The Basic Info section is the foundational record for the property. Every downstream section (taxes, comps, units, financial) reads from these fields, so getting them right early saves time later.
What's on this card
- Address — street, city, state, ZIP. Auto-populated from the address you used to create the property.
- Year built — pulled from public records.
- Asset class — multifamily, office, industrial, retail, etc.
- Sub-class — for multifamily: garden, mid-rise, high-rise; for retail: strip, anchored, mall.
- Total units / suites — count of dwelling units (multifamily) or leasable suites (commercial).
- Square footage — gross and net rentable.
- Lot size — parcel acreage.
- Parcel ID / APN — the local jurisdiction's parcel identifier.
- Owner of record — the entity on the most recent deed.
- Last sale — date and price of the most recent transaction.
Where the data comes from
Most of these fields come from county assessor records and an institutional property graph that normalizes those records across jurisdictions. The address itself is from the address-search response. See Where your data comes from.
When a value is uncertain (e.g. year built ranges by source), Relm picks the most authoritative source and surfaces a citation. Click the citation chip to see the underlying record.
Editing
If a field is wrong — public records lag, or there's a mismatch — flip into Edit Mode and override it. Once saved, that override sticks for this property and the AI summary, comps logic, and pro-forma all use your override rather than the original public value.
The override does not propagate to other properties, even at the same address. Each property holds its own corrected values.
Common edits
- Year built is occasionally off by 1–3 years on assessor records; correct from the OM if it's authoritative.
- Total units can disagree with what's in your rent roll. The rent roll wins for unit count once one is uploaded — see Upload a rent roll.
- Asset class can be ambiguous on conversions (e.g. office → multifamily); pick the as-of class for the underwriting timeline.
How this card affects downstream sections
- Year built drives capex assumptions (older properties default to higher capex reserves).
- Asset class scopes which comps are pulled and which rent benchmarks apply.
- Unit count seeds the units pipeline; the rent roll overrides this.
- Square footage drives the per-SF benchmarks for expenses on commercial deals.
If something downstream looks wrong, it's worth checking Basic Info first.