Organized records
Review and organize relevant property information to support your analysis and decision-making.
Property History
Understand a property's history before you decide. Review data, events, and signals that can change your deal analysis.
Property History helps you organize relevant property information, track important records, and better understand context before you buy, rehab, sell, or invest.
Ideal for investors, agents, wholesalers, builders, and analysts who need to understand a property's past before moving forward.
Property History TimelineActive history
Property under reviewSingle Family — Malden, MA
Last recorded salePrevious purchase below current estimated value
2019Tax data and recordsImportant information to validate the analysis
TaxValue changes over timeHistory helps you understand potential and risk
ARVPossible opportunity signalsHistory can reveal context for negotiation
DealUse history to better understand the property, validate data, and make decisions with more confidence before you move forward.
Context before the decision
A property is more than price, address, and a nice photo.
Property history can reveal important information about value, records, past events, price changes, prior sales, and signals that directly affect your investment analysis.
Value evolution
Better understand how the property has performed over time and how that can influence your ARV projection.
Opportunity signals
History can help identify properties with negotiation, appreciation, or repositioning potential.
More security
Before you analyze profit, understand the property's past.
Many investors only look at current price and estimated resale value. But property history can reveal important data: last sale, price changes, tax records, prior updates, and market context.
With Property History, you get a more organized foundation to validate opportunities before moving into ROI, rehab, negotiation, or purchase.
Sales history
Understand when the property sold, for how much, and how that can influence negotiation.
Property records and data
Organize useful information to validate the asset before calculating return and margin.
Context for ARV analysis
Use history to better understand appreciation, current price, and resale potential.
Basis for decision
Connect property history with Deal Analysis, Rehab Cost, and reports inside the platform.
What to watch out for
Data that helps you better understand the property.
History can bring clarity on how the property has behaved, possible hidden risks, and opportunity signals.
Last sale
When it sold, for how much, and what the current context may be.
Price history
Price changes that may signal opportunity or risk.
Tax data
Information that helps you understand taxes, records, and property characteristics.
Property features
Size, type, structure, number of units, and other relevant details.
Time on market
Helps you understand demand, negotiation dynamics, and possible seller motivation.
Historical comparison
A basis for comparing current price with prior market behavior.
Risk signals
History may raise points worth investigating before purchase.
Appreciation potential
Better understand the path between current price, rehab, and future value.
How it works
From property history to a complete deal analysis.
The platform helps you organize property data before moving into deeper calculations.
Review property context
Analyze key data such as prior sales, records, characteristics, and possible value changes.
Organize the relevant points
Use history to identify opportunities, risks, attention points, and useful negotiation context.
Connect with financial analysis
Combine history with ROI, Net Profit, Rehab Estimate, ARV, and reports to decide with more confidence.
Who it's for
Built for anyone who needs to validate information before investing.
Investors
For anyone who wants a clearer read on the property before putting capital into a Flip House, rental, or construction project.
Agents and wholesalers
To organize property information and present opportunities with more context for buyers and partners.
Builders and operators
To assess whether the property’s history supports renovation, construction, resale, or repositioning strategy.
Get started
Review property history before you move into the investment.
Access Checkmate Property and get a more organized view of the asset by connecting history, property search, financial analysis, rehab, reports, and cloud storage.
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$89 /mo
Includes Property History, Property Search, Deal Analysis, Rehab Cost Estimates, Cloud Storage, reports and educational resources.
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Frequently asked questions about Property History.
What is Property History?
It is the resource that helps organize and consult relevant historical information about a property, such as records, previous data, value context and events that can impact the deal analysis.
Why is property history important?
Because the history can reveal information that helps in negotiation, in estimating value, in risk analysis and in deciding whether or not to proceed with the investment.
Does it work for Flip House?
Yes. Before buying to renovate and sell, understanding the history can help validate price, ARV, property context and possible points of attention.
Does it work for New Construction?
Yes. History can support analysis of land, old properties, records and context for construction projects.
Does history replace professional due diligence?
No. It helps organize information and support initial analysis. For a final decision, it is important to validate data with professionals, official records, inspections and local experts.