Draw your territory

Step 1Open Territories and pick your method

Two routes in, both agent-only. Settings has a Territories row. The dashboard block that will hold your updates has a Set Up Territory button while it is still empty.

What you do

Open Territories and choose Draw on Map or Add Zip Codes. Nothing opens on its own; the map appears only when you tap for it.

What the app does

Saves each territory as its own record against your account. A drawn one stores the shape you traced; a zip one stores the list of codes. Both feed the same activity query.

Pick by how you already describe your farm. If you would say it as a boundary (west of the river, everything inside the parkway), draw it. If you would say it as codes, pick the codes.

There is no miles-radius field to fill in anywhere on this screen. A saved drawn territory shows a coverage radius on its row, but that is a number worked out from the shape you traced, not a setting you control.

Step 2Draw the boundary

The map editor is the same component the property search uses, so its header reads Draw Search Area. You are in the right place. It has two modes and they do not behave the same way.

What you do

Choose Tap Points or Freehand at the top of the map. Tap corners, or drag a shape with your finger. Then Apply.

What the app does

Keeps the outline as the actual rule. A drawn territory is matched by testing whether a listing's coordinates fall inside the shape, so the boundary means what it looks like rather than approximating to a circle.

Take the extra thirty seconds to follow the real edge. A rectangle thrown around a neighborhood pulls in the arterial road and the apartment blocks behind it, and you will be reading those listings every morning.

Lift your finger with fewer than three points down and nothing is kept. Start again rather than hunting for what went wrong.

Step 3Name it after the neighborhood you actually farm

Saving asks for a name and suggests Territory 1, Territory 2. Take the prompt seriously: the name becomes a section header in your feed and a label on your dashboard rows.

What you do

Type the name you use out loud. Bend Westside. NE of the river. Sixty characters is the cap, which is more than a real neighborhood name needs.

What the app does

Saves the shape under that name straight away. Dismiss the prompt without typing anything and it still saves under the suggested default, so a shape you spent a minute tracing is never lost to a stray tap.

Territory 2 tells you nothing at seven in the morning. A name you would say to a client tells you whether the price cut that just appeared is worth a phone call before you have finished reading the row.

Step 4Add a second territory if you work two markets

Nothing limits you to one. Add another and the feed changes shape to keep them apart rather than blending them into a single stream.

What you do

Draw or type the second area the same way. Mix methods freely: one drawn, one by zip, in the same account.

What the app does

Once you have more than one, the activity feed groups by territory name instead of by day, and the dashboard preview rows start naming which territory each listing came from.

A winter market and a summer market stay legible. With a single territory the grouping stays by day, because one section wrapping the whole list would just be a label with nothing to distinguish.

Step 5Open Territory Activity and read the feed

Drawing a territory is what puts a door on this screen. Until one exists the dashboard block is only a setup card; once it exists the block grows a See all link and three tappable pills, and the Territories screen carries a See activity link of its own.

What you do

Open the feed from See all on the dashboard block, from any of the three pills, or from See activity on the Territories screen. Pull down to force a refresh.

What the app does

Groups the listings by territory when you have more than one and by day otherwise. A pending row reads Went pending Tuesday; a price row reads Price cut, the dollar amount, the percentage and the old price. New listings carry their own Listed yesterday line only under territory grouping; under day grouping the section header is already the date.

It is a reading surface, not an alerting one. Nothing emails or texts you when a listing appears in your territory, so make opening this a morning habit rather than waiting to be told.

An empty feed with territories saved reads All Quiet, and means it: nothing came on market, went pending or moved price inside your boundary in seven days. That is an answer, not a prompt to go and configure something.

Step 6Filter to price cuts and work that list

Of the six filters, Decreased is the one that pays for the two minutes you spent drawing. A price cut is a seller who just moved, on a street you already know.

What you do

Tap Decreased. Every row shows the size of the cut in dollars, the percentage, the price it came down from, and how long ago it happened.

What the app does

Only counts a move it can prove. A row needs both the old price and the new one before it is given a direction, so nothing is labeled a cut on a guess.

Cross-reference against the buyers who told you that street was out of range. A cut that closes a gap you already documented is the easiest call you will make that week.

Step 7Check the dashboard block tomorrow morning

New in your territory has been sitting on the agent dashboard since your first login; before you drew anything it was one card asking you to. With a territory saved it turns into the thirty-second version of the feed.

What you do

Open the app. Read three counts and three rows. Tap a pill to open the feed already filtered, or Manage to go straight back to the territory editor.

What the app does

Counts new, price-changed and pending listings across all your territories, then previews the most recent regardless of type. Each row says what happened and when: Listed yesterday, Price change Monday, Pending Tuesday.

Manage is the route back into the territory editor from the dashboard once you have one. The setup card it replaces shows only while you have none. Settings keeps a Territories row as the other way in.