At the start of this year, the new proptech startup SearchLand launched its site sourcing platform. Built over a ten-month period during the pandemic, SearchLand is a software-as-a-service solution aiming to disrupt the way in which people and businesses source plots of land for property development and investment.
UKTN spoke to Hugh Gibbs, one of SearchLand’s co-founders, to find out more about the background to the company, the challenges and opportunities of launching a startup during the pandemic, and how the team intends to grow the business.
UKTN: Where did the idea for SearchLand come from, and how did you go about launching the business?
Hugh Gibbs: was created in response to the lack of off-market site sourcing platforms. Developers and investors needed a better solution to find potential off-market sites; it has traditionally been a time-consuming process that involved accessing disparate data to establish the viability of particularly development plot. ...