Question 1

What is DealBrief?

Accepted Answer

DealBrief is off-market property distress intelligence for UK investors. Every day it reads the public record (Companies House, The Gazette and HM Land Registry) and scores owners under genuine financial pressure, such as receiver appointments, winding-up petitions, strike-off countdowns and EPC non-compliance. It then joins each signal to the property title and delivers a ranked morning briefing that names the decision-maker and drafts a compliant approach. The aim is to reach a motivated seller before the property is listed on a portal or sent to auction, which is the stage where the biggest discounts usually sit. DealBrief covers both companies and individual owners, with England and Wales property data and UK-wide company and insolvency data. Plans start at £49 a month with a 14-day free trial and no minimum term.

Question 2

How is DealBrief different from Searchland?

Accepted Answer

Searchland and similar tools are filtered-list platforms: you set criteria and they return every property or site that matches, which is excellent for planning-led site sourcing and ownership lookups. DealBrief leads with distress instead. It ranks owners under real, dated financial pressure, such as receiver appointments, winding-up petitions, strike-off countdowns and EPC or MEES landlord pressure, and joins them to the title so you can reach a motivated seller first. The difference is timing and intent: a filtered list shows what exists, while DealBrief shows who is likely to need to sell, and roughly when. DealBrief also covers individual owners and tired landlords, not just companies, and runs the full workflow from the legal signal to a compliant first approach. The two are complementary rather than direct substitutes.

Question 3

Where does the data come from?

Accepted Answer

DealBrief uses official open data only, with no scraping. The core sources are Companies House, The Gazette (published under the Open Government Licence v3.0) and HM Land Registry, joined across roughly 4.5 million titles. Supporting sources include the EPC register, planning.data.gov.uk, PlanIt planning applications and OpenStreetMap. Every distress signal in a briefing links back to its primary source, so you can verify the receiver appointment, winding-up petition or strike-off notice yourself before acting on it. Property and ownership data is England and Wales; company and insolvency data is UK-wide. Because the data is public, no tool has a monopoly on it. What DealBrief adds is the daily reading, the scoring of genuine distress, the join to the title and the decision-maker, and a compliant outreach draft.

Question 4

How much does DealBrief cost?

Accepted Answer

DealBrief has two entry points. The distress-leads email is £49 a month and sends a weekly digest of the newest distressed-owner signals. The full self-serve platform starts at £199 a month and adds the daily ranked briefing, map and search, owner and decision-maker identification, valuation context, planning data and compliant outreach drafts, with higher tiers for heavier use. Every plan includes a 14-day free trial, is billed monthly, and has no minimum term or lock-in, so you can cancel any time. Pricing is published openly on the site rather than hidden behind a demo call. For most investors the £199 platform is the right starting point; the £49 email suits those who just want a steady feed of leads to action manually.

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