Release notes - March 2024

Release Notes 2024.09

Release date: Thursday 14th March 2024

This article includes:

• Enhancements
• Product fixes

Enhancements

• The following property fields are now sent in the portal feed to Zoopla:
  • Tenure
  • Lease years remaining
  • Service Charge amount
  • Ground rent amount
  • Ground Rent Review Period (years)
• The following property fields have been added to the portal feed to Rightmove:
  • Lease years remaining
  • Service Charge amount
  • Ground Rent amount
  • Ground Rent Review Period (years)
• The following fields can now be sent in BLM feeds, and can be added if the portals concerned confirm they are supported:
  • Lease Remaining
  • Service Charge
  • Ground Rent amount
  • Ground Rent Review Period (years)
  • Ground Rent Review Date
• The following fields will now be included in the XML feed (these can be seen using Version 3 of the XML feed):
  • Service Charge amount
  • Ground Rent amount
  • Ground Rent Fixed For Term
  • Ground Rent Review Period (years)
  • Ground Rent Review Date
• New document merge tags have been added for the following fields:
  • Service Charge amount - %serviceCharge% 
  • Ground Rent amount - %groundRent% 
  • Ground Rent Fixed For Term - %groundRentFixedForTerm%
  • Ground Rent Review Period - %groundRentReviewPeriod%
  • Ground Rent Next Review Date - %groundRentReviewDate%
    

For more information on Document merge tags, click here.

Product fixes

Fixes have been made in the following areas:

• The Whoops error when exporting an empty suspense account has been resolved
• The Whoops error when removing the last applicant on the Book Viewing screen has been resolved
• A display issue on the Edit Residential Sales Profile screen on Share of Freehold properties has been resolved

Release Notes 2024.08

Release date: Sunday 3rd March 2024

This article includes:

• Enhancements

Enhancements

• Council tax additions on Residential Sales/Lettings properties (National Trading Standards requirement)
  • Two new options for Council Tax Band have been added; Exempt and New Build - TBC. If Exempt is selected, a new field has been added for Council Tax Exemption Reason
    
  • Council Tax Band and Council Tax Exemption Reason can now be sent to portals and will be included in the property XML feed
  • The existing Council Tax Band document tag includes Exempt or TBC if these have been selected for a property
  • A new document merge tag has been added for Council Tax Exemption Reason - %councilTaxExemptionReason%
• Ground rent additions on Residential Sales/Lettings properties (National Trading Standards requirement)
  
  • A new Fixed For Term field has been added to indicate whether the ground rent is fixed for the term of the lease
  • If the ground rent is not fixed for the term of the lease, two additional fields have been added; Review period and Next review date
    
• In order to accommodate the above council tax and ground rent changes, the positioning of some fields has changed on property screens

For more information on National Trading Standards - Keeping your property listings compliant, click here
For more information on Document merge tags, click here

• The image uploader in Jupix has been replaced by a new version. It enables the upload of 30 photos at a time, by uploading or dragging files into the grid, along with the options to reorder and rename images. The basic 10-image uploader is still available as an alternative