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Search Acumen report: Commercial real estate volumes grew by 20% since 2016
Monday, 15 July 2019Contrary to some doom-laden headlines we’ve been seeing in the last year, our new data-driven study found that the commercial real estate sector is healthy across England and Wales. In June 2019, we published our commercial real estate report examining the trends in transactions in non-residential properties in England and Wales using HM Land Registry’s (HMLR) public Price Paid Data (PPD).
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Search Acumen comments on the digitisation of the Local Land Charges register for Norwich City Council
Thursday, 11 July 2019One year on from the launch, we’re pleased to see the continued digitalisation of the Local Land Charges (LLC) register. This time it is by Norwich City Council, where professionals involved in buying and selling property can anticipate how the increased ease and speed of accessing data will improve the transaction process in the city.
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Search Acumen comments on ONS construction figures
Wednesday, 10 July 2019We recently heard that housebuilding has hit a ten-year low in London, but anxiety has spread beyond the capital as investors and developers are being forced to wait out the Brexit-fuelled uncertainty that’s swept the property development market.
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Search Acumen comments on MHCLG planning applications in England
Thursday, 27 June 2019It’s been a strong year for housebuilding, but planning applications and grants have continued to fall – 2018/2019 has seen the biggest dip in applications for a decade. At this rate, a slowdown in housebuilding is inevitable.
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Billion-pound commercial real estate league revealed
Wednesday, 26 June 2019Commercial sales of real estate exceeded £1bn in 2018 across thirteen local authority districts of England and Wales, as many areas have witnessed rapid growth over the last two years, according to insight analysis from Search Acumen, the property data insight and technology provider.
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Search Acumen comments on Homes England Annual Housing Statistics
Tuesday, 18 June 2019A buoyant market, a prosperous future – those are the phrases that spring to mind looking at today’s statistics.
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Search Acumen comments on RICS Residential Market Survey
Thursday, 13 June 2019The latest RICS UK Residential Survey results point to overall market trends remaining stagnant, with indicators on demand, supply and prices all falling within negative territory, albeit less so than previously.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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