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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.

Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment or in short (SHLAA) is a study which every local authority is required to undertake. It gives an overview of potential development sites within each authorities boundary.

Agricultural land is designated land solely used for activities like growing crops or rearing livestock. However, it can also be set aside as “greenfield” for development. So if you are looking for sites in rural areas, this one is for you.

Brownfield sites are usually defined as any land that has already been built on, while greenfield land has yet to be developed. But contrary to what you might assume, not all built-on sites count as brownfield. What’s more, brownfield and greenfield sites can both be found in urban and rural areas.

Carry out an online search for land, and sooner or later you are bound to come across the term ‘brownfield’.Here we take a deep dive into how it fits into planning policy and how Searchland can help you to source more brownfield development opportunities.

Class MA (Mercantile to Abode) allows for the conversion of commercial buildings to houses without the need to apply for planning permission. Coming into force in 2021, and updated in 2024 - Class MA replaces Classes G, M, and O, and is intended to help revitalise town centres.

Permitted development rights might look easy, but we know that decisions can still go against you. At Searchland, we've compiled 3 case studies to show where others went wrong (or right) and what you can do to improve your chances.

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.

Finding profitable development opportunities, especially larger-scale ones, can take time and effort. Land Assembly provides ambitious developers the means to make those opportunities a reality.

Whether you work in the energy sector or are a developer exploring the feasibility of connecting new projects to the National Grid - our DNO tool is an invaluable resource you need to be using.

When moving from an existing GIS platform to Searchland, don't leave your hard work behind. Bring all of your custom datasets along with our new Upload layer tool.