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

Search Acumen report: Commercial Real Estate volumes grew by 20% since 2016

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

Search Acumen comments on the Digitisation of the Local Land Charges register for Norwich City Council

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

Search Acumen comments on ONS construction figures

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

Search Acumen comments on MHCLG planning applications in England

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.

Remortgaging Falls In April But First Time Buyer Mortgages Increase

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

Transactions Agreed Suggest Summer Property Price Increases

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.

Search Acumen Comments On RICS Residential Market Survey

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

Will Digital Assistant Alexa Transform The Conveyancing Industry?

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,

Top 200 Conveyancers Seize Record Market Share As Active Firms Drop Below 4,000

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

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Caroline Robinson, Commercial Real Estate Business Development Manager of Search Acumen, comments: “The commercial property sector faces significant upheaval in the coming years as occupier demand continues to decline across the board. “The demand for

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Andy Sommerville, Director of Search Acumen, comments: “March traditionally sees a slight increase in property transactions, however, the constantly shifting Brexit deadline and the resulting ripple effect of uncertainty through UK markets has contributed to

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SNaPS (Search of the National Polygon Service) is a first-of-its-kind service that instantly interrogates property boundaries and ownership data – allowing property lawyers to make immediate assessments and act earlier for their clients The

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Search Acumen, property data insight and technology provider, has appointed Charlotte Cripps to the role of Commercial Real Estate Client Relationship Manager as the business continues to enhance its work with legal firms in the

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