Short answer: free for the official area band, £19 for an instant data report with the flood history, roughly £23–£112 for a professional conveyancing flood search, and £195+ once specialists get involved. Here's the whole ladder, what each tier actually includes, and when each one is enough.
Every price below is the published inc-VAT figure we could verify in July 2026. Prices move and reseller markups vary — treat these as the going rate, not gospel.
| Report | Price (inc VAT) | Delivery | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
| GOV.UK long-term flood risk check | free | instant | the area's likelihood band + depth bands; no flood history |
| FloodRadar Property Flood-Risk Report | £19 | instant, on screen + save as PDF | data report: band, floods since 1946, warnings since 2006, live rivers, storm overflows |
| FCI Residential Flood | £23.40 | ~2 working hours | professional search, via search providers |
| floodreports.co.uk (resold Landmark) | £24 | days | professional search, resold |
| Groundsure Flood | £48.60 | turnaround not stated | professional search, direct (£40.50 +VAT RRP) |
| Landmark Flood (Homecheck Flood) | £54 | ~24 hours | professional search, via resellers (seen from £24 at some) |
| SAM Conveyancing flood report | £64 | 2 working hours | resold FCI search |
| Land Registry Services flood report | £69.97 | ≤24 hours, by email | resold Groundsure report |
| Manual flood appraisal (e.g. FCI) | £234 (£195 +VAT) | days | consultant review when a search flags "further action" |
Published prices verified July 2026. Generalist "property report" products (multi-check area reports at £4–£25 where flooding is one section among many) exist too — they're a different product from a flood-specific report.
The professional tier (£23–£112) is priced on liability, not data: a professional opinion, professional-indemnity insurance, accreditation and redress schemes, and escalation to in-house consultants on higher-risk results. That's what a conveyancer's file needs, and it's genuinely worth the money when the risk is real.
The data tier — where our £19 report sits — compiles the official datasets (the likelihood band, recorded flood extents since 1946, the warning record since 2006) with FloodRadar's own live network: 3,000+ river gauges, rainfall response, and monitored storm overflows. No opinion, no indemnity — the data, readable in five minutes, delivered instantly. And in our July 2026 market check, no other UK flood report delivered instantly, and none — at any price — kept monitoring the postcode after purchase: every report in the table above is a snapshot posted or emailed once, while ours re-checks the data on every visit and comes with free ongoing flood alerts.
For what it's worth as an anchor: conveyancing firms' own guides commonly quote £50–£75 as the usual range for a flood report (seen quoted July 2026).
The free tier is the government's own long-term flood-risk check — always run it; we link to it from every report. Here's exactly what it shows and what it misses →
Free preview first — the official band costs nothing. Full report £19, instant, no account needed. Or see a complete sample report →
Being straight about our own row: our report is a data report for the area around a postcode — not a survey, not an official Environment Agency document, and not a substitute for a professional search when your conveyancer needs one. The history datasets are England-only. What it does is put the official band and the actual flood history in front of you instantly, for less than any professional product in the table — and it keeps watching: every report comes with free ongoing flood alerts for the postcode.
From nothing to several hundred pounds, depending on the tier. The GOV.UK long-term check is free. Our data report is £19, instant. Professional conveyancing flood searches run roughly £23–£112 depending on provider and reseller. If a search flags something serious, manual flood appraisals start around £195 and site walkovers cost several hundred pounds more. Prices checked July 2026.
You're paying for a professional opinion with professional-indemnity insurance behind it, accreditation/redress schemes, and — on higher-risk results — escalation to in-house consultants. That's genuinely worth money in a conveyancing file; a data report like ours doesn't replace it.
Sometimes no — and we say so. The free check gives the area's likelihood band and depth bands. Paid reports add the history: whether the area has actually flooded (recorded extents since 1946), the official warning record since 2006, and — in ours — live river behaviour and monitored storm overflows. If the free check says very low and you have no insurance questions, the free check may be all you need.
The figures on this page are the published inc-VAT retail prices where the seller states one (some trade prices are quoted ex-VAT — Groundsure's £40.50 +VAT lists at £48.60 inc, for example). Reseller markups vary widely: the same underlying report can appear at two very different prices on two websites.
Full report £19 · instant · permanent emailed link · 14-day money-back guarantee.
More on flood reports: What's inside the £19 report · Flood checks when buying a house · The free GOV.UK check, explained · Free flood-risk answers by postcode district
Competitor names and prices are the published figures we verified in July 2026, included for comparison; all trade marks belong to their owners. Data on FloodRadar reports: Environment Agency, SEPA and Ordnance Survey / Royal Mail / ONS postcode data under the Open Government Licence v3.0. FloodRadar is not an emergency service — always follow official warnings.
