Maria Harris chairs the Open Property Data Association (OPDA), which she founded in 2023 to improve home buying through digitised, trusted, interoperable property data. She represents OPDA across key industry and government groups, driving collaborative, customer-centric progress. Maria also provides mortgage transformation consultancy via Digital Cat and is a non-executive director at United Trust Bank and GenH, and a board advisor at FinTech North. With over 30 years in management, including 20 in financial services, she previously served as director of Lending at Atom bank, launching the UK’s first fully digital mortgage. She is an advocate for equality, diversity, data, and technology.
Maria Harris, chair of the Open Property Data Association (OPDA) explores the home buying and selling reform roadmap and how it links to the smart data agenda, and explains why it’s important for conveyancers to