Find the owner who needs to sell, before the market does.

DealBrief reads the official record every day. It catches the legal events that signal a forced or motivated sale, then joins them to HM Land Registry titles. You get the owner under real pressure, the likely decision-maker, and a compliant draft letter, in your inbox each morning. Sources: Companies House, The Gazette, HM Land Registry.

14-day free trial. No minimum term. Your first briefing arrives tomorrow at 9am.

Built on official open data: HM Land Registry, Companies House and The Gazette, the same registers the professionals use. No scraping.

Illustrative example
HARLOW TRADE PARK LTD
STRESS
84 / 100HIGH
Matched to your buy-box: Commercial freeholds · receivership & distress · South East
Unit 3, Pinnacle Way, Harlow, CM19 5AB
CH: 06127740 · Inc: 2007 · Title: EX512983
Acquisition signals
  • LPA receiver appointed, 12 Mar 2026 (The Gazette) · party to contact on a sale
  • Winding-up petition on record (The Gazette)
  • Accounts 14 months overdue, due 30 Sep 2024 (Companies House)
  • Fixed charge held by Lloyds, registered 2019 (Companies House)
  • Equity headroom: thin, modelled, indicative
  • EPC E · MEES exposure, below the tightening minimum letting standard
  • Corner plot, exit optionality
Valuation

Indicative £1.8m-£2.1m · ~7.5% gross yield (indicative, not a RICS valuation)

AI Analysis

Harlow Trade Park shows the classic shape of a forced sale: an LPA receiver is now appointed, accounts are well overdue, and a 2019 Lloyds charge sits over thin modelled equity. The receiver is the live counterparty, so a clean, funded, quick completion is the strongest approach. The MEES clock and corner-plot optionality add upside for a repositioning buyer.

Decision-maker
Acting receiver: Daniel Mercer, Grant & Hale LLP · contact on file
Director: A. Whitmore (2007)
Ready-to-send

We draft the email, call script and WhatsApp, and you send the email straight from your own inbox in one click. Your mail, your identity, lands like a real human wrote it.

why 84? show the working
Receiver appointed+34
The Gazette #2451 · 15 Junverify ↗
New fixed charge (Lloyds)+22
Companies House · 14 Marverify ↗
Accounts 14 months overdue+18
Companies House (live)verify ↗
Equity headroom: thin+10
modelledest.
medium confidence
Total stress84 / 100

Facts come from official filings, each with a date and a link to the primary source. Inferred figures are labelled modelled with a confidence level. We never dress an estimate up as a fact.

Built on the same official registers the professionals use, HM Land Registry, Companies House and The Gazette. 4,504,327 registered titles under daily monitoring. No scraping, no grey-area lists, and every modelled figure is labelled modelled.

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Type a postcode or local-authority name. We show the distress signals on the official record there over the last 90 days. No signup needed.

Lists don't find motivated sellers. Owners do.

Portals and search tools show you properties. But the deals that actually transact off-market come from owners with a reason to move: a receiver just appointed, a charge in default, an 80-year-old sole director with no succession, a portfolio winding down. That signal is buried across Companies House, The Gazette and the Land Registry, and a VA spends days stitching it together. By the time it surfaces, it's not off-market any more.

"Searchland gives you a list. DealBrief gives you a distressed owner."

Most owners are fine. We surface the few who aren’t.

A whole street looks identical from the kerb. The pressure is in the filings: receiverships, petitions, sub-standard EPCs. We watch them so you don’t.

Receiver
EPC F
Winding-up

Three steps from buy-box to first conversation.

Pick a pre-built strategy or describe your own in plain English.

Step 01

Set your buy-box

Define the areas and strategy you want, location, property type, deal shape. DealBrief only surfaces owners that fit.

Step 02

Get a daily briefing

Top owners under pressure, ranked by stress score and delivered to your inbox each morning at 9am UK time. When a saved owner's situation escalates, a petition becomes an order, a receiver lands, they resurface automatically.

Step 03

Reach out

With the likely decision-maker and a ready, compliant approach, email, call script and WhatsApp opener drafted for you. Send the email from your own inbox in one click.

Every score shows its working.

A score you cannot check is just another guru claim. So we never give you a number on its own. Every stress score breaks down into the signals that built it, each one adding its points, each fact linked to the filing it came from. Here is how one owner reached 84.

Harlow Trade Park Ltd
CH 06127740 · Title EX512983
Stress
84 / 100
High
Receiver appointed+34
The Gazette #2451 · 15 Junverify ↗
New fixed charge (Lloyds)+22
Companies House · 14 Marverify ↗
Accounts 14 months overdue+18
Companies House (live)verify ↗
Equity headroom: thin+10
modelledest.
medium confidence
Total stress84 / 100

Facts come from official filings, each with a date and a link to the primary source. Inferred figures are labelled modelled with a confidence level. We never dress an estimate up as a fact.

The edge isn’t the list. It’s what we do with it.

Your AI analyst, built in

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Signals others can't see

Companies House, The Gazette and Land Registry, joined pre-auction. Not a portal scrape.

Done-for-you outreach

The decision-maker to approach and a compliant draft letter, ready to send.

A platform, not a feed

Map, valuations, planning and portfolios, with distress as the lead signal.

No contract

14-day free trial, monthly rolling, cancel in two clicks. From £49/mo.

The research, the shortlist and the first draft, done.

