For years, land acquisition has had an invisible tax. Before you could search for a site, you had to become a local zoning expert. You had to know the right zone codes for the market, cross-reference permitted use lists across every municipality, and then manually filter parcels that might actually work for what you wanted to build. That process took days, sometimes weeks. It required either deep local knowledge or an expensive consultant. And it meant that countless markets stayed out of reach for developers who didn't already have boots on the ground.
That tax is gone.
For the first time, you can search for land based on what you want to build using development-type search, a new AI-powered capability now live in SearchAI.
How It Works
Draw your boundary. Select your development type from 120+ categories. SearchAI interprets zoning across every zone and jurisdiction within your search area and returns every viable parcel, ranked by fit, in seconds. Every result is grounded in the actual municipal code not inferred from it.
Hotel developer entering a new market? Search "hotel." Senior living operator evaluating a metro for the first time? Search "senior living." Cell tower developer covering a three-county area? Search "cell tower." The AI handles the zoning translation entirely.
Who This Unlocks SearchAI For
Until now, SearchAI was built primarily for residential and multifamily developers who already understood zoning filters and could work within them. That changes with this release. For developers in commercial, industrial, hospitality, energy, and technology infrastructure this isn't a better version of a tool you already have. This is the first tool purpose-built for how you actually think about land.
Here is what is now searchable:
Commercial and Retail: Commercial and retail developers can identify viable sites by use category rather than by zone code, across markets they know and markets they are entering for the first time.
Energy: Major energy companies are now supported, including refineries, oil storage, and logistics facilities. If your project requires heavy industrial zoning with specific use permissions, SearchAI finds those sites directly, without requiring you to know which industrial zones permit what.
Hospitality and Healthcare: Hotel developers, active adult and independent living operators, assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing developers, and medical facility developers can now search by development intent across every metro in the country.
Industrial & Logistics: Warehouse operators, cold storage developers, last mile delivery facilities, freight yards, trucking centers, and industrial outdoor storage. SearchAI filters by the specific industrial zoning designations and use permissions your project requires across any market.
Technology Infrastructure: Data center developers and telecom/cell tower companies now have a purpose-built search path. Find sites with the right zoning, acreage, and proximity requirements without jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction research.
What Changes for Your Team
What used to take days of manual GIS research and jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction lookups can now be completed in a single SearchAI session. Any developer, regardless of asset class, can enter any market in the country and immediately identify the highest-potential parcels for their specific development type.
"What used to take days to vet viable parcels, we identified within seconds. SearchAI lets us proactively search entire markets and find opportunities we never would have discovered." - Land Analyst, National Homebuilder
The capability is available now. No setup required. The development type filter appears in the existing SearchAI filter panel.
See it in action for your specific asset class. Schedule a personalized demo.
