Scoring Disclaimer

1. What Hype Score™ is

Hype Score™ is HypeCity's proprietary 0-100 signal that combines five quantitative factors per neighborhood into a single comparable number. It's designed to help investors triage thousands of neighborhoods quickly, surface ones worth deeper research, and notice when a tracked neighborhood moves materially.

The score is computed nightly by the v3 SQL formula, written to the hype_snapshots table once per day at 02:00 UTC, and exposed to the product on the Leaderboard, the Analyzer, the Tycoon market, and the Market Pulse hub.

2. What Hype Score™ is not

• Not investment advice. A Hype Score™ of 78 doesn't mean "buy". It means our model rates this neighborhood favorably across the five factors below, given the data we have.
• Not a guarantee. Real-estate outcomes depend on many things outside our dataset — your specific deal terms, financing, taxes, holding period, regulatory changes, exit liquidity.
• Not a real-estate appraisal. Property valuations require a licensed appraiser inspecting the specific asset. We score neighborhoods, not individual listings.
• Not a brokerage service. HypeCity does not buy, sell, list, or arrange transactions in real property.
• Not legal, tax, or regulatory advice. Cross-border investing has jurisdiction-specific rules. We don't substitute for a local lawyer or accountant.

3. Five factors behind the score

Each neighborhood gets evaluated against five quantitative inputs, blended into the composite Hype Score™. The exact weights are part of our proprietary model and change as we recalibrate against outcomes.

• Investment yield — long-term rental yield (LTR) relative to local market norms.
• Price growth — historical and forecast appreciation of $/m².
• Geopolitical stability — national-level political-risk indicators.
• Climate & environmental risk — modeled exposure to flood, fire, heat, and similar hazards.
• Listing-market signal — listing velocity, days-on-market, price-reduction frequency (US-only where available).

4. Signal coverage disclosure

Not every neighborhood has data for every factor. We track per-row source completeness on a 0-1 scale (1 = all five inputs populated, 0 = none) and surface it on the product as a "x/5 signals filled" chip on every Hype Score™ display.

The Market Pulse "Recent movement" card filters strictly: a neighborhood only appears once both the current and the prior snapshot clear a 0.6 source-completeness threshold. A score with low signal coverage may be useful for comparison within a country, but is less reliable as a cross-country comparison.

If a chip shows 2/5 signals, treat the score as directional, not precise.

5. Updates & freshness

Hype Snapshots refresh once daily at 02:00 UTC. The Pulse delta on /market-pulse shows the change between today's snapshot and the closest snapshot from ~24 hours prior. Real-time alerts and intraday changes are not part of the score.

The AI verdict on /analyze is generated fresh per submission using a current Claude model and the daily snapshot — it is not cached beyond the listing-hash dedup window.

6. How to read a Hype Score™ responsibly

• Use it to narrow, not to decide. A score in the 70s-80s flags a neighborhood worth deeper diligence; it doesn't replace that diligence.
• Compare scores within a country or region before comparing across regions. National-level factors (geopolitical stability, currency) dominate the cross-country variance.
• Look at the signal-coverage chip. A score with 5/5 signals carries more confidence than a score with 2/5.
• Watch the Pulse delta. A 5+ point move overnight on a neighborhood with high signal coverage usually means a meaningful real-world data point changed.
• When in doubt, cross-reference primary sources — local listing portals, recorded sales, on-the-ground brokers.

7. Trademark & methodology

Hype Score™ is a trademark of HypeCity Intelligence LTD. The methodology, weights, and underlying SQL are confidential and proprietary. We don't publish the formula; we do publish what it measures.

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