What is a "below-market radar"?

It's a tool that automatically finds under-priced listings: it prices every new property against what comparable homes actually sell for, and alerts you the moment something appears too cheap. In the US and UK this category has existed for years — there are several well-known deal-alert products for investors.

Why didn't the Baltics have one?

Not for lack of need. Until now the Baltics had only separate, disconnected pieces. Price databases show past transactions, but without alerts. Portals list everything and flag nothing — they can tell you "a new listing matched your filter", but not "this is 15% cheaper than comparable homes sell for". Professional valuations cost hundreds of euros and take days. Nobody joined the three pieces — under-pricing detection, instant alerts and flip math — into a single signal.

The missing piece wasn't the data. It was whatever joins the data up and turns it into a fast, automatic signal — the moment a deal appears, not a week later.

Why Latvia specifically?

Latvia was the logical place for three reasons. First, an active but small market where speed genuinely decides — a good deal here vanishes in days. Second, a person with the right trade: flatradar is built by an AI & automation developer, not a generic product team. Third, a clear need — buyers and flippers were already doing this work by hand, refreshing portals and holding prices in their heads.

What does being first mean?

Being first in a category means there's nothing to compare against — but also that the standard is still being set. flatradar deliberately started in Latvia (Rīga, Jūrmala, Jelgava, Pierīga) and has already expanded to Tallinn. That isn't a marketing slogan but an honest category fact: the Baltics didn't have a joined-up below-market radar like this before.

Want to see it in action? Open the app. And if you're weighing which market is more interesting now, read Riga vs Tallinn for investors.

Frequently asked questions

Is flatradar really the first tool of its kind in Latvia?

Yes — a joined-up combination of below-market detection, instant alerts and flip math in one tool didn't exist in the Baltics before. Separate pieces (price databases, portal filters) existed, but not together.

Does that mean there are no competitors at all?

In the category — no. But people still do this work by hand and with portal filters; flatradar competes directly with that manual process.