
The smartest land and property decisions rest on location intelligence from Groundsure.
Groundsure is a UK authority on environmental risks including land contamination, flooding and ground stability. It provides high value, property-specific opinions, and analysis of land use based on the leading datasets that it collects and curates.
Groundsure helps a range of individuals and businesses make fully informed property transaction decisions including:
Groundsure turns data into practical, actionable insight. Its customers feel confident and able to understand that data and what it means for them, helping them make property decisions and advise their clients with confidence and clarity. To ensure Groundsure delivers the most up to date environmental data it partners with leading data, mapping and technology providers including but not limited to the Environment Agency, Ordnance Survey, the British Geological Survey and Ambiental.
We believe in following solid and honest business principles and industry best practice. We are committed to delivering market-leading products and customer excellence. We deliver this by following stringent operational processes for every aspect of our business, whether that’s our Data Governance Council or our Senior Management Boards through to delivering customer excellence every day.
As a result of our firm belief in the importance of accurate and reliable data governance Groundsure is a founding member of the Conveyancing Information Executive (www.conveyinfoexec.org).
We continually support, and learn from, our own community of approved Groundsure property-search resellers. This way we can guarantee their sales and customer-service teams know every aspect of our products and services. And we can know these offerings are 100% fit for their client’s needs, providing more empowering data and opinion, and enabling exceptional due diligence.
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Which report for which scenario? Commercial – Thursday 8th November, 11am – 12pm GMT In this webinar, Strategic Account Manager Nick Treble, will take a closer look at our range of Commercial reports. In this
We are delighted to welcome Stephen Sykes as our guest speaker for this brand new session. Stephen is an Environmental Lawyer and Consultant from Capital Law. During this webinar, Stephen will cover the following: Climate
One of our key speakers Tyrone Dunbar at the Met Office delivered a session that included a weather forecast from July 2050. It was greeted with a mixture of shock and awe that we could
Groundsure launched its new climate data module today, following a year of development and a soft-launch trial. The module, ClimateIndex™, analyses and translates data concerning the risks that climate change might pose to a property
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What are Practice Notes? Over the years, the Law Society of England and Wales has issued more than 100 Practice Notes to its 160,000 members. They are designed to describe good practice and, whilst we
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The Conveyancing Climate Change Conference, hosted by Groundsure. In this inaugural and exclusive event, hear from leading lawyers, policymakers and experts across the industry and gain practical guidance on how to advise your clients about
As property lawyers will know, contaminated land can give rise to a range of liabilities and unexpected costs, whether they relate to human health, land, buildings, businesses, or the wider environment. The statute that has
Groundsure has announced the details of a major new climate change summit for the conveyancing industry. The inaugural in-person event, hosted by the environmental analytics business, will be held at the Law Society on Chancery
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