Whoever is moving

A listing shows you the rooms. Veto shows you the street.

You can see the kitchen from the photos. What you can't see is the road behind the house, how many accidents have happened on it, whether the broadband is any good, or what is being built next door. Those are the things you find out after you have moved in, unless you check first.

Tell us about your household: children, a dog, working from home, what matters most and what would make you walk away. We check the address against all of it and give it a score out of 100, then write you a plain-English report that says what is fine, what needs a closer look, and how big each worry is.

Every finding says when it was checked and where it came from, so you can take it straight to your solicitor or surveyor.

Know what you are signing up to live beside.

Renting is usually decided fast, on one viewing, with a landlord who is keen to get the paperwork signed. You rarely get the chance to ask whether the road is noisy at night, whether the area has a crime problem that is getting worse, or whether the broadband will cope with working from home.

Veto runs the same address checks a buyer gets: noise, air quality, crime trends, broadband and mobile signal, transport, schools and green space. You get a plain-English read of what living there is likely to be like, before you hand over a deposit.

Rule out a bad address in minutes, not in a week.

Most addresses you look at are not worth your time. The expensive way to find out is to book viewings, pay for searches and speak to agents. The cheap way is to run the address first and see whether anything in the public record makes it a poor candidate.

Veto puts ground conditions, designations, planning activity nearby and the make-up of the neighbourhood side by side, with the problems sized so you can see which ones matter. Save your criteria once, then run address after address against them and see them ranked.