Real Life Use Cases

In today's climate, when law firm clients sometimes know more about tech than their lawyers, the need to showcase your credentials as a tech progressive firm is becoming increasingly important. AI is becoming less of a novelty, and more of a necessity.

This is particularly true of panel pitches, when larger institutional clients will often demand to know what automations you employ in the team!

So, how do you stand out? Avail Title is an easy way to illustrate how you use AI. Simply pop a target's name into our instant PN1 Search, identify all the assets they own, and run a report across them in seconds. Create an Interactive Compiled Plan to share with them also, mapping all their assets in one place. Ping this across to your potential client, or put it in a pitch pack, and trust us - you'll impress 🤩

Panel pitches are now regularly seeing law firms employing different variations of Avail Title reports against each other to win a spot on a panel. The risk of falling behind the market norm is real...but luckily we're just a few clicks away!

We're so simple that not only can Avail Title be used by your real estate team, but yours bids and marketing team can also use it to improve client wins and retention 😀

Most law firms have a reasonably stale formula for quoting or scoping new jobs. They look back at past similar jobs, maybe add 5% for inflation, and guesstimate that the job will come in there or thereabouts...not too much science involved!

Luckily Kate has a different way of doing things. Using Avail Title's Key Issues Report, she can quickly understand how complex a transaction is likely to be - it only takes a few seconds, and it'll give her so much more to go on! She spots that there are 30 noted leases and a gnarly restrictive covenant linked to one of the freeholds she's been instructed to buy, and knows she'll need additional resources to hit her client's deadlines.

Even better, once she's quoted faster and more accurately to her client, she uses the same report to allocate work more effectively in her team - by understanding which are the more complex titles, she avoids giving a complete stinker to a trainee to work on (she'd only have to write off their time and do it again in the end any way 😉). Her senior lawyers work on complex matters, and her juniors on easier ones.

With Avail Title at her fingertips, real estate legal teams have never been so efficient! 🚀

Avail Title makes transacting large portfolios much easier for real estate legal teams. Above and beyond the standard benefits under the Daily Transactional tab, you can also use the Portfolio Report to review hundreds of titles in seconds.

Kate's working on a huge portfolio of social housing assets for an RP. Using Avail Title's instant PN1 Search and Address Search, she identifies the relevant titles in a few seconds.

With just two clicks, she purchases, analyses, and produces a draft report on title for 800 titles in less than a minute 😯

She then has a couple of different options. Using the spreadsheet Portfolio Report, she can quickly identify all the charge proprietors involved, as well as instantly flagging that a number of properties appear to have restrictive covenants preventing use of the properties for social housing...definitely a problem!

She can then use this spreadsheet to create a suitable report on title, or generate individual draft reports on title with our split Detailed Reports.

Property finance deals can easily contain hundreds of assets, especially for larger landowners. This is an area that Avail Title really excels at. Buy an unlimited number of titles and related filed copies using Avail Title's HM Land Registry Connection, making it easy for you to review titles and assess existing securities.

If you have them already, Avail Title is also the only platform that can read pre-existing titles (just upload them!) 📂 This is even more powerful with our iManage Integration, making uploading OCEs faster and smoother.

Kate's client is refinancing a group of nurseries. Avail Title's Key Issues Report helps Kate quickly identify the number of charges filed against each title, and she then instantly generates a pre-populated CLLS long form Certificate of Title, helping Kate accelerate her reporting requirements to the lender 🏦

This alone saves her days of work, and her team then finalise the Certificate after various rounds of feedback.

Finally, Kate runs a Detailed Report or Portfolio Report to check any pending applications against her properties just before completion...easy!

The social housing sector is booming, but many organisations are under real pressure to deliver more for less 🫠

This extends to the law firms on their panel, and expectations are high that you'll drive efficiency as much as possible. So whether you're dealing with Affordable Housing tenures and requirements, RPs, Governance & Regulation, Housing and Asset Management, Nominations and Acquisition & Disposals, there's a way to use Avail Title to optimise your approach.

Kate is working on a deal for an RP. Our Key Issues Report helps Kate with origination and initial due diligence, aiding the client with internal decision making and heads of terms. She then opens up the Detailed Report as she carries out her full transactional due diligence, using it as the spine of her report on title. This ends up saving hours of her time, and her client gets information faster and more effectively.

Avail Title's even more powerful when deployed on stock rationalisation jobs, where the volume of analysis required really leans into Avail Title's forte, shortcutting the manual processes that waste time every day on real estate transactions. Kate knows this, and regularly uses this potential to acquire new social housing clients, and to expand her practice.

