The Infrastructure Now Exists

What’s changed is not awareness of the problem:  the industry has understood for years that property chains are the dominant source of delay, uncertainty and failure in home buying. What has changed are the constraints around addressing it.

For a long time, shared chain visibility was theoretical. The data was fragmented across agents, conveyancers, lenders and consumers. The effort required to assemble it outweighed the benefit. Coordination work filled the gap because there was no realistic alternative.

That is no longer the case.

The information required to understand chain structure already exists across the market. The ability to reconstruct chains from that information, and to keep them updated as transactions progress, is now operational.

What was once impractical is now possible.

That doesn’t remove complexity. It changes how it is handled.

From Constraint to Choice

The coordination tax is not inevitable. The time spent chasing, reconciling partial updates and managing uncertainty was the cost of operating in a chained system without shared visibility.

But that visibility now exists. Which reframes the question.

Not: why do transactions feel slow?

But: what changes when the structure of the chain becomes visible — and coordination can be targeted rather than assumed?

This series was developed with Renu Kiran , drawing on conversations across the industry.

Each piece explores a different aspect of the same underlying issue: what happens when a system built on dependency operates without shared visibility – and what changes when the visibility exists.

If you want to explore how this shows up in practice, these earlier pieces look at different parts of the system:

·       Why Chain Intelligence Is Property’s Missing Smart Data Infrastructure

·       Why Home Buying Is Still Slow: A Coordination Problem, Not a Motivation Problem

·       Why Chain Visibility Is Becoming Necessary in Conveyancing

·       Why Conveyancers Are Doing Coordination Work They Were Never Meant to Do

·       Chasing in the Dark: The Cost of Invisible Property Chains