Lead analyst
Directs the work and owns the conclusion
Development opportunity intelligence
Find the site. Understand the path to a scheme.
Research land, existing commercial assets and potential assemblies. Read ownership, planning, access, servicing and market evidence before committing to a site.
Developers
The work behind the decision
A promising site is only the start. The ownership route, planning position, neighbours and residual economics decide whether it deserves pursuit.
A worked example
Fourteen Ferrier Street, read for your desk.
A developer is looking at an assembly in the Halden Quarter: three adjoining buildings, three owners, one viable site.
A fictional demonstration building in the fictional Halden Quarter. Names and figures are invented; the reading is real.
01
The area is walked for land and assembly
Every parcel and building in the target streets is read: ownership, size, use, what is recorded against it. The three adjoining interests that make the site viable are identified, with the owner groups drawn.
02
The ownership route is traced
Each owner's entity is opened, the decision-makers are traced and the holding history is read. One owner has held for thirty years; another bought last year and is unlikely to sell at a land price. Both readings carry their evidence.
03
The planning position is read from local records
What the market's own planning and title records say about use, access and servicing, with the questions that need a specialist flagged rather than guessed.
04
The residual is tested honestly
Value, costs and exit are tested on visible assumptions, with the sensitivity to each open input printed. The case against the scheme is written beside the case for it.
The site decision is made knowing the owners, the route to them and the honest economics, before the first approach.
Your research desk
Put the property in front of the whole team.
- Walk an area for land and commercial redevelopment opportunities.
- Trace owners, adjoining interests and decision-maker routes.
- Read local planning and title evidence using the market’s own records.
- Test residual value and the assumptions around use, costs and exit.
Research room · fictional 14 Ferrier Street
Working
Ownership & debt
Deeds, loans, companies, people
Asset & condition
Zoning, permits, violations
Income & market
Taxes, rents, expenses, sales
Valuation
Checks every step of the numbers
Reviewer
Completeness and the counter-case
Every line keeps the record it came from.
The evidence behind your reading
Connected to the records that matter.
Property & transaction records
Parcels, recorded owners, deeds, mortgages, assignments and satisfactions.
Official record APIs and registers
Operating & regulatory records
Assessments, building registrations, violations and planning context.
Published datasets and authority portals
Companies & decision-makers
Dated company roles, connected entities and the people behind a property.
Company registers and professional records
People & contact routes
Business contact enrichment, with identity and route acceptance checked separately.
Authorised enrichment APIs
Market & published intelligence
Listings, transactions, lender context and published market evidence.
Discovery APIs and original publications
Your firm’s evidence
Leases, operating statements and licensed datasets held within your workspace.
Documents and permissioned interfaces
Original records, authorised APIs and your private documents meet in one property reading. Availability and depth follow the market, the record and your firm’s access rights.
For your desk and your clients
The paper, the people and the working.
01
Site research and ownership map
02
Planning questions and source-linked residual working
03
Assembly leads, contacts and site-specific diligence
Questions
Asked by people in your seat.
Can it find assembly opportunities?+
Yes. A walk reads every parcel in an area, groups the owners and shows which adjoining interests would need to come together, with the route to each decision-maker.
Does it do planning analysis?+
It reads what the market's own records publish about planning and title, and flags the questions that need a specialist. It does not replace planning advice, and says so.
How are owners approached?+
They are not, by PropTrova. Contact routes are researched and prepared; a named person on your team decides whether and when to approach.
Which markets can it read for development sites?+
Any market once prepared. PropTrova discovers and tests each market's own record keepers first, then reads them through the same readers, so the method fits the place.
Good to know
Where your judgement comes in
Research separates recorded facts from reasoned assessments. A potential buyer is not an expression of interest. Your team decides whether to approach, commission specialist advice or transact.
Bring a property, a submarket or a question.
See the owner, the opportunity and the people on the other side. Then open the research behind it.