Moving home advice
Practical guides for comparing places, understanding local data and checking a particular home.
Start with your shortlist
How to choose where to live
Set your priorities, work through a real town comparison and decide which checks need the exact address.
Read the complete moving guide →Understand local data
Read the figures behind a shortlist: what each measure means, what is comparable and where the data stops.
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How to compare crime rates between towns
Read recorded crime rates, population denominators and police map limitations before comparing places to live in England.
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What a town’s average house price really tells you
Understand median sold prices, property mix, sales samples and registration delays when comparing towns and individual homes in England.
Check a particular home
Move from town-wide evidence to the services, maps and practical checks that need an exact address.
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Flood Zone 3 versus surface-water risk
Understand the difference between river and sea flood zones and surface-water mapping, then check the exact home you are considering in England.
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How to check broadband before moving house
Check broadband at the full address, distinguish coverage from speed, and ask about uploads, installation and availability before moving.
Put the advice to work
Ready to investigate a place? Open its town guide or compare one measure at a time.
How we write these guides
Kerbside’s guides use primary sources and the same controlled data as our town pages. Figures keep their source periods and limitations. Publication and update dates describe the article, not the age of every dataset.