Kate’s working on a time-sensitive bid for a development and regeneration site. Luckily, even without much site information Avail Title can help Kate and her team quickly identify and purchase all the relevant titles using our Address Search or Company Search 🏠

With our Key Issues Report, Kate's team can instantly spot any potential legal risks associated with each title and sort the complex ones from the less complex to effectively delegate to her team. It also helps her quote and scope the job more effectively.

The Detailed Report becomes the spine of Kate's report on title, accelerating how quickly she can pull something together for the client. She also upgrades her report to include planning information, spotting instantly the location of a nearby listed building along with several Section 106 obligations over the land. Armed with this intel on day 1, along with all the planning permissions affecting the site, her client manages to negotiate a price chip.

Avail Title helps Kate's team meet impossible deadlines, review complex titles and sites, and deliver on large transactions with ease, all the time mitigating risk 😎

Planning is an area which is ripe for disruption. Whether you're a transactional or a full planning lawyer, Avail Title is being used widely to speed up planning reporting. Normally, not much can happen until the Local Search lands, so the point of Avail Title's Our Planning Report is to instantly pull together over 70% of the information you'd normally need....but in a few seconds - early doors risk spotting.

Transactional lawyer Kate uses Avail Title's automatic Planning Report to quickly generate an AI-powered planning snapshot for her client's due diligence. The report provides information on recent planning permissions, Section 106 agreements, heritage designations, environmental flags, and flooding risks.

Kate can send a preliminary report to her client within 24 hours, while her planning colleague Mike uses the information to find relevant decision notices and offer opinions faster than waiting for the Local Search results. This expedites the identification of planning risks, which Kate's client loves 😃

In cases where clients don't want to pay for planners, Kate can offer Avail Title's Planning Report as a non-reliance, pre-packaged product that provides a high-level planning review instantly. Once the Local Search arrives, Kate can refine the report to deliver a comprehensive planning summary to her clients more quickly than before.

Although law firms normally compete on how impressive their buy side service is, rarely do they think about optimising the sell side. Once the lifespan of an asset has run and your client wants to dispose of it, Avail Title can help give the market more information earlier, leading to faster sales, better valuations and smoother transactions - how better to delight your client?!

Kate is selling a group of renewable battery storage facilities for her client. Normally she'd wait until initial enquiries came through from the other side, but to be honest she replies to most of them with 'rely on your own enquiries' as her fees don't justify additional exploration (and her client doesn't want to pay for it if the other side will do their own due diligence 😉).

She jumps in and uploads all the old OCEs into Avail Title. In a couple of clicks, she updates them all and buys new versions to add to the dataroom. Following this, she runs a Key Issues Report, along with a Portfolio Report to capture all the information in those titles. She also uploads these to the dataroom.

These reports form part of the initial bid pack, allowing bidders to see lots more upfront information than normal at this stage. They can then dive into the detail of the assets faster. Bids and valuations become more honest, and the entire flow becomes smoother. Kate regularly uses this more efficient process as part of her BD for new clients!

Kate understands the importance of conducting thorough due diligence and risk mitigation before her client embarks on any infrastructure project. That's where Avail Title comes in handy! She happens to be working for Highways England on a complicated site that includes multiple restrictions, and a difficult planning situation.

She kicks off her reporting with our Key Issues Report, getting a high level idea of what might be in store for her client later down the line. Jumping straight into the Detailed Report, she uncovers some useful planning history that will help when negotiating with the local authority on construction later down the line 🥳

Not only this, but the complex site assembly linked to a CPO means that Avail Title's Interactive Mapping comes in essential. She can zoom into the minutiae of the site, identifying a couple of potential ransom strips and some questionable title boundary issues.

Although all the benefits in the Daily Transactional tab also apply, the complexity of some infrastructure deals can (in particular) be unpicked faster with Avail Title.

Leasehold management can be a combination of low margin, low value lease drafting, and quite difficult specific queries about large numbers of properties.

Kate uses Avail Title to help win some new work from her client, managing an industrial park of 50 long term tenants. She then uses our Portfolio Report to ensure her client's agents and surveyors have accurate and up-to-date information about the properties they're managing. She produces this in a matter of seconds!

Being able to quickly identify any restrictions, easements and planning permissions that apply to each property allows Kate to streamline the leasehold management process - churning out new tenancy agreements with minimal additional work.

Her client then becomes embroiled in a court case, and she's asked to identify any leases that have expired, and any titles which have mines and minerals rights excluded. This would normally be an involved review (probably using paralegals). Using the Portfolio Report however, Kate can achieve this in a few minutes 🎉

Avail Title helps save Kate time and effort by providing her with accurate and reliable information about her client's properties and leaseholds, allowing her to provide a better service to her clients and grow her practice.