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Find & Bulk
Two ways to look at many parcels at once. Find screens the lots on the map in front of you. Bulk scores a list you already have. Both are free; only opening a full report spends.
Search the map
In Properties, switch to Search the map. You get a satellite map with the county’s own lot lines and building footprints, each with a toggle. Zoom to a neighbourhood: the lots in view are the search.
Quick screens
These run in your browser against the lot lines and footprints in view, instantly and free:
| Screen | Finds |
|---|---|
| No building | Lots with no building footprint on record. |
| Over ½ acre | Lots larger than half an acre. |
| Over 1 acre | Lots larger than an acre. |
| Underbuilt | A small house on a big lot: building coverage under 12%. |
The sweep
Describe the lot you want in the box (for example over 1 acre, no flood, scoring 70+) and Buildability samples the view and scores up to eight matching lots. Pins show each lot’s Score and buildable square feet. Name a place (“in Austin, TX”) and the map flies there first. The sweep is free and needs sign-in.
The box understands a minimum score, acreage ranges, a zoning code prefix, a band (strong, viable, moderate, constrained), and “no” or “avoid” plus a factor.
What it can't screen, it says
Drive time, distance radius, utility capacity, ownership (absentee, off-market, tax-delinquent), price and lot shape (corner or flag lots) aren’t screened. If you ask for one, a Not screened: line says so above the results instead of silently ignoring it.
Tick results to act on them: Open in My properties for one, or Score N in Bulk for several. The sweep refuses views the size of a region; zoom in first.
Have Geo screen an area
For an area bigger than one screen, hand it to Geo as a job:
Set the brief
Choose Have Geo screen this whole area, then answer three questions: at least how many homes on the lot (1, 2, 3, 4+), the lot size in acres, and whether to include only lots with no building.
Geo works the area
Geo screens about 2 km around the view. You can leave; one screen runs at a time, three a day.
Read the memo
The result is a memo in Documents and the Geo inbox, and an email.
Area screens work where county lot lines are wired in: Travis County TX, Maricopa County AZ, Cook County IL, Harris County TX, Los Angeles County CA and Salt Lake County UT.
Bulk scoring
Bulk scores a list. Open it from the List search tab, from Score N in Bulk in Find, or by asking Geo.
- Paste addresses or drop a CSV and pick the address column.
- Up to 500 addresses a run, scored in chunks of 50.
- Filter the results with the same ask box as Find (1.3+ acres, zoned R-2, no flood, scoring 70+).
- Export CSV downloads the scored list.
Bulk is free: it returns the Score for every row. Opening any one parcel’s full report spends a report, the same as anywhere else. See Pricing & billing.
Didn’t find it? The Help Center answers account and billing questions, and Geo answers questions about a specific parcel inside the app.