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Tech supports developers’ smart use of land, says Search Acumen
Friday, 31 May 2019Not only was it a strong year of house building in 2017/18 with more than 160,000 homes completed in England, but as today’s Land Use Change Statistics reveal, it was a smarter year as developers built 3,300 more homes on previously undeveloped land compared to 2016/17.
Tags: Search Acumen
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Top 200 conveyancers seize record market share as active firms drop below 4,000
Thursday, 30 May 2019The consolidation of the conveyancing market continues as the top 200 conveyancing firms now control more of the market (39%) than ever before, according to the Q1 2019 edition of the Conveyancing Market Tracker from Search Acumen, the property data insight and technology provider.
Tags: Search Acumen
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Number of conveyancing firms continues to fall amid consolidation
Thursday, 30 May 2019The number of law firms involved in conveyancing has dropped below 4,000 for the first time for many years, while the top 1,000 have a bigger share of the market than ever, according to new research.
Tags: conveyancing, Search Acumen
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SNaPS – A new era for commercial property due diligence
Friday, 17 May 2019PropTech is most effective when it is solving pain points in the property sector. So it was a natural step for us to address a well-known issue that all property lawyers are well aware of – the Search of the index Map, or, SIM process.
Tags: Search Acumen
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Beyond blockchain – distributed ledger technology integration is here
Thursday, 9 May 2019The current property transaction process is riddled with frustration and pain points for everyone. In some regions of the UK, estimates found that buying and selling a house can take nearly eight months. It is a complex and outdated process in need of innovation.
Tags: Search Acumen
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Search Acumen comments on RICS Commercial Market Survey Q1 2019
Thursday, 25 April 2019The commercial property sector faces significant upheaval in the coming years as occupier demand continues to decline across the board.
Tags: Search Acumen
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Search Acumen comments on HMRC’s Monthly Property Transactions for March
Wednesday, 24 April 2019March traditionally sees a slight increase in property transactions, however, the constantly shifting Brexit deadline and the resulting ripple effect of uncertainty through UK markets has contributed to growth remaining flat last month.
Tags: Search Acumen
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Search Acumen launches innovative visualisation solution to fast-track commercial property due diligence
Wednesday, 10 April 2019SNaPS (Search of the National Polygon Service) is a first-of-its-kind service that instantly interrogates property boundaries and ownership data
Tags: Search Acumen
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Public Right of Way – Going The Extra 133,000 Miles
Thursday, 4 April 2019Public Rights of Way (PRoW) are a national institution enjoyed by millions of people. Many of them are hundreds, in some cases thousands of years old, often created by people walking across the land to work, hunt, market, or to visit the next village, church, or school and are since being safe-guarded by protective laws.
Tags: Search Acumen
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Search Acumen appoints client manager as it expands commercial real estate business
Wednesday, 3 April 2019Search Acumen, property data insight and technology provider, has appointed Charlotte Cripps to the role of Commercial Real Estate Client Relationship Manager as the business continues to enhance its work with legal firms in the commercial real estate market.
Tags: Search Acumen
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