Most property-data platforms give you a map, an ownership database and filters, then leave the work to you. DealBrief covers that same ground, ownership, planning, parcels, flood, EPC, comparables, and then does the part that matters: it tells you who's under pressure to sell, who to contact, and writes the message.

Most property-data tools
DealBrief
Map, ownership search, planning layers
All of that, ownership, planning, parcels, flood, EPC, comparables
A filtered list of properties
A ranked list of owners under real pressure to sell
You qualify motivation manually
Motivated-seller scoring from the live company & insolvency record
Exports and CSVs, then it's on you
Decision-maker revealed and a compliant approach drafted for you
You go to ChatGPT to think it through
An in-app agent that sources, shapes a thesis and summarises your leads

See the full, sourced comparison vs Searchland, LandTech, Nimbus and Property Filter →

More than a distress feed, the whole off-market workbench.

Map + filters

Draw an area; filter by stress, tenure, ownership type and planning.

Indicative valuations

Comparable AVM from HM Land Registry Price Paid, £/m²-precise.

Site intelligence

Flood risk, EPC, deprivation, broadband and grid context per property.

Planning context

Article 4, conservation, listed and brownfield flags, plus application history.

Owner portfolio

See every property an owner holds, to go deep or approach the whole portfolio.

Pipeline tracking

Save targets, set re-check reminders, track from surfaced to deal.

Contact reveal

The decision-maker, with LinkedIn and work email where lawful to surface.

MCP for Claude & ChatGPT

Connect your own AI assistant to your data with a per-user API key.

482,659 rented homes on a statutory clock.

We've mapped 482,659 private-rented homes in England & Wales with an EPC of E, F or G. 47,733 of them are unlawful to let right now under the minimum energy standard, and the rest face the 2030 MEES deadline, when every privately rented home must reach EPC C. Their landlords face the same choice: spend serious money on retrofit, or sell.

None of this is visible to portal-based tools, because none of these properties are listed. The pressure lives in the EPC register and the energy rules, not on Rightmove. To our knowledge, no other platform offers this dataset.

Private-rented stock · England & Wales
482,659
private-rented homes rated EPC E, F or G
47,733
unlawful to let today (EPC F/G, below the current minimum)
2030
statutory deadline for every privately rented home to reach EPC C
Source: EPC register (DLUHC) · counted, not modelled

A UK sourcing fee is £3,000 to £5,000. DealBrief is £199 a month.

One sourced deal
£3k to £5k
typical fee paid to a sourcer, per deal
A month of DealBrief
£199
ranked owners under pressure, every morning

You source the deals yourself, on your own terms. We leave you to do the rest of the sum.

About 300 letters works out at roughly 3 leads.

Off-market outreach is a numbers game and we will not pretend otherwise. We tell you the real conversion you should expect, so you can plan the work. No income promises. No talk of getting rich. No lock-in. Just a sharper list than you could build yourself, and the truth about what it takes.

Contact owners the way the ICO expects.

The rules around contacting people are not an afterthought here. They shape how the whole approach is built, so you can reach out with confidence rather than crossing your fingers.

  • Letters only. We draft a neutral approach that never references the owner's situation.
  • We process B2B contact data under a legitimate-interest basis for direct outreach.
  • Every letter carries a source line naming HM Land Registry, inserted automatically.
  • We screen against the Mailing Preference Service before you send.
  • One-click opt-out is built into every approach.

Prices on the page. No contract. Cancel anytime.

Self-serve from £49 a month. 14-day free trial, monthly rolling, cancel in two clicks from your account settings. No demo gate, no annual contract, no retention call.

DISTRESS LEADS
£49/month

The leads, without the platform.

  • Weekly distress-leads email for your patch
  • Receiver appointments, petitions, strike-offs
  • Owner, property and signal source on every lead
  • Set your area and criteria once
  • Upgrade to Analyst any time
  • 14-day free trial
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ANALYST
£199/month

Everything. The whole platform.

  • Daily AI briefing with escalation resurfacing
  • Full pre-listing legal-event engine
  • Map, search, planning and owner portfolios
  • Decision-maker contact reveals
  • Compliant outreach drafts and outcome tracking
  • MCP access, connect Claude or ChatGPT
  • 14-day free trial
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PRO
£349/month

More patches, more reveals, a second seat.

  • Everything in Analyst
  • 5 investment theses
  • 200 decision-maker reveals a month
  • 2 team seats, shared pipeline
  • 14-day free trial
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SCALE
£799/month

For sourcing teams running volume.

  • Everything in Pro
  • 20 investment theses
  • 1,000 decision-maker reveals a month
  • 10 team seats
  • Priority support
Start free

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Fund£1,500/mo

For funds and agencies running multiple mandates: 50 theses, the highest contact and reveal allowances, 10 seats, and onboarding.

Talk to us

Custom data feeds or white-label? Email hello@dealbrief.co.uk

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Most tools in this market want an annual commitment before you have seen a single lead. DealBrief is monthly rolling on every plan. Try it free for 14 days, then cancel in two clicks from settings. No email, no phone call, no notice period.

All subscriptions are monthly rolling. Card added at signup, nothing charged until day 28. Prices exclude VAT.

Coverage: company & insolvency signals UK-wide; property, title, valuation and EPC data for England & Wales (more nations as we expand).

The next motivated owner is already on the public record.

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