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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Email: marketing@groundsure.com
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83% of conveyancers place Brexit as one of the top three factors to have a significant influence on the UK property market in 2017, with almost half (48%) putting it first, according to new research
New research released by Groundsure today finds almost half (48%) of UK conveyancers believe the Government’s consultation for the changed HS2 route has been poor, with 14% saying it was of extremely low quality and
The Government’s preferred route for HS2 north of Birmingham will adversely affect 3,500 fewer households outside London than the original plans, thanks to changes to the Sheffield section of the route, new research has shown.
Groundsure recently attended The Chamber Business Awards 2016 and we are delighted to announce that we won the Best Use of Technology Award sponsored by BT. The Chamber Business Awards, now in its 13th year,
This year Groundsure is supporting the Humanitarian Open Street Map Team by using our expertise in digitising map data – using aerial imagery to map out roads and pathways in remote areas to help humanitarian
Following the announcement of a new proposed route for HS2, Groundsure now believe that this route may receive approval and as such have manually digitised the new route and added this second route into their
Huge variation in the fortunes of commercial property can be seen across the regions according to research released from Groundsure. Activity in the commercial property sector showed an increase of 9.3% across England & Wales
Today, Groundsure has been shortlisted for the Grichan Partnership Sustainable Business Award for the 2016 Lloyds Bank National Business Awards.
Groundsure are hosting their inaugural charity golf day on 30th September 2016 at Cottesmore Hotel Golf and Country Club, West Sussex, raising money for Prostate Cancer UK.
Location Intelligence experts Groundsure are committed to assisting solicitors with their training especially in light of the new Law Society Practice Note on Consumer Protection Regulations. The Consumer Protection Regulations apply to any ‘business to
Groundsure have relaunched their flagship residential property report – Homebuyers – the definitive report covering contaminated land, flood risk and ground stability. This new look report delivers all the key information on the front page
2015 saw over 1,200,000 residential property transaction completions and 2016 is set to exceed to this. The UK has also experienced a sharp increase in asking prices with the average asking price recorded in March
Find out more about the historic military/ordnance features dataset which is included in all Groundsure residential and commercial searches.
Groundsure have announced a set of webinars for conveyancers starting this week. The three webinars cover Japanese Knotweed, energy infrastructure projects like fracking and wind farms and utility searches. The webinars begin tomorrow. Japanese knotweed
Following another incident involving development works and the London Underground, Groundsure has created the Groundsure Underground report designed specifically for conveyancers to ensure identification of the location and depth of existing and proposed London Underground
Groundsure understands that industry terminology can be confusing, especially around data and the general terms on flood reports. This short video clip details the types of data Groundsure interprets, common misconceptions and how they analyse
During 2015, approximately 456,000 property transactions in England and Wales did not factor flood risk into their purchase, according to calculations from location intelligence specialists Groundsure*. Flood risk is a major issue in the UK,
In July 2014 the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) – a new executive agency sponsored by the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) – announced the opening of the 14th round of onshore licensing.
Single-use plastic bags are a world-wide waste issue, as a single bag can take up to 500 years or more to degrade (1). Further to the huge waste issue caused by discarded plastic bags there
Following last week’s news story about the large sinkhole that opened in a residential estate in St Albans, our Research team at Groundsure have done some investigative work and found that this area was formerly
2014 saw over 1,100,000 residential property transaction completions – over 200,000 more than the previous year – and the 7 months up to 31st July of 2015 has seen 399,394 transactions (1). The average UK
The Government is looking to use the Housing Bill to reduce the amount of legislation for the development of brownfield sites – arguing that legislation intended to protect both environment and building are unnecessary, ‘liberalising’
It seems there is some confusion on alien species and their invasion. Species of either vegetables or animals discovered in a place they do not belong are defined as alien (or exotic) (1). Not all
The Great British Summer has once again been the subject of an incredibly wet few weeks, with flash flooding seen across many areas of the country. At Groundsure we love to analyse and verify the
A Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO) allows certain statutory bodies to obtain land or property from an individual without their consent to do so. These orders will occur when the purchase of said land or property
Groundsure were recently approached by ITV’s ‘Tonight’ programme to advise on, and provide spatial data portraying known infrastructure and planned projects, relating to infrastructure with the potential to cause noise disturbance. The information supplied was
A 40ft-deep crater has appeared in middle of Mancunian Way blocking a major route around the city centre The sinkhole opened up around midday on Friday 14th August in central Manchester after torrential rain hit
A recent discovery has been made during the excavations for the Crossrail project at the Bedlam Cemetery beneath the new entrance currently being built at Liverpool Street station in London. A mass burial site thought
On the 18th August, the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) announced the first tranche of new licences which will be offered to companies to explore for Gas/Oil/Shale gas/Coalbed Methane. 27 licences have been offered to
In September the first new metal ore mine in the UK for around 45 years is due to start production on the edge of Dartmoor. Hemerdon Mine (also known as Drakelands Mine) near Plymouth will
5.4% more transactions than national average in high-risk areas Areas with high flood risk* saw 5.4% more property transactions than the UK average since 2013, according to new research released today from Groundsure. Groundsure used
Definition and classification of Groundwater Source Protection ZonesGroundwater provides a third of our drinking water in England and Wales, 7% in Northern Ireland and 3% in Scotland [1]. In some areas of Southern England, groundwater