Who We Are
Our Mission
HomeBench has been founded with a simple mission, to deliver the best residential data and market insight for our clients across Scotland.
Market Based Experience
Building on 20 years of experience in the Scottish residential market, HomeBench has been founded with the aim of providing our clients with genuine value-adding insight and data on which they can make informed business decisions.
The founders of HomeBench have experience working on projects covering the whole of Scotland, for clients in a range of sectors, across tenures and on projects of all scales, from flagship schemes to masterplans. It is this experience that underpins our service offering.
Our Core Values
HomeBench is committed to providing the highest quality data in a way that genuinely adds commercial value to our clients.
- Data Integrity and Accuracy
- Professional Excellence
- Commercially Useful Solutions
Meet the founders
Andrew Meehan, MA (Hons), MSc
Dr Majied Robinson, MA (Cantab), MSc, PhD
Over 15 years experience working in the Scottish property sector for Rettie & Co. and CALA Homes.
Starting his career in Scottish property in 2005, preceding the Global Financial Crisis, Andrew has experienced the full range of highs and lows that Scotland’s market has had to offer. During this period, he gained experience working for leading Scottish property companies, including CALA Homes, and most recently as an Associate Director of Research at Rettie & Co. He has completed a second degree in Surveying.
Andrew has worked on a diverse range of projects and schemes across a broad and varied client base. This has included PLC developers, Scottish Government, industry bodies and investors.
A data analyst with professional expertise in Scottish property and an academic background in population statistics.
Majied has a First Class degree from the University of Cambridge and an MSc and PhD from the University of Edinburgh. He worked for seven years at the Universities of Edinburgh and St Andrews where he published research on the application of data and statistics to historical sources. As a teacher, he collaborated with the Schools of Informatics in both institutions to develop cross-disciplinary learning systems.
Following the conclusion of his fellowship at St Andrews he moved to the private sector, first working as a developer at AI consultancy Simibrum and then as a Senior Researcher at Rettie & Co. He has extensive experience in the application of Python machine learning toolkits to the cleaning, linking and analysis of Scottish property data sources.