Replicost is the live, defensible replacement-cost platform built to replace Marshall & Swift, Craftsman, and RSMeans. Continuously updated. Court-tested. Powered by 3.2M+ recent construction transactions across all 50 states.
Marshall & Swift ships quarterly. Craftsman ships annually. Replicost ingests labor, materials, and regional permit data every 24 hours and re-calibrates the entire RCN model overnight — so the number you defend in court is the number the market saw this week.
| Class | RCN / sf | 24h Δ | YoY Δ | Region high |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single-family · Avg quality | $182.40 | ▲ 0.12% | ▲ 4.8% | $311.20 · SF Bay |
| SFR · Good quality | $246.85 | ▲ 0.08% | ▲ 5.4% | $402.10 · Manhattan |
| Multifamily · Class A | $268.30 | ▼ 0.04% | ▲ 3.9% | $418.00 · Seattle |
| Office · Mid-rise | $298.10 | ▲ 0.21% | ▲ 2.6% | $510.40 · Boston |
| Retail · Strip center | $158.70 | ▼ 0.10% | ▲ 1.4% | $245.30 · LA |
| Industrial · Warehouse | $112.45 | ▲ 0.06% | ▲ 3.1% | $184.00 · NJ |
| Hospitality · Limited service | $224.90 | ▲ 0.14% | ▲ 4.0% | $361.80 · Honolulu |
Replicost is engineered so the cost approach survives cross-examination. Every report ships with a court-ready methodology appendix, sourced citations on every line, a reproducible audit chain, and the artifacts opposing counsel hunts for under Daubert and Frye — the things they use to disqualify your competitor's report.
Type the property address or upload a sketch. We pull GIS, permit records, assessor data, FEMA flood, and aerial imagery automatically.
Confirm class, quality, GLA, story height, foundation, finishes. Or skip — Replicost autofills 87% of fields from public records.
PDF, DOCX, or direct push to ACI / a la mode / TOTAL. Methodology appendix, source citations, and audit log included by default.
We respect the giants. They built this industry. But it's 2026 — and your subscription still ships in a binder.
Comparison reflects public pricing & product pages as of 2026-Q2. Marshall & Swift, Craftsman, and RSMeans are trademarks of their respective owners. Replicost is not affiliated.
Whether you appraise residential, defend tax appeals, write insurance RCV, or estimate restoration — Replicost replaces the binder, the spreadsheet, and the late-night PDF wrestling.
Single-family, condo, manufactured, multifamily 2–4 unit. Calculator + segregated methods.
Office, retail, warehouse, special-use. Unit-in-place down to MEP and site improvements.
Replacement cost value for carriers, adjusters, and restoration. Xactimate-compatible export.
Bulk-cost models for assessor offices. 50K parcels in a single run with state-calibrated tables.
Physical, functional, external. Marshall-style life expectancy tables + market-extracted alternatives.
Methodology appendix, sourced citations, version history, expert-witness packet. One button.
From single-property appraisal to mass-appraisal portfolios, restoration RCV to ad valorem appeals — every workflow gets the same defensible cost approach.
Drop an address, confirm the property characteristics, click export. The same cost approach you'd build in Marshall & Swift — with sourced citations, defensible methodology, and a one-click expert-witness packet baked in.
Residential RCN →Bulk-cost models for assessor offices. Process portfolios of 50K+ parcels with state-calibrated tables and a defensible appeal-ready trail.
Mass appraisal →Insurance RCV mode for carriers, adjusters, and restoration. Regional, fast, and built so the carrier accepts it without revision.
Insurance RCV →14-day free trial. No credit card. Cancel any time.
Yes — for the cost approach. Every methodology M&S supports (calculator, segregated, unit-in-place) is supported in Replicost, plus modern features they don't ship: live updates, ZIP-level multipliers, audit traceability, REST API, and direct integration with the major appraisal report-writers.
Yes — every report ships with the methodology appendix, sourced citations on every line, and the reproducible audit chain courts expect under Daubert and Frye. We've designed the platform around the criteria that get cost-approach testimony admitted: published methodology, falsifiable inputs, peer-reviewable data sources, and historical reproducibility. See the litigation overview for details.
The RPLX-2026 methodology aggregates BLS PPI series, ENR construction cost indices, regional permit-cost data, and 3.2M+ direct contractor transactions, weighted by class and locality. Full methodology is published — and updated — at replicost.com/methodology.
Yes — one-click export to all three. Cost approach data populates directly into your existing report template, including labor & materials breakdown, depreciation table, and sourced citations.
Yes. Replicost reports comply with USPAP 2024–2025 Standards Rule 1-4(b), and the methodology appendix satisfies the workfile-retention requirements of Standards Rule 1-5. Independent compliance reviews are published quarterly.
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