diff --git a/app/rpc/rpccontext/verbosedata.go b/app/rpc/rpccontext/verbosedata.go
index e42d3ed8d3..6307e5cc55 100644
--- a/app/rpc/rpccontext/verbosedata.go
+++ b/app/rpc/rpccontext/verbosedata.go
@@ -81,10 +81,6 @@ func (ctx *Context) PopulateBlockWithVerboseData(block *appmessage.RPCBlock, dom
 		block.VerboseData.SelectedParentHash = blockInfo.SelectedParent.String()
 	}
 
-	if blockInfo.BlockStatus == externalapi.StatusHeaderOnly {
-		return nil
-	}
-
 	// Get the block if we didn't receive it previously
 	if domainBlock == nil {
 		domainBlock, err = ctx.Domain.Consensus().GetBlockEvenIfHeaderOnly(blockHash)
@@ -93,6 +89,10 @@ func (ctx *Context) PopulateBlockWithVerboseData(block *appmessage.RPCBlock, dom
 		}
 	}
 
+	if domainBlock == nil && blockInfo.BlockStatus == externalapi.StatusHeaderOnly {
+		return nil
+	}
+
 	transactionIDs := make([]string, len(domainBlock.Transactions))
 	for i, transaction := range domainBlock.Transactions {
 		transactionIDs[i] = consensushashing.TransactionID(transaction).String()