Analyze

Analyze brings the market analyses together in one place in the left menu. Each analysis puts registered sales, listings, tenancies, new build projects or plot transactions as dots on the map, with filters on the left, figures and charts on the right and a table you can export. Travel distance and the geometric 3D tools sit in the right tool rail.

How to open it

1. Click Analyze (the lightning icon) in the left menu. The menu lists the analyses.
2. Choose an analysis. The panel opens on the left, the dots are drawn on the map and Dashboard at the top right shows the number of matches.
3. Zoom in to the area you want to examine. The dots are only drawn once the map is zoomed in to district level; further out, the map asks you to zoom in.
4. Switch analysis from the same menu. The map view stays put, so you can look at sales, rentals and new builds for the same area one after another.

Analyze does not require an active project. The examples on this page use Fornebu in Bærum, the same area as Feasibility study.

How to read an analysis panel

The analyses share the same structure. Learn one, and you know them all.

Filters

The panel on the left holds the filters, grouped by theme. The checkboxes select the type, for example transaction type and housing type, and Select all turns the whole group on and off. Time Period is a slider from 3 months to 5 or 10 years back. The ranges, such as price, UFA and price per m², have both number fields and a slider. The map and the dashboard update as soon as you change something, and the reset button at the top returns all filters to their defaults.

The default period is 6 months. Drag Time Period to 2 yr to get more dots on the map; all the examples below were taken with 2 yr where the analysis has that setting.

The map

Each dot is one entry, coloured by the type it has in the filter: in Market Activity, registered sales are orange and red, listings blue and homes for sale turquoise. Dots that sit close together are gathered into a green cluster with the count in the middle, and the label above shows the price range in the cluster, for example 8.7m to 10.6m. Zoom in, and the clusters split up.

Click a cluster, and Count lists each entry: address, area, date, price per m² and price. The dropdown sorts by date or price, and if you click a row, the property opens in the property panel.

Legend

The button at the bottom left opens the Legend, which explains the cluster sizes: from under 2 to over 1,000 entries. The colours of the individual dots are shown in the filter, next to each type.

Dashboard and charts

Dashboard at the top right counts the matches within the map view and the filters. Show chart, in the panel or on the dashboard, unfolds the charts for the analysis. For Rental Activity that is rent per m² split into ranges and rent per m² by housing type; for Market Activity it is price and price per m². The charts follow the map view, so if you move the map, the figures change.

Table

Show table lays a table over the lower part of the map with one row per entry and columns such as address, area, rooms, price and status. Export downloads the table as Excel, Sort by selects the sorting column and Columns turns columns on and off. The View Listing row opens the listing in a new tab where one exists. Files with more than 5,000 rows open slowly in Excel. How to split a large extract.

The analyses

The order is the same as in the menu.

New Build Project

New build projects that are being sold or have been sold, with sales status per project. The label on each dot shows units sold out of the total number of units, for example Sold: 22/68, so you can see the sales rate directly on the map. The filters are Ownership Form (Freehold, Housing coop, Other), Housing Type, Ad Status (For Sale, Not for sale, Sold out, Other), Building Status (Planning, Sales Start, Construction Start, Handover, Other), Time Period up to 10 yr, Number of Units, Area Range, Price Range and Price per m². Together with the Developer activity map layer, this gives an overview of who is building what in the area.

Market Activity

Housing sales and homes for sale in one picture. Transaction type separates four types. Land Records - Cleaned is registered transactions from Grunnboken, quality checked and cleaned of internal transfers. Land Records - Other is the rest of the registered transactions. Listings and For Sale are properties that are or have been advertised. Housing Type lets you choose between detached house, semi-detached house, terraced house, flat and holiday home. Built Year limits it to buildings younger than 10 to 50 years, and UFA and Price set the ranges. The source for the registered sales is Kartverket; see Property prices and Latest transactions for dwelling units for what they contain.

This is the analysis you start with for a price assessment: set 2 yr back and the same housing type as the plot is meant to give, and read price per m² in the clusters around it.

Market Activity shows matches in a map view of up to 35 km², roughly the size of a district. If the view is larger, the map asks you to zoom in.

Plot Transactions

Traded plots, coloured by Building Status: Commissioning Permit, Framework permit (outline permission) or No Building Permit. The last of these are the raw plots. Time Period goes up to 10 yr, Area from 100 to 500,000 m² and Price up to 20 million kroner. Plot transactions are rare, so expect few matches in an established area; at Fornebu, 10 years gives only two matches.

Plot Ads

Plots that are or have been advertised, with Ad Type (Commercial plot or Empty) and Ad Status (Enabled, Inactive, Sold, Other). Plot Size, Price per m² and Price set the ranges. Together with Plot Transactions, it shows the difference between price expectation and achieved price for plots in the area.

