Can this building hold your courts?
Sportzfolio is the marketplace built for people opening pickleball clubs, padel centers, training academies and every other kind of sports facility. Search properties with the specs that actually matter, check any deal against the Deal Readiness Index™, and line up the lender, insurer and builder when you're ready to move.
Sample assessment shown for illustration. Informational tool only, not investment, legal or financial advice.
Listings that answer the questions a court layout asks.
Every listing carries clear ceiling height, column span, parking ratio and zoning as real data, because those four numbers decide whether your plan works before anything else does. Complete listings earn a Property Readiness badge. Incomplete ones stay unscored until the seller fills the gaps.
Example listings, shown to preview how properties appear on the platform. "Verified" means our team has confirmed the specs; "Seller" means they're as entered by the listing agent. Tap Run Site Check on any listing to score its building.
From "I found a building" to opening day, in one place.
Most founders piece this together with a generic CRE site, three spreadsheets and a lot of phone calls. Here's the path on Sportzfolio.
- 1
Find
Search by sport, metro, size and the specs courts need.
- 2
Validate
Map your courts onto the floor plate and run a pro forma.
- 3
Score
Get a Deal Readiness Index™ with the gaps named.
- 4
Finance
Deals scoring 85+ go straight to financing intake.
- 5
Insure
Quotes from sports facility insurance specialists.
- 6
Build
Vetted court builders, surfaces, nets and equipment.
- 7
Launch
Operator consulting for programming and opening.
A score that tells you whether a deal is ready to move.
The DRI rates every sports facility opportunity from 0 to 100 across four pillars, then tells you what happens next. It's deterministic: every input is a number or a defined choice, every score can be reproduced, and nobody can override it. Not us, not the seller, not the listing agent.
Site & Use Viability
Can this site legally and physically hold the facility? Zoning, clear height, column span, parking, access and room to expand.
Market & Demand
Is there unmet demand here? Drive-time population, participation, courts per 100K residents, income and tournament draw.
Financial & Capital Readiness
Can it close without fantasy capital? Cost per court against benchmark, equity, projected DSCR and a named capital stack.
Operational & Risk
Can it operate and stay insured? Staffing plan, revenue streams, insurability, neighbor risk and construction complexity.
What each score means
| Score | Status | What happens next |
|---|---|---|
| 85 to 100 | Deal Ready | Moves to financing intake and priority placement. |
| 70 to 84 | Conditional | The specific gaps are named, with advisory to close them. |
| 55 to 69 | High friction | Redesign guidance, then re-score once the facts change. |
| Under 55 | Not viable | Archived with the failing condition stated plainly. |
Automatic stops
A fatal flaw can't be bought back with strong numbers elsewhere. Any one of these blocks a deal regardless of its weighted score.
- Zoning doesn't permit indoor recreation
- Clear ceiling under 18 ft
- Parking under 2.0 per 1,000 sq ft
- Market over 150% of court benchmark
- All-in cost over 30% above benchmark
- Equity under 10% of total cost
- Projected DSCR under 1.15x
- Verified insurance declination
The Deal Readiness Index™ is an informational tool only and does not constitute investment, legal, or financial advice. Sportzfolio is not a licensed real estate broker, investment advisor, or lender.
Run a Site Check on a building you're eyeing.
Plug in the listing specs and get the Site & Use Viability score, the same 30% pillar the full DRI uses. It takes about a minute and it'll tell you fast if a building is a non-starter.
The Deal Readiness Index™ is an informational tool only and does not constitute investment, legal, or financial advice. Sportzfolio is not a licensed real estate broker, investment advisor, or lender.
Priced for a $2M to $20M decision.
Browsing is free. When you're ready to put real numbers against a real building, Pro gives you the full score, the tools behind it and the named gaps holding a deal back.
Browse
Founders and buyers getting started
- Search every listing by sport, metro and specs
- Property Readiness bands on complete listings
- Saved searches and new-listing alerts
- Site Check tool
Pro
Founders and operators evaluating a deal
- Full DRI with the four-pillar breakdown
- Run assessments with your own equity, experience and capital stack
- Court layout mapper, including side-by-side compare on up to 3 properties
- Sports-specific filters, zoning overlays and alerts
- Named gaps and exportable reports
- Financing intake when a deal scores 85+
Institutional
Franchisors, multi-site operators and funds
- Expansion modeling across metros
- Market heat maps and saturation data
- Portfolio tools, team seats and API access
- Deal flow scored before it reaches your desk
- Advisory retainers available for developers and funds
Your listing in front of buyers who already know what they need.
The people searching here are opening sports facilities, so they show up knowing their ceiling height and court count. Fill in the specs once and the platform does the qualifying for you.
