The title for the system I am going to create is a 'Housing Property Valuator'. The system I will design is produced for the intended use for Lane & Sons Ltd. The firm is a Derby based estate agent.

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The title for the system I am going to create is a ‘Housing Property Valuator’. The system I will design is produced for the intended use for Lane & Sons Ltd. The firm is a Derby based estate agent.

Although qualified to perform valuations on residential properties the current workforce lack vast experience in valuations of residential properties. The workforce feels they need some assistance in the preparation of residential properties due to their lack of experience in this field. The firm needs to be able to provide valuations based on factors that are accountable.

It would appear logical for the company to employ an expert with an abundance of experience in this area to allow an accurate valuation of residential properties to ensure the business remains successful by providing an accurate service. It must be recognised that the employment of an expert property valuator could not be implemented for a small, local firm as the costs would be too expensive. This would be the case especially if the company did not receive as much demand as predicted and the new employee would not be needed due to the high additional expenditure of this employee.

 Currently it takes a considerable amount of time to give a rough estimate of the cost of building a house. This is due to the numerous numbers of factors which need to be taken into account, which will affect the value and cost of making a house.

Current system

 

I have presented all this information in Excel to make it easier and quicker to estimate the price of houses in certain areas in Derby.

In order for the system to satisfy the user needs, an interview was arranged with Lane the building contractor and here are the list of topics which were produced to discuss.

The main objective of the new system

The method currently used for processing the information required

The amount of data expected to go into the system

The type of software the user can operate or available

From the interview numerous problems were recognized with the current system they employ. It was said the previous method of undertaking different tasks was too time consuming and many mistakes were made with the data due to human error. This would need to be amended by the current system. The previous system is inefficient to produce a rough estimate for houses in certain Derbyshire.  

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Since the end user has a wide range of resources available and is familiar with the Excel 2000 system I have decided to use this software package and implement it into the new system I will produce.  

The owner of the company requested that a computer system be created that would provide the company with quotation for residential properties by the user entering details on the feature of the property. This would enable the company to provide quotes for residential properties without employing a professional valuator. Instead there will be various pre-set multipliers stores on the system, ...

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