Groundsure Homebuyers
WHY CHOOSE HOMEBUYERS?
The Groundsure Homebuyers report assesses seven risks in one environmental risk report, complete with ClimateIndexTM, to provide a comprehensive environmental analysis for a residential property.
The report ensures you comply with the Law Society practice notes for contaminated land and flooding as well as separate guidance on ground stability. It also supports your compliance with the Law Society Guidance on Climate Risks including duty of care and duty to warn.
It uses Land Registry polygons and Groundsure's intelligent filtering tools to only return relevant results, making it easier to view and leaving fewer blank data tables and maps.
A professional opinion of contaminated land and flood is provided on the front page. All other risks are provided as an “Identified/Not identified” result, with suggested recommendations provided.
WHO DOES HOMEBUYERS HELP?
Homebuyers is suitable for the following:
- Residential
- Existing properties
- Nationwide
- Buyers
- Vendors
- Development sites
- Lenders
Homebuyers is not suitable for the following:
- Commercial
- Specific areas
- Tenants
HOW DOES HOMEBUYERS WORK?
Powered by the Groundsure IQ unique AI algorithm, over 110 million data points are intelligently filtered and analysed to produce every Groundsure Homebuyers to deliver a comprehensive contaminated land assessment, together with full flood, ground stability, radon, planning, energy, and transportation.
It also incorporates new analyses for key transition risks from climate change impacts that could impact on property decisions: property-specific EPC ratings, tailored guidance on energy improvement costs and, where relevant, flood mitigation costs are provided as part of the ClimateIndexTM analysis, provided automatically at no extra cost in its main residential environmental searches.
It also uses Groundsure’s National Brownfield Risk Model (NBRM) and the Groundsure National Mining and Stability Risk Model.
WHAT DOES HOMEBUYERS REVEAL?
Key features include:
- A full assessment of contaminated land utilising data available from Groundsure’s National Brownfield Risk Model (NBRM) including environmental permits, active and historic landfill and waste sites and current industrial sites
- A full flood search at a 5m resolution covering river, coastal, surface water and groundwater. FloodScoreTM gives an indicative assessment of the potential insurance risk classification from flooding. JSON summaries are provided for building level flood risk, removing the need for the Floor Re-Assessment following on report
- A screening of coal mining and ground stability including natural ground subsidence, cavities and non-coal mining Energy
- A screening of energy, planning applications and transportation
- Detailed radon potential data
- ClimateIndexTM. A forward climate scenario modelling for flood, subsidence & coastal erosion risks, plus commentary on transition risks for energy efficiency and flooding, meeting Law Society Guidance.
AVAILABILITY
This report is available within 24 hours.