- Search Acumen, developer of Real Estate Intelligence (REI), reports 54 law firms have used its tool since launch to analyse search data from more than 190 different local authorities
- Between October 2024 and January 2025, REI delivered 1,500 reports of extracted and standardised local authority data, averaging 25 per day
- The largest number of local authorities analysed in a single portfolio was 19
- The data heralds a new horizon of accuracy standards and AI-enabled insights in legal work
Search Acumen, a British pioneer of AI in legal tech, reports that its proprietary AI tool, Real Estate Intelligence (REI), has been used to analyse local authority search data by 20 of the UK’s top 200 commercial real estate law firms, four of which are in the top 20. Since launching in October 2024, REI has delivered an average of 25 standardised extracts per day of complex searches data from more than two thirds of the UK’s local authorities.
According to HM Land Registry, avoidable errors in property applications could be costing UK law firms up to £19.1 million in penalties every year. REI delivers accurate and sophisticated data for legal professionals to use in property applications, minimising error rates and cost inefficiencies.
This innovation is especially significant for conveyancers working on large portfolios that sit across multiple local authorities, such as retail or business parks. Search Acumen reports that one firm used REI to analyse titles across 19 different local authorities for a single portfolio, while another required data on 84 separate titles for a single portfolio.
REI is powered by the UK’s first large language model (LLM) trained to recognise, extract and categorise property data from local authority CON29 searches. Since the 1990s, search data has only been available as PDFs or physical documents, requiring legal professionals to sift through hundreds of pages of text. At the same time, the UK’s 340 local authorities all share search data in different formats. REI extracts and categorises the relevant information from local authority datasets and standardises it into one coherent format which feeds into Search Acumen’s end-to-end case management platform.
Andrew Lloyd
, Managing Director at Search Acumen, says:
“In today’s hyper-competitive legal market, historic pain points which the profession could previously swallow have become real cost burdens and business risks for 21st century lawyers.
“The strong initial uptake of REI shows law firms are addressing this head on by using co-piloted AI tools to enhance the quality of their work in complex and error-prone processes such as CON29 searches.
“We are hearing from lawyers using REI that it is giving them access to data and insights on a completely new level of sophistication, which in turn helps them unlock new levels of customer service. We are proud to be contributing to the excellence of this new class of tech-empowered legal professionals.”
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