ONS Construction Output In Great Britain

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 On UK House Price Index For October 2019

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.

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

£21m A Day: Commercial Spending On Real Estate Drops From 2017-19 As Brexit Delays Bite

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

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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

Search Acumen Joins Project Developing New Homebuying Tech

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

Search Acumen Comments On MHCLG Housing Supply Statistics

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

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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

Search Acumen comments on ONS Housebuilding Stats, Q2 2019

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

Search Acumen Comments On ONS Construction Figures

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

Commercial Buyers Of New Build Real Estate Increasingly Looking Beyond The M25 As Market Falters

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

Sajid Javid Rejects Stamp Duty Liability Reversal Speculation

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

Rise in Homemovers for the first time in three years

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

Disillusioned Buyers Increasingly Consider Unconventional Property

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

Disorderly Brexit Will Cost Legal Sector £3.5 Billion

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

Farnworth Rose streamlines conveyancing search ordering thanks to SearchFlow and Practice integration

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

Storm Clouds Gathering Over The Construction Sector

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

Expert Warns Passive Conveyancers Reluctant To Embrace Technological Changes

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

Should Pension Savings Fund First Time Buyer Deposits?

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

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