Accurate location data you can build on

Accurate location data is transforming the housing and property sectors, and can help you with efficient management, compliance with sustainability targets, and unlocking value in your portfolios.

With Ordnance Survey (OS), you can remove any uncertainty when it comes to real estate. Our collection of data products includes enriched layers of detail on buildings and land use sites. You can see the lifecycle stages of a property for condition and address verification, whether there’s presence of a basement or solar roof, better understand nearby environmental factors, and so much more.

Enabling social landlords trying to meet regulatory demands, empowering real estate professionals for valuation and energy efficiency checks – our location data provides the tools and actionable insights you need to stay informed, compliant, and at a competitive advantage.

OS’s location intelligence is already boosting property sector efficiency. We continuously innovate with new property data to meet future industry needs, and through Geovation, we collaborate on initiatives like the MHCLG Proptech Innovation Challenge and our HMLR Accelerator.

Benefit from trusted location data to inform your decision making.

How can geospatial data help?

Property risk assessment

Accurately model potential perils (flood, subsidence, wind, etc) affecting your properties.

Warm homes identification

Understand the characteristics of your property portfolio and create strategies for hard-to-heat homes.

Climate change exposure

Monitor your portfolio impact on the environment to meet regulatory requirements.

Biodiversity net gain

Accelerate baselining of biodiversity unit values for rapid site analysis using S Enhanced Land Cover (Beta).

Natural Infrastructure Planning

Deliver accurate environmental impact assessment to enhance planning applications.

Built Environment planning

Easily identify potential sites for development using authoritative location data.

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government logoZoopla logoDepartment for Energy Security and Net Zero logoHM Land Registry logoSprift know any property instantly logoWHG logo

Take the next step

Get in touch to discuss your situation with our team, and learn where OS data can help, from reducing risk to improving efficiencies and customer experience, and more.

Contact our team

Public sector

Public sector organisations rely on Ordnance Survey’s world-leading location data to deliver policy, critical infrastructure, and services across Britain – find out how you can get access to the data.

Get public sector access

Supporting net zero

Make confident decisions to support the push for net zero using trusted property and land data.

  • Make critical warm-home decisions to increase the energy efficiency of your stock
  • Get clarity on the solar panel presence and potential for new panels using our rooftop data
  • Analyse housing which is hard to heat with building characteristic data
  • Support heat network zoning with authoritative spatial data to identify, refine, and designate viable zones
  • Have the ability to accurately identify properties suitable for heat pump installation using building footprint and property plot outlines
  • Gain insights to better insulate homes and reduce costs using building construction type data

Natural infrastructure

Enhance the natural environment by planning with communities, climate, and green infrastructure at its heart.

  • Create Environmental Improvement Plans using detailed greenspace, green roof, and ecology data
  • Accurately assess Biodiversity Net Gain for your development
  • Assess planning applications using UKHab specifications
  • Get accurate and quick understanding of areas and their different land cover to enable preparation and applications for the Nature Recovery Fund
  • Better analyse the environment for accessible green and blue spaces
  • Gain insights into boosting biodiversity

De-risk your assets

Improve your understanding of property risk through precise, trustworthy data.

  • Better model risk such as flooding, subsidence, wind or storms during the planning process, using detailed location data including land use around new neighbourhoods
  • Easily identify properties with a basement presence which might be at higher risk, using the Unique Property Reference Number (UPRN) to bring in third-party datasets
  • Easily identify potential development sites that are low risk
  • Plan maintenance programs safely and help comply with the Building Safety Act; bring in detailed property characteristics into your analysis including building age, construction materials, roof type, and aspect

Planning

Make critical decisions with confidence to support the continually changing planning policy landscape.

  • Better analyse existing infrastructure ahead of development
  • Boost efficiency and reduce costs
  • Prepare for the implementation of the draft National Planning Policy Framework – using a systemic approach to planning by layering in transport networks
  • Identify land that is out of use for potential brownfield site redevelopment
  • Improve accuracy of property data using the UPRN
  • Get the ability to accurately model new developments
  • Gain insights into new developments to speed up planning decisions

Land and property case studies