Frequently Asked Questions

Because we’ve been in your shoes. As real estate industry veterans of nearly 20 years, we built TopHap to make real estate research more efficient and reliable.

TopHap is a real estate technology company that makes investor-grade analytics easy, intuitive, and accessible to everyone. While other platforms focus on property search and promotion we focus on research and providing data-driven insights, TopHap provides additional tools such as analytics, 3D visualizations, and artificial intelligence to make real estate research more efficient.

What makes TopHap different from the existing online real estate platforms is that they all focus on search, while we focus on research. Their value is promoting properties while our value is providing data-driven market insights. Real estate analysis tools of this depth simply do not exist and there isn’t another product like TopHap!

We combine public residential real estate data with macro-economic, environmental, geographic, census, construction, local commercial data, and many other public records to derive insights and correlations that power our valuation engine and market assessment tools. All together, this dataset is the most comprehensive collection of public and proprietary data ever to be integrated into a single real estate platform. All this data is then applied to state of the art artificial intelligence and visualization techniques to deliver the most robust and accurate real estate assessment tools in the industry.

We recommend that you watch our short and helpful training videos on TopHap Academy, see what new features we have announced on our what's new page, and check out the Gallery to see interactive examples of useful maps and searches found on TopHap. and then try it out for yourself with our free 14 day trial!

TopHap features a free version and two paid subscription plans called Pro and Expert. Paid subscriptions include additional features such as Market Analytics, Property Analytics, CMA+, Value Forecasting, and CSV exports to help you take to your market intelligence to the next level. You can learn more about TopHap subscriptions and pricing here.

TopHap provides four tiers of subscription plans: Free, Basic, Pro, and Expert. Paid subscriptions include additional features such as Market Analytics, Property Analytics, CMA+, Value Forecasting, and CSV exports.

The free version of TopHap is available to all users without a credit card or registration. TopHap Basic is our entry-level plan that costs $11 per user per month when billed annually or $15 per user per month when billed monthly. TopHap Professional costs $45 per user per month when billed annually and $55 per user per month when billed monthly. The price of TopHap Expert is $126 per user per month when billed annually and $155 when billed monthly. You can learn more about TopHap subscriptions and pricing here.

TopHap subscriptions are for individual professionals, but if you’d like to explore subscription options for your entire team, we’d love to chat with you. Email us at hello@tophap.com.

It already is! TopHap launched nationally in April 2022. Read more about TopHap's national launch.

Our API isn’t public yet, but If you are interested in using our API, email us at hello@tophap.com and let us know your use-case.

If you have a TopHap subscription then you can share a property view with a client and they will see a fully unlocked version.

The ARV Calculator is the most recent and accurate estimate because it updates real time as you interact with it. It takes the latest market data and combines it with your input to give you a super estimate. Meanwhile, the TopHap Estimate is updated once per month and influenced primarily on market and environmental factors, rather than your input.

All of the estimates on TopHap are tested against historic data to ensure the accuracy of our models. You can see how well the model performs by enabling the estimate accuracy layer. All the other analytics are coming from trusted sources. For example the noise layer comes from the department of transportation. The community layers come from the census. The 3D topography comes from satellite imagery from the last space shuttle missions.

The “other” estimates are primarily based on advertising prices, which don’t necessarily reflect the true value of a property. You have probably noticed that when a property is listed it jumps or drops to match the list price. We don't use the list price and the estimates are for true market value. The TopHap AVM is generated using 80+ data layers encapsulating important information like pollution, weather, disaster likelihood, sound level, and more, creating a much more realistic and transparent valuation of the property. The “other” estimates are like trying to read a book without your reading glasses.

Our data is updated on the following schedule:

Yes! You can show only commercial properties by using the property type filter and checking "Commercial".

We have an iOS app available on the App Store: TopHap Explorer.