Explore our detailed reports to gain crucial insights into any location — whether you're starting a business, finding a new home, securing funding, or evaluating investment opportunities. Pick information like competitors and complementary businesses, planning trends, property prices and the people who live in the area to allow you to make decisions based on richer data and to get more structure for your detailed research. See some examples below.

Starting a business

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Imagine you're considering starting an interior design business. You're considering two prospective locations and you'd like to know the age breakdown of the areas, recent planning permissions, affluence and information about the types of homes in each area.

As you've great expertise in children’s playrooms you want to know the types of families in the areas. You're interested in competition. Last but not least you feel the following businesses might complement yours: furniture shops, upholsterers, painter/decorators, paint shops and fabric shops.

Looking at a potential house move

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Imagine you've two children under the age of five. You've seen a house you really like but want to know a little more about the area. You're interested in the age breakdown of the people living in the area, the number of families with pre-school and early school children and the working categories of the people.

As you enjoy an active lifestyle and socialising you'd also like to get a sense of the area in terms of: cafes and coffee shops, childcare, schools, gyms, leisure clubs, leisure centres and restaurants.

Socioeconomics

There are more than 20 types of socioeconomic items to choose from e.g. Age Breakdown, Level of Education, Family Size, Crime etc.

Property

Four types of property items can be selected for an area and each are reported on with some combination of charts, maps and tables.

• Ireland Residential Property Register Insights ......click for a more detailed description a bar chart displaying the last five years' figures is first displayed followed by a map of the ten nearest entries to the location chosen from the previous year and an accompanying table listing the price entered, whether it was full market price, whether VAT was included and address details, for each of the ten.
• Planning Applications in Ireland ......click for a more detailed description a bar chart listing the last five years figures broken down by status i.e. Granted, Refused, Withdrawn, Invalid or Pending is first displayed. Following the chart is a map of the ten nearest applications with a status of Granted from the last 5 years with an accompanying table listing the planning application number, the relevant planning authority and address details. The section is completed by a map of the ten nearest applications with a status of Refused from the last 5 years with an accompanying table listing the planning application number, the relevant planning authority and address details. An appendix is included at the end of the report giving the description that accompanied the ten granted applications and ten refused applications.
• New Completions in Ireland ......click for a more detailed description a table showing the electoral areas that noticeably overlap the area defined i.e. at least 5% of their area overlaps the area defined. Details for each of these areas including the percentage of the electoral area in the area defined and the total number of houses built for the entire electoral area. Following the table is a map which shows these electoral areas overlaying the area defined.
• Ireland Commercial Property Register Insights ......click for a more detailed description a bar chart displaying the number of leases registered in the last five years, followed by a graph showing the average rental price for each year, followed by a graph showing the frequency of durations of lease terms and, finally, followed by a map of the ten nearest entries to the location chosen from the previous year and an accompanying table listing the details for each of the ten.

Categories and Brands

For a category or a brand the report will show the ten closest occurrences of the category/brand in question to the location chosen within the area defined, or as many as occur within the area, in both map form and an accompanying table listing their addresses. If there is information regarding their Google review score and number of reviews, these will also be included.

Environment

The report will show one or more heatmaps, as deemed appropriate, of the area defined for the environmental item chosen e.g. rainfall.