Chapter 01 · The brief
Property data at a desk. Valuers working in the field.
New Zealand's largest property services company — with no way to surface contextual data while physically at a location.
One of New Zealand's largest real-estate valuation and property services companies needed a mobile tool that could surface property data in the field. Valuers and property managers were visiting locations with no access to the contextual information held in the company's property database — ownership records, valuation history, comparable sales — unless they returned to a desktop.
The goal was to bring that information to the field without requiring a separate lookup step.
Chapter 02 · Build
Augmented reality overlays on the camera view. Property data at the point of presence.
Vatsa built native iOS and Android applications using augmented reality to overlay property data onto the device camera view. The applications connect to the company's property database and present valuation history, ownership records, and comparable sales data as AR overlays when the device is pointed at a property.
The design prioritised field usability — fast load times, offline data caching for areas with poor connectivity, and a UI optimised for use outdoors in variable lighting.
Chapter 03 · Outcomes
Field teams with contextual information at every location. Particularly useful in dense urban areas.
The field teams gained a new capability for contextual property information retrieval that eliminated the return-to-desk step. The AR approach proved particularly useful in densely developed urban areas where identifying boundaries and relevant comparable properties was challenging from a street-level view alone.