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EPCs just got easier
There’s also a crossover between floorplans and EPCs, with software integrations sharing data and automatically making calculations to lighten the workload. Steve Flatman at PlanUp is excited by the new time-saving capabilities. “Floorplan software has changed the EPC landscape quite significantly. With PlanUp
in particular, our iPad app integrates with CoreLogic, Elmhurst and Stroma, performing a huge amount legwork when it comes to calculations.”
“Assessors can start a survey in their given EPC software, hit a button and be directly launched into creating a floorplan, where additional information can be added. Once finished, the data then gets ported back into their EPC software and a floorplan is created.”
PlanUp’s software calculates heat loss
Assessors can start a survey in their given EPC software, hit a button and be directly launched into creating a floorplan, where additional information can be added. Steven Flatman PlanUp
perimeters, alternative wall areas, window and door heights, glazing and lighting percentages. The time efficiencies are tangible and one property visit results in two key marketing assets – an EPC and a floorplan – so assessors can present a cost-effective solution to agents.
Lockdown-driven boom
Offering a full suite of photography, videos and floorplans, NicheCom is a full-service marketing supplier. During 2020-21 they experienced an explosion in interest, as Managing Director Peter Burnham describes. " At the close of 2019, we had completed around 1,200 3D showcases but in 2020 and 2021, the order numbers were in excess of 12,000 per annum, an incredible ten-fold annual increase since the start of the pandemic," he says.
"Video has been closely following this trend, and since launching in January, we have produced over 5,000 of them for agents keen to start utilising this type of content in their digital marketing. Video is known to achieve higher rates of engagement on social channels and enables agents to drive more traffic directly to their website, reducing reliance
on the portals," he adds.
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PlanUp software integrates with EPC software to safe legwork.
The pandemic also inspired the creation
of NicheCom's service, GotoView, an accompanied virtual platform, allowing agent clients to engage with prosspective buyers on virtual walkthrough of a 3D showcase. Client Davis Tate said, “So far this year, GotoView has saved us more than 600 first physical viewings. That’s 600 times we have been saved from a wasted journey!”
Agents Alan de Maid said, “It’s a process that’s here to stay. This is now how we conduct all first viewings, with the convenience of being able to do this from our office and applicants from anywhere they like. We have dramatically increased the number
NicheCom's showcases can be delivered via social media to reach buyers.
of first viewings we are able to do.” Burnham sums up, "So far in 2022, GotoView has supported over 40,000
accompanied virtual viewings, saving our clients a huge amount of wasted travel time and helping them identify the more serious buyers that will proceed to a physical viewing."
Virtual tours that measure up
During the pandemic, you couldn’t move in the property press for mention of the ‘race for space’ or our quest for gardens, and these two modern moving desires have played into the hands of virtual tours. “Measurements have become increasingly important as a guide to
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