fully scored, side by side.
LLM: ~1 hour of back-and-forth prompting
Cost
Free
Every search. All 20 areas.
LLM: ~£3–10 in credits — plus your time
Accuracy
Monthly
Rebuilt from official releases.
LLM: training data 1–2 years stale
20K+
UK locations
1.5M+
records
675K+
street prices
600K+
green spaces
29K+
schools
12K+
GP practices
“Couldn’t I just ask an LLM?”
You could — but a chatbot writes from memory. NestMatch queries live, verified data. One search, 20 areas, side by side:
| NestMatch | LLM chat | |
|---|---|---|
| Areas per search | 20, ranked & scored for you | 5–10 generic names |
| Datapoints | Thousands, from 1.5M+ records | A few paragraphs of prose |
| House prices | 675K+ real sales, street by street | Guesses — often hallucinated |
| Commute times | Live, traffic-aware routes | Rough estimates from memory |
| Maps & boundaries | Interactive, with price overlays | Text only |
| Photos | Licensed shots of every area | None |
| Sources | Every number traceable (see below) | Sometimes invented |
| Ask twice | Same data, every time | A different answer each time |
The full source list
Imported, cleaned, and linked to all 20,000+ locations — refreshed on each provider’s release schedule.
Housing & Property
HM Land Registry — Every property sale, street by street.
MonthlyONS Private Rents — Rents by property type & bedrooms.
MonthlyVOA Council Tax — Band mix behind cost-of-living estimates.
AnnualEPC Register — Energy profiles of local housing stock.
Rolling
Safety & Crime
Police.uk — Incidents, trends & night-safety scores.
Monthly
Schools & Family
Department for Education — 29K+ schools, matched by distance.
RegularOfsted — Latest inspection grades per school.
Monthly
Health & Wellbeing
NHS — 12K+ GP practices, mapped near you.
QuarterlyONS Wellbeing Survey — Happiness & life satisfaction by area.
Annual
People & Demographics
ONS Census 2021 — Who lives where — age & households.
Yearly estimatesIndices of Deprivation — Area context & up-and-coming signals.
Each release
Connectivity & Transport
Ofcom — Broadband speeds for every district.
AnnualGoogle Routes — Live door-to-door commutes, traffic-aware.
Real-timeOpenStreetMap Transit — Stations & walking distances.
Continuous
Food, Lifestyle & Green Space
OpenStreetMap — Restaurants, pubs, gyms & 600K+ green spaces.
ContinuousFood Standards Agency — Official hygiene ratings.
DailyGoogle Places — Live venue details & ratings.
Real-time
Geography & Mapping
Ordnance Survey — The official gazetteer of 20K+ places.
Twice yearlyONS Postcode Lookup — Links every dataset to the right area.
QuarterlyMapbox — Interactive maps & price overlays.
Real-time
Imagery & Media
Flickr & Wikimedia — Licensed photos of every area.
CuratedYouTube — Neighbourhood walk-through videos.
Real-time
AI — a librarian, not an author
Google Gemini — Shortlists areas to match your brief. Every fact it shows comes from the data above — never its memory.
Grounded per search
Attribution & licences
The datasets and maps behind NestMatch are used under the following licences. Please retain these credits when reproducing any NestMatch data.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applies to most official datasets: ONS Census 2021, ONS Wellbeing and Private Rents, HM Land Registry price data, Police.uk crime data, VOA Council Tax, Indices of Deprivation, Ofcom broadband, DfE/Ofsted schools, NHS GP data and EPC ratings.
HM Land Registry — Price Paid Data
Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
Every property sale shown on results pages.
Ordnance Survey — OS Open Names
Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
The official gazetteer of place names used across NestMatch.
© OpenStreetMap contributors. OpenStreetMap data is available under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).
Venues, green spaces, transit and other points of interest, plus base map tiles.
Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026.
EPC energy ratings are OGL; the underlying address data is Ordnance Survey AddressBase Premium and Royal Mail PAF®.
Contains postcode boundary data derived from the uk-postcode-polygons project (sources: Wikipedia), licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.
Postcode boundary layers derived from Wikipedia.
Area photos are individually credited to their owners in each gallery.
Area photography is used under its respective licences.
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