Why land value data is the missing link in your appraisal toolkit
When you're assessing a site, the big question is: what’s it actually worth - not as bricks and mortar, but as land? For too long, developers have had to make educated guesses. That’s because while Land Registry provides sales data for residential and commercial properties, they leave out the crucial part: land with development potential. You could spend hours investigating, and still come up short.
But land doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Its value can spike with planning approval, an allocation, or a developer showing early interest. Knowing what someone paid - and when - gives you rare insight into the true potential of a site.
The challenge: an incomplete picture of past land sales
Most developers have been flying blind. You look up a title and there’s no price, or you speculatively spend hundreds on deeds to be left empty handed. You try to estimate based on surrounding property types, maybe even poke around for planning history - but the real figure stays hidden. For key parcels - edge-of-settlement plots, SHLAA intersections, or sites with recent planning - it’s not just frustrating. It’s risky.
Without access to historic land sale prices, planning data, SHLAA status and promotional activity in one place - it’s hard to understand uplift, benchmark against other transactions, or justify your appraisal to stakeholders.
Introducing Land Values - Searchland’s new tool that sheds light on land transactions that were previously invisible
We’ve surfaced the last known sale price for hundreds of thousands of high-interest titles - including those with planning history, allocations, or strategic positioning. These are the sites developers actually care about.
You can now:
- See live Land Value data for plots across England (no more speculatively title deed purchases)
- Access a timeline of key events (like planning or allocation) to contextualise a land sale
- Compare average land prices across locations via our dynamic analytics tab
- Search by for opportunities by land value in our Sourcing tool
This gives you a reliable foundation to value land, track uplifts, and make confident, data-driven decisions - especially for off-market sites.
We believe we’re the first to bring this level of land-specific sales data to market. It’s part of our mission to make property intelligence smarter and faster for those who actually build. To see the tool in action book a demo with the team.
