FAQ & Glossary

Glossary

Registered deed value (MoJ)

The actual price a property transacted for, per the Ministry of Justice's registered sales bulletin. This is the source of truth for "what something is worth" across every interface.

Asking price (listings)

What a seller is currently listing a unit for — not what it will sell for. Inflated and inconsistent by nature; used as a supply/demand signal, reconciled against the MoJ range, never quoted as "the price" on its own.

Indicative, not investor-grade

Every figure across MCP, the API, and the platform UI is a statistical read of available data, not a certified valuation. Use it to inform a decision, not as the sole basis for one.

Synthetic demo data (Pearl)

A seeded, simulated dataset for a small set of demo towers, built on real UDC unit structure but entirely fabricated prices and sale dates. Used to test AVM methodology with UDC before real transaction data is available at that granularity. Never a real transaction or a real valuation — every response says so.

Confidence tier (high / medium / low)

On Pearl demo valuations, a deterministic tier computed from three inputs: how many comparable sales back the figure, how tightly their prices cluster (spread), and how recent they are (freshness). It is calculated in code, returned as a fact, and the analyst reports it verbatim rather than judging it itself.

Thin sample

Fewer than 10 underlying records back a figure — treat it as directional, not precise.

PDPPL

Qatar's Personal Data Privacy Protection Law (13/2016). It is why no interface exposes an individually-identifiable, unit-level real transaction — every real-data answer is at district/precinct/tower level or coarser.

FAQ

Which interface should I use?

Building an agent or already have MCP tooling — use MCP. Building your own app, script, or dashboard — use the REST API. Just want answers as a person — use the platform UI.

Why do MoJ and listing prices for the same area look so different?

They measure different things. MoJ is what actually sold (registered deed value); listings are what sellers are currently asking. Asking prices run higher and are noisier — some are aspirational, some are placeholders from agents. Always check which source a number came from before comparing it to another.

Can I get a real valuation for a specific unit I own?

Not from any of these three interfaces today. All three answer at the district/precinct/tower level for real data, or from the explicitly-synthetic Pearl demo dataset for AVM methodology testing. A real, unit-level AVM is on the roadmap — this page will be updated when it ships.

Is the Pearl demo data real?

No. It is a seeded synthetic dataset built on real UDC unit structure (floors, areas, unit counts) with entirely fabricated prices, sale dates, and listings. It exists to validate AVM methodology before real data is available at that granularity. Every response using it says so explicitly.

How current is the data?

MoJ sales data tracks the Ministry's weekly bulletins and is current to the most recently published week, not necessarily to today — ask any interface for the exact coverage window. Listing data is a periodically refreshed snapshot; ask for the freshness date rather than assuming it's live.

What happens if I ask about a location or property type that isn't covered?

Every interface should tell you plainly rather than inventing a number — MoJ coverage and the listings pilot (currently The Pearl only) have different scopes, and a correct answer states both limits rather than silently substituting one for the other.