Rental Activity

Rental listings for housing, with Market Status (On the market and Previously on the market), Housing Type which also has Studio, Shared housing and Garage, Monthly Rent, Area and Bedrooms from 1 to 5+. The labels show the rent range in the cluster, and the charts give rent per m² by housing type. These are the figures a rental assessment needs: what the market pays for a two-room flat in this particular neighbourhood.

Commercial Transaction

Sales of commercial property, with Transaction Type (On the market, Off the market) and Property type in 14 categories from Shop/Retail and Office to Warehouse/Logistics and Production/Industry. UFA and Price set the ranges. The Commercial buildings map layer shows the building stock they sit in.

Plot Valuation

Traded plots split by Ownership Type: owned plot or leasehold plot. Area, Price per m² and Price set the ranges, and Time Period goes up to 10 yr. The analysis answers what a plot in the area has gone for per m², which is the starting point for a plot value before zoning and land use are taken into account.

Commercial Leasing

Rental listings for commercial premises, with the same Transaction Type and Property type as Commercial Transaction and UFA up to 4,999 m². The labels show the area range in the cluster. The charts give rent per m² for the premises that are advertised with a price.

Time on Market

How long listings stay up before they disappear from the market. Property type selects one of Housing, Holiday Home, Commercial and Empty, Sales Type separates Sales, Rental, Plot Sale and New Build Sale, and Ad Types narrows by listing category. The ranges are UFA, Price, Rent and Days on Market. Time on Market needs a tighter map view than the other analyses; zoom in to a few blocks before you read the figures.

Area Score

Area Score lays a grid over the map and gives each cell a score from 0 to 20, where 0 to 3 is low, 4 to 10 medium and 11 to 20 high. The legend at the top right shows the colours. The analysis has no filter panel of its own; you read it directly on the map, and it is meant as a first sort of where in a city it is worth looking more closely.

Travel distance

Travel distance sits in the right tool rail and draws an isochrone: the area you can reach within a given time budget or a given distance from a point on the map, with nine travel modes from walking to car with ferry. The A to B tab gives route, travel time and distance between two points. Travel distance has the steps, the travel modes with speeds, and the Fornebu example.

Geometric analysis tools (right rail, 3D only)

Along the right edge of the map sit the analysis tools that work directly on the map. They are separate from the Analyze panel: you pick a tool, click on the map and read the result in the tool's own panel. Measurements, Elevation Profile and Travel distance work in both 2D and 3D. In 3D, two more tool groups wake up: the sun icon gathers Daylight and Shadow, and the eye icon gathers Line of Sight, Viewshed and Viewpoints. Hold the pointer over the group icon and choose the tool.

How to use a 3D tool

1. Switch to 3D by clicking the 3D button at the top of the map.
2. Close the property panel if it is open (X at the top): the panel covers the right tool rail.
3. Click the building or surface you want to analyse in the map.
4. Click the tool in the right rail.
5. Follow the instructions in the panel that appears.

All of them are also listed in Interface overview, and Feasibility study uses them on a single plot.

Measurements

Measurements works in both 2D and 3D and does not require you to have clicked a building first. Select Distance (Z) or Area (X) in the panel and click the points in the map. Each measurement is added to the Your Measurements list, where you can hide or remove it individually. The screenshot was taken in 2D over central Oslo and shows one distance measurement of 792.5 m. The distance from the corner of a building to the zoned building line is measured with this tool alone; see Analysing value and potential for how it is used together with the other 3D tools.

Daylight

Daylight requires 3D and shows how the sun hits the façades at a given point in time. The panel has a time slider through the day and a date picker, both with a play button that animates the sun's path through the day or the year. The Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter buttons jump straight to a season. The Shadows and Sun lighting toggles control whether the shadows and the lighting are drawn, and Reset returns the panel to its starting point. Some of the labels in the panel are currently shown in English. The screenshot is set to 15/03/2026 at 13:17 over Kvadraturen. See Sun study for the term and Sun, shadow and view for the parameters in context. The calculation is geometric: for documentation against TEK17 § 13-7 you need a dedicated daylight tool such as DIVA or Velux Daylight Visualizer.

Shadow

Shadow also requires 3D, and answers something different from Daylight: how long a point lies in shadow, not how the sun hits it right now. You set a time window on the slider, here 10:00 to 16:00 on 02/10/2026, and the shadow from surrounding buildings is laid as a colour layer over the terrain and neighbouring buildings. The Sun hours toggle reverses the calculation, so the layer shows hours of sun instead of hours of shadow. Visualization chooses between total duration and other representations, Colour decides the colour of the layer, and Gradient style is set to Continuous or Hourly. With Pick on the map under Limit to a property you limit the calculation to a single property, so you do not have to read the layer across the whole block. Some of the labels are currently shown in English. This is the visualisation you use when you need to document sunlight conditions on a neighbouring plot in a planning submission; see shadow meter for the term. Feasibility study shows the tools used on a single plot.

