Does PriceDNA factor in property characteristics like age, condition, year built, size, or lot size?

Not as separate automatic pricing fields. PriceDNA does not have individual inputs for property age, year built, property class, condition, building size, square footage, lot size, finishes, or similar physical characteristics. Reflect those facts through the financial assumptions they affect — especially achievable rent, repairs, make-ready, reserves, insurance, maintenance, taxes, financing, and management. Number of units is a direct input because it changes rent and unit-level math.

There is no separate field for every physical characteristic

PriceDNA does not have individual inputs that automatically add or subtract value for property age, year built, property class, physical condition, building size, square footage, lot size, finishes, bedrooms, bathrooms, renovations, or similar characteristics.

That is intentional. PriceDNA provides personalized real estate analysis through goal-convergent valuation. It analyzes the property’s modeled financial profile and solves for the purchase price the selected goal can support. It does not independently appraise physical features or assign them a market premium or discount.

Where those characteristics enter the analysis

Physical characteristics still matter when they change the economics of the deal. Reflect them through the assumptions they affect:

  • achievable rent;
  • repairs and make-ready;
  • reserves and maintenance;
  • insurance and property taxes;
  • financing; and
  • management or operating complexity.

For example, an older property with deferred maintenance may warrant higher repair, make-ready, reserve, insurance, or maintenance assumptions. A renovated property may support a different achievable rent when that rent is realistic and supportable.

What PriceDNA uses directly

The property address connects the analysis to available local data. Number of units is a direct input because it changes total rent and unit-level calculations. The remaining income, expense, financing, vacancy, reserve, and goal assumptions form the financial profile PriceDNA analyzes.

Property class and size

If you use labels such as Class A, B, or C, translate the practical meaning of that label into supportable deal assumptions rather than entering the class itself. The same applies to square footage, building size, and lot size: PriceDNA does not independently price those facts, but they may influence rent, expenses, maintenance, insurance, financing, or other assumptions.

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