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‍Searchland has a clear mission: to transform the way property professionals source sites. Here's the full story on where we come from and how we're helping developers across the UK.

The Renters Reform Bill presents the biggest shake-up England’s private rented sector has seen in decades. Expected to pass in 2025, Build to Rent (BTR) and Private Rented Sector (PRS) developers will need to rethink everything from unit design and management strategies to how they navigate the planning process.

You’ve probably heard all about how the high street is taking a beating from online retailers. Well, in a surprising trend reversal, we’re now seeing major e-commerce brands expanding into physical spaces. 

The commercial data partnership you’ve been waiting for is here. Access on-market commercial property sales, lettings, leasehold and completed deal listings along with rich property data exclusively in Searchland

It’s the Biodiversity Net Gain Proptech partnership you’ve been waiting for! Together with GAIA, the UK's leading BNG marketplace, we've developed a comprehensive and cutting-edge tool to transform how you engage with BNG projects.

Placing 31st in this year’s Cloud Challengers Top 100 Report, Searchland has been recognised as one of the most promising early start-ups in Europe - find out how we made the cut!

Introduced in 2020, Class ZA permitted development rights allow the demolition of commercial premises and residential properties to create new homes, helping to increase housing supply by redeveloping vacant buildings.

Sourcing land is a complex process with many factors to consider. To get the numbers right, it is important to be organised, efficient, and accurate. By following the best practices discussed in this blog, you can increase your chances of making a well-informed decision.

As renewable energy production in the UK increases, finding sites to house solar, wind and battery storage farms is becoming challenging. Searchland unravels the complexity of site finding for renewable energy providers by seamlessly compiling essential data sets to identify, analyse and source off-market sites at scale.

We've introduced AI (artificial intelligence) into Searchland, enabling you to find specific information about local council plan documents, adopted & emerging, within seconds.

In protected land areas, it’s a requirement to offset the nutrient pollution caused by new construction. Read how developers can purchase 'nutrient credits' or create nutrient mitigation schemes themselves to meet requirements.

Searchland has launched a new tool to allow developers to search for permitted development sites. It makes it quicker and easier for users to find their ideal sites.

All the planning approval rates and new build sales price information you need for the Kent Local Authority Districts.

It’s no secret that off-market site finding is a numbers game. This means, be wary of how much time you spend on each site because that will directly affect how big your stack is at the end of the week.

We’re excited to announce a new injection of £2.3m in seed funding investment! Plans for our new funds include even more datasets and automation on our next-generation land sourcing platform. We're also adding more high level inhouse expertise to our team. Read on to discover how, as the face of land sourcing in the UK, we'll be helping clients tackle some of the big issues around the housing crisis in 2023.

Launched last week by HM Treasury, The Growth Plan 2022 introduced a raft of tax breaks and incentives, including some which aim to boost the beleaguered UK housing market. Here we look at some of the key initiatives in more detail and consider how - and if - these will be of benefit to house builders and developers.

We’ve all seen AI pop up in every tool, whether it adds value or not. But honestly, we’re excited about this one. We believe it’s the most innovative and genuinely helpful use of AI yet. With our new tool, land sourcing is becoming faster, easier, and more intuitive.

Our company ownership tool has been upgraded. Now, you can quickly and efficiently see a company’s ownership tree, what land and property it owns or leases, and who runs them in seconds.

Explore live and completed commercial property sales and lettings listings directly in Searchland, enhanced with up-to-date comparables, building histories, lease events, ownership information, availability and more

Across the UK, hundreds of thousands of Tree Protection Orders are in place, covering a wide array of trees in both urban and rural settings - our new dataset can help you avoid protracted legal battles.

With Biodiversity Net Gain becoming a requirement for almost every development project in England, we’ve developed a comprehensive tool to help make the process as simple as possible.

Our highly anticipated traffic and footfall data is here - giving you a unique and industry-leading overview of vehicle and pedestrian mobility volume across the UK.