The Briarwood vocabulary.
The signature metrics behind every read. Terms marked Briarwood are specific to our work; the rest are industry-standard vocabulary we surface alongside them.
- RECSReal Estate Confidence ScoreBriarwood
Briarwood's verdict on a property — Pass, Pass-unless-changes, Buy-if-X, Buy, or Strong Buy.
Compresses the entire Briarwood read into one stance band. Synthesizes valuation, risk, rental economics, comp coverage, and confidence into a single decision.
- BCVBriarwood Current ValueBriarwood
Our fair-value read on the property today, anchored to recently-closed comps in the same town.
Computed from same-town SOLD comps with leave-one-out time filtering, adjusted for property-specific characteristics. Paired with the listing ask to surface premium or discount.
- Risk BarRisk Bar
Per-flag breakdown of what could go wrong, sized to actual penalty share.
Each flag (e.g. flood exposure, property taxes, vacancy) carries a penalty derived from the property's actual facts. Bars sized to penalty share so you see which risk drives the most concern.
- P/RPrice-to-Rent ratio
Purchase price divided by annual rent. Lower = stronger rental economics.
~15 = strong rental market (deal pays off in 15 years of rent). ~25+ = rent-thin (you're buying for appreciation, not cash flow). Briarwood pairs the per-property P/R with the town benchmark.