The person behind PlotScore
Joshua Karategin
Founder of PlotScore.
Joshua Karategin is the founder of PlotScore, a Dutch property-intelligence platform that scores every property in the Netherlands from authoritative registry data and in-house pricing models. He is an Amsterdam-based urbanist with masterplanning experience across Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
Properties covered
Official data sources
Factors per score
Score dimensions
Why PlotScore exists
For years, assessing a Dutch site meant the same manual routine: pulling Kadaster records, cross-checking BAG registrations, reading zoning under the Omgevingswet, and reconciling it all in a spreadsheet before anything useful could be said about a plot. The analysis was sound. The process was slow, and it did not scale.
PlotScore replaces that routine with infrastructure. The platform ingests registry, geospatial and statistical data at national scale — Kadaster, BAG, WOZ, CBS, EP-Online, 3DBAG, PDOK and DSO among more than twenty-five official sources — and runs it through scoring and pricing models built in-house. Public data is the foundation, not the product: what turns ninety-plus factors scattered across fragmented registers into a single comparable score is the modeling layer, and the modeling layer is proprietary.
The platform
One engine, four instruments.
PlotScore is not a single screen. Under one scoring engine, the platform has grown into a family of instruments — from a single address to an entire city.
The Score
Five dimensions — Valuation, Building, Location, Neighborhood, Investment — built from more than ninety factors, with every figure traceable to the register it came from.
The Dossier
A structured PDF report designed to leave the platform: forwarded to a bank, a gemeente or a client, with the evidence laid out for a reader who has never seen PlotScore.
City Atlas
Entire towns scored building by building and rendered as an interactive 3D map — the same score, at the scale of a municipality. Part of Studio.
Site Finder
The reverse question: instead of scoring an address, search a pre-scored city for every site that matches a brief. Part of Studio.
Different professions read the same evidence through different lenses — buyer, broker, developer, municipal planner — but a role changes emphasis, never numbers. Two parties in one transaction can lay their reports side by side and agree on every figure.
A different unit of analysis
Most property tools do one of two things. They surface raw data and leave the interpretation to you, or they output a price estimate with no visible reasoning. PlotScore does neither in isolation: it scores a site across five dimensions so that any plot can be compared with any other on the same basis, while every underlying figure stays traceable to its source.
A defensible score with an auditable trail beneath it — that is the shift, from reading documents to querying an index. If it has a BAG identifier, it can be scored.
Where this goes
The Netherlands is among the best-instrumented property markets in the world: open, granular, machine-readable registries covering every parcel and every building in the country. That makes it the right place to build and prove a property-intelligence engine — not the limit of one.
The data model is built on structures every developed property market shares — parcels, buildings, zoning, transactions, statistical geography — and expansion beyond the Netherlands is the direction of travel, with Belgium and Germany the markets under evaluation next.
Background
From masterplans to models.
Joshua Karategin trained in Germany and South Korea and holds a Master’s degree in architecture; his design work has been recognized with multiple architecture awards. Working within international practices, he has contributed to large-scale urban projects — among them Expo City Dubai — alongside masterplanning work across Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
That trajectory is why PlotScore looks the way it does. The five dimensions mirror how a masterplanner actually reads a site — not how a generic data product assumes people do. Years of deciding what should stand where became a model of what makes a place worth building on.
He is also the founder of Crossfloat, a sustainable floating building system pairing a concrete pontoon with a timber superstructure, developed for waterfront urban density. Alongside PlotScore, he continues to take on selected urban design and masterplanning commissions from Amsterdam.
Questions people ask
Who is Joshua Karategin?
Joshua Karategin is an Amsterdam-based urbanist and founder. He has worked on masterplans across Europe, the Middle East and Asia, and now builds the instruments that evaluate cities and sites: he is the founder of PlotScore, a Dutch property-intelligence platform, and of Crossfloat, a sustainable floating building system.
What is PlotScore?
PlotScore is a property-intelligence platform that scores properties across five dimensions and more than ninety factors, combining over twenty-five authoritative Dutch data sources — including Kadaster, BAG, WOZ, CBS, EP-Online, 3DBAG, PDOK and DSO — with scoring and pricing models developed in-house. It covers all ten million–plus properties in the Netherlands.
How is PlotScore different from a price estimator?
A price estimator returns a single number. PlotScore returns a multi-dimensional evaluation with the underlying registry data traceable beneath it, so sites can be compared on a consistent basis and the reasoning can be audited rather than taken on trust.
What is Joshua Karategin's background?
He trained in Germany and South Korea, holds a Master's degree in architecture, and his design work has been recognized with multiple architecture awards. Working within international practices, he has contributed to masterplans and large-scale urban projects across Europe, the Middle East and Asia, including Expo City Dubai.
What is Crossfloat?
Crossfloat is a sustainable floating building system founded by Joshua Karategin: a permanently submerged concrete pontoon carrying a timber superstructure, designed for climate-adaptive waterfront density.
Contact
Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
For press, partnerships, municipal pilots or commissions: info@plotscore.app.
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