Why five doors is a different animal

A house is priced by comparison. A building is priced by arithmetic.

This door only pays off on property that throws off income — and income property is not valued the way a home is. Getting that wrong is not a rounding error; it is a different answer entirely.

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The rule

Door count decides it. Not the listing type.

One to four units: what comparable homes actually closed at. Five and up: what the building earns, divided by the return the market demands. The MLS property type does not decide which one runs — the number of doors on the record does.

We got this wrong once and it is worth saying so

The same building came back at roughly $300,000 on sales comps and $1.6M on income, because the unit count and the floor area were describing two different properties. Any number on this door reads the door count off the record first for that reason.

The report

Both approaches, cited.

A sales-comp grid for one to four units, the income approach for five and up, every source carrying a county deep link so anybody can check the working.

Automatic Valuation Analysis

A proof of value — every number with its evidence. Type an address, get a client-ready valuation analysis — sales-comp grid for 1–4 units, income approach for 5+ doors, every source cited with county deep links.

Run the valuation analysis
Finding them

One way in today, and one coming back.

Said plainly rather than linked and hoped for.

Clients

Investor Projection

Day one to day 3,650. Cash versus loan, taxes, refinance, and a real IRR.

Ten years on one deal
The Cap-Rate Deal Map is down, on purpose

It is being rebuilt so every cap rate is backed by reported income instead of an estimate. Until it is back the page is a notice, and we would rather say so here than have you click a button and find out. Read the notice.

What comes off this page

Where this leads.

Two ways forward.