We’re excited to announce a set of powerful new features and improvements to the DAS Rural Platform (AU & NZ). These updates aim to enhance data control, support appraisal accuracy, and strengthen risk insights across your reports and workflows.
🔒 [AU] Confidential Sale Pins – Improved Control for Financial Institutions
We’ve introduced a ‘Confidential’ flag in the Sale Information panel to protect sensitive sales:
These sales cannot be added to Property Reports.
Tooltip clearly states: “This sale is confidential and cannot be added to a Property Report.”
Applies to Approved Sales and Sales Analysis only.
Note: Unvetted and For Sale pins are not impacted.
💡 Ideal for lenders or banking users who need to enter internal sales while ensuring confidentiality across shared slugs.
🌾 [AU] New Risk Metric – Drought Index
A new Drought Index is now available under the Risk tab for:
AU System Farms
AU Custom Farms
This metric helps users assess long-term drought exposure. Visibility is enabled by a feature flag and follows the same pattern as other risk data like Fire or Frost Risk.
🌦️ [AU] Climate Comparison – Now in Appraisal Reports
We’ve added a brand-new Climate Comparison section to Appraisal Reports that lets you compare key climate metrics across comparable sales and the subject property:
Rainfall Variability
Predictive Annual Rainfall
Predictive Annual Temperature
Drought Index
Each table displays values for all selected comparable properties, followed by the subject farm—great for consistent valuation benchmarking.
📝 [AU] Appraisal Reports – Land Value Section Enhancements
Photos can now be added to the Land Value section of Appraisal Reports.
This creates a new dedicated image section in the final PDF output.
These updates help improve the quality and clarity of field observations within formal valuations.
📄 [NZ] Title Summary Expansion in Property Reports
For New Zealand users, we’ve added more clarity to the Title Summary:
Title Area (in hectares)
Address
District
Current Owner
Previous Owner
These new fields give your Property Reports a more comprehensive view of ownership and land context.
🐞 Bug Fixes & Improvements
Fixed issue with disappearing text in the Land Value Summary field while saving.
Resolved error where editing a Custom Farm didn’t populate Client ID.
Clearer error messages when inviting users already tied to the company.