Search Acumen doubles market share

The company, which was delivering 2.5% of all searches on residential property in October 2014, says it is now the data supplier of choice for 5% of the market.  

It also aims to secure a 5% share of commercial property searches by October 2016, as well as delivering 7.5% of all residential searches. To support this aim, Search Acumen has unveiled a new-look brand – focused on the promise of ‘essential data, simply delivered’ – and is already planning a series of new products and services for 2016.

Earlier this year, Search Acumen launched ‘Title Intelligence’, the first use of real-time Land Registry data to digitally map properties and titles, giving users more control over their search orders and improving their accuracy by reducing the risk of common mistakes.

Its latest product ‘Portfolio Cloud’ was launched last month and allows users to easily order and manage searches for entire property portfolios through a single interface.

Search Acumen’s year-end figures also show the benefits of its Customer Support Coordinators acting as a virtual in-house team for clients. Of almost 20,000 support cases in the last six months, just four (0.0002%) have resulted from clients calling up to chase an overdue order.  

Mark Riddick, Chairman of Search Acumen, said:

“We’ve shown for the second year running that there is an appetite for something new in the market, and we’re thinking ahead by offering conveyancers a simpler way to access essential data. Searches are only a small part of their workload, but that’s no reason to accept interruptions or incomplete results as a fact of life. For one in twenty residential searches across the entire market, we’re proving that’s no longer the case.

“It’s perfectly possible to consign these frustrations to the past, and our know-how means we can use the available technology and data in a way that gives conveyancers no more or less information than they need. By being proactive and keeping things simple, we can help them focus on what really matters to their businesses, which is greater efficiency, certainty and keeping their own clients happy.

“We’re excited to keep innovating in 2016 and pushing the boundaries with new ways to support the conveyancing process. There’s great potential for searches to function better than many have become used to over the years. Not everyone likes thinking about searches as much as we do, least of all a busy conveyancer! So when it comes to delivering property and land data, we’ve made it our mission to make sure everything is taken care of.”