Six daily essentials, on foot
Transit, groceries, schools, parks, a GP, a high street — each either reachable in a fifteen-minute walk, or not. Weighted to your week.
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Walkshed scores every 460-metre patch of London on how much of daily life — transit, groceries, schools, parks, a GP, a high street — sits inside a fifteen-minute walk. Then it shows what those minutes cost, how far each of you would be from work, and whether the price is drifting.
Every signal is shown with its honest uncertainty — a median next to its range, a trend next to the London average. No single number out of a hundred.
Transit, groceries, schools, parks, a GP, a high street — each either reachable in a fifteen-minute walk, or not. Weighted to your week.
A multiplicative 0–1 score — you need all three to score well. One missing piece, and the figure honestly collapses.
Median for your floor-area band, the middle 50% around it, and the sample it rests on — never a single misleading figure.
Price-per-m² over the last 24 months against the prior 24, set beside the London-wide move — so a rise reads as context, not a klaxon.
Door-to-door public-transport time from each of your origins, each against its own target. The tighter constraint becomes the constraint.
Tenure, household mix, council-tax bands, schools, crime and flood risk — shown as context that informs you, never folded into the headline number.
Eight things matter, and not equally — six categories plus each of your commutes. Push the ones you’ll use most. Walkshed re-weights every hex against the life you actually live, not the average household’s.
London is sliced into 460-metre hexes, each scored against your weights. Tap one and the sheet tells you what’s there, who paid what, how long each of you would commute, and whether prices are moving against the rest of London.
Star the patches worth a coffee on the high street. Each keeps a private note for what you found, and the nearby ones line up into a single Saturday walk. By the time you’ve walked five, the shortlist has narrowed itself.
You and your partner share a single shortlist, each signing in as yourselves. Every star and every note is attributed — so you can see who loved a place, who wasn’t sure, and where you disagree before you spend a Saturday finding out.
A compare view sets two or three areas side by side on the same rows — score, price, trend, each of your commutes — so the final cut from a dozen down to a handful happens on the evidence, not by re-arguing the map.
Most property tools sell you the home. Walkshed asks whether you’d be happy living near it.
A neighbourhood is the ten minutes around your front door. The bakery you walk to on Saturdays. The Overground you catch on a wet Tuesday. The park where the dogs already know each other. We score those minutes against six categories of daily life — and we tell you when the median price has drifted away from the rest of London, either way.
What we don’t do: rank by stars, push the high-priced patches up the page, badge anywhere as “hot”, or invent urgency. Portals are built to move stock. Walkshed isn’t trying to move anything — it’s two people working out where they’d actually like to live, with the data here so you can argue with it honestly.
We built Walkshed for our own move — every tool we tried was made for one person and ranked homes by price, when what we needed was to weigh both our commutes and both our opinions. It’s here now for any two people working out where in London they’d be happy.