Commercial property searches

The approach

What this property type needs

Commercial property carries risks residential rarely does. Contaminated land liability is materially higher on industrial and former industrial sites, and remediation costs scale with the site rather than the price.

Planning matters more, too. Use class, existing consents, conditions and the local plan position all bear on what the buyer can actually do with the property, and that is usually the whole point of the purchase.

And where a company is on either side of the transaction, corporate due diligence — charges, insolvency, authority to sign — sits alongside the property searches.