Who buys this
Part-time property investors evaluating three or four listings a month who currently build a valuation spreadsheet from scratch each time.
Where to start in Lovable
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Build a property valuation tool. A user pastes a listing URL or enters address, price, square footage, and rent estimate manually. The app pulls comparable recent sales in the area if a public data source is available, otherwise lets the user enter three comps by hand, then calculates cap rate, cash-on-cash return, and a simple five-year projection assuming a fixed appreciation and expense rate the user can adjust. Show the numbers on one page with the assumptions visible and editable, not buried in a modal.
What you will need to wire up
- Lovable AI Gateway
- Lovable Cloud (сохранённые объекты)
- Парсер листингов / скрейпинг API
- Публичные данные о продажах (если доступны в регионе)
Build order
- Build the manual entry path first, treat scraping as an enhancement. Listing sites change their page structure often and actively block scrapers, so a feature that depends entirely on parsing a pasted URL will break within weeks. Get the manual form for address, price, square footage, and rent working solidly, then add URL parsing as a convenience layer on top that falls back to the manual form when it fails.
- Keep every assumption an editable number on the page, never a hidden constant. Investors distrust a projection they cannot poke at. Put the appreciation rate, vacancy rate, and expense ratio in visible input fields next to the results so changing one instantly recalculates the five-year numbers, which is what turns a report into a tool people actually use during negotiation.
- Show a confidence label on comps, do not present them as certain. Public sale records lag by months in most areas and square footage in listings is often self-reported and wrong. Tag each comp with how recent it is and whether it came from a verified public record or a scraped listing, so the user can weight it correctly instead of trusting a stale number.
- Charge per saved property analysis, with a free tier capped at one. Someone evaluating a single property to buy their own home will never subscribe monthly, but a part-time investor comparing several deals a month will pay per analysis or for an unlimited monthly plan. Let the first saved analysis be free so people experience the full calculation before paying.
Where this usually breaks
- Rent estimates pulled from a generic source often miss local rent control rules or unit-specific factors, producing a cash-on-cash number that is off by a wide margin. Let the user override the rent estimate directly and show it as an estimate, not a fact, with a note about where the number came from.
- Property tax and insurance costs vary enormously by county and are easy to underestimate with a flat national default, which makes the projection look far more profitable than it is. Ask for the actual tax bill and insurance quote if the user has them, and label the default figures clearly as rough placeholders.
How it makes money
- Per saved property analysis. Matches how investors actually shop, evaluating a handful of listings before making an offer on one.
- Unlimited monthly plan for active investors. Captures the segment running many analyses per month before that segment starts feeling nickel-and-dimed by per-item pricing.
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