New — Scotland coverage

Every other property data tool stops at the border.

Scotland has no open land registry: there is no CCOD, no OCOD, no free Price Paid file. Searchland, LandInsight and Nimbus are built on HM Land Registry data, so their Scotland tab doesn't exist. DealBrief resolves Scottish ownership a different way — from the security (mortgage) filings every company must register at Companies House.

How it works

1. When a Scottish company mortgages a property, the standard security is registered at Companies House with the property's address — usually with its Land Register of Scotland title number.
2. DealBrief walks those filings for every Scottish property company (and listens to the Companies House charge stream in real time) to build the holdings map: which company owns what, secured with which lender.
3. Edinburgh Gazette insolvency notices, winding-up petitions and register status are overlaid, so distressed portfolios surface with their actual addresses attached — in your weekly digest, in the app, and over MCP for your own AI tools.

What this finds in practice

A real query from this week: "portfolios of 5+ properties within 20 miles of Carluke". Answer: 292 companies, from a 27-property Lanarkshire landlord (Wishaw, Bellshill, Motherwell, Carluke) to a single holder with 214 dwellings in radius — each with addresses and title numbers, ready for a direct approach before anything hits the market.

Honest limits

This is the mortgaged subset: a property with no security registered against it never appears in charge filings, so absence here is not evidence a company owns nothing. Bedroom counts and condition aren't in the filings either — we give you the who, the where and the title number; the survey is still yours. We publish what the data can and can't say, always.

Want the monthly numbers first? Read the UK Property Distress Index.