Case Study: Living Smart boosts efficiency and secures high-margin deals with LandTech LandInsight

Living Smart - Customer Case Study

Living Smart, a Greater Manchester property business founded by brothers Ben and Tom Thorns, was looking to scale its build-to-let portfolio with new-build and change-of-use conversions. As a small two-person team, they needed a faster, more structured way to source sites, manage development processes, and avoid paying unnecessary agent fees, and they began using LandTech’s LandInsight platform in 2017.

With LandTech’s LandInsight, Living Smart centralized site tracking in a shared pipeline, accessed planning history to de-risk conversions, and used deep search and filtering to self-source off-market deals. The results were strong: the team reported 5x greater efficiency, an 80% time saving in sourcing and assessing sites, a 100% planning success rate since adoption, and a minimum 30% GDV margin on deals found through the platform.

Living Smart

Ben Thorns

Co-Founder