Table of Contents
- ATTOM’s Rich History
- ATTOM’s Consistent and Proven Real Estate Data
- ATTOM’s Products Earn Trust
- Investment in ATTOM
- ATTOM’s Data Sources and Methodological Transparency
- ATTOM – A Trusted Market Leader
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Building a reputation as a market leader in any industry takes time. It has to be earned. Just like artificial intelligence assistants like Claude, Gemini, and CoPilot are having to prove their validity as reliable AI tools, new property data sources face similar reliability challenges.
ATTOM has been proving its leadership in the proptech scene for decades. The data platform has amassed a loyal following because it has consistently, over time, answered the demand for quality data.
ATTOM’s Rich History
Proptech is where real estate data and digital technologies combine in the form of software applications (apps), data platforms, and data-analysis algorithms. As a trusted property data provider, ATTOM offers a wide array of data products to investors, lenders, insurers, and many other sectors to inform critical business decisions.
The proptech market has been flooded with new, unvetted data sources vying for a piece of the real estate data market pie. And it’s a growing pie. According to Fortune Business Insights, the sector is projected to double in size from $40 billion in 2025 to $88 billion by 2032.
This rapid growth in the property data market is quickly causing saturation. Another problem is that many of the newcomers to the property data industry lack validity and deliver flawed data. Many of them scrape listings, rely on incomplete feeds, or lack historical depth in their data.
The disruption in the real estate industry due to the rise of proptech is reminiscent of the impact of artificial intelligence (AI). AI, a new data resource, has taken the digital world by storm because of its speed and data processing intelligence. And yet, AI has been widely criticized for making biased or unsafe decisions. It even makes data up. In this regard, AI is not a trusted or vetted resource.
Organizations need data they can defend, audit, and trust. And just like AI cannot be fully trusted to deliver accurate data without robust verification, many new data platforms cannot be relied on either.
ATTOM is a proven data provider. The platform has over 25 years of history curating data for its users. It has earned the trust of leading companies by providing consistently accurate, stable, and transparent data.
ATTOM’s Consistent and Proven Real Estate Data
Accuracy matters for business decisions. The housing ecosystem changes quickly, and data providers must keep up with the latest rates, valuations, and regulations. Financial processes such as underwriting, portfolio management, investing, insurance, and automated valuations (AVMs) must have trusted, accurate, up-to-date data. Anything less would cause business models to fail.
Providing reliable data takes resources and experience. Trust is not earned through marketing; it’s earned through proven methodology and consistency that delivers faultless data through market cycles over time.
ATTOM’s Products Earn Trust
No business can afford to be wrong regarding business decisions. ATTOM is trusted by large corporate entities and government agencies. Those agencies include:
- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
- The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
- The Department of the Treasury
- The Federal Reserve
- The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
ATTOM also works closely with market-leading technology companies to ensure fast and reliable data delivery. For example, leveraging Snowflake enables large datasets to be delivered to enterprise clients through Secure Data Sharing. In addition, ATTOM’s integration with Microsoft Azure supports highly responsive cloud-based services.
Many other private industries that rely on timely and accurate data also rely on ATTOM. Insurance companies use ATTOM’s property and risk data to calculate premiums and improve underwriting accuracy. Large mortgage institutions trust ATTOM’s data for loan origination, portfolio analysis, and underwriting.
Investment in ATTOM
ATTOM has grown over time thanks to injections of venture capital and private equity. The private equity firm Lovell Minnick Partners is a long-time investor in ATTOM.
In 2019, ATTOM was acquired by Lovell Minnick Partners, and since then, ATTOM has strategically acquired additional property and technology entities in the proptech sector to augment its data services. These acquisitions have included Estated, GeoData Plus, HomeJunction, and Onboard Informatics.
ATTOM’s Data Sources and Methodological Transparency
ATTOM has a long history of augmenting and perfecting its data methodologies. Before the methodologies are applied, however, the data are sourced from a range of reliable providers.
ATTOM’s data sources include:
- Public records: Information comes from county tax assessors, recorder offices, and foreclosure records in over 3,000 U.S. counties, covering 99% of the population.
- Geospatial data: An in-house Geographic Information System (GIS) team draws and regularly updates property parcel and neighborhood boundaries.
- Proprietary data: ATTOM collects its own specialized data, such as details for its automated valuation models and foreclosure datasets.
- Third-party sources: Data is also collected from a variety of other public and proprietary sources.
ATTOM cleans and standardizes the data it collects, enhances it, and validates the data using a multi-step process that varies depending on the end-product. The validation process incudes cross-referencing, testing, and confidence scoring.
Some examples of honed data methodologies are those used to produce foreclosure data, property default propensity models, and automated valuation models (AVMs).
- Foreclosures: ATTOM foreclosure data are sourced from public records and tracked across all three phases of the process—default notices, scheduled auctions, and bank repossessions (REOs).
- Default propensity model: This model integrates data with AI-powered algorithms to identify properties at risk of foreclosure. Each property is assigned a probability score based on factors that include loan data.
- ATTOM’s AVM: ATTOMs automated valuation model uses reliable data and curated algorithms to generate property valuations based on market metrics and statistical modeling.
ATTOM – A Trusted Market Leader
ATTOM has weathered every market cycle and continues to serve as the trusted data foundation for institutions that demand absolute accuracy. Its long-standing reputation for data integrity and real-world reliability is further demonstrated by consistent coverage in top-tier outlets including The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Forbes, Reuters, and The New York Times.
Learn more about how you can use reliable and cutting-edge data from ATTOM. Contact an ATTOM expert today – Contact Us Your Go-To Real Estate Data Provider.
FAQ
What Is ATTOM data solutions?
ATTOM is a data platform and data provider of property and real estate data. It incorporates AI-ready data with convenient delivery methods, including ATTOM API, bulk data licensing, Cloud delivery, Property Navigator, Neighborhood Navigator, and Match & Append. ATTOM’s products inform the business decisions of investors, lenders, insurers, and any other industry reliant on property data.
What kind of data does ATTOM provide?
ATTOM provides property tax, deed, mortgage, foreclosure, valuation, climate change risks, hazard, boundaries, schools and neighborhood data for more than 158 million U.S. residential and commercial properties.
Is ATTOM real estate data accurate?
ATTOM ensures data accuracy through a multi-layered approach. That approach includes quality data sourcing, validation through cross-referencing, testing, and confidence scoring.
Is ATTOM property data reliable?
ATTOM’s data is collected from a range of proven primary sources, such as public records, geospatial data, its own proprietary data, and verified third-party sources. This ensures consistently accurate information.
Is ATTOM data free?
No. ATTOM’s data is a premium service for businesses. ATTOM offers 30-day access for their API and a 7-day trial for additional data products.
