# Showing

> Showing coordinates discovery, negotiation, commitment, and transfer

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Stable ID | `node:kiduna:real-estate-mortgage:listing-transaction:showing` |
| Family | Listing & Transaction |
| Domain | Economics |
| Era | Institutional Age → Agentic Age |
| Kind | concept |
| Archetype | The Field |
| Claim layers | empirical, cultural_historical, synthesis, interpretive, symbolic_divinatory |

## What it is

Showing is a concept in the Listing & Transaction family, defined here by the function it performs in the property system rather than by label alone.

## What it actually does

Showing coordinates discovery, negotiation, commitment, and transfer.

## Why it exists

It exists because place is unique and immovable while law, capital, information, and human lives must still coordinate around it across time.

## System mechanics

- **Who uses it:** owner, occupant, buyer, seller, lender, investor, steward, regulator
- **Incentives:** access, certainty, control, value, continuity
- **Inputs:** place, people, records, rules, resources, time
- **Outputs:** rights, constraints, uses, relationships, consequences
- **Dependencies:** Land, Authority, Information, Capital, Time

## Archetypal reading

- **Essence:** Showing coordinates discovery, negotiation, commitment, and transfer
- **Gift:** Clarity about showing makes a hidden allocation of place, time, authority, value, or risk available for deliberate choice.
- **Wound / Shadow:** When showing is treated as neutral or inevitable, its costs can be shifted to people who hold less information, authority, liquidity, or mobility.
- **Failure mode:** The failure mode appears when showing is stale, opaque, mispriced, misrecorded, overextended, or applied outside the conditions that made it useful.

## Lenses

- **Personal:** Notice where showing appears as a structure in your own commitments: what is held, promised, priced, protected, excluded, or deferred?
- **Business:** Showing reveals a handoff among information, authority, incentives, operating work, and capital. Make the owner of each handoff explicit.
- **Financial:** Showing changes the timing, priority, comparability, liquidity, or distribution of cash flow and risk.
- **Property:** Showing changes how a physical place can be used, valued, financed, transferred, occupied, maintained, or reclaimed.
- **Community:** Showing can create benefits inside one parcel while exporting costs or opportunity to neighbors, institutions, or future residents.

## Divination

The Field enters the reading through Showing. The issue is not only what is visible; it is which map of ownership, time, risk, authority, or belonging currently governs the situation.

**Question:** What changes when Showing becomes the unit of analysis?

**Guidance:** Shift scale, clock, stakeholder, boundary, and claim layer before choosing a move.

## Game function

Creates a graph move that changes the active map. Initiative 3.

## Relationships

- **Plat constrains Showing.** Plat constrains Showing through a change in rights, information, cash flow, priority, timing, or physical use.
- **Multiple Listing Service conflicts with Showing.** Multiple Listing Service conflicts with Showing through a change in rights, information, cash flow, priority, timing, or physical use.
- **Showing is evidenced by Open House.** Showing is evidenced by Open House through a change in rights, information, cash flow, priority, timing, or physical use.
- **Showing enables Environmental Site Assessment.** Showing enables Environmental Site Assessment through a change in rights, information, cash flow, priority, timing, or physical use.

## Oppositions

- Use Value versus Exchange Value
- Speed versus Diligence

## Historical lineage and regulatory context

Read Showing through the lineage of Listing & Transaction: earlier customary or local arrangements became recorded, standardized, financed, regulated, digitized, or contested over time.

Rules vary by jurisdiction and transaction. Use the cited primary sources as starting points and verify current local law, program guides, contracts, and professional standards before operational use.

## Visual direction

Text-free rounded-square enamel artifact for Showing: one dominant symbolic mechanism with a restrained secondary counterforce; vitreous midnight enamel, blackened steel, warm brass, copper accents, mortgage-paper cream, deep green, slate, and sky blue.

## Engine output / Sentinel handoff

The generative interpretation above is preserved as Engine Output. Sentinel factors: jurisdiction-specific rules, factual uncertainty. These factors request contextual review; they do not delete or silently rewrite the candidate.

## Research / provenance

- [Mortgage Resources](https://www.consumerfinance.gov/compliance/compliance-resources/mortgage-resources/) — Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; origination, disclosures, appraisal, servicing, mortgage regulation.
- [How to Buy a Home](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/how-to-buy-a-home/how-to-buy) — Government of the United Kingdom; homebuying, tenure, searches, surveys, exchange, completion.
