Molior London

What Molior London does

Molior London is a privately held subscription-based market research practice focused exclusively on the London residential development industry. Founded in 2008 and operating from 70 Upper Richmond Road, London (registered in Eastbourne, East Sussex), the company provides a unified information service built around four research pillars — Sales Research, Land & Planning Research, Sites Pre-planning Research, and Build to Rent Research — covering all 33 London local authorities. Its core asset is a proprietary database tracking 7,258 development schemes and 2,000+ pre-planning sites, refreshed through continuous site visits, Land Registry monitoring, and industry interviews.

The platform is delivered as a password-protected web portal offering quarterly analysis reports, weekly Planning News, BTR research, and downloadable data and graphs. Molior supplements the data service with tiered members-only networking events in Central London drawing roughly 250 attendees, positioning the company as a community hub for the residential development industry alongside its research product. Customers are predominantly enterprise — major agents (Savills, JLL, CBRE, Allsop), national developers (Berkeley Homes, Barratt London, Ballymore, Greystar), and housing associations (L&Q, Peabody, CHG, Genesis Housing) — with the company claiming 95% penetration among the top residential developers and agents in London.

Commercially, Molior runs a direct, founder-led sales motion: subscriptions are sold personally by principal Tim Craine via phone and email, with pricing not publicly disclosed. The company is privately funded with no disclosed institutional rounds. In 2026 it extended its research footprint beyond London into The Midlands and The North, covering Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle, Sheffield and Liverpool, marking the first material geographic expansion of the business model.

Name

Molior London

Legal name

Molior London Limited

Website

https://moliorlondon.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2008

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Molior London is a subscription-based market research practice providing proprietary intelligence on the London residential development market to enterprise subscribers, including major developers, agents, and housing associations.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Subscription Research Service: Annual or periodic subscription providing access to the restricted research database, planning news, BTR research, and downloadable data and graphs. Subscribers receive quarterly analysis reports and access to networking events.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Molior London provides subscription-based market research on the London residential development industry through a proprietary database covering 7,258 development schemes and 2,000+ pre-planning sites across all 32 London boroughs plus the City of London. Subscribers receive integrated data on land, planning, sales and Build to Rent (BTR), supplemented by weekly planning news, quarterly analysis reports, downloadable data, and member networking events.

Product overview

Molior London provides a unified subscription-based market research and information service for the London residential development industry. The core offering is a comprehensive research database consolidating land, planning, sales, and Build to Rent data across all 32 London boroughs plus the City. This is delivered through four integrated research pillars: Sales Research, Land & Planning Research, Sites Pre-planning Research, and Build to Rent Research. Subscribers gain access to the Full London Database (7258+ development schemes), weekly Planning News reports, quarterly BTR Research, and downloadable data and graphs on sales rates and construction volumes. The service also includes member networking events and is accessible through a password-protected online portal.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Full London Database Comprehensive online database product consolidating all 7,258 London residential development schemes with land, planning, sales, and BTR data and wide-ranging search options across the 32 London boroughs plus the City of London. Distributed to subscribers through a password-protected portal.
• Sales Research Research pillar tracking who is building what and where in London's residential development market, covering marketing strategies, sales rates, and scheme-by-scheme pricing across all 33 London local authorities. Designed for residential developers and agents seeking competitor and pricing intelligence.
• Land & Planning Research Research pillar covering the full planning pipeline including planning applications, decisions, appeals, and permissions, combined with regularly updated Land Registry data on deals done and prices paid. Targeted at land investors, developers and agents tracking development pipeline activity.
• Sites Pre-planning Research Research pillar providing details on 2,000+ London residential development sites at the pre-planning stage, including estimates of development potential and site owner contact details. Built for land investors and developers identifying early-stage opportunities.
• Build to Rent (BTR) Research Research pillar tracking London's emerging Build to Rent industry, including active participants, construction and planning pipeline, and delivered developments with rental data. Targeted at institutional BTR operators and investors such as Greystar.
• Planning News Weekly analysis of planning applications, decisions, and appeals covering 20+ private unit schemes in London. Delivered as a subscriber newsletter / bulletin within the database portal.
• BTR Research Reports Quarterly analysis reports covering Build to Rent schemes, active players, and rental data for 20+ private unit schemes in London. Delivered to subscribers as part of the BTR research pillar.
• Data and Graphs Downloads Quarterly analysis offering data downloads and graphs on sales rates, pricing, and construction volumes across London residential development. Provided to subscribers within the database portal.
• Quarterly Analysis Reports Quarterly subscriber publications delivering analysis of the London residential development market, including scheme-level sales rates, pricing trends, and construction volumes (e.g., 'Molior Residential Development in London April 2026').
• Member Networking Events Members-only networking events held in Central London (around 250 attendees) for residential development professionals, with tiered formats for all subscribers, senior management only, or next-generation industry professionals. Sponsored by industry firms.
• Midlands and North Database Database extension covering residential development schemes in major UK cities outside London, including Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle, Sheffield, Liverpool, and other locations across the Midlands and Northern England. Sold as part of Molior's broader research subscription.

Quantifiable outcome

• 95% of the top residential developers and agents in London subscribe to Molior

Named customers17 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• CoStar Group: Global real estate data giant with growing UK presence via Homes and CoStar UK. Provides subscription analytics across commercial and residential — a much broader incumbent but the most direct large-scale analogue to Molior's subscription data model.
• Property Week: UK property industry news and research publication with subscription content for agents, developers, and investors. Adjacent information service for the same professional audience, though delivered as journalism rather than scheme-level data.
• Rightmove: UK's largest property listings platform with a House Price Index and market commentary. Reaches the same residential professional audience and has data assets, though focused on listings and pricing trends rather than development pipeline intelligence.
• Knight Frank: Global property consultancy publishing the well-known UK Residential Development Research series and London Development Map — direct competition to Molior's research output, delivered as part of a wider agency services portfolio.
• Estates Gazette: Long-established UK commercial property news, data, and research publication. Adjacent in serving property professionals with subscription intelligence, though primarily commercial rather than residential development.
• Zoopla: Major UK property platform with a House Price Index, market reports, and research products. Overlaps Molior's end-customer base (residential professionals) and publishes London residential research, though primarily as a portal with data products rather than scheme-level intelligence.

Direct peers

• Dataloft: UK subscription-based residential property data and analytics provider serving housebuilders, agents, and lenders. Closely comparable business model — paid data products and market intelligence for the UK residential sector.
• Searchland: UK development site and planning intelligence platform used by housebuilders, developers, and land buyers. Overlaps with Molior's pre-planning and land data offerings with a more software-led delivery model.
• LandInsight: UK land and property development intelligence platform from Search Acumen. Subscription SaaS targeting land buyers and developers with planning, ownership, and comparable sales data — same end customer base as Molior's Sites Pre-planning and Land & Planning products.
• REalyse: UK Build to Rent market analytics platform (now part of MRI Software). Directly overlaps Molior's BTR Research pillar with subscription data on BTR schemes, rents, and operators.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/MoliorLondon
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Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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