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Import properties

Import buildings

When importing buildings, it is mandatory to provide the following information:

  1. A unique building ID

  2. Location data: This can be provided in one of the following ways:

    • Latitude and Longitude (coordinates)

    • A full address (country code, postcode, street address, and city)

    • A National Building ID

Additionally, you can provide further details about a building using optional headers.
To calculate renovations, you should include the building floor area, year, prototype, number of floors, and location details.

Mandatory Headers

Column title 

Description

Allowed values

Column title 

Description

Allowed values

Building id AND

An organization level unique building id.

Unique string

Latitude and longitude OR

Make a column for latitude and a column for longitude. The coordinates are to be inside the building.

Numeric

National building id OR

Specifies the unit in a building. The full address of the building is required when using the Unit specifier without Unit id. Unit specifier value can be anything which is unique within the given address.

Any string

Country code, postcode, street address and city

Make a column for each of the four titles. Country code can take values FI, CA, CH, PL, SE, PT, UK, US, BE.

String

Optional headers

Column title

Description

Allowed values

Column title

Description

Allowed values

Building name

Name of the property building. If you have provided any other mandatory fields, it will be created automatically for you.

Any String

Group id

Used to identify which group this property belongs to. If this is not given, it'll be created automatically. Should be unique within the organization.

Any string

Group name

Name of the property group. If this is not given, it'll be created automatically for you.

Any string

Building prototype

Usage type of the property building. If building year will be empty, building prototype will be ignored.

  • apartment

  • commercial building

  • detached house

  • semi-detached house

  • fire station

  • garage

  • generic building

  • health care center

  • holiday home

  • industrial building

  • library

  • office

  • retail building

  • row house

  • school

  • terraced house

  • warehouse

  • civil defence shelter

  • kindergarten

  • duplex

  • hospital

  • hotel building

  • sports hall

  • livestock shelter

  • theater

Electricity energy type



electricity, solar pv

Heating energy type



electricity, undefined heating system, district heating, air to air heat pump, air to water heat pump, exhaust air heat pump, water source heat pump, ground source heat pump, gas boiler, gas condensing boiler, oil boiler, solid fossil fuel boiler, wood pellet boiler, wood chip boiler, fireplace, solar collector, fireplace, solar collector

Building floor area

Gross floor area of the building in m2. (FI: Bruttoala)

Integer

Building net internal area

Net indoor area of the building in m2. (FI: Huoneistoala)

Numeric

Building gross internal area

Gross indoor area of the building in m2. (FI: Kerrosala)

Numeric

Floors

Amount of levels in the building. Ground floors is counted as one. 

Integer

Floor height

(Average) floor height in the building in metres.

Integer

Build year

Build year of the building. Mandatory field for building prototype.

Integer

Building volume

The volume of a building in m3.

Integer

Facade

The facade material of the building.

brick, concrete, metal, plaster, wood

Roof

The roof material of the building

bitumen, metal, tile

Car parking

Type of car parking

None, Parking space, Garage, Carport, Undercover parking

Lot size in m2

Lot size in m2

Numeric

Own lot

Own lot

Boolean

Is waterside lot

Is waterside lot

Boolean

End year of lot lease

End year of lot lease

Numeric

Garden building(s)

Garden building(s)

Boolean

Is housing company

Is housing company

Boolean

Property image URL

Property image URL

Text

Technical Value

Building technical value for given year

Numeric

Repurchase Value

Repurchase value for given year

Numeric

Building condition

Building condition (%), if Repurchase value is not set, this value will be used for Repurchase value calculation, otherwise a default one will be used

Numeric

Condition Year

Condition year. Must be set if one of three values above are being imported

Integer

Portfolio id

The id of the portfolio where the building should be imported.

If the portfolio id is set Organization key header became mandatory otherwise row will be skipped.

The portfolio id should exist within the organization used as organization key and user should be a part of the organization too otherwise row will be skipped.

Integer

Organization key

The key of the organization where the building should be imported.

If the Organization key is set Portfolio id header became mandatory otherwise row will be skipped.

The Organization key should exist as parent/child organization and user should be a part of the organization too otherwise row will be skipped.

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Import custom attributes

It is possible to import values for the building's custom attribute value fields such as property image. Prior to a custom field import, however, it is mandatory to create the field for a portfolio. For more information about creating a custom field, please refer to the Settings page.

To import value for the custom property field, enter the title of the property field as a header to the Excel sheet as it would be any normal field. If there are multiple fields with the same title, first field will be used, but it remains undecided, which one.

Import Units

Certain headers are mandatory in order to import a unit, but additional details can also be imported by optional headers.

Mandatory Headers

A unit id is mandatory in order to import a unit. A unit id has to be unique in a portfolio. In addition, units are required to be linked to a building or a group (or both) by a building id or a group id.

Column title 

Description

Allowed values

Column title 

Description

Allowed values

Unit id

Specifies the unit in a portfolio. If this is not given, it'll be created automatically. Must be unique on organization level.

Any string

Building id OR

The id of the building where the unit is located

Any string

Group id OR

The id of the property group where the unit is located

Any string

Optional headers

Column title 

Description

Allowed values

Column title 

Description

Allowed values

Unit name

Name of the property unit. If this is not given, it'll be created automatically.

Any string

Unit description

Free text field for the description of the unit. Also, all information under the headers in your file that are not listed in these instructions will be presented here. NOTE: rows, where the header is misspelt will appear here.

Any string

Unit price

Property units total value in local currency. Current date will be used as the value date.

Integer

Total floor area

Unit's total floor area in m2. 

Integer

Unit Habitable Floor Area

Unit habitable floor area in m2

Integer

Unit usage type

Type of usage purpose of the unit. Allowed values are: Residential, Office, Retail, Storage or Other

String

Unit floor

Unit's floor. Number 1 being ground floor.

Integer

Condition

Unit's condition

Excellent, New, Good, Mediocre, Poor

Number of rooms

Number of rooms

Integer

Sauna

Type of sauna. Only for residential units in Finland.

Yes, No, Sauna building, Lakeside sauna

Type of Balcony

Type of balcony

Yes, No, Glazed Balcony, French Balcony

Type of Kitchen

Type of kitchen

Kitchen, Open Plan Kitchen, Kitchenette

Type of Terrace

Type of terrace

Yes, No, Glazed Terrace

Has fireplace

Has fireplace

Boolean

Monthly Maintenance Fee

Monthly maintenance fee 

Integer

Monthly Housing Loan Fee

Monthly housing fee

Integer

Mortgage Application Id 

Mortgage application Id

String

Portfolio id

The id of the portfolio where the building should be imported.

If the portfolio id is set Organization key header became mandatory otherwise row will be skipped.

The portfolio id should exist within the organization used as organization key and user should be a part of the organization too otherwise row will be skipped.

Integer

Organization key

The key of the organization where the building should be imported.

If the Organization key is set Portfolio id header became mandatory otherwise row will be skipped.

The Organization key should exist as parent/child organization and user should be a part of the organization too otherwise row will be skipped.

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Import custom attributes

It is possible to import values for the unit's custom attributes value fields such as property image. Prior to a custom field import, however, it is mandatory to create the field for a portfolio. For more information about creating a custom field, please refer to the Settings page.

To import value for the custom property field, enter the title of the property field as a header to the Excel sheet as it would be any normal field. If there are multiple fields with the same title, the first field will be used, but it remains undecided, which one.

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