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Search Acumen: Legal proptech will “hit warp speed” within five years
Wednesday, 31 October 2018Technology and data provider marks half a decade of growth by predicting the demise of “digital dabblers” as property law firms and their clients become “data-dependent”
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Talk of Brexit housing market crash is overdone
Tuesday, 23 October 2018Property transactions took a dip at the end of the summer as the property market cooled down in September. After a strong August, activity in UK housing has sunk back down to earth.
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Cool in London housing market reacts to falling sales in Capital
Wednesday, 17 October 2018Search Acumen comments on today’s ONS House Price Index – August 2018
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Corporate bodies own more than 3,000 square metres of land for every household in England and Wales
Thursday, 11 October 2018Land ownership by domestic corporate and commercial entities amounts to 3,106 square metres (m²) – equivalent to three five-a-side football pitches or 12 tennis courts – for every household in England and Wales, according to new analysis by Search Acumen, the property data and technology provider.
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London’s commercial property transactions more than double in three years
Thursday, 27 September 2018The annual value of London’s commercial sales of property has soared by 166% since 2014, soaring from £11.3 billion in 2014 to £30.1 billion in 2017, according to new analysis of HM Land Registry data for Greater London’s 28 boroughs by Search Acumen, the property data and technology provider.
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Search Acumen comments on ONS House Price Index for small areas
Monday, 24 September 2018The market has seemingly hit its peak. The significant drop-off in house price growth between 2017 and 2018 truly marks the end to a decade of high growth.
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The race for investment has ignited a proptech identity crisis
Thursday, 20 September 2018Historically, real estate has been viewed as one of slowest sectors to embrace new ways of doing business – much of the admin associated with property purchasing hasn’t changed for 100 years or more.
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Search Acumen comments on the launch of the central, digital Local Land Charges register in Liverpool
Wednesday, 5 September 2018With the launch of the Local Land Charges (LLC) digital register, Liverpool’s property market is set to enter a new age of efficiency.
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Liverpool property market nears £1bn milestone as city prepares for digital switchover
Monday, 3 September 2018Liverpool’s property market is set to reach a £1bn valuation this year as the total spent on house sales has more than doubled since 2012, according to new analysis by Search Acumen, the property data and technology provider.
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The economic potential of property data
Friday, 24 August 2018We spend a lot of time espousing the benefits of open property data in terms of how it can help conveyancers and their clients in the property transaction chain.
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Five key issues to consider when adopting an AI-based legal tech
As generative AI starts to play a bigger role in our working lives, there are some key issues that your law firm needs to consider when adopting an AI-based legal tech.
Bulk litigation – not always working in consumers interests
For consumers to get the benefit, bulk litigation needs to be done well, and we are increasingly concerned that there are significant problems in some areas of this market.
ABSs, cost and audits – fixing regulation after Axiom Ince
A feature of law firm collapses and frauds has sometimes been the over-concentration of power in outdated and overburdened systems of control.
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