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Underwriting, Assessing Risk, Big Data
Catastrophes have rewritten the rules of the insurance game. Before Hurricane Andrew, in 1992, insurers essentially guessed at what the financial damages would be if a disaster struck. Turns out, they drastically underestimated what the losses might be. And they suffered the consequences. Smart underwriters don’t guess. They use the kinds... Read More »
How Technology is Disrupting the Real Estate Industry
Not so long ago, real estate transactions were simple and straightforward. A seller listed a home through an agent and a buyer showed interest. The buyer’s agent drew on his or her knowledge of the market to negotiate a final selling price and then the buyer closed on his or her new house. Now, as it has in so many industries, information... Read More »
How Agents Use ATTOM’s Lead Generation Tool to Find New Homebuyers
Use ATTOM’s Lead Generation Tool to Find New Homebuyers Every year, about 5.5 million people in the U.S. buy a home. Almost 2 million of them are doing it for the first time. The question for real estate agents, then, is not whether people are looking to buy, it’s how to find the ones who want to buy where you are, and how to nurture those... Read More »
How Planners Use ATTOM’S Environmental Hazard Data
It might be tempting to think that living in a city puts residents at a lower risk for disasters like hurricanes, tornadoes, or forest fires. It might even be true, depending on how far that city is from a coastline or open farm country or a swath of woods. But cities have no shortage of environmental hazards. Smog. Contaminated Superfund sites.... Read More »
HomeAuctionLists.com Defragments Investor Leads with Property Data
Frustrated with the fragmented state of real estate investor leads, longtime investor Keith Fiskum launched HomeAuctionLists.com in 2018 — fueled by record-level property data from ATTOM Data Solutions. “It’s a unified platform to find on-market and off-market lead opportunities for real estate investors,” said Fiskum, who has been investing... Read More »
Market Trend Data Helps Divvy Challenge the Buy-or-Rent Paradigm
Divvy Homes is challenging the traditional buy-or-rent paradigm in three Midwestern markets with the help of market trend reports from ATTOM Data Solutions. “Divvy is a fractional homeownership company,” said Adena Hefets, co-founder of the San Francisco-based real estate tech startup that is focused on three markets east of the Mississippi:... Read More »