Filter

Filter finds properties and companies that match your criteria. You pick fields, set values and watch the number of hits change as you adjust. Hits are drawn on the map, can be shown in a table and downloaded as Excel.

If you have Placepoint 1, you do the same in Matching there.

Open panel

Click Filter in the left menu. The panel lists the filter types you can search in. Which types you see depends on what your licence gives access to.

Filter type	What you search in
Property	All properties in the matrikkel (the Norwegian cadastre)
Company	Norwegian companies: name, organisation number, industry, address, accounts and group structure

Licences that cover Sweden also have filter types for fastigheter, detaljplaner, bygglov, byggrätter, markanvisningar and infrastructure projects.

Select a type to reach the form. The arrow at the top left takes you back to the list.

The form

The fields are grouped into sections by theme, and the sections are closed until you click the heading. Property has Location, Property, Owners, Tenants and Environment, plan and protection. If you open Location, you get area, postcode, municipality, number of addresses and postal town.

Company has Company, Location, Accounts, Conglomerate And Owners, Property portfolio (As Landlord), Premises (As Tenant) and Roles And Board. Under Company you find identity (company name, organisation number, market name), industry (NACE code, sector, purpose), size and age (employees, year founded) and organisation form.

The search box at the top filters on field name and opens the sections that have hits.

Choose filters controls which fields the form shows. Tick the fields you need, section by section, or select all. A field you remove here drops out of the search straight away.

Field type	How to set the value
Picklist	One or more choices, for example Municipality or Energy class
Tree select	Grouped codes where you can take a whole branch or pick single codes, for example Industry (NACE) and Building Type
Company picker	Search by name or organisation number and select the company, instead of typing the name. Used on the fields that point to a company: parent company, owners, subsidiaries, tenants, landlord and the roles
Name search	Search in names that occur in your hits, for example general manager or board member
Area picker	Search up county, municipality or sub-area in one tree, and postcode grouped by postal town. For Swedish fastigheter, the tree is län (counties) and municipalities. You can select several at a time
Interval	From and to, for example Built Year or Use area. The field shows the lowest and highest value that exists
Dates	From and to date
Text	Free text, for example an address
Breakdown	A histogram where you drag in the interval you want

Area purpose

The municipality plan area purposes are in the Environment, plan and protection section, under the Land Use group. The field is called Area purpose. It is a picklist where you tick one or more purposes, and the list shows how many properties each purpose matches. Next to it are Current or future, Consideration zone / implementation zone and Noise zone.

The list follows the purposes as each kommune has coded them in its plans, so the same type of area can have different names from one kommune to the next. One kommune codes a housing area as Boligbebyggelse (residential development), another uses the broader Bebyggelse og anlegg (development and installations) for the same thing. If you are looking for undeveloped plots for housing, include both, and consider adding Sentrumsformål (town centre purpose) and Kombinert bebyggelse og anleggsformål (combined development purpose). If you cannot find a purpose, search the list for part of the name, for example "bebyggelse".

Active filters appear as chips above the results. The cross on a chip resets that field alone. Reset at the bottom resets the whole form.

Follow map extent limits the hits to what you can see on the map right now, and the map shows the frame the search uses. The choice is not included when you save the search.

Hits on the map

Hits are drawn as green clusters with a count, for example 82.3k. Each cluster sits where the hits actually are, not in the middle of the municipality or county. Zoom in, or click a cluster, and it splits up so each property stands as its own dot. Click a dot to open the property panel. If you hold the mouse pointer over a row in the table, the property is highlighted on the map even when it sits inside a cluster.

Zoom to all results fits the map to all the hits. The button is off while Follow map extent is on, because then the hits already fill the screen.

If you select counties, municipalities, sub-areas or postcodes in the form, the areas are drawn on the map while the search is active. Below the map, the selected areas appear as chips: hold the mouse pointer over one of them to see the area on the map, and click to zoom there.

Ask AI

Ask AI at the top of the panel opens the Filter assistant. If you are out of ideas, Try asking gives three suggestions that suit the filter type.

