Be Excellent in Property Acquisition: IBex x PropertyData
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Date:
24 Apr 2025
We are pleased to announce an exciting new partnership between IBex (Serac Group) and PropertyData. This collaboration is transforming the UK property industry, providing investors, developers and even homebuyers with the most accurate residential property insights that allow them to make the smartest decisions at an attainable price.
PropertyData is the leading analytics tool for investors and developers. With the incorporation of IBex’s unmatched planning intelligence, PropertyData’s platform has become even more precise, offering data that no competitor can rival. When purchasing a property, whether you’re a seasoned developer or a first-time buyer, it’s paramount that every aspect is uncovered, from ensuring you’re getting the right price to evaluating nearby planning applications for potential disruptions. This is why PropertyData’s tools are so important for property acquisitions, as they provide buyers/renters with the most accurate insights in the country, allowing them to make the most assured purchasing decisions. With the input of IBex’s market-leading planning application data into PropertyData’s system, this process is both strengthened and streamlined, with clients now receiving the highest degree of awareness when it comes to nearby planning applications–a crucial consideration when securing a property.
As the partnership evolves, developed property insights and analytics are set to be generated for home investors and developers, with another one of Serac Group’s advantageous products–Planda. This is due to be integrated into PropertyData’s platform in the near future. Planda is the UK’s most advanced planning tool, creating reports that precisely predict the outcome of a planning application in a matter of seconds, equipping buyers with the highest awareness of development potential for a specific property. Having analysed billions of planning application data points, Planda’s AI-powered natural language processor offers unparalleled insights into the value of a property. The incorporation of these reports into PropertyData’s evaluation tool will provide their clientele with the most refined residential property searches out there, ensuring the smartest decisions when it comes to property acquisition. This partnership is going to make waves in the real estate market, and they are just getting started.

PropertyData are modernising UK property investment, offering unprecedented data-driven observations across multiple stages of the buying experience. Its datasets and reports research, source and evaluate residential properties, catering for investment profiles, development opportunities, property commissions and much more. PropertyData is truly streamlining the industry, empowering better informed property decisions. Planning applications are a big part of the evaluation process, and require a vast amount of data analysis.

IBex is the UK's most consumed planning data API, offering the most refined accuracy and intelligence out there. Trusted by industry leaders to power essential market insights and property transactions, IBex is creating a new benchmark for the quality of planning data that should be expected. With complete coverage of all local authorities, an enriched historical dataset and detailed polygons, all key information is stored in one neat place. This enhanced planning data and its AI-driven classifications provide companies with the intelligence needed to drive property services and tools to the next level.

The incorporation of IBex's planning intelligence into PropertyData's platform means their analytic tools are built on the most comprehensive planning application data available. With PropertyData, investors and developers are able to gain the utmost confidence when preparing for a transaction and considering potential risks in the area, knowing they have access to the most refined planning material in the UK.
"We are really excited by this partnership" says Brandon Johnson, CEO at Serac Group. "Michael and the team at PropertyData are revolutionising the property-buying scene and we can't wait to add value to this mission by blending our API with their datasets."

"I am so impressed by Serac Group's scraping skills, which are potentially the best in any sector anywhere in the UK," says Michael Dent, CEO at PropertyData. "I'm thrilled to include IBex's planning data into our tools, this is really changing the game."
