The way we buy, own and sell homes in the UK is becoming increasingly digital and digital property logbooks are expected to play an important part in that change.
The boxes can wait. This is a practical moving-in checklist for day one, the first 48 hours, the first week and the second week: the readings, safety checks, admin and paperwork that take minutes now and turn into a small research project six months later.
A car comes with a service history and a house comes with a carrier bag, if you are lucky. Much of what is missing still exists in somebody else's records. This guide shows who holds each one, what you need to ask for it, what a copy costs and what cannot be recreated.
A receipt proves you paid somebody. It does not prove the work met building regulations or that the guarantee is still worth anything. This guide sets out what counts as evidence for each kind of job, where to replace a lost certificate and what to keep the day a job finishes.
As of October 2026 no UK law requires a digital property logbook. The government's June 2026 roadmap says it will legislate to make logbooks and sales packs a standard part of every sale when parliamentary time allows, with no date set. Here's what is law, what is only planned, the dates so far and what to start keeping.
