Climate change is now having a systemic effect on the property market. Landmark’s latest market research report – Climate change in the property sector: A cross-market update, seeks to understand what progress is being made on climate change related resilience and what notable barriers remain.
For this report, Landmark interviewed 150 senior property professionals: estate agents, residential conveyancers and mortgage lenders; all with decades’ worth of experience. In a muted market, beset by other pressures, conveyancers report buyers are increasingly walking away from risky transactions, suggesting a growing consumer sensitivity and more serious financial implications attached to climate data.
Some of the key findings of our 2025 research include:
- 99% of property professionals say their clients are concerned to some degree with the evolving / future potential threat of climate change when buying a property.
- 93% of property professionals say that recent climate events have impacted the way they advise clients to think about climate related risks and how they could affect their home.
- On average, property professionals are advising 52% of their clients on potential climate change risks to their property (up from 50% in 2024).
- Nearly three quarters (74%) of the conveyancers we spoke to now have a net zero strategy.
Download the report by clicking below.
In collaboration with the UK’s leading law firms, three of Argyll’s environmental SiteSolutions and FloodSolutions reports have been redesigned to improve usability and provide clearer guidance.
These renowned and trusted reports go beyond mere data, offering expert analysis and advice to help real estate lawyers, and their clients proceed with confidence and certainty.
Flexible product portfolio
Our range of remastered reports is designed to meet the diverse needs of property lawyers, offering expert recommendations and bespoke risk assessment across a wide selection of reports. This flexibility ensures that the right solution is available for every transaction, every time.
With this in mind, we are launching our SiteSolutions Combined + Climate Change report which includes Landmark’s market leading climate change module. This element provides a forward-looking analysis of how climate change may impact a property over time, helping clients understand potential long-term physical risks such as increased flooding, heat stress, as well as transitional risks such as energy efficiency of buildings.
Providing SiteSolutions Combined reports both with and without a climate change assessment allows lawyers and their clients a choice to decide whether, or when, this information should be part of the due diligence process and / or satisfy client tolerances. This approach aligns with the updated guidance recently published Law Society’s Property Specific Climate Practice Note.
Tailored reports, trusted outcomes
Argyll Environmental is the leading provider of expert environmental risk assessment and consultancy services for the UK property and legal sectors.
Each SiteSolutions and FloodSolutions report is written and assessed by an experienced in-house Environmental Consultant, transforming complex data into clear, visual insights and plain-language commentary. With meticulous attention to detail, our reports offer bespoke recommendations and overall risk assessments tailored to the context of your transaction. The remastered SiteSolutions range of reports sets the highest standard for commercial environmental searches. With an intuitive design, industry-leading data interpretation, and actionable insight, these reports empower you to deliver exceptional service to your clients.
Introducing the first of our enhanced SiteSolutions range:
- SiteSolutions Commercial
- SiteSolutions Combined
- SiteSolutions Combined + Climate Change
- FloodSolutions Commercial
Your risk report, now smarter and simpler
Our remastered SiteSolutions reports set a new standard for environmental searches. With an intuitive design, industry-leading data interpretation, and upgrades that address today’s most pressing risks, these reports empower you to deliver exceptional service to your clients.
- New landscape layout for easier on-screen reading.
- Side-by-side summary pages for Contaminated Land and Flood, enabling quicker comparison.
- Data summary maps now appear alongside consultant commentary, helping you interpret risks in context.
- Plain English commentary – no acronyms, just clear, relevant insights that enhance the risk assessment.
- Hyperlinks throughout to take you directly to the data you need.
- Improved flood data summary maps for better visual clarity.
- OS MasterMap integration to quickly verify property boundaries and locations.
- At-a-glance risk overview so you can immediately see what needs your attention.
- Clear author contact details for quick access to expert support when needed.
Explore the future of environmental due diligence. To find our more, click here.
Landmark’s Q2 2025 Residential Property Trends Report is now available. This report features the latest data on residential property transactions, including listings, SSTC/SSTM figures, search orders and completions.
Our data reveals muted market momentum following a stamp duty-fuelled surge in March. Completions cooled in Q2 compared to 2024 levels – veering from a 79% year-on-year uplift in March to a 32% dip in April.
Listings volumes were up 5% on 2024 levels, indicating a continued strong intent to move. However, affordability continues to constrain demand from progressing.
The market in Scotland remained consistently stable with stronger market momentum translating into listings volumes that were up 14% on Q2 2024. Meanwhile, volumes of Sold Subject to Missives (SSTM) and completions tracked in line with last year’s volumes.
