General FAQ
Posting on Facebook
Posting market statistics on Facebook is a great way to engage clients and generate leads. Depending on what you're posting, there are different ways to optimize the level of engagement you'll get from your users. Direct URL Posting If you've ...
Share a market stats image from a mobile device
If you find yourself away from your office and need to share some stats with a client on the go, just use your mobile phone. First, use a browser app to access the dashboard of your choice. Once you've filtered down to the market segment you're ...
Print Orientation (Landscape vs Portrait)
Most of the dashboards have a native Landscape orientation, sized to 8.5x11. We use code in our css to "force" the browser to print that way, but not all browsers listen to us. The css hasn't been accepted as the current standard yet, so it's ...
Data Refresh Schedule
We pull data every night after business hours. Each dashboard, with the exception of Pricing Insights, will still only display data through the last full calendar period, be it week, month, or quarter. This means that any late data entries are added ...
System Maintenance Schedule
We're always working on new, cool enhancements to our dashboards that usually don't result in any downtime to user access. However, we do perform some maintenance on a regular schedule. These occur at midnight Pacific Daylight Time, and system ...
Sharing stats with clients and prospects
There are several ways you can share market statistics information with your clients and prospects. Note that some of these suggestions link to other Knowledge Base articles with additional information. Do a live walk-through of stats with your ...
Monthly availability of Dashboards
Domus dashboards are NOT like the old school PDFs that you might be used to. While other vendors send reports directly to your email that you can post or share, that's not how we work. Instead, our dashboards are online, interactive reports that ...
Price bands and Buyer markets
A common way to view real estate is by geographical markets. A less common but equally important way to view markets is by price band. Most every market can be broken up into 4 submarkets. We refer to them as Entry, Core, High End, and Luxury. It's ...
What are Seasonal metrics?
Some metrics are discussed in terms of being "Seasonal" or not, so what does that mean? Put simply, a seasonal metric has some type of observable and consistent pattern that repeats over several time periods. The best examples of this tend to be ...
The Lifecycle of Listing Metrics
There are lots of metrics that can be used to evaluate the real estate market, and they're all related to specific dates in the listing lifecycle. For example "Number of New Listings" are counted based on the Listing Date, and "Number of Closed ...
Metric Definitions
Please note that all of these metrics may not be available on your dashboards. Active Inventory is the number of properties available for sale.in an active status at the end of the month, based on the purchase contract date. Absorption Rate or Months ...
Market statistics don't match across sources/MLS
Sometimes we get questions like "why doesn't the number on a Domus dashboard match the number on some other report?" That report might even be from the MLS itself. There could be lots of reasons, but unless the vendor who produced the other report ...
How to Embed a dashboard in a website
READ ME FIRST Successful embedding is dependent on your web hosting platform. Not all websites play nice with embed/iframe code. If you have problems, first test the dashboard URL by opening it in a new browser tab. If the dashboard displays ...
How is the Domus calculation for Months Supply of Inventory (MSI) different than the NAR definition?
The National Association of REALTORS®, or NAR, annualizes and seasonally adjusts many of their metrics, which "smooths out" the results and trend lines. You can read more about their methodology here. At Domus, we recognize that seasonality is just ...
The Difference between Year to Date and Annualized metrics
In Market Insights, choosing the 'By Year' time period gives you the additional option of choosing 'Year to Date' or 'Annualized' as the aggregation against which to compare the current year results. Note that the current year on the chart AND the ...
Getting Started
Are you a brand new user of Domus Analytics dashboards? If so, there are a few things you can do to get up and running right away. Take a training class! Your Association or MLS may have scheduled a upcoming training class with us, so check with them ...
Why are 2 different time periods showing the same results?
In Market Insights, you can choose to display the dashboard by Month, Quarter, or Year as shown below. However, there are a couple of times a year when the results across specific time periods will be the same. In February, the results by Month and ...
It's May, why is the dashboard still showing Q1 data?
All of the Domus Analytics dashboards except for 'Weekly Trends' display results through the last full calendar month. Similarly, the Quarterly metrics inside Market Insights only display results through the last full quarter of data. So in April, ...
What Browser should I use to access the dashboards?
Domus dashboards work with most modern browsers: Google Chrome Mozilla Firefox Opera Microsoft Edge (2020 version or later) Safari (16.4 and newer) As of April 2022, support for all versions of Internet Explorer was discontinued. We recommend using ...
Dashboard troubleshooting
Dashboard doesn't load correctly All Domus dashboards are web applications which are delivered through URLs. As such, they rely on an active internet connection to work. So if your internet goes out or massively slows down, the dashboards won't load. ...
Can I save a frequently used search in the dashboard?
Unfortunately, individual searches cannot be saved at this time. Although it seems like a simple request, it's technically quite challenging, and would require deep integration with the MLS systems itself - something which we don't typically have ...
Absorption Rate vs Months Supply of Inventory (MSI)
In the Domus Analytics dashboards, we sometimes use these terms interchangeably, even though what we calculate is actually Months Supply. However, they are actually just two sides of the same coin. Absorption Rate: The rate at which homes sell in a ...
Accessing dashboards on mobile devices
No, there’s not a mobile app for the dashboards. You’ll just access them as you normally would. Typically, this is either from your main MLS launchpad, or behind a member login on your Association website. Either of these deployments may have an app, ...
Why do real estate metrics change over time?
One month, a market report shows 300 homes for sale, and the next month the report shows only 298 homes for sale. Yep, that happens. Real estate data, by its very nature, is always changing. Maybe an agent entered a status change a few days late, or ...
The difference between Median Price and Average Price
Median Price and Average Price are commonly reported metrics in the real estate market, but they are very different. Let’s step back to college statistics class to revisit them both, and learn why Median is preferred for housing prices. Average: the ...