Editorial content for legal, property, and due-diligence teams researching UK corporate ownership and HM Land Registry CCOD data.
How to turn a corporate ownership export into a portfolio audit: de-duplication, tenure separation, counting units, and the analyses it supports.
Read the guideCCOD is an ownership index; the title register is the authoritative record. What each contains, what each costs, and when to escalate.
Read the guideFour repeatable workflows for legal teams: target diligence, site assembly, counterparty identification and asset tracing, with escalation points.
Read the guideA timed ten-minute routine for reconciling a Companies House record against HM Land Registry ownership data, with four checks that settle a match.
Read the guideA working checklist for corporate property ownership investigations: entity scoping, search passes, verification, escalation and recording the basis.
Read the guideA decision guide for free GOV.UK searches, free bulk datasets, £3 official copies and indexed search, with when each is the right answer.
Read the guideA practical workflow for checking whether a limited company owns property in England and Wales, and how to write up a nil return honestly.
Read the guideWhy a parent-company search returns nothing when assets sit in SPVs, and how to build the entity list before searching ownership data.
Read the guideHow to analyse overseas corporate property ownership using HM Land Registry OCOD data, and the four analytical errors that undermine most attempts.
Read the guideThe three CCOD fields that cause most misreadings — title number, tenure and proprietor address — and what each one actually means.
Read the guideThe limits of HM Land Registry corporate ownership data in due diligence, and how to word findings so they stay defensible.
Read the guideWhy raw title counts by district mislead, which denominators actually measure concentration, and how to build a ranking that survives scrutiny.
Read the guideEvery guide answers a legal or due-diligence question, then moves the reader into a company ownership search.