Listing analytics
Views, saves and Contact Agent requests for every listing, so you can show your seller what's working.
Readiness checklist, free
See your listing's readiness band and exactly which fields are holding it back. Complete listings earn the badge and better placement.
Contact Agent leads
Inquiries come straight to you with the buyer's sport and deal context attached. Your commission stays yours; we never touch it.
Standard
Full listing with photos, map pin, sport tags and the readiness checklist.
List a propertyPremium
Featured placement, the Verified Sports-Use badge once our team confirms the specs, listing analytics, lead routing and inclusion in buyer alert emails.
Go PremiumFlex industrial, Round Rock
The rest of the team, ready when your score is.
A good score is only useful if it leads somewhere. Each band connects you to the next step, with partners who specialize in sports facilities.
Commercial financing
SBA 7(a) and conventional CRE lenders who understand court revenue and facility build-outs.
Equity capital
Several disclosed capital options for deals that are ready. You choose who to talk to.
Facility insurance
Sports facility coverage quoted against your actual operating plan.
Court installation
Vetted builders for indoor and outdoor courts, lighting and surfaces.
Surfaces & equipment
Nets, surfaces, fencing and the rest of the punch list.
Advisory & consulting
Help closing the named gaps, from site redesign to programming and launch.
Brokers & agents
Commercial real estate professionals who know sports facilities, for tours, negotiation and closing.
Bank-ready packages
A lender-grade pro forma and feasibility study, reviewed by facility consultants before it reaches you.
Some partners in the network are affiliated with Sportzfolio through its parent company, PDI. Affiliation is disclosed wherever an affiliated company appears as an option, every partner is listed on the same terms, and scores are never adjusted for who might serve a deal.
Pickleball got us started. The platform covers the field.
Sport is a property of the listing here, with its own court sizes, clearances and parking standards. That's why a padel center and a volleyball academy get scored on their own terms.
Own your metro.
Placements are capped by tier and region, so the founder searching Phoenix sees your company and not your competitor's. Built for court builders, contractors, architects, surface and equipment makers, lenders and insurers who work on sports facilities.
Founding advertiser rates are open now in Phoenix, Austin and Tampa. Every campaign comes with impression, click and lead reporting.
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Whether you've got a building in mind, a listing to post, or a company that belongs in front of facility founders, start here and the right person will follow up.
Sportzfolio LLC, a PDI company
8 The Green, Suite A
Dover, DE 19901
Sports specs
From the broker's listing feed
Court layout
Deal Readiness
The Deal Readiness Index™ is an informational tool only and does not constitute investment, legal, or financial advice. Sportzfolio is not a licensed real estate broker, investment advisor, or lender.
Market snapshot
Sample values for demoLine up your team
Partners who work on sports facilities in this metro. PDI affiliates are labeled.[LENDER NAME]
SBA 7(a) and conventional CRE for court build-outs.
PDI affiliateStart financing intake[CARRIER OR AGENCY]
Sports facility coverage quoted on your operating plan.
Independent partnerGet a quotePost what you need. Let the buildings come to you.
Founders describe the space they're after. Verified brokers in that metro see it and respond with properties. Your name and contact details stay private until you choose to talk.
A new buyer pool for your big boxes, flex space and land.
Sports facility founders are looking for 15,000 to 60,000 sq ft with clear height and parking, the exact buildings that sit on the market longest. Connect your listings once and we'll put them in front of the people who need them.
- ✓Brokerage and licenseComplete
- 2Connect your listingsIn progress
- 3Choose a planNext
1. Brokerage and license
Edit2. Connect your listings
Bring in what you already have. You won't re-type a listing, and anything you change at the source updates here on the next sync.
| Import | Listing | Type | Size | Sports supplement |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Former big-box retail | Retail | 42,000 sf | 6 fields needed | |
| Flex industrial, Bldg C | Industrial | 31,200 sf | 6 fields needed | |
| Distribution center | Industrial | 58,000 sf | 6 fields needed | |
| 6.2 acres, pad-ready | Land | 6.2 ac | Outdoor candidate | |
| Medical office suite | Office | 3,400 sf | Not a sports fit |
After import, each listing asks for six sports fields the feed doesn't carry: clear height, column span, parking count, zoning status, ingress and expansion room. Listings stay unscored until they're in.
3. Choose a plan
Your listings, last 30 days
Listings
Readiness is the Property Readiness band buyers see| Listing | Status | Readiness | Views | Saves | Leads | Plan | Next step |
|---|
Contact Agent leads
Average first response: 3.2 hours3 listings are unscored
Unscored listings get no readiness badge and no featured placement. Each one is about five minutes of fields.