Search by Property Description
Overview
Use this service to find out the title number and tenure of a property based on the address supplied.
If you’re a software developer
Use this document to integrate data into your system.
Process flow
Input
Request an official search by sending the following parameters:
- login details
- external reference number
- customer reference
- address
Validation
Validation diagram (Search by property description) details the validation that the request undergoes.
Validation diagram Business Rules
Business Rule | Decision point | BG Code | Message ID | Message text |
---|---|---|---|---|
BRL-ISBG-001 | Is the address valid? N | bg.invalid.property.search.criteria | MSG-BG-001 | Insufficient address details. Please provide flat/house and postcode OR flat, street and town OR house, street and town. |
BRL-ISBG-002 | Is Postcode valid? N | bg.postcode.invalid | MSG-BG-004 | Please provide valid postcode |
BRL-ISBG-003 | Were matching properties found? N | bg.properties.nopropertyfound | MSG-BG-003 | No title number has been identified from the data supplied. This does not necessarily mean that a register of a title does not exist but only that insufficient data has matched. |
BRL-ISBG-003 | Were too many properties returned? Y | bg.properties.toomanyproperties | MSG-BG-002 | The property address you entered has matched with a large number of properties on our database. Please request again with refined address details. |
Output
A list of properties and title numbers.
Schemas

RequestSearchByPropertyDescriptionV2_0
XSD
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ResponseSearchByPropertyDescriptionV2_0
XSD
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Schema explain describes the request schema for the service.

RequestSearchByPropertyDescriptionV2_0Example.xml
XML
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Vendor testing
Vendor Test Data (Outstanding requests) documents the data for testing the service.
