PropTech UK Commercial Real Estate Data Platform

HMLR Commercial transactions

Land Registry commercial price paid data -- all commercial property transactions in England and Wales.

Pipeline

• 1HMLR Commercial Transactions CSV (monthly bulk download -- 2M+ transactions since 1995),
• 2data ingestion (dbt pipeline -- validation, deduplication, geographic enrichment),
• 3UPRN matching (Ordnance Survey AddressBase -- match property address to UPRN for cross-source joining),
• 4company matching (Companies House API -- match buyer/seller to registered company -- beneficial ownership research),
• 5index calculation (commercial property price indices by sector: offices, retail, industrial, mixed-use -- comparable to MSCI UK IPD index).

RICS Data Standards

HMLR commercial data enriched with RICS property classification codes.

EPC Commercial Data and MEES Compliance

• Commercial EPC (Energy Performance Certificate): all commercial properties for sale or let require EPC.
• MEES (Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards) for commercial: (1) from

April 2023

EPC E minimum for existing commercial leases, (2) from

April 2027

EPC D minimum, (3) from

April 2030

EPC B minimum.

CRE data platform

• 1EPC Register API (current EPC per property -- rating, expiry, assessor),
• 2MEES compliance forecast (which properties will breach future MEES thresholds?),
• 3improvement modelling (what measures needed for MEES compliance? -- insulation, HVAC, glazing),
• 4portfolio analysis (institutional fund-level MEES compliance -- Green Street equivalent analysis),
• 5TCFD climate risk reporting (Scope 1/2 emissions from commercial property portfolio).

Net Zero commitments

commercial tenants increasingly require EPC A or B properties -- affecting rental values.

Planning Portal data integration

commercial development pipeline analysis. (1) Planning Portal API (planning applications -- major commercial developments, office conversions, retail to residential), (2) pre-application enquiries (not publicly available -- enriched via local authority contacts), (3) planning decision data (permitted, refused, appealed -- planning success rates by LA and development type), (4) construction starts (planning approved + building regulations start -- estimate construction pipeline), (5) completion data (HMRC SDLT filing for new development sale = evidence of completion).

Development pipeline

institutional investors use CRE data platform to identify development opportunities before public market.

CRE data edge

early identification of planning applications before they appear on major portals (CoStar, Rightmove Commercial).

FCA MAR Compliance for CRE Data

FCA MAR (Market Abuse Regulation UK retained): institutional investors using CRE data must ensure data use does not constitute market abuse.

CRE data MAR analysis

• 1inside information (CRE data derived from public sources -- HMLR, EPC, Planning Portal -- is not inside information),
• 2market manipulation (publishing CRE indices designed to mislead market -- ClickMasters indices methodology transparent and documented),
• 3Chinese walls (CRE data company must not share data between investment banking clients who are potential CRE transaction counterparties),
• 4data entitlement (institutional clients must be entitled to use CRE data for their specific purpose -- entitlement documented in data licence),
• 5record keeping (FCA expects firms to retain records of data use by institutional clients -- 5-year retention).

ClickMasters CRE MAR compliance

methodology documentation and data licence template for institutional clients.