Other key findings from Q2 2025 include:
- Listings volumes in England and Wales were up 5% in Q2 ‘25 compared to Q2 ‘24. In Scotland, listings were up 14% in Q2 ’25 vs Q2 ‘24.
- In England and Wales, SSTC volumes in Q2 ‘25 were down 7% vs Q2 ‘24. SSTM levels in Scotland were down 3% compared to Q2 ‘24.
- Completion volumes in England and Wales were down 20% in Q2 ’25 vs Q2 ’24. In Scotland, completions were up 1% compared to Q2 ‘24.
Download your copy of the Cross Market Activity edition for England, Wales and Scotland, which includes the latest residential property market data and insights for Q2 2025.
Landmark’s Q1 2025 Residential Property Trends Report is now available.
This report, from our parent company Landmark, features the latest data on residential property transactions, including listings, SSTC/SSTM figures, search orders and completions.
Our data for Q1 ‘25 reveals signs of a resilient market and a stable transaction pipeline emerging following the spike in completions ahead of the Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) reversal deadline in England and Wales.
Completions rose by 30% over the quarter, with a 71% year-on-year surge in March alone as buyers rushed to complete. Beyond this much-anticipated bubble of activity, underlying indicators point to a more resilient property market heading into Q2.
The Scottish property market continued to hold firm, avoiding any notable market distortion following changes to Land & Buildings Transaction Tax (LBTT – the Scottish equivalent of SDLT).
Other key findings from Q1 ‘25 include:
- Listing volumes in England and Wales were comparable to Q1 ‘24, up by just 1%. In Scotland, listing volumes were up 11% for the quarter compared to Q1 ‘24.
- In England and Wales, SSTC volumes were down 9% compared to Q1 ‘24. Conversely, SSTM volumes in Scotland were up 9% vs Q1 ‘24.
- Completions were up 30% in England and Wales (+71% in March alone). In Scotland, completions were up 16% compared to Q1 ‘24.
Download your copy of the Cross Market Activity edition for England, Wales and Scotland, which includes the latest residential property market data and insights for Q1 2025.
Building on the success of their new residential search reports launched last November, our parent company Landmark are delighted to unveil their new and improved commercial search reports.
The reports are designed to help commercial real estate professionals reduce the time spent interpreting data and access the information they need more easily.
Environmental Insights Remastered
Landmark’s remastered commercial reports feature unmatched data and clearly defined assessments that empowers commercial property lawyers to navigate the detail seamlessly. With enhanced clarity, they’ll provide all the relevant information to power confident decision-making.
Simple, straightforward, but never standard – led by commercial property lawyers
Landmark engaged with a large number of commercial property lawyers to shape the design and product brief. The overwhelming response was a call for reports that are more precise, easy to understand and easily direct you to the detail when required. Based on this valuable feedback, Landmark have refined the new commercial reports to be simple, straightforward, but with the most comprehensive information.
Comprehensive due diligence, made easy
- New and upgraded risk modules: Landmark have enhanced their reports to ensure they provide the most comprehensive reports in the market but also the simplest way to convey environmental risk.
- Optimised for today’s workflow: Visually enhanced front pages provide greater transparency for commercial property lawyers, saving valuable time.
- Executive summaries: New executive summary pages for both conveyancers and clients to quickly and easily understand which risks are relevant for that location and what to do next.
To view the remastered catalogue, click the related products links below. For details on Landmark’s new residential portfolio offering, click here.
In 2024, we witnessed steady but consistently lower transaction volumes. That begs the question: Why don’t lower volumes mean faster transactions?
Spoiler alert: aside from some marginal variances, property transaction timescales did not vastly alter in 2024, despite reduced transaction volumes. The question is: why?
Our parent company Landmark Information Group’s latest Property Transactions Report – entitled Why don’t lower volumes mean faster transactions? – seeks to answer that question (and more), delving into 17 years’ worth of data, with cross-market commentary from our experts.
Major talking points covered in the report include:
- What are the persistent bottlenecks in the home-buying process?
- Where have timelines improved?
- How do property transaction timescales compare to consumer expectations?
In this report, we analyse the time taken between key transaction milestones and how they have changed over time, including:
- Instruction to completion timescales for sales and purchases
- Contract issued to buyer enquiries received timescales for sales
- Instruction to mortgage offer received timescales for purchases
Access your copy of the report by visiting this link.