The UK's most up-to-date social housing and public sector news website
More from Land Data cic
- NLIS Hits 20 million electronic searches
- Land Data Announces Call for Entries for the 5th Annual Local Land Charges Awards for Excellence
- LAND DATA ANNOUNCES 2011 WINNERS OF THE LOCAL LAND CHARGES AWARDS
- NLIS celebrates its 10 Year Anniversary
- Land Data calls for Government to make official authoritative searches compulsory in all home buying transactions
Advertisement
5th May 2009
Land Data, the NLIS regulator, has today announced that following a
review of the current National Land Information Service (NLIS) Hub
licence agreement with MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd
(MDA), it has agreed to revised terms in order to support NLIS and
MDA through the current property sector downturn.
As the property sector comes to terms with the end of the Home Information Packs (HIP) transitional arrangements, requiring changes to the first day of marketing arrangements as well as the removal of insurance provisions for private search firms, Land Data will continue to work closely with the NLIS Hub, run by MDA, to maintain NLIS’ position at the forefront of electronic land and property information.
Jan Boothroyd, Land Data CEO comments: “We are investigating ways for NLIS to provide new and enhanced delivery services to the industry. The property searches landscape is changing and we need to ensure the industry can look to NLIS for fast and adaptable packages of high quality search information.”
Land Data is also investigating the potential for creating an industry search standard in the form of an official ‘kite mark’ which could be applied to all official property searches.
- Ends -
For further information please contact:
Fiona Barron / Justin Scott at Land Data
T: 07770 855 337 / 020 3043 8875
E: fiona.barron@land-data.org.uk /
justin.scott@land-data.org.uk
www.land-data.org.uk
Notes to Editors
Land Data regulates NLIS, which was set up to support local
authorities (LAs) and other property information holders in England
and Wales in their move from manual to electronic provision of
property information services. The NLIS Hub is connected to all
local authorities in England and Wales, Land Registry, the Coal
Authority and other sources of land and property information. The
information is distributed by NLIS Channels to around 15,000
subscribed solicitors and licensed conveyancers. Since it began
operation in 2001 more that 16.7 million searches have been
processed by the NLIS Hub. Land Data became a Community Interest
Company in January 2006 in recognition of its commitment to making
electronic property search information accessible to the general
public and thereby improving the home buying process.
