The Landstack alternative

Find off-market land before the competition can move

Sourcing, planning, ownership and valuation in one platform — so you're moving on a site while everyone else is still stitching tabs together.

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Testimonial: Site assessments that took weeks now take 1 hour thanks to Searchland.

Trusted by the UK's leading developers

At a glance

Two approaches to UK property data.

One unified platform built for depth, against four separate product areas you flick between.

Searchland

Unified · built for depth

Everything in one platform.

Sourcing, planning, ownership, valuation & infrastructure working in concert
93.5 / 100 planning data quality, tested head-to-head
Thousands of fine-tunable filters with plain-language AI
MCP connector: 35 datasets, computed answers, playbooks

Landstack

Separate product areas

Four tools you flick between.

Solid fundamentals on a subset of property data
Combining datasets means switching between areas
Simple, lightweight sourcing with a solid AI assistant
MCP connector: single-purpose retrieval tools only

Built for how your team sources

One job, every team. Find off-market land and assess it first.

SME developer

Find off-market residential sites and judge planning potential before you commit.

Ownership and title search, full planning history, and verified landowner contacts in one place

Renewables

Find grid-connectable land before the queue fills up.

DNO and substation mapping, embedded capacity register, and distance-to-grid on every parcel.

National developer

Run land searches across every region and track delivery at portfolio scale.

Multi-region search, Housing Delivery Test, 5-year supply and local plan tracking.

Planner

Benchmark LPAs and back your due diligence with evidence.

23M+ applications, approval-rate and appeal data, and full-text document search.

Commercial real estate

Find sites for roll-out and confirm availability fast.

VOA rates and use-class data, footfall counts, and constraint mapping.

We tested and used a few different platforms before settling on Searchland. They all offered very similar tools on paper, but for us it came down to how it felt day to day - Searchland was simply more intuitive and easier to navigate. In the end, though, it was the data and the support that sealed it.

Geometric polygon design above the text 'the Yorkshire planner' in black and bold font for Yorkshire.

Rebecca Grace

Director, The Yorkshire Planner

Unique to Searchland

Six things Landstack can't do.

Land values, the appraisal tool and company ownership intelligence sit only in Searchland — alongside the data layers Landstack has no equivalent for.

Assess the form and function of buildings

Move past the map and look inside buildings — occupiers, floor locations, lease terms, construction and roof types.

Dig deeper into planning history

Site Activity, public & committee comments, councillor political affiliations and Planning enforcements - the planning detail, planners trust.

See what land and property really sold for

See what land sold for, with and without planning permission, and compare property pricing with dynamic aggregations based on date and area.

Create detailed site appraisals

Move from map to financial model, no spreadsheets required.

Trace who controls every site

Directors, DOBs, full company structures and corporate chains - uncover every site an owner controls.

The UK's most comprehensive HMO dataset

Licensed HMO records covering every registered house in multiple occupation across the UK.

Shared essentials both platforms cover: ownership records, sold-price comparables, strategic land, planning constraints and project boards.

Planning data, tested head-to-head

The data quality gap, measured.

Searchland

Landstack

Overall data quality score

93.5

72.0

Completeness · key fields populated

96%

64%

Source: head-to-head assessment of 50 LPAs, 12 months to May 2026.

Full feature comparison

Every capability, side by side.

Every dataset and tool across both platforms, from sourcing and planning through to ownership, outreach and AI.

Sourcing & planning data

Sourcing tool incl. AI assistant

Buildings tool

Planning applications

Strategic land

Local Plan policy

Planning constraints

Energy, EV & DNO

(powered by Zapmap)

Partial

Biodiversity Net Gain

Partial

Demographics

Scotland data

Partial

Ownership, outreach & AI

Ownership records

Company ownership

Sold price comparables

Residential sales & lettings (powered by Rightmove)

Add on

Commercial sales & lettings (powered by Rightmove Commercial)

Add on

Land values

Appraisal tool

Add on

Letter sending

Partial

Title reports

HMO data

Partial

Project management boards

Upload custom layers

Zapier integration

Landstack feature set based on publicly available product information, July 2026.

See it in your area

Run Searchland against your own sites.

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The AI layer · newest area of divergence

The MCP connector gap is the biggest yet.

Both platforms ship MCP connectors so assistants like Claude and ChatGPT can access platform data directly. They are not the same product.

Dimension

Searchland MCP

Landstack MCP

Design model

Generic query engine plus workflow skills

Single-purpose tools

Data reach

35 datasets across planning, valuation, infrastructure, demographics

Planning, titles, plans, ownership

Analytics

Server-side aggregations: averages, trends, breakdowns

None

Imagery

Street View and satellite with title boundaries

None

Deliverable playbooks

Appraisal, planning statement and site report workflows

None

Underlying data quality

93.5 / 100 planning data quality

72.0 / 100

In practice: Searchland's MCP doesn't just retrieve data. It computes answers, runs guided workflows and produces client-ready deliverables. Landstack's MCP is closer to a data retrieval layer.

Switching to Searchland

Switching is easier than you think.

You're not buying a login and a help-desk ticket. A dedicated team brings your sourcing across and stays with you for the lifetime of the partnership.