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andy sommerville
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About Me

Having started in the industry as a foot soldier carrying out searches, I was involved in the creation of the first personal search business. I was then co founder and creator of the first online search ordering platform and now co founder and director of Search Acumen, as business who's vision is to improve the way in which property information is delivered for due diligence purposes.

my expertise in the industry

34 years of delivering property information, searches and data to Residential Conveyancers and Commercial Real Estate Lawyers.

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Having been in this industry for over 30 years experiencing this age old subject of search delays whenever there is a spike in the market should, by now, be a thing of the past. Personal (Regulated) Searches were born out of the increase in demand for home ownership in the 1980's with the Local Authorities unable to cope with the unprecedented spike in demand for official local authority searches. Was it their fault? probably not because they had never experienced anything like it before. Then we had the birth of the internet and the creation of online portals to receive and deliver searches electronically from 2000 with quasi government initiatives promoting "the electronic search" Had they have seen this through to end, this age old subject of search delays and capacity would be a thing of the past. We made a set of recommendations back then on the digitisation programme of search. They were 1. Mandate the Local Authorities adoption of the facility that was being built 2. Provide Local Authorities with the funding and technical support to do this 3. standardise the pricing model (having various prices for the same information across the whole country didn't make sense) 4. Allow access to third parties allowing private enterprise to innovate. It didn't happen. Personal Searches continued to grow in a world where the electronic age was born - how crazy is that ? Land Registry have a project to digitise the local land charges data, which we support but its taking an age to get it done and its only one component part of the whole report. By now searches should be like typewriters - obsolete. As computers replaced typewriters, property data with analytics that can be manipulated to enhance the due diligence process must be the way forward. There must be a better way, actually there is a better way and it can be achieved if there is cohesion and commitment between all parties.

From: andy sommerville 04 November 2020 09:40 AM

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