Elevation Profile

Elevation Profile requires 3D and draws a section along a line that you set out yourself. Click Draw on the map, click the points along the route and read the result in the chart at the bottom: one curve for Terrain and one for Buildings, with distance along the x-axis and height along the y-axis. The key figures next to the chart summarise length, ascent, descent, minimum, maximum and average height, plus maximum and average gradient. The screenshot shows Profile 1 at 127 m with 2.3 m of ascent and 1.6 m of descent. The profiles are collected in the panel, so you can draw several and switch between them. See Elevation Profile for the term, and combine it with the Zoning Plans map layer when the profile is to be measured against height provisions. The volume study itself is done in 3D Designer.

Line of Sight

Line of Sight requires 3D and answers whether two points can see each other. Click New line of sight, place the observer point and then one or more target points; the same button reads Done while you draw. The line is green as far as the view is clear and red where a building or the terrain breaks it, so you can see where the break happens and not just that it happens. Each analysis is added to the Your lines of sight list with the number of target points, and you can hide them individually or move a point by dragging it on the map. The screenshot shows one line of sight with three target points from a single roof point in Kvadraturen. The result is documentation you can attach to a neighbour notice or bring to a zoning meeting. See Lines of sight for the term and Analyse the property in 3D for how it fits into a potential assessment.

Viewpoints

Viewpoints requires 3D and saves camera positions you want to return to, for example the view from a particular floor in a planned building. Click New viewpoint and then Current view, and the camera is saved where it stands as a viewpoint in the Your viewpoints list. The point appears as a marker on the map: click the marker to adjust the direction with the handles, or drag it to move it. The toggle hides a point without deleting it, and the cross removes it. The tool sits under the eye icon together with Line of Sight and Viewshed, and is currently called Viewpoints in the menu. Use it together with Line of Sight when you need to show a buyer or a neighbour what can actually be seen from a point, and with Bookmarks when it is the map view, not the camera in 3D, you want to return to.

Viewshed

Viewshed requires 3D and extends the line of sight to a whole field of view. Click Add viewshed (V) and place the observation point in the map. Everything visible from there is coloured green on terrain and buildings, everything hidden is coloured red, and the field of view is set to 45°, 180° or 360°. You change the angle afterwards by holding the pointer over the field's row in the list. The screenshot shows a 180-degree viewshed from a point on open ground in Fornebu Sentrum: the terrain and the façades the point can see are green, everything behind a building is red. Place the point on open ground, not on top of a building; an observer inside the building stock sees nothing, and the whole field turns red. The height of the point decides the result: a point high on a façade sees further than one at ground level. The viewsheds are listed under Created by you and can be hidden or removed individually, so you can compare several points in the same scene. Combined with Line of Sight it covers the overlooking assessment for a new build.

Typical use cases

Price assessment for housing. Market Activity with 2 yr and the same housing type as the project. Read price per m² in the clusters and the table around the plot.

Rental assessment. Rental Activity with the right housing type and number of bedrooms, and the rent per m² by housing type chart.

Plot value. Plot Transactions and Plot Valuation with 10 yr, and Plot Ads to see the gap between price expectation and achieved price.

Competitor picture for new builds. New Build Project with Building Status Sales Start and Construction Start. Read the sales rate Sold out of total per project.

Retail mapping. Commercial Leasing and Commercial Transaction for what the premises cost, and the map layers under Demographics for purchasing power and age profile around them.

Daylight for a planning submission. Daylight and Shadow in 3D mode to document sunlight conditions on a façade.

View analysis for new builds. Line of Sight and Viewshed to assess whether a new building affects overlooking towards protected viewpoints.

Distance check. Measurements for the distance from the corner of a building to the zoned building line.

Tips

• Analyze does not require a project and works well when you want to explore an area before you know which project the findings belong to.
• The dashboard and the charts follow the map view. Move the map to exactly the blocks you are comparing with, so the rest of the city is not counted.
• Drag Time Period out when the matches are few, and back in when you want today's price level.
• Export the table to Excel when the figures are going into a spreadsheet or a report. Use Reports when you need a structured report for a single property.
• Use Placepoint AI when the question is complex: the Agent retrieves the same transactions and can calculate on them.

Differences from v1

• v1 has Analyze as a single menu item with drawing tools and results for an area you draw yourself. Placepoint Fusion has ten market analyses in the menu and places the geometric 3D tools in the right tool rail.
• v1 calls the tool Solanalyse (daylight and shadow combined). Placepoint Fusion splits it into Daylight and Shadow as two separate tools.
• v1 places Line of Sight and Viewshed under 3D Designer. Placepoint Fusion places them in the right tool rail under Analyze.

See also

• Travel distance - isochrones, travel modes and speed, and the route from A to B.
• Feasibility study - the analyses and Travel distance used on a single plot, step by step.
• Analysing value and potential - price assessment and land use in context.
• Feasibility study - the tools used on a single plot.
• Property prices and Number of transactions per property - the datasets behind Market Activity.
• Navigation icons - overview of all buttons in the right rail.
• Reports - structured reports for a single property.
• Analyses and reports - frequently asked questions.