The Open Property Data Association has brought Hiizzy and Instamo into its growing membership, adding two quite different pieces of technology to the same bigger problem: buying a home in the UK still involves far too much repeated data entry.
OPDA is trying to change that through common data and trust standards that allow property information to move more easily between estate agents, brokers, lenders, conveyancers and other firms involved in a transaction. Hiizzy works closer to the beginning of that journey. Instamo tackles a pain point further down the line. Together, their arrival gives the association a broader reach across the property transaction chain.
Hiizzy Wants Property Data to Start Working Earlier
Hiizzy focuses on the property listing stage, which is important because that is where a surprising amount of useful information first appears. Seller disclosures, verification details and supporting documents can all be gathered early, rather than being requested again when another company becomes involved.
Its platform is designed to turn that information into a structured property record that can be securely reused as the transaction progresses. The thinking is fairly simple. If reliable information already exists, why keep rebuilding the same file from scratch?
Hiizzy CEO and founding partner Lewis Buckley has argued that the opportunity goes beyond improving property listings. The company sees listing data as the foundation for a transaction-ready record that can follow a property through later stages of a sale.
Instamo Takes Aim at Mortgage Application Admin
Instamo enters from another direction.
The company has developed a secure autofill service for mortgage applications. Adviser-approved client information can be used to populate fields inside a lender’s existing portal, without forcing the lender to rebuild its interface around a new system.
It sounds like a small operational change. In mortgage origination, it isn’t.
Re-keying client information wastes adviser time and creates another opportunity for errors to creep into an application. Instamo’s approach is designed to remove some of that repetition while fitting around systems lenders already use.
Founder Freddie Savundra has pointed to duplication, manual processing and disconnected technology as persistent sources of wasted time across property transactions. Joining OPDA puts Instamo alongside companies attempting to make those systems speak the same data language.
Open Property Data Is Becoming a Bigger UK Fintech Issue
There is a wider story here than two companies joining a trade association.
Property transactions touch lending, identity verification, payments, financial advice and compliance. That makes property data increasingly relevant to fintech firms, not just estate agents and proptech platforms.
The problem has been interoperability. A market can have excellent mortgage software, digital identity tools and conveyancing platforms, yet still move slowly if every system holds information differently.
OPDA is betting that common standards matter just as much as the individual products sitting on top of them. Its membership already spans banks, building societies, conveyancers, estate agents and technology companies, creating a network where those standards can potentially move beyond theory and into actual transactions.
UK Home Buying Reform Adds Pressure for Change
The timing also matters.
The UK government published its Home Buying and Selling Reform roadmap on June 19, 2026, setting out a longer-term direction for digitising and improving the way residential property transactions work.
OPDA has been closely involved in that discussion. The association says the roadmap marks a shift away from debating whether property transactions need to change and toward deciding how the new infrastructure should operate.
Smart property data is a sizeable part of that equation. Information needs to be trustworthy, portable and readable by different systems. Adding companies such as Hiizzy and Instamo gives OPDA more technology providers working on the practical ends of that problem.
The Bigger Test Is Whether Everyone Actually Uses the Standards
Industry standards only become useful when enough of the market adopts them.
That is the part worth watching.
A reusable property record is powerful if lenders, brokers, conveyancers and estate agents can all work with it. Mortgage autofill saves more time when the underlying client data can move securely across organisations instead of being trapped inside separate platforms.
Hiizzy and Instamo joining OPDA does not fix UK property transactions overnight. It does, however, add two more practical use cases to the push for connected property data.
The next phase will be less about announcing standards and more about proving that those standards can survive the messy reality of an actual home purchase. If that happens at scale, some of the most stubborn manual work in mortgage and property transactions could finally start disappearing.
Sources:
The Fintech Times — OPDA Adds Hiizzy and Instamo to Open Property Data Network
FF News — OPDA Expands Open Property Data Standards with New Members Hiizzy and Instamo
Open Property Data Association — Home Buying Reform Commentary
Open Property Data Association — Official Website