Getting Started with PlatNum

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Find a parcel

Search by address or click any lot on the map. PlatNum queries county parcel, zoning, and geometry data before highlighting the selected parcel.

Advanced · Search and parcel analysis

The Assembler

After selecting a parcel, click Add adjoining parcels to enter assemblage mode. Select up to 5 neighboring lots, then re-analyze the combined site to recompute every development concept on the merged footprint.

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Review ranked concepts

The analysis workspace ranks development concepts, shows whether renting or flipping is stronger, and keeps infeasible concepts visible when they explain a physical constraint.

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Open the pro forma

The full math view breaks each concept into acquisition, hard costs, soft costs, fees, carrying costs, valuation, and gross profit.

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Generate a report

Reports are printable screening packages with a concept render, parcel and zoning context, economics, applied rules, confidence notes, and disclaimers. Their public links expire 30 days after generation, and each report shows its exact expiration date. Share links are quick, read-only snapshots that expire after 30 days.

Manage · Step 5 of 5

Track the opportunity

Save to Pipeline when a parcel is a real deal you want to move through screening, site visit, pro forma, offer, and close. Dismiss only hides a parcel from discovery lists; it does not create a tracked deal.

Manage · Owned assets

Set up your Portfolio

Portfolio turns properties you already own into a current view of value, debt, equity, income, and possible acquisition funding sources.

• Add a parcel-linked property when possible, or use the manual-address option when the parcel is not available.
• For Portfolio totals, confirm current use, your role, ownership share, and current value. Income properties also need rent, vacancy, taxes, insurance, operating expenses, and management fee for NOI.
• Classify each active secured debt and add a current payoff or balance plus monthly payment, or confirm that the property has no secured debt.
• For Screening funding, owners and co-owners can enable Sale or Exchange and enter the dated amount supplied by the user or an advisor. Portfolio properties provide funding sources; they are not the properties being screened.

Opportunities · Acquisition workflow

Review recommended deals

Recommended deals automatically pair advantageous current listed and eligible off-market projections with a Portfolio property that could be sold or exchanged to pursue each one.

• Open Recommended deals to automatically check positive development-profit and hold-yield projections against every enabled Portfolio sale or exchange path.
• Each card names the source property, transaction, acquisition candidate, projected return, acquisition basis, and required equity. Listed cards use asking price; off-market cards use assessor total divided by 93.6%. Funding sources are checked independently and are never combined.
• Use Trade from, Transaction, or Advantage sought to narrow the list. More filters exposes program, price, and location controls.
• For hold ideas, compare projected YOC with the source property cap rate. Profit is a one-time gross projection; verify tax, transaction-cost, financing, and property assumptions.
• Open View comparison for parcel detail, Add to Pipeline to track a candidate, or return to matching For Sale inventory.