Answers
Questions we were asked, answered in full
Each page is one commercial real estate question worked through to an answer, with the sources and the numbers it stands on.
Sep 2026What we need from you to underwrite a deal, and what we fetch ourselvesThe short answer is an address. This page lists what we pull from public records without asking you, what only you can give us, and what we will not claim to know.Sep 2026Broker opinion of value and appraisal: the difference, and when you need the appraisalWhat a broker opinion of value is, what an appraisal is, why we hold no appraisal licence, and the cases where you should hire an appraiser instead of us.Sep 2026Is there a national US parcel database?No. On 2026-09-11 none of our 272 connected sources was a national US parcel source, nine states had none at all, and 19 of 20 stateless ones are foreign.