Working with properties

Included with Professional and Enterprise

A property is a record of one land parcel or building. It holds the address, legal description, land area, zone and land value as the state government records them. You do not type a property in. VOW imports every property from state data. Search for one on the Properties page. Property search is part of the Professional subscription, and the data covers Australia only.

A property card shows the lot and plan, the zoning, the land area and the land value, and every valuation, sale and lease your company has recorded at that address.

From search to property card

1. Search. Open Properties and enter what you know on the Simple tab, or build a Full search with comparators when a single address is not the question.
2. Work the results. The results open in their own tab. Sort them, narrow them with a filter, or export them.
3. Open the property card. Double-click a row. The card holds the property's details and its valuations, sales and leases. From it you can start a quote, a valuation, a sale or a lease at that address.

Before you start

• Your role needs View properties page and View properties. Without them, Properties is not in your main menu. Set up users shows how an administrator gives them to you.
• Open Properties from the main menu. The page opens on its Search tab.

The Properties page

The page has one tab that is always there, Search, and a Results tab for each search you run. Several results tabs can be open at once, and each closes with its own x.

The Search tab has four sub-tabs.

Sub-tab	What it is for
Simple	A fixed form with the address, lot and plan, LGA, zone and land area fields.
Full	A criteria builder. Each row is a field, a comparator and a value, such as every property in a suburb between two land areas.
Recent	Your last fifty searches, as cards you can run again or edit.
Favourite	The searches you have marked with the heart. They are kept until you remove them.

Recent and favourite searches are yours alone. They store the search, not its results, so a search run again shows whatever the data holds today.

What a property holds

Field	What it records
PID	The government property identifier. Search by it to find the same property again.
Legal description	The lot and plan from the title.
Area	The land area, in square metres or hectares.
Zone	The planning zone or zones.
Land value	The most recent land value from the Valuer General, and the year it was assessed.
Lat/Long	The property's coordinates, which VOW Maps uses to place the property.

Nothing on a property can be edited. When something looks wrong, it is wrong in the state data, and the next import corrects it.

The lessons in order

Each lesson starts where the previous one finished.

1. Find a property
2. Build a full search
3. Work with the results
4. Open a property card
5. Reuse a search
6. Export the results

For every field on the search forms, see Searching for properties. For every column and action on the results, see Property search results.