PropertyAura — the signal field (Pro and Enterprise)
PropertyAura is a live visualization that turns a property’s Genome signals into a single glanceable “field.” It shows all 27 signals, grouped into seven families — market, livability, risk, site suitability, affordability, vacancy, and condition — as a glowing core, with a planning-intelligence ring around it. It appears on the residential, land, and rental analyzers after you run a score.
It is deterministic and coverage-aware: the same address always renders the same field, and how certain the data is controls how the field looks. A fully provider-backed property renders solid and “Live”; a hybrid one is translucent; a preview/heuristic one is ghosted and labeled “not for decisioning.” Use the “Show as data” toggle to see the exact numbers behind the picture.
- PropertyAura is a Pro/Enterprise feature; other plans see an upgrade prompt in the same place.
- The planning ring is most prominent for land (where entitlement upside drives value) and subtle for built homes.
- Nothing is invented — a missing signal or planning layer shows as suppressed, and previews are labeled as such.
Why some planning fields show “--”
Planning Intelligence now reports an honest coverage level for each property, and that is why some fields (future land use, growth policy, density uplift, etc.) can read “--”. “Live” (database) coverage means real parcel-level plan data is loaded and can influence the score. “live_api” means the data is fetched live from an onboarded county endpoint — shown to you, but it does not move the score yet. “registry_stub” means the county is recognized but its parcel-level rows are not loaded, so the numbers are display-only and read “--” rather than pretending. “none” means no planning data is available there.
This is deliberate: the product would rather show “--” than a fabricated number. Today the deepest live planning coverage is a set of North Carolina counties, with more onboarded over time. If planning is thin for an address, the rest of the Genome Score is unaffected.
Comparable sales now work for every property type
The comp engine is no longer residential-only. Homes use $/sqft-adjusted comparables; land uses $/acre-adjusted land comps, falling back to the parcel’s assessed land value or a benchmark when nearby land sales aren’t available; commercial and industrial use an assessed-value-anchored estimate with an honest note that true commercial comps need a dedicated CRE data source.
When comparables genuinely can’t be produced for an address, the panel explains why instead of showing a blank — the same no-fabrication rule that governs the rest of the platform.