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Notes on deriving and supporting the adjustments on the grid: what each method can support and where it runs out. Written by an appraiser, for appraisers.
No sign-in or email needed. These are standard methods. The software just makes them faster.
Getting your MLS data out in a shape both tools can read.
The adjustment that moves the most money and gets questioned first: measuring the trend and applying it from the right date.
Choosing the data set, measuring the trend, converting it to a monthly rate, and applying it from the contract date instead of the closing date.
This adjustment affects every comp on the grid, and it's the one a reviewer checks first. The other guides assume you've already worked this one out.
Read the guide 03Every field of a finished market section from one sample export, with where each figure comes from and the checks a reviewer runs on it.
Read the guide 04Why the price is set when buyer and seller agree, how much the date changes the adjustment, and what to do when the contract date is missing.
Read the guide 05Measuring a falling market, supporting a negative adjustment, and handling a trend that changes direction partway through your time frame.
Read the guideThe rates for GLA, site, baths and garages: what each one can be derived from, and what it can't.
Why price per square foot is the wrong rate, how to extract a contributory one, and how to test it against the range.
Read the guide 07Vacant land sales, allocation and extraction, and why the full land rate isn't the lot size adjustment.
Read the guide 08Rates per bath and per garage space from your own sales, the half bath convention, and the correlation trap.
Read the guideThe reasoning behind all of it: what each technique proves, what it doesn't, and how to write the part a reviewer reads.
What a matched pair proves, how to isolate one feature, and why two pairs don't give you a rate.
Read the guide 10Telling a real difference from one the market doesn't pay for, and documenting a deliberate zero.
Read the guide 11What a reviewer is testing, naming a method versus showing a rate, and building the record while you work.
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