The Council of Property Search Organisations (CoPSO) is the major trade association for the property search industry. Members provide a broad range of property search reports including local, environmental, mining, chancel repair, drainage and water data and undertake over 2 million searches each year. CoPSO - Council of Property Search Organisations

The membership includes water companies, personal local authority providers, environmental search providers, and the NLIS channels.

Property searches play an important role in the home buying process. They provide consumers with essential information they can use to decide whether to buy a particular property and at what price.

CoPSO's mission is to:

• help establish a favourable operating environment for members
• provide a forum for discussion on non-competitive issues
• provide information to assist members with their business

CoPSO has six objectives:

• to be a central representative body to put the views of organisations providing property information reports to Government departments and agencies, parliament, and other relevant organisations
• to be a research and statistical centre, to aggregate and publish statistics, and to provide analysis on the market for property information reports
• to be a technical centre providing commentary, guidance and advice on all legal and other regulatory developments of relevance to property information reports
• to provide a forum for the exchange of non-competitive information
• to promote property search organisations
• to establish and enforce a code of practice for the provision of property information reports