I asked Claude Opus to cross-check my property article numbers. I found 16 discrepancies. I then verified each one against the Land Registry data manually with Python. Every single time, the result sided with my pipeline.
Rent vs Buy London: 10 Queries to Know If Buying Is Actually Possible
2026-04-17 6 min read
Your situation: You've been paying rent for years and wonder whether buying is realistic or something that keeps moving further away. This guide uses real Land Registry data to give you a concrete answer, and an interactive calculator to show whether your numbers work.
OpenProp is an AI property analyst for the London residential market. Ask anything in plain English — "median flat price in Lewisham 2024", "is Tower Hamlets a buyers' market", "where can a £450k budget actually reach" — and get an answer computed live from 1.76 million HM Land Registry Price Paid records (Crown copyright). No scraped portal listings, no estimates, no hallucinated postcodes. Built for buyers, renters, planning consultants, and journalists who need numbers they can defend.
