Working with sales
Included with every subscription
A sale records a property changing hands. It holds the address, the contract and settlement dates, the price, the buyers and sellers, and any documents and commentary your company adds. Use the Sales page to find comparable sales for a job, analyse them and add them to the valuation as evidence.
Sales imported from the Valuer General are already in VOW. Your company adds the analysis, which is the sales you confirm, the land values you work out and the commentary for reports. You also enter sales the import does not have yet.
From search to evidence
- Search. Open Sales, enter the suburb and a contract date range on the Simple tab, and run the search. The matches open in a Results tab.
- Read the sale. Double-click a VG sale's row to open its sale card, with the price, dates, area, zoning and a street view image.
- Analyse it. Click Analyse on a Valuer General sale to make your company's own copy, confirm the details and add commentary. VOW keeps the original as it was.
- Use it. Click + Add to valuation, enter the job reference and click Add to job. The sale is on the valuation's supporting sales list, and the sale's card links back to the job.
Before you start
- Your role needs See the sale menu item and View and search for sales. Without them, Sales is not in your main menu. Set up users shows how an administrator gives them to you.
- Open Sales from the main menu. The page opens on the Search tab, with Simple, Full, Recent and Favourite underneath it. Every search you run opens its own Results tab beside it.
Where sales come from
Every sale carries a source, shown in the Src column of the results and on the sale card.
| Source | What it is | What you can do with it |
|---|---|---|
| VG | A sale imported from the Valuer General or another external provider. | Search it, read it, add it to a valuation and analyse it. It cannot be edited or deleted. |
| CX | A sale your company entered, or made by analysing a VG sale. | Everything. Edit it, attach documents, add commentary, delete it. |
When a VG sale and a CX sale exist for the same dealing, the search shows your CX record. Analysing never changes the VG sale. It makes a CX copy that belongs to your company.
The statuses
| Status | What it means |
|---|---|
| Confirmed | The details have been checked. Every VG sale counts as confirmed, and a new sale you enter starts confirmed. |
| Unconfirmed | The sale has a price and a contract date but Confirmed has been unticked. |
| Provisional | A draft. A provisional sale needs no price or contract date, and cannot be added to a valuation as evidence until it is no longer provisional. |
A sale is confirmed or provisional, never both. Ticking one clears the other.
The lessons in order
Each lesson starts where the previous one finished.
For every field on a sale, see Managing sales. For every column and action in the results, see Sales search results.