Make confident decisions in housing and real estate

Driving social housing and real estate innovation with unrivalled geospatial data

Accurate location data you can build on

Accurate location data is transforming the housing and property sectors, enabling efficient management, ensuring compliance with sustainability targets, and unlocking value within portfolios.

However, you might not have all the insights you need to reach your objectives.

With Ordnance Survey (OS), you can remove the uncertainty, with accurate geospatial data for real estate that fills in the blanks. From property attributions, like the presence of a basement or solar roof, to nearby environmental factors, and the lifecycle stage of a property for condition and address verification. Benefit from trusted location data in your process to inform your decision making.

From supporting social landlords in meeting regulatory demands, to empowering real estate professionals with tools for valuation and energy efficiency – location data provides actionable insights vital for a sustainable and connected future.

OS’s detailed location intelligence boosts property sector efficiency. We continuously innovate with new property data to meet future industry needs, and through Geovation, collaborate on initiatives like the MHCLG Proptech Innovation Challenge and our HMLR Accelerator.

Supporting net zero

Make confident decisions to support the push for net zero using trusted property and land data.

Make critical warm-home decisions to increase the energy efficiency of your stock
Get clarity on the solar panel presence and potential for new panels using our rooftop data
Analyse housing which is hard to heat with building characteristic data
Support heat network zoning with authoritative spatial data to identify, refine, and designate viable zones
Have the ability to accurately identify properties suitable for heat pump installation using building footprint and property plot outlines
Gain insights to better insulate homes and reduce costs using building construction type data

Planning Natural Infrastructure

Enhance the natural environment by planning with communities, climate, and green infrastructure at its heart.

Create Environmental Improvement Plans using detailed greenspace, green roof, and ecology data
Accurately assess Biodiversity Net Gain for your development
Assess planning applications using UK Hab specifications
Get accurate and quick understanding of areas and their different land cover to enable preparation and applications for the Nature Recovery Fund
Better analyse the environment for accessible green and blue spaces
Gain insights into boosting biodiversity

De-risk your assets

Improve your understanding of property risk through precise, trustworthy data.

Better model risk such as flooding, subsidence, wind or storms during the planning process, using detailed location data including land use around new neighbourhoods
Easily identify properties with a basement presence which might be at higher risk, using the Unique Property Reference Number (UPRN) to bring in third-party datasets
Easily identify potential development sites that are low risk
Plan maintenance programs safely and help comply with the Building Safety Act; bring in detailed property characteristics into your analysis including building age, construction materials, roof type, and aspect.

Planning

Make critical decisions with confidence to support the continually changing planning policy landscape.

Better analyse existing infrastructure ahead of development
Boost efficiency and reduce costs
Prepare for the implementation of the draft National Planning Policy Framework – using a systemic approach to planning by layering in transport networks
Identify land that is out of use for potential brownfield site redevelopment
Improve accuracy of property data using the UPRN
Get the ability to accurately model new developments
Gain insights into new developments to speed up planning decisions

How can geospatial data help?

Property risk assessment

Accurately model potential perils (flood, subsidence, wind, etc) affecting your properties.

Warm homes identification

Understand the characteristics of your property portfolio and create strategies for hard-to-heat homes.

Climate change exposure

Monitor your portfolio impact on the environment to meet regulatory requirements.

Biodiversity net gain

Accelerate baselining of biodiversity unit values for rapid site analysis using S Enhanced Land Cover (Beta).

Natural Infrastructure Planning

Deliver accurate environmental impact assessment to enhance planning applications.

Built Environment planning

Easily identify potential sites for development using authoritative location data.

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Take the next step

Find out what OS location data can do for your organisation.

Get in touch to discuss your situation with our team, and learn where OS data can help, from reducing risk to improving efficiencies and meeting industry targets, and more.

Public Sector

Public sector organisations rely on Ordnance Survey’s world-leading location data to deliver policy, critical infrastructure, and services across Britain – find out how you can get access to the data.

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Land and property articles

Hard to heat homes
A heat index of more than 23 million homes across Great Britain has been created using Ordnance Survey data, highlighting areas where homes are most at risk of heat loss.
Location data redefining risk in conveyancing
Geospatial data providers like Ordnance Survey are helping insurers by offering detailed, location-based intelligence that supports climate risk modelling.
Supporting a rooftop revolution
Ordnance Survey is supporting the Government's target for clean energy, including solar power, with the release of new data on roofs and recent collaboration with Snowflake.
Launch of open geospatial data in Scotland
Improvement Service in Scotland, supported by Ordnance Survey, has launched open access to their Spatial Hub, a local government data resource covering the whole of Scotland.

Land and property case studies

Zoopla & the UPRN
As a key player in the property sector, Zoopla are invested in discovering and...
Sustainable homes, with Southern Housing
Southern Housing is one of the largest housing associations in the UK, owning and managing...
Using GIS to plan for housing growth
Ordnance Survey (OS) mapping enabled a local council to build an accurate picture of...