Vantage Properties is a Botswana-based PropTech startup founded by Sethebe Manake, and focused on real estate data analytics and automated property valuations. The company simplifies access to real estate expertise and information to drive informed decision making. Through its online platform, it gives the ordinary person power to extract value from their property assets. Vantage has developed the platform gosmartvalue.com that is set to change the real estate landscape forever by giving users the choice to automatically value their property or instruct a qualified and registered valuer to carry out a detailed valuation. Over and above valuations, gosmartvalue.com provides various market research reports covering various locations around the country that help guide real estate decision-making.
The foundations of gosmartvalue.com lie in extensive data analytics of various sources that we have used for market research and portfolio performance analysis. With records over 50 000 covering transactions, locality amenities, crimes rates, land use types from reliable and trusted data sources, we provide reports that are objective and only based on real registered and validated activity. Buyers, Investors and Financier all slash their costs by over 50% by using gosmartvalue and further reduce their risk exposure by using supporting simple market reports .
Typical valuations take into account the same set of variables; location, plot size, bedrooms, bathrooms, other property features and the state of the property. The gosmartvalue.com algorithm takes into account the size of the built up area, age and other factors that influence value such as crime rates, amenities, demographics, liquidity of the buyer market for that locality as well as prevailing lending trends. It empowers customers, while many other companies are still finding their footing in the digital arena, using the information they have to empower their clients, gosmartvalue.com stays ahead of the curve, translating data into tangible benefits. Sellers and buyers alike generally use the same set of tools and methods for determining the value of properties. With the increased insight provided by its reports, clients get more information, and therefore more power, when it comes to negotiating deals with even experienced sellers. Both regular buyers and property developers have negotiated using exclusive data from these reports, and in doing so, have saved plenty Pulas and are ensured a better ROI.
Speaking about what makes the gosmartvalue.com platform different, founder Sethebe Manake says: “We understand that in this fast paced uncertain environment financiers cannot afford to wait until things settle down, in fact the impact of COVID19 on real estate is yet to be fully felt. A proactive lender is reviewing risk with the perspective of continuing funding and still cushion the foreseeable loss. Our Valuation and Market Reports are detailed and specific to the needs of the client.”
“Providing information that makes it easier to adjust risk per location, per locality, per property type based on the real performance and market insights that are quantitative. We give the credit and product team the ammunition to deliver solutions that are relevant, realistic, accurate and financially beneficial.”
“We pool data from various national digital and physical sources, all trusted and verified including: National Deeds Office, Various Local Authorities and Planning Authorities, Department of Country and Regional Planning, Department of Surveys and Mapping, Central Statistics Office, Botswana Police Service and the Bank of Botswana. We also use various digital tools such as Google Earth. We analyse, collate and organize all the data into a format that is user friendly, simple to understand and relevant, saving you countless hours and thousands of Pula.”
Speaking about the aspirations for the new platform, Sethebe says:
“We want to be expand into other countries across the continent, because there is still a lot of market opacity in real estate and we want to bring in the transparency, and open up the opportunities to more people.”
She adds: “Real Estate is a very important asset and we need to empower our people to benefit the most from this asset. We are very excited to bring this to the market, and we look forward to growth as we go into more markets and cover more countries.”
Anyone interested in knowing more about the new gosmartvalue.com platform can contact Sethebe via email smanake@vantagepropertiesbw.com or visit the website www.gosmartvalue.com or social media:
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