Area reports for estate agents, surveyors and notaries

What it is for

• Estate agents. Answer questions about risks, services and transport straight away, and attach a document with sources to the property listing. The area's liveability index, with its public method, is one more fact to show buyers.
• Surveyors, valuers and engineers. An initial picture of the parcel before the site visit: in Lombardy, Veneto, the province of Bolzano and the metropolitan city of Turin what the municipal plan provides with the share of the parcel (zone and designation, transformations, planned facilities, constraints in the plan; in Lombardy also geological feasibility and buffer zones) and the municipal sheets or rules, then cadastral identifiers, hazard levels, seismic zone and expected ground acceleration, ground amplification and instability from microzonation where the municipality has a study, and landscape protection that requires authorisation (article 146 of Legislative Decree 42/2004) before external work.
• Notaries and law firms. A summary of public data on the area to share with the client, including land burnt by wildfires as detected by satellite: for fifteen years Law 353/2000 requires the deed to mention the restriction or it is void. It does not replace land registry searches (visure), mortgage register searches (ispezioni ipotecarie) or planning checks.
• Investors and insurers. A quick filter across several properties before full due diligence, with the average damage a year from floods and earthquakes in euros (method of the European model ESRM20 and JRC damage curves, INGV and ISPRA hazard): a basis for thinking about natural disaster cover and reserves.
• Land. With the "A plot of land" option the report starts from area, slope, aspect and restrictions, and the guide asks for the planning use certificate, civic use rights and the agricultural right of first refusal: the report for land.

When it is used

Usually at the start, when an agency takes on a listing and wants to know before the buyer does what will come up about flooding, landslides, local prices and restrictions; the report is attached to the property sheet. Then in the valuation, which needs cadastral identifiers, the OMI range for the area, seismic zone and hazard levels with their source and date. The value of the property stays with the valuer, the report does not suggest one. Finally before the deed, for areas burnt by wildfire, landscape restrictions, the municipal plan where the Region publishes it and the documents to request, with costs and offices.

Two pages go into detail: the area report for estate agents and area data for valuers, surveyors and notaries.

What it contains, with the official codes

32 topics from 50 sources. In the report each topic has its official code, source, licence and date of the data; the explanation for home buyers is on the home page. In Lombardy and Piedmont also the energy rating of the building, in Lombardy, Veneto, the province of Bolzano and the metropolitan city of Turin also what the municipal plan says.

ISPRA data under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence passes that licence on to what we derive from it: the sections that use it say so, and their content can be reused in your own documents if you credit the source and keep the same licence.

Level of detail

The report works on the cadastral parcel and the building. The subalterno, the individual property unit, is not open data: for floor, floor plan and cadastral income you need a land registry search.

Tools for people handling many properties

• Comparison. Up to 5 reports side by side: for each topic the result and the key figure, property by property.
• Export. Your reports in Excel or CSV, with address, cadastral parcel and the result of each topic, ready for your management software.
• API. Your software creates and reads reports on its own, with a personal token: same data and same limits as your plan.
• Widget for your website. A box to paste into a listing page with the liveability index of the area and its sources. It only works on the domain you register.
• Team and branding, with Studio. Up to 5 people on the same plan, sharing reports. The PDF shows your firm's logo, name and colour, and the source of every figure stays.

Plans

The Pro and Studio plans include unlimited reports, annual billing and all the tools above. Studio adds up to 5 users and your own brand on the reports. With both you can also create the report without the buying guide (questions and documents), if you already handle that part yourself. Current prices are on the Prices page.

If you work for buyers

Mortgage brokers, buyer agents, relocation advisers, lawyers and surveyors can also join the partner programme: a discount code to give clients and a commission on their first purchase.