Novello Chartered Surveyors joins OPDA
By joining the OPDA, Novello brings its experience in property surveys, digital data capture and AI-powered reporting to the association.
Novello Chartered Surveyors joined the Open Property Data Association (OPDA).
By joining the OPDA, Novello brings its experience in property surveys, digital data capture and artificial intelligence (AI)-powered reporting to the association.
James Brook (pictured), CEO at Novello, said: “Surveying has spent thirty years producing paper reports that arrive too late in the transaction to change anything.
“The Data Use and Access Act changes the rules. Condition data will have to be captured digitally at source and shared through trusted frameworks, and that is exactly the platform we are building.
“A surveyor will be able to walk the property with a camera and a microphone, and the platform does the rest.”
Brook added: “Joining OPDA puts us in the room where the standards are being set.
“We believe condition reports produced by qualified surveyors and delivered as open data at the start of a transaction are the missing piece in upfront information.
“We want to help define what that looks like and then deliver it at scale.”
He said: “What we bring to the association is the front line: 40 plus surveyors inspecting homes every day, a live platform turning those inspections into structured data, and direct relationships with the agents, brokers and consumers the standards are meant to serve.”
Maria Harris, chair of the OPDA, said: “We’re delighted to welcome Novello Chartered Surveyors to OPDA.
“Novello brings something different to our membership – a surveying business that works directly with agents and consumers every day, and one that is already using smart data and AI to add real value to the survey process.
“That first-hand experience of the transaction will be hugely valuable as we continue to build open, trusted standards for the industry.”
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