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Comps that sold in different months didn't sell in the same market

Each comp is measured from its own contract date to your effective date. Some get an adjustment and some don't, and the report shows which is which.

Needs: Address · Zip · Pending Date · Sold Price · Sample market included to try it on

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A blanket rate is the easiest thing in a report to challenge

Most market conditions adjustments are one monthly percentage applied across the whole grid. That assumes every comp sold in the same market, and they didn't.

Adjusted comp by comp

Each comp is adjusted from its own contract date. In one report, some adjustments can be positive, some negative and some zero.

A trend you can see

A chain-linked index with a smoothing window and a confidence band, and a list of the outliers excluded and why.

Settings you control

Smoothing window, minimum sales per month, no-adjustment window and minimum adjustment. Change any of them and the results update.

Five steps to a trend you can show your work on

You load one export and get an adjustment for each comp, with the chart and the UAD 3.6 section attached. The figures below are from the sample market included with the app, so you can open it and follow along.

1

Subject and effective date

Two fields. Every comp is measured back to the effective date, and saved reports reopen with everything intact.

Subject

Effective dateSep 05, 2026
Recent reportssearchable

For a revision request, you reopen the report. You don't rebuild it.

2

One export, as it comes

The closed sales from your competitive market. Column names don't have to match. If the app can't place a column, it asks you instead of guessing.

Recognized automatically

Address, Ziprequired
Pending Date, Sold Pricerequired
Asking Price, Status, DOM, concessionsread

Leave actives and pendings in. They fill the UAD 3.6 market section.

3

Look at the data before you trust the trend

Every sale is plotted against its contract date, with outliers flagged for review. A flagged sale stays in the analysis unless you take it out.

MarketAdjuster's diagnostics screen: 48 records passed and 5 flagged for review,
                  with every sale plotted against its contract date inside upper and lower outlier
                  bands drawn around a trend center.
Click or lasso points to exclude them. Every exclusion is listed in the report.
4

Pick the comps in your grid

The trend comes from the whole market. These are the six comps that get adjusted, each on its own contract date.

Market context

Overall market change+4.20%
Index at effective date1.0301
Data quality53 sales

Search and check off comps to build the list, then reorder the rows so Comp 1 here matches Comp 1 in your forms software. Overall change describes the whole period. Each comp's adjustment depends on where its own contract date falls.

5

An adjustment for each comp

Two comps get an adjustment and four fall inside the no-adjustment window, all from one data set. That's what Fannie Mae guidance asks for, and it's why the report shows a table instead of one percentage.

MarketAdjuster's market condition trend chart: a smoothed index over thirteen
                  months inside a confidence band, with each of the six comparables plotted on its
                  own contract date and labeled with the adjustment it earns, three of them No
                  Adj and the others up to plus 3.6 percent.
The same chart exports as a PDF addendum, with the UAD 3.6 market section and the methodology behind every figure.

There are two buttons at the top, the same as in CompAdjuster: the PDF for the report, and chart images you can drop straight into it. The workfile pack, UAD section, narrative and raw data are tucked away until you need them.

Built for UAD 3.6

Every field the new market section asks for

The redesigned URAR wants the market described in structured fields instead of a paragraph. MarketAdjuster fills in all of them from the export you already pulled, in the order the new form asks for them.

Inventory and absorption
  • Active listings
  • Median days on market
  • Minimum, median and highest list price
  • Pending sales
  • Inventory classification
  • Demand and supply conclusion
  • Marketing time
Closed sales
  • Lookback period
  • Sales in the lookback period
  • Minimum, median and highest sale price
  • Distressed market competition
  • Price trend source
  • Price trend analysis commentary
  • Market commentary
Sales concessions
  • Prevalence
  • Concession sales, as a share of closings
  • Median reported concession
  • Highest reported concession
  • Median concession as a percent of sale price
  • Supported concession commentary
Report PDFthe chart, the adjustments table and the UAD 3.6 section
Chart images.zip · the trend chart and the adjustments table, to drop in
UAD Market Section.txt · the fields, ready to transfer
Listing Inventory.csv · the listings behind them
Narrative.txt · the reasoning, written out
Workfile pack.zip · all of it, with the data and diagnostics

It's just as useful on a 2.6 report today, where the same figures still need support. The layout, field names and concession detail follow UAD 3.6, so you won't have to redo the work when the new form arrives.

Sales concessions, measured instead of assumed

Fannie Mae B4-1.3-09 allows a dollar-for-dollar concession adjustment only when your analysis supports one, and doesn't accept an automatic deduction of what the credit cost the seller. Most reports cover this with one sentence. MarketAdjuster measures it.

01 What it measures

What buyers actually paid per dollar of credit

Sales with a reported concession are compared with sales reported to have none, based on how each one closed against its list price. The dollar difference between them is what the market paid for the credit.

02 What it reports

A ratio, and how firm it is

The result is reported with the range around it, so you can see whether it's a real finding or a coin toss. If the estimates don't agree on direction, it says no adjustment is indicated instead of giving you a number.

03 What you do with it

Three ways to take it

Adjust at the measured rate, at the conservative end of the supported range, or not at all. Your choice is recorded in the commentary, and adjustments are rounded to the nearest hundred, the way you'd write them.

If concessions are common but don't measurably affect price, that's worth reporting. "No concession adjustment, and here's the support" holds up better than saying nothing.

You set what counts as prevalent

Concessions are called prevalent above a share of closings you choose, and flagged to watch above a second, lower share. The defaults are 50% and 10%, and you can change both on any report.

The threshold doesn't change the math

Fannie Mae B4-1.3-09 says the adjustment isn't based on how common concessions are in the area. So the prevalence label describes the market, and the measured effect decides the adjustment. The two are kept separate on purpose.

MarketAdjuster questions

My MLS export doesn't use your column names.

Common layouts are recognized automatically. If a required column is missing, the app tells you which one instead of failing quietly. If your board's export is unusual, send it over and we'll add it.

Will a reviewer accept the exhibit?

The exhibit shows the data set, what was excluded, the method and the reasoning, so a reviewer can follow how you got the number instead of taking it on faith. MarketAdjuster's narrative cites Fannie Mae Selling Guide B4-1.3-09 on adjusting each comp from its own contract date. No software can promise a particular reviewer will accept a particular report.

Is this the same as a 1004MC?

It covers what the 1004MC asked for and more. The old form wanted median price, days on market and inventory over three periods. MarketAdjuster measures the trend across every closed sale, tests whether it can be separated from flat, and turns it into a rate applied to each comp from its own contract date. It also fills in the UAD 3.6 market section, which replaced the 1004MC.

Does this replace my forms software?

No. It doesn't fill out a URAR and won't. It works out the rates and writes the support. You enter the concluded figures on the grid in the forms software you already use, whether that's TOTAL, ACI, ClickForms or Aivre. It works alongside that software.

The redesigned UAD 3.6 report doesn't change that. Whatever forms software you use, the new report asks for more visible support behind each rate, not a different way to derive it. The rates still have to come from your own market, and that's what this does.

Do I need both tools?

No. They're sold separately and neither depends on the other. They take different exports and answer different questions: time adjustments versus physical ones. Most people who start with one add the other later.

Where does my data go?

Your uploads are processed for your analysis, and your saved reports are stored in your own account so you can open them on any computer. Your data isn't sold and isn't pooled into anyone else's analysis.

Does AppraiserBench use AI to decide the adjustment?

No. The analysis is math you can follow: medians, a chain-linked index and a regression check, all run on the sales you provide. Nothing is guessing at a number, because an adjustment you can't explain isn't support.

See also UAD 3.6 support.

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