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Investment score

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Fusing demographic, market and location signals into a single score with per-feature attribution.

Walkability

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Rent-to-income

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12-mo rent Δ

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Investment score — feature attribution

Linear model · v0.4

Yield potentialweight 25%

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Demand densityweight 20%

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Occupancy strengthweight 20%

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Location desirabilityweight 20%

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Affordabilityweight 15%

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Model: weighted sum of five 0–100 normalized features. Features are z-scored against a national reference distribution then clipped and rescaled. Weights are elicited priors; a supervised variant using historical cap-rate outcomes is in v1.0 roadmap.

12-month rent forecast

Holt · CPI-anchored

Reconstructed history Forecast 80% CI

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12-mo forecast

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80% interval

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Demographics & housing

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Population

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2022 ACS

Median household income

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annual

Median gross rent

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per month

Median home value

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owner-occupied

Housing units

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Median age

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Bachelor's+

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of adults

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Climate

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Amenities within 1 mile

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Restaurants

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Cafés

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Groceries

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Schools

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Parks

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Transit

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Healthcare

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Similar ZIPs

Cosine k-NN

Similarity computed over normalized amenity density + climate features vs a curated reference pool of 60 US ZIPs. Higher score = closer neighbor.

Housing tenure

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Vacancy rate—

Location

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Model card & data lineage

Data sources

Models & methods

Investment score: weighted linear · 5 features · unsupervised weights (v0.4)
Rent forecast: Holt exp. smoothing on BLS CPI-Rent · anchored to local ACS median
Confidence bands: Gaussian residual σ from national fit · widened by √h
Similarity: cosine k-NN in ℝ⁷ · L2-normalized feature vectors
Walkability: weighted POI density · category-specific saturation

Known limitations

ACS 5-year estimates lag current market by ~18 months
Rent forecast trend proxies national CPI-Rent — assumes local co-movement with national trend
Amenity counts from crowdsourced OSM — rural coverage can be sparse
Investment weights are hand-tuned priors, not supervised
Similarity pool is 60 curated ZIPs — expanding to 30k ZCTAs in v1.0

Every US ZIP, quantified.

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