A full breakdown of the Ownership Search tool, Ultimate Owner, and Company Trees features, covering what they do, how to use them, and what each filter means.

The Ownership Search tool lets you find land and property by who owns it. If you know a specific owner you want to investigate, such as a supermarket chain, a housing association, or a local authority, you can search by name and view their full portfolio on the map.

Unlike the Site Sourcing Tool, which starts from site characteristics and works outward to find matching land, the Ownership Search starts from an owner and works outward to find their holdings.

Proprietorship

Filter by the type of entity that owns the land. Useful when you are looking for a specific class of owner rather than a named individual or organisation.

Include child companies

Toggle this on to include land owned by subsidiaries within the same corporate group as the entity you are searching for. This is useful when a parent company holds land through multiple subsidiary entities.

Parcel area

Filter by the size of the land parcel, in either metric or imperial units. Set a minimum and/or maximum to narrow results to sites of a workable scale.

Last ownership change

Filter by when the ownership of a site was last registered as having changed hands. Useful for identifying parcels that have been held for a long time or that recently changed owner.

Leasehold start / end

Filter by the start or end date of a leasehold interest. Useful when looking for sites where a lease is approaching expiry, which can signal that an owner is considering their options.

Individual parcels found via Ownership Search can be saved directly to your pipeline from the results panel. Click the site and select Save site to add it to your saved sites.

The freeholder of a property may not always have the authority to make decisions about selling it, as they might be controlled by a parent company. The Ultimate Owner feature helps you identify who has significant control of a site and provides the contact address for the true decision-maker.

Understanding the ultimate owner is particularly useful for:

Portfolio assessment Assess how many properties a person or organisation owns to help negotiate better, verify their legitimacy, and keep an eye on competitors.

Distressed vendor identification If a company is experiencing financial difficulty, they could quickly become a motivated seller. By finding all associated companies, you can track their properties and those of their subsidiaries to identify off-market opportunities before they reach the open market.

A company tree is a visual representation of all the child companies owned by an ultimate owner. The data is derived from the Companies House database.

When viewing a company name in the tree, you will see two numbers in brackets next to it:

Both numbers represent titles held nationwide, not just within the search area currently visible on your map.

💡 LandTech Tip: Click the magnifying glass icon next to any company name in the tree to trigger a search for properties owned by that specific company. This search is limited to the area currently visible on your map, so zoom out if you want to cover a wider area.

The number of ownership lookups you can perform is limited by your plan. Ownership lookups refer to the number of times you can view the ownership details of a site.

If you reach your lookup limit, contact your account manager to discuss your options.

The Ultimate Owner and Company Tree features, including the ability to export ultimate owner details to a CSV, are available on the Unlimited plan only.