Frequently asked questions

The Zestimate is an automated valuation. It estimates what the house is worth. That's a useful number, but it doesn't tell you whether the seller is likely to negotiate, or by how much. The Tilt Map is about the seller's position, not the house's value. Different question, different answer. Two properties at the same asking price with identical Zestimates can have completely different negotiation realities. One owner is underwater on a mortgage and can't come down without short-saling; the other inherited the property, lives in another state, and has already cut the price twice. Zestimate doesn't see that. PriceTilt does.

Yes. Create a free account and you get AI buying-agent summaries on any address with negotiation framing, due-diligence guidance, and public facts. You also get 1 free Pro report to unlock everything on a property of your choice. PriceTilt Pro ($29/mo, cancel anytime) gives you up to 15 verified reports per month: the Tilt Map, owner equity, comps, permits, specific hazard risk, neighborhood facts, plus the full AI agent with save, compare, memory across sessions, and alerts.

Yes. One click in your account settings, effective immediately. No auto-renew traps, no surprise charges, no "call us to cancel" runaround. Subscribe while you're actively house-hunting, cancel the moment you close. It's also one-click to delete your data and account.

Price history, valuation context (how the asking price compares to independent valuations), owner motivation (tenure, equity position, distress signals), neighborhood market direction, and hazard exposure (flood zones, noise, climate risk). Each category gets a plain-English directional read backed by a specific fact. We show the inputs and what's driving each direction, but not the numeric weights or formula.

The Tilt Map places a property on two axes, asking-price-vs-fair-value and seller-flexibility, into one of four quadrants. "Buy" means well-priced and the seller can negotiate; "Negotiate" means overpriced but the seller has flexibility; "Consider" means well-priced but the seller is firm; "Evaluate" means overpriced and the seller is firm. Each quadrant shapes whether your leverage is in price, terms, or both.

Chat is the front door on both tiers. On free, ask about any property and get answers grounded in public records. PriceTilt Pro adds licensed data and cross-session memory, so the AI remembers what you've asked before and can answer questions like "what's the owner's equity position?" or "is the flood zone a real concern here?" using the actual records for that property. General-purpose AI can't do this because it doesn't have the underlying data in context.

Licensed and public sources only. ATTOM Data Solutions provides deeds, sale history, tax assessments, owner records, automated valuations, building permits, preforeclosure data, and FEMA flood-zone designations. We also use licensed APIs for address standardization, maps, street-view imagery, noise ratings, walkability scores, and mortgage rates from the Federal Reserve. No scraping.

The methodology is grounded in first principles based on standard real-estate negotiation patterns. As PriceTilt accumulates analyzed properties and observes actual sale outcomes, the methodology will be calibrated against real data. Every report is timestamped with its methodology version. The honest answer in 2026: directionally useful, calibration evolving.

The Tilt Map is one input among several. A good buyer's agent has local market knowledge, knows specific sellers and listing agents, and may have context that public records can't capture. PriceTilt is built to complement an agent's work, not replace it.

The methodology is internal IP. We show you the inputs (the public-records facts), the directional labels (what's contributing positively or negatively), and a plain-language explanation. Same posture as Carfax or FICO.

No. PriceTilt is a research tool. It surfaces what public records and commercial property data suggest about a property's negotiation context. Decisions about whether to buy, what to offer, or how to structure an offer are between you and your buyer's agent, financial advisor, and attorney.

Federal Fair Housing law prohibits using race, national origin, religion, sex, familial status, and disability in real-estate decisions. PriceTilt does not pull these signals, even where commercial APIs offer them. We factor in property-level and seller-level signals (tenure, equity, distress, market dynamics), never protected-class signals about who lives where.