You just finished touring three properties, and your phone is already buzzing with a request from the investment committee: “Can you put together a comp map for the deck?” You know the drill. Open Google Maps, screenshot it, paste it into PowerPoint, manually drop pins, label each one, build a legend, format it so it doesn’t look like a middle school project. For one map.
The comps are sitting in your spreadsheet. The addresses are right there. But turning that data into a clean, professional map that belongs in an OM or IC memo takes 20 minutes you don’t have, especially when you’re juggling three other deals.
That’s exactly what this task is built to fix.
What This Task Does
You give it your subject property and up to 25 comparable properties. You can type or paste the details directly, upload a spreadsheet, CSV, or PDF, or do both. At minimum, the task needs an address for the subject and at least one comp. If you have property names, types, sizes, sale prices, cap rates, or rent per SF, include those too; they’ll appear in the legend.
The Market Research Associate takes it from there. It parses your data, looks up each property using Google Maps, plots everything on a clean map with numbered markers, and generates a detailed legend. Before building anything, it shows you a summary of the proposed title, subtitle, subject property, and all comps so you can confirm or adjust. Once you approve, it produces an interactive viewer link (for zooming and exploring) and a downloadable PNG image you can drop straight into a document.
The whole process takes roughly 5 minutes of your time. The AI does the rest.
Who This Task Is For
Any time you need to show where your comps sit relative to a subject property, you’re building a map. Whether it’s for an internal meeting or a client-facing package, the expectation is the same: clean, professional, and accurate. The only question is how long it takes you to get there.
This task is built for:
- Acquisitions analysts who need comp maps for IC memos and underwriting packages on tight turnarounds
- Brokers and leasing teams who want polished comp maps for OMs, pitch decks, and listing presentations
- Appraisers who need to visualize sales or lease comps in valuation reports
- Asset managers who want to map competitive properties around an existing asset for leasing strategy
- Research teams who produce market overviews and submarket snapshots with spatial context
In short: if you already have your comp data, this task gives you a finished map.
Why It Matters
A comp map is one of those things that always makes the document better. Readers scan a list of comps and their eyes glaze over. Put those same comps on a map with numbered markers and a legend, and suddenly the story clicks: proximity, clustering, submarket boundaries, outliers. The spatial context does the explaining for you.
You already know this. Every analyst, broker, and appraiser knows a map belongs in the package.
The problem isn’t awareness; it’s bandwidth. Building a comp map manually means toggling between your spreadsheet, Google Maps, a design tool, and whatever template you’ve been reusing since 2019. It takes 20 minutes if you’re fast, longer if you’re fussy about alignment and labels. So it gets skipped, or it gets rushed, or it gets delegated to someone who’s already underwater.
With this task, the map takes 5 minutes. You paste your data, confirm the summary, and get back a print-ready PNG and an interactive viewer. That means the map actually makes it into the memo, the OM, the appraisal, instead of being the thing you meant to add but ran out of time for.
That’s the multiplier.
What the Output Looks Like
The comp map generated by this task includes:
- A clean, print-ready map centered on your subject property and surrounding comps
- Numbered markers for the subject property and each comparable, clearly distinguished
- A detailed legend listing property name, type, size, and key metrics (sale price, cap rate, rent/SF) for each marker
- An interactive viewer link for zooming, panning, and exploring the map online
- A downloadable PNG image ready to paste into an OM, IC memo, appraisal, or pitch deck
The output is not a rough screenshot with hand-drawn circles. It’s a properly formatted, presentation-grade map with institutional-quality labeling, the kind you’d expect from a dedicated research team.
Frequently Asked Questions About Creating Comparable Property Maps With AI
Yes, and the task is designed for exactly that. Before the map is generated, the Market Research Associate shows you a full summary of the proposed title, subtitle, subject property, and every comparable with its details. You confirm or make changes before anything is built. Once the map is produced, you also get an interactive viewer where you can zoom in and verify marker placement. Think of it as a built-in QA step: you’re approving the data and the layout before it ever reaches a client or committee.
That’s the entire point. The output is a clean, high-resolution PNG with numbered markers and a formatted legend, not a screenshot with pins dropped on Google Maps. The styling is consistent and institutional. Brokers use these in offering memorandums, analysts include them in investment committee packages, and appraisers embed them in valuation reports. The map is built to match the quality standard of the rest of your document.
The task supports up to 25 comparable properties in a single map, which covers most use cases for IC memos, appraisals, and market overviews. If your comps span a wide geography, the map will adjust its zoom to fit all markers while keeping them legible. For very large comp sets that exceed 25, you can run the task twice with different subsets (for example, splitting by submarket or comp type) and include both maps in your document.