Vastgoedjournaal published an article on 18 September 2026 covering a significant step forward for commercial real estate transparency: RE-SEARCH has joined IT-Label, an independent initiative that measures and communicates the digital delivery level of commercial buildings. As the first real estate platform to make this move, RE-SEARCH is signalling clearly that digital infrastructure deserves the same attention as any other building specification.
A Gap That Has Gone Unnoticed for Too Long
When a business rents commercial property today, a great deal of information is available before the lease is signed. Square metres, energy labels, technical installations, parking ratios: all of it is documented, discussed and compared. Digital infrastructure, however, is a different story. Bandwidth capacity, redundancy, fibre availability and smart building readiness are topics that tend to surface only after contracts are in place. That is a problem, particularly as AI applications, cloud platforms and connected building systems continue to drive up data consumption at a pace most landlords and tenants have not fully anticipated.
As Colin Westerneng, co-founder of RE-SEARCH, put it: "In real estate, we can tell you to the decimal point exactly how many square metres someone is renting. But when you ask what a tenant actually receives in terms of digital delivery, everyone suddenly starts looking at each other."
Digital Infrastructure as a Fourth Utility
RE-SEARCH has long believed that a good location is about more than physical space. Finding the right office space in Amsterdam or sourcing warehouse and logistics space in Rotterdam means understanding not just the building, but how it performs for the people working in it. Connectivity, in that context, is no longer a bonus feature. It sits alongside gas, water and electricity as a basic requirement for any modern business operation. The partnership with IT-Label gives RE-SEARCH a structured and independent framework for communicating that information, making it part of every property search rather than an afterthought. You can read more about this approach in our article on what a building can handle digitally and in our piece explaining what an IT Label actually means for commercial real estate.
A Logical Next Step
For RE-SEARCH, joining IT-Label is not a departure from its core mission. It is a direct extension of it. Transparency, data and user-first thinking have been central to the platform from the start. Working alongside landlords and IT-Label to document and display a building's digital capabilities brings that philosophy into one of the few areas where the commercial real estate market has remained opaque. The goal is straightforward: every tenant should know exactly what they are getting, digitally, before they sign.
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