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Facilitating Fast, Accurate Flood Insurance Valuations
Q&A with Denis Brosnan, CEO at DIMONT What is your elevator pitch for DIMONT? “Twenty years ago, DIMONT founded the industry of providing hazard insurance claims adjustment services for mortgage loan investors and servicers. These days, we’re looking at 150,000 or more damage reports a month on distressed properties. “Essentially our... Read More »
Leveraging Real Estate Data to Identify, Understand and Engage Affluent Customers
Q&A with Arup Banerjee, CEO at Windfall Data What is your elevator pitch / 30-second sound bite for Windfall? Based in San Francisco, Windfall is a data company that is changing the way data-driven organizations identify, understand, and engage affluent consumers. The company was founded by seasoned executives with deep-domain... Read More »
Home Prices in Highest-Risk Zips for Environmental Hazards Increased at Faster Pace Than U.S. Average Over Past Decade
Foreclosure Rates Lower in Highest-Risk Zip Codes; Superfund Risk Bucks Trends With Weaker Price Appreciation in Highest Risk Zips IRVINE, Calif. – Feb. 22, 2018 — ATTOM Data Solutions, curator of the nation’