Property Analysis
Property Analysis (sometimes shown as Property Intelligence in the app) looks up public and third-party listing data for a project's address and surfaces it right on the project — estimated home value, sale history, nearby comparable sales, and a few automated hazard advisories tied to the home's age. It is a research aid for your sales conversation and your job planning, not a substitute for an appraisal, inspection, or title search.
Property Analysis + Project ROI is a paid add-on: $29/month for 200 property lookups. It is not included in any plan, and there is no free allowance — an active subscription is required to run a lookup. To add it, go to Settings, find the feature in the Usage & limits panel, and click Add to plan — that opens Stripe checkout for the add-on. A lookup only counts against your 200 once per address, ever (until it ages out of your stored list): re-opening a job, refreshing, or a teammate opening the same address again costs nothing, and ROI/break-even calculations are always free since they only do arithmetic on data you already bought — including on an address you looked up months ago. If you run past 200 lookups in a month, additional lookups pause until your monthly allowance resets or you buy a top-up — a $19 top-up adds 100 more lookups (requires the $29/mo add-on already be active; purchased lookups expire 365 days after purchase). There is no overage charge for this add-on.
What It Pulls
When you click Analyze Property on a project with an address, ContractorScope AI requests current public-record and listing data for that address from a third-party property data provider. Depending on what the provider has on file, you may see:
- Current market value — an automated estimate of what the home is worth today, when the provider has one. If no automated estimate is available, this field may instead reflect a value you or an import entered manually, or one inherited from a linked contact — the app labels which kind you are looking at.
- Year built — the property's recorded construction year, when on file.
- Sale history — recorded past sale events and prices for the property, when available.
- Nearby comparable sales ("comps") — recently sold homes near the subject property, used elsewhere in the app (see Investment ROI) to sanity-check a renovation's value-add.
- Days on market / market status — whether the property is currently listed, pending, or recently sold, when the provider reports a status we recognize.
- Property details — bedrooms, bathrooms, square footage, lot size, construction materials, roof type, and similar recorded attributes, when on file.
- Listing photos or a street-level image — photos from an active or recent listing when available; when there are no listing photos, the app may show a licensed street-level image instead, credited to its source.
- Hazard advisories — automated, age-based flags described in Hazard Advisories below.
Not every field is available for every address. Rural properties, very recently built or recently sold homes, and properties with thin public records commonly come back with some fields empty. An empty field means the data was not available — it is never filled in with a guess.
Current Market Value — where the number comes from
The Current Market Value shown on a project is not always the same kind of number. Hover the info icon next to it to see which applies:
- Third-party valuation estimate — an automated valuation from the property data provider's own model. This is the case when Property Analysis has successfully looked up the address and the provider returned its own estimate.
- Estimated current market value — a more general label used whenever the figure did not come from that automated model: a value you typed in yourself, a value pulled in from a data import, or a value inherited from a linked contact record. This is also the label shown for projects created before this distinction existed in the app.
Either way, this is an estimate, not a certified appraisal — see What This Is Not in the Investment ROI guide for the full explanation of what these estimates can and cannot support.
How Fresh Is the Data?
Property data is cached per project, for up to 7 days. If you click Analyze Property again on a project within 7 days of the last successful lookup, the app returns the data it already has instead of pulling fresh data from the provider, and shows a note that the data was already up to date.
This matters for one main reason: a recent re-check may not reflect something that changed yesterday. A new listing, a price change, or a new sale on the property this week may not show up until the 7-day window rolls over and you analyze the property again — or you use the force-refresh option to pull fresh data immediately.
Force-refresh has its own daily limit, separate from the cache window. Because each fresh pull is a real, billed request to our data provider, forcing a refresh is capped to a small number of times per company per day. If you hit that limit, the app will tell you and you can try again the next day, or use the regular (cached) lookup in the meantime.
If you need the latest possible data — for example, right before presenting to a homeowner — check when the data was last updated (shown near the property details) and use the force-refresh option if it has been a while and a fresh look matters for that conversation.
Hazard Advisories: What They Mean and Don't Mean
When a property's recorded year built is on file, Property Analysis shows an automated advisory about lead paint and asbestos risk. These are age-based advisories, not inspection results.
| Year Built | What You'll See | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Before 1978 | Lead & Asbestos Risk (high) | Federal law presumes lead-based paint in homes built before 1978, and this window also falls inside the asbestos phase-out period. |
| 1978–1981 | Asbestos Risk (moderate) | Asbestos-containing building products (vinyl flooring, pipe wrap, joint compound, "popcorn" ceiling texture) were still commonly installed through the early 1980s, even though lead paint was already banned by this point. |
| 1982 or later | No advisory banner shown (a neutral "Standard" marker appears next to Year Built) | Outside the window this tool flags. This does not certify the home is hazard-free — it means the automated flag does not apply. |
| Year built unknown | Hazard Risk Unknown | The provider has no recorded year for this property, so no age-based assessment could be made. This is deliberately shown as "unknown," not silently hidden, so you cannot mistake "we never checked" for "we checked and it's clear." |
What this advisory IS
- A plain reading of the property's recorded age against known federal regulatory dates (the 1978 lead-paint ban and the asbestos phase-out that continued into the early 1980s).
- A prompt to budget for testing and, if needed, EPA-compliant lead-safe work practices or asbestos abatement before disturbing paint, flooring, pipe insulation, joint compound, or textured ceilings in an older home.
What this advisory is NOT
- It is not an inspection. No one has tested this specific home for lead or asbestos. The flag is based entirely on the year the home was built, not on any sample, swab, or lab result.
- It is not a certification of the home's actual condition. A home built in 1985 could still contain asbestos-containing materials from a later renovation; a home built in 1970 could have already had lead paint professionally abated. The advisory only reflects the build-year rule, not what is actually in the walls, floors, or ceilings today.
- It is not a substitute for required testing. If your scope of work disturbs paint, flooring, or other materials in a home the advisory flags, you are still responsible for the actual testing and compliance steps (EPA RRP Rule certified-renovator work practices for lead; asbestos testing and abatement rules in your jurisdiction) — the same as you would be for any home, flagged or not.
Do not present this advisory to a homeowner as the result of a lead or asbestos inspection. It is a reminder to test, not a test result. If a homeowner asks whether their home has lead paint or asbestos, the honest answer is that it has not been tested — the advisory only tells you whether the home's age puts it in a window where testing is a serious idea before you start demo.
What a Contractor May Safely Tell a Homeowner
- "Based on your home's age, we recommend testing for lead paint / asbestos before we start demo — this is standard practice for homes built in this period."
- "This property data comes from public records and a third-party listing service, so treat the value and details as a starting point, not a final number."
What a Contractor Should NOT Claim
- That the hazard advisory is a certified inspection or test result.
- That a home with no advisory shown is confirmed lead- or asbestos-free.
- That the "Current Market Value" figure is an appraisal.
Next Steps
- See how a proposed renovation's value is estimated in Investment ROI.
- Learn about the Projects pipeline where Property Analysis lives.
- Need help with a specific lookup? Visit Getting Help.