Appraised, a London-based start-up bent on transforming the way that the property industry appraises development opportunities, has secured investment of £500,000 from heavy-weight property, technology and business experts.
Led by Surplus Invest, a German-based early stage VC firm, the seed round also included personal investment from angels, Robert Grigg (Executive Chairman of Property Finance at Hampshire Trust Bank) and Conan Lauterpacht (Former VP of Corporate Development at Altus Group), as well as a follow-on commitment from Pi Labs, the PropTech VC firm.
Appraised, which was founded in 2017 by industry expert Daniel Norman, is the first cloud-based tool for running property development appraisals and feasibility reports from anywhere, on any device. With Daniel having worked for over 10 years in property development, development finance brokerage, as well as a lender, Appraised is his brainchild, and based on his own experience of appraising sites, evaluating deals and structuring finance for developers.
Joining forces with technical co-founder and expert software engineer Jonathan Raoult, Appraised is designed to streamline the appraisal process and interactions with property developers, lenders and professionals.
Daniel Norman, Founder and CEO of Appraised said, “Our mission with Appraised is to leverage tech to create a much smarter development appraisal process. I know from my own years of experience that property development isn’t as easy as it looks and saving time on hugely consuming tasks such as this, is invaluable.
“We estimate that a detailed development appraisal and feasibility report currently takes one to two hours to put together but with Appraised this can be reduced to five to 10 minutes, with the software able to assist the user in making fast, data-driven decisions. Typically, only one site out of 60 goes ahead after it has been appraised so this is a huge amount of time saved by both the developer and professional team, but also the lender who must carefully review each one. We hope that the software will take the property world by storm.”
Faisal Butt, the Founder & Chairman of PropTech VC Pi Labs added, “Appraised is set to bring the world of property development appraisals into the modern era at long last. Running the numbers on a property development project is far more painstaking and onerous than it needs to be and has remained largely unchanged over time.
“Having worked in all facets of property development and finance for a decade himself, Daniel has identified a clear opportunity to improve the industry’s antiquated way of doing things. Property appraisals are finally entering the digital age, and we are excited to be a part of it.”
Appraised’s beta software is currently being trialled with selected companies ahead of the company’s official launch this summer. The new funding will enable Appraised to continue developing the software and expand their team.
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