New Feature: Buildings Tool

Forensic building intelligence, finally unlocked

‍Every property developer knows the pain of investigating complicated buildings. Titles can contain multiple structures. Each building might span several floors, with dozens of different addresses and uses. Until now, figuring out what’s actually inside a building often meant site visits, Google Street View guesswork, and endless follow-up with agents and occupiers.

This is especially tricky when doing due diligence on sites like shopping centres, estates, or mixed-use buildings - where different parts of a structure may have different histories, occupancies, or planning constraints. The more complex the title, the harder it gets to understand what you’re working with.

The pain of parsing buildings‍

Let’s be real: titles tell part of the story, but rarely the whole thing. When a single title contains multiple buildings - each with its own addresses, uses, materials, and state of repair - it quickly becomes a mess of tabs, spreadsheets, and guesswork.

Developers and planners are forced to ask:

• What’s actually in this building?
• Is it occupied? Derelict? In use?
• How many addresses are in here — and what are they?
• Is there planning history on a specific unit?
• What’s the potential for retrofit or solar?

Until now, getting those answers has been laborious, or worse - incomplete.

The Buildings tool: granular, visual, and built for the pro user‍

Searchland’s new Buildings Tool changes everything. Powered by Ordnance Survey’s latest National Geographic Database, it allows users to explore individual buildings with forensic precision - going well beyond title boundaries.

Here’s what it unlocks:

• Map visualisation by building characteristics - year built, material, presence of solar panels, usage type, and more.
• Custom query builder - want to see only commercial buildings built after 2015 with solar panels? Go for it.
• Graph view - instantly see stats on building types in your chosen area.
• Building profiles - click into any building to view attributes like:
  • Building age, material, roof type, use class
  • Solar panel presence, orientation, potential output
  • Derelict/under construction/occupied status
  • Floor count, height, basement presence, green roof, outbuildings
• Address overview - drill down into the addresses within a building to see their lettings history, VOA records, planning history, and more. You can even filter to find unoccupied or historic addresses.
• Title integration - see which buildings sit within a title, and vice versa. You can now filter by building characteristics in title sourcing too.

And this is just the beginning.

Designed for due diligence. Built for developers.

‍This tool was created in response to a real developer pain point: understanding what’s actually on-site, before you even step foot on it. Whether you’re assessing conversions, acquisitions, or strategic land - the Buildings Tool makes your desktop research faster, clearer, and far more complete.

And unlike anything else on the market, it’s fully integrated into the Searchland platform - no jumping between datasets, systems, or PDFs.

Book a demo and see it in action. If you're a Searchland Pro user, the Buildings Tool is live and ready to explore. For everyone else - if you've ever struggled with complex titles or wished you could see inside a building before visiting it, this one's for you.

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