Write what you are looking for, for example "Find companies in Oslo with more than 50 employees". The assistant replies with how it has read your question and proposes a set of filters under Proposed filters. The fields and values come from the filter type you are in, so a proposal never hits a field that does not exist there.

Apply filters sets the proposal in the form, and the card switches to Applied. Undo takes it away again. You edit the filters the assistant set like fields you set yourself.

The conversations are kept per filter type, and New chat starts a new one.

Suggested questions

You do not need to know the fields. Describe what you are looking for as you would to a colleague, and feel free to use industry terms such as big box, logistics property or development site. The assistant translates it into the fields in the filter type and explains how it has read your question, so you see the choices before you press Apply filters. Replace the square brackets with your own values.

For Property:

• "Show me all the big box properties in the Oslo region"
• "Warehouse and logistics properties in Romerike with large plots"
• "Development sites in [municipality] that are zoned for housing but not yet built on"
• "Office buildings from the 70s and 80s in [municipality] that need an energy upgrade"
• "Commercial buildings from before 1990 in [municipality], with the owning company, as leads for a roofing contractor"
• "Housing properties in [municipality] that are exposed to noise"

For Company:

• "Landlords in the Oslo region with weak finances"
• "Building contractors in [county] that are large enough to take on a project of 100 homes"
• "Technology companies with more than 50 employees in [municipality] that rent their premises"
• "Hotels in [municipality] that belong to a chain"
• "Companies that own more than five properties in [municipality] and have negative equity"
• "Companies where [name] sits on the board and that own property"

If the interpretation misses, say so in the same conversation, for example "big box means retail over 3,000 m²" or "use Area purpose, not Building Type", and it proposes again. The fields the assistant set are ordinary fields you can correct in the form. You do sorting and calculations in the table afterwards.

Ask the Agent questions that go beyond the fields in the filter, such as "Show seafood restaurants on Aker brygge with a sea view" or "Who owns Karl Johans gate 1?". You will find more examples like these under Examples and tips.

Table and export

Show in table opens the hits as a table at the bottom of the screen, with one tab per dataset in the filter type, for example properties and buildings. Export opens a dialogue where you name the file and choose between the result on its own, with the columns arranged as you have them in the table, and the result with the supporting tables, that is, all the datasets in the filter type. The file comes as Excel. The export takes up to 10,000 rows. If there are more hits, the button tells you, and you have to narrow the search or select the rows yourself: if you have ticked rows in the table, only those are exported, however many hits the filter has. The column layout is remembered in your browser per filter type.

Split large extracts into parts. Files over 5,000 rows open slowly in Excel, and over 10,000 rows the export stops. Split the extract by municipality under Location, or draw an area on the map and export one area at a time. The dialogue tells you when the hits exceed 5,000 rows. The same applies to exports from datasets, analyses and tags, see Import, export and sharing.

Save the search

Save as gives the search a name so you can find it again under Saved searches. If you have opened a saved search and changed it, Save updates it, while Save as new saves a copy. Saved searches are kept until you reload the page.

Typical uses

• Find all plots over 5,000 m² in one kommune with commercial development permitted.
• Find properties without buildings in a target area, sorted by plot area.
• Screen a portfolio against the kommuneplan's arealformål (land use purpose) to catch plots that have recently changed purpose.
• Find the companies in an industry that own property in an area, and see their accounts in the same hit list.

Differences from Placepoint 1

• The feature was called Matching and had five fixed filter groups. Filter takes the fields from the filter type you select.
• Matching searched Norwegian properties. Filter also searches Norwegian companies, and Swedish filter types are on the way.
• Matching distinguished between drafts and published searches. Filter has saved searches with Save as, Save and Save as new.
• Where Matching let you type a company name as text, you select the company from the register, so the hit is the same however the name is written.

See also

• Search - find a single property, address or company.
• Tags - mark the properties you want to follow up.
• The property panel - opens from a dot on the map.
• Placepoint AI - ask questions about property and companies instead of setting filters.
• Export and sharing (FAQ) - what you get out of a hit and how.
• Search, Filter and Monitoring (FAQ) - short answers about filter types and saved searches.