Whether your property transaction is big or small, commercial or residential; you can rely on us for accurate property data.
We collaborate with forward-thinking law firms who have an appetite to use authentic data in consultation with their clients. Our relentless focus on the next generation of property law, means all our customers already benefit from our easy access instant data, saving them critical time and resource.
We provide more than 40 layers of essential property data, digitally and on-demand through our intuitive ForeSite Platform. Our advanced system allows our customers to analyse real estate sites before the purchasing process has even started.
Early warning indicators create a highly efficient consultation process between our customers and their clients, significantly improving the purchasing experience.
Our customers choose us and stay with us because we’re different. They like being part of our community because our vision for the market allows us to deliver future proofed innovations which is good for their business.
Here’s some examples from the past twelve months that have helped us receive recognition as thought leaders in the property data space:
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Andy Sommerville, Director of Search Acumen, comments: “The start of the year saw a slight uplift in the property market as the backlog of transactions that were put on hold at the end of 2019
Coveyancing Market Nose-Dives in Q4 As Policitcal Uncertainty Quashes Transaction Volumes And Active Firms Search Acumen Conveyancing Market Tracker – Q4 2019 edition Quarterly transactions down by 8% in Q4 to the lowest level since
Andy Sommerville, Director at Search Acumen, comments: “No one could accuse the nation’s housebuilders of giving us too much of a good thing. Right across the board – from the private sector to housing associations,
Andy Sommerville, Director at Search Acumen, comments: “The UK construction industry stands on a threshold – advancing forwards to achieve new heights or slipping backwards to stagnation. Growth has been slow, but the UK construction
Andy Sommerville, Director at Search Acumen, comments: “The end of the decade can’t come soon enough for those in the housebuilding trade. Since the financial crisis we’ve seen rates of planning applications flat line for
Andy Sommerville, Director at Search Acumen, comments: “Where there is growth there is life. And although we haven’t seen much in the way of house price growth, today’s statistics show life is returning to the
According to the Office for National Statistics’ UK House Price Index, house prices increased by 0.7% in the year to October. The latest figures also suggest that growth has fallen by 1% since the start
On average, commercial buyers of real estate in England and Wales spent £249m each day during the first eight months of 2019 – a drop of more than 7% over two years from £270m in
Commercial lawyers can now interrogate 40 property data layers via Search Acumen’s ForeSite platform New insights on coal mines, flooding and the City of London will expedite the due diligence process on commercial real estate
Coadjute, a network for decentralised workflow and data sharing within the property industry, has agreed a project to develop new mortgage and home buying technology with a consortium of leading property software providers and banks
Andy Sommerville, Director at Search Acumen, comments: “The net increase in housing stock could be seen as a proxy barometer for the nation’s economic outlook. You don’t have to be a meteorologist to know we
Caroline Robinson, Commercial Real Estate Business Development Manager at Search Acumen, comments: “Managing due diligence and planning around complex commercial real estate transactions can be fraught with risk. Relying on paper trails which take months
Andy Sommerville, Director at Search Acumen, comments: “Brexit has obviously introduced a great deal of uncertainty into developer’s order books as fears grow over buyers getting cold feet and supply chains being disrupted. However, the
Today’s construction figures show the value of construction new work in Great Britain continued to rise in 2018, reaching its highest level on record at £113,127 million; this was driven by growth in public sector
Forecasts predict a slump in new build sales in London by the end of the year Search Acumen Commercial Real Estate Insights – Q3 2019 edition Commercial new build transactions outside the capital set to
Since 2015, there have been 19,954 property transactions in the London Borough of Lambeth valuing just over £13.5bn Of those, around 85% (16,872) were residential property transactions, totalling nearly £10bn. Lambeth has experienced 3,082 commercial
Monday 23rd September marks the start of National Empty Homes Week. The Empty Homes Week was founded by Action on Empty Homes to highlight Britain’s underused or completely unused housing stock and to encourage action
This Friday 13th could put the housing and commercial property markets on pause according to analysis by Search Acumen, the property data and technology provider, which shows a double-digit drop in both residential and commercial
Search Acumen Conveyancing Market Tracker – Q2 2019 edition Total conveyancing transaction volumes fell by over 10% on a quarterly basis and 20% since Q2 2016 as Brexit uncertainty plagues the market The top 200
Andy Sommerville, Director of Search Acumen, comments: “Much like this rainy August, there wasn’t much sunshine to be found in the property market this past month, as a muted July tells us that most potential
Andy Sommerville, Director of Search Acumen, comments: “UK construction continues to run, but nobody seems to know what on, or indeed, for how long. Elsewhere this week, experts have been discussing a potential crisis hitting
We recently held a series of stimulating round tables to reflect on the PropTech landscape and the potential of future innovations. We invited representatives from HM Land Registry (HMLR), Leverton, an Artificial Intelligence and Deep
Andy Sommerville, Director of Search Acumen, comments: “We regularly measure the rate of property transactions and our findings are mirroring those of HM Revenue & Customs – the Brexit effect has finally taken hold of
Contrary to some doom-laden headlines we’ve been seeing in the last year, our new data-driven study found that the commercial real estate sector is healthy across England and Wales. In June 2019, we published our
Since 2016, there have been 7,765 property transactions in Norwich City Council valuing just over £1.9bn Of those, just over 85% (6,629) were residential property transactions, totalling around £1.43bn. Norwich has experienced 1,136 commercial real
Andy Sommerville, Director of Search Acumen, comments: “We recently heard that house building has hit a ten-year low in London, but anxiety has spread beyond the capital as investors and developers are being forced to
Andy Sommerville, Director at Search Acumen, comments: “It’s been a strong year for housebuilding, but planning applications and grants have continued to fall – 2018/2019 has seen the biggest dip in applications for a decade.
Twice as many locations in England and Wales broke the £1bn sales mark in 2018 than 2016 Search Acumen Commercial Real Estate Insights – June 2019 Thirteen local authority districts across England and Wales exceeded
Search Acumen comments on Homes England Annual Housing Statistics Andy Sommerville, Director at Search Acumen, comments: “A buoyant market, a prosperous future – those are the phrases that spring to mind looking at today’s statistics.
Andy Sommerville, Director of Search Acumen, comments: “The latest RICS UK Residential Survey results point to overall market trends remaining stagnant, with indicators on demand, supply and prices all falling within negative territory, albeit less
Andy Sommerville, Director of Search Acumen, comments: “Not only was it a strong year of house building in 2017/18 with more than 160,000 homes completed in England, but as today’s Land Use Change Statistics reveal,
Search Acumen Conveyancing Market Tracker – Q1 2019 edition The number of active conveyancing firms in England and Wales dropped below 4,000 (3,961) for the first time on record The top 200 conveyancing firms now