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Search Acumen comments on MHCLG Housing Supply Statistics
Thursday, 14 November 2019The net increase in housing stock could be seen as a proxy barometer for the nation’s economic outlook. You don’t have to be a meteorologist to know we aren’t in the sunlit uplands, but rays of sunshine are starting to break through.
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Search Acumen comments on HM Land Registry complex commercial transactions and infrastructure development launch
Monday, 4 November 2019Managing due diligence and planning around complex commercial real estate transactions can be fraught with risk. Relying on paper trails which take months to collate mean that problems can be overlooked, and issues not identified until a development is in process. This can often cost projects time and money.
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Search Acumen comments on ONS Housebuilding Stats, Q2 2019
Tuesday, 29 October 2019Brexit has obviously introduced a great deal of uncertainty into developer’s order books as fears grow over buyers getting cold feet and supply chains being disrupted.
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Search Acumen comments on ONS construction figures
Friday, 18 October 2019Today’s construction figures show the value of construction new work in Great Britain continued to rise in 2018, reaching its highest level on record at £113,127 million; this was driven by growth in public sector work of £2,697 million and to a lesser extent growth in the private sector of £750 million.
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Commercial buyers of new build real estate increasingly looking beyond the M25 as market falters
Thursday, 10 October 2019Commercial buyers’ appetite for new build properties is increasingly focusing outside London in 2019, with 83% of transactions falling outside the M25 – up from 74% in 2017, according to insight analysis from Search Acumen, the property data insight and technology provider.
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Adopting a digital mindset to future proof the industry
Wednesday, 9 October 2019A few weeks ago I met with Estates Gazette to discuss my views on how to future proof the legal sector as well as the innovations that will transform real estate transactions.
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National Empty Homes Week 2019 September 23rd – 29th
Thursday, 26 September 2019Monday 23rd September marks the start of National Empty Homes Week. The Empty Homes Week was founded by Action on Empty Homes to highlight Britain’s underused or completely unused housing stock and to encourage action on how it can serve those with housing needs.
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Superstition stalls the property market as completions drop nearly 40% on Friday 13th
Friday, 13 September 2019This Friday 13th could put the housing and commercial property markets on pause according to analysis by Search Acumen, the property data and technology provider, which shows a double-digit drop in both residential and commercial sales on Friday 13th.
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Conveyancing hits the Brexit buffers
Thursday, 22 August 2019Quarterly conveyancing volumes have dropped below 230,000 cases for the first time in two years (228,994), a decrease of over 10% compared with Q1, according to the Q2 2019 Conveyancing Market Tracker from Search Acumen, the property data insight and technology provider.
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Search Acumen comments on HMRC’s Monthly Property Transactions for July
Wednesday, 21 August 2019Search Acumen comments on HMRC’s Monthly Property Transactions for July.
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