Questions

A database of every new-home community in the Los Angeles and Orange County market, with the pricing, absorption and analysis tools to position a new one against them.

Homebuilders, land acquisition teams and anybody who has to answer “what should we price this at” with evidence rather than a feel for the market.

Not yet. It is in production use today, and it is being built so that it can be licensed.

Accounts are created by an administrator. Ask Dave and one will be issued.

Setup links last 72 hours on purpose. Ask for a new one — it takes a moment.

Too many wrong attempts locks an account for 15 minutes. Wait, or ask for a password reset.

Please do not. Every record in CompAtlas carries the name of whoever entered it, and a shared account makes that attribution meaningless. A new account takes about a minute.

It will open and read fine. It is built for a laptop screen, and a version made for entering prices on site is planned.

An editor can change the underlying data — communities, plans, prices, imports. A viewer can read all of it and build studies, but cannot alter what everybody else relies on.

Yes. Studies are analysis, not data, and a viewer can build, save and export them.

Editors and administrators can see everybody's, so nothing is lost when somebody is away.

Its address could not be matched exactly, so it fell back to the centre of the city or the street. Open the community and paste coordinates from Google Maps to fix it.

Only communities with a location can be plotted, and the filters hide the rest. The count under the map says how many are not shown.

A project is a real community in the market. A prospect is a land deal or a hypothetical you are testing. Prospects are excluded from every market statistic so they cannot distort the market view.

The Data tab has a duplicates screen that finds likely pairs and merges them, keeping the fuller record and moving anything the other one had.

They describe the slice you are looking at, not the whole market. Filtering to one submarket gives you that submarket's medians.

No. Neither are below-market-rate plans, for the same reason: they are not evidence of what the open market will pay.

No. A scenario stays in the study until you deliberately commit it, and committing is what writes a dated price to the community.

It should not be — a price is whatever it is. If a round number is being demanded, tell Dave; that was a bug and it was fixed.

Yes. Each subject gets its own pricing box and its own line on the chart.

Their address could not be matched to a location near the subject. They stay on the chart, and the count of unplaced ones is shown beneath the map.

It is kept. The import screen lists every upload with its date and row count, and the original file can be downloaded again.

Imports are reviewed before they commit — you see what will change and approve it. Prices are added rather than overwritten in any case.

How old the figure is: green under 30 days, amber under 60, red beyond. It is about the age of the evidence, not whether the price is good.

Enter the correct one. The wrong figure stays in the history as a dated observation, which is honest — but the current price is always the most recent one.

Because a capped price is not evidence of what the open market pays. BMR plans stay in the unit counts and the pace figures, and out of the pricing ones.

If you are an editor, update it — that is the fastest fix. Otherwise report it, and it will be picked up.

Say which screen, what you expected and what you saw. A screenshot is ideal.

Dave Barisic — dave@compatlas.ai — for a password reset, a new account, or anything that looks wrong in the data.