Andy Sommerville, Director at Search Acumen, comments on the latest RICS Residential Market Survey for April 2017:

Search Acumen, the conveyancing search provider, has designed and launched a new online quotation tool for conveyancers to quickly and accurately calculate the fees associated with a sale or purchase of a property for their

Search Acumen comments on today’s (28/04/17) HMRC Quarterly Stamp Duty Statistics: “The squeeze on affordability appears to be continuing as today’s statistics from HMRC reveal that Q1 2017 saw a 39% drop in transactions that

Search Acumen, the property search provider, has announced it is the first in the industry to offer Land Registry’s Commercial Title Ownership data to its customers free of charge as the next step in the

Andy Sommerville, Director of Search Acumen, comments on the latest HMRC transaction data

Commenting on the recently published ONS House Price Index, Andy Sommerville, Director at Search Acumen, stated: “Today’s house price data will do nothing to improve the bleak view of the UK’s property market. Average house

Andy Sommerville, Director at Search Acumen, comments on today’s DCLG Help to Buy (Equity Loan scheme) statistics: 1 April 2013 to 31 December 2016

Andy Sommerville, Director at Search Acumen, comments: “Today’s statistics reveal that the typical price paid for residential property in England and Wales increased by 259% between 1997 and 2016 – an obviously significant jump over

Andy Sommerville, Director at Search Acumen, comments: “Last week’s statistics on housing affordability proved just how disproportionate the gap between the average salary and house price has been over the past decade. Today’s ONS statistics

Following the recent release of the 2016 housebuilding statistics from the Department for Communities and Local Government, Director of Search Acumen, Andy Somerville has commented: “2016 housebuilding starts soared to their highest level seen in

Commenting on the latest HPI figures, Andy Sommerville, Director at Search Acumen, states: “2017 will almost certainly be another year of big house price increases. The final month of 2016 saw a 1.4% jump in

Search provider launches first commercial data service specifically developed for real estate lawyers to transform due diligence process Data updates in real-time and fully integrates with official data sources, as well as giving lawyers access

Andrew Lloyd, Managing Director at Search Acumen, comments: “The battle for a more efficient housing market has sprung into action with the publication of the Housing White Paper marking a vital acknowledgement of the current

Andy Sommerville, Director at Search Acumen, comments on today’s ONS Construction Output data, November 2016

Productivity levels in the conveyancing market sped up by a significant 55% over three years to reach an average rate of 110 transactions per conveyancer last year, according to the first Conveyancing Productivity Index from

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