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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!

As 2023 ends, a ponderous UK Government finally publishes the long-awaited Housing Delivery Test 2022 - showing the state of housing delivery over the past 3 financial years. Here’s our take on the data.

From the outset, our mission at Searchland has been fuelled by one clear purpose: to revolutionise how developers, entrepreneurs, planners and architects source and assess sites at scale. Our integration with Rightmove's data brings this vision into sharper focus than ever.

Nutrient neutrality is a means of ensuring that a plan or project does not add to existing nutrient burdens so there is no net increase in nutrients as a result of the plan or project.

In June 2020, the Government announced an update of The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) (GPDO) in a new 20th Part, allowing for the construction of new flats in airspace on a variety of buildings throughout England.

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.

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.

Tired of trawling through council websites to investigate interactive local plan policy maps? We’ve made it simple by gathering the different data packages and digitising them in our dynamic Local plan policy tool.

Say hello to the newest iteration of our powerful integrated letter-sending feature. Bringing you even more enhancements and capabilities to further amp up site prospecting.

Whether you're a renewable energy provider scouting for prime land or a developer eager to uncover the optimal locations for solar panel placement, our cutting-edge solar insights layers are tailored just for your needs.

Introducing map annotations. Easily add notes, draw out potential sites, and outline the footprints of planned buildings. This feature simplifies marking areas of interest and visualising planning ideas on our map.

Whether you are embarking on new construction projects near safeguarded radar or surveillance sites, or building at height - you might be interested in the planning constraints you could face. Our new National Air Traffic Service tool has you covered.

Discovering the ideal site in the perfect location is now more effortless than ever. Introducing the brand-new Proximity feature, designed to empower users with precise location insights. Now users can easily find sites based on their proximity to key amenities.