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Market intelligence and insights

The Insights tab is for understanding markets before you invest time in them. It combines a nationwide investor-activity map, geographic drilldown, and scored signals that tell you whether a strategy will actually work in a given area.

Open it from Home > Insights.

The drilldown path

  1. State level. Zoom out to see relative activity across the US.
  2. County level. Click a state to switch the map to counties. Property counts and transaction volume are surfaced per county.
  3. Neighborhood block groups. Click a county to load block-group data (tighter than ZIP codes, based on the census FIPS geoid). Each block group has its own median home value, median income, owner-occupancy %, vacancy %, employment rate, and median age.

The search bar at the top jumps the map to a state, county, or ZIP code directly so you can skip manual zooming.

Summary stats panel

On the left, a stats panel shows the current view's:

These change with every filter or geographic selection, so they always reflect what you're looking at.

Market Fit Score

The headline signal. For each investment strategy - Fix and flip, Wholesale, Buy and hold, Wholetail - Covent computes a Market Fit Score on a 0 to 100 scale with an A through F letter grade.

Scores are built from several underlying categories: sample data adequacy, buy-to-sell spread, days on market, profit margins, and (for buy and hold) rent observations. Each category is weighted, and the overall score rolls those up.

Confidence labels sit alongside every score:

A score can be "unavailable" for specific reasons - not enough properties in the market, too few transactions in the strategy, too few rents for buy-and-hold - and the UI tells you which one. That's more useful than a fake score.

Neighborhood Desirability Score

A 0 to 100 score per block group that reflects local livability signals (income, vacancy, owner occupancy, employment, median age). Use it to compare neighborhoods inside a single county.

Bubble Risk Score

Also 0 to 100. A higher score means the neighborhood is showing pricing patterns typical of an overheated market. Use it as a counter-check against chasing rising comps.

Filters

Every view can be filtered by:

Filters apply everywhere: the map, the summary stats, the scores.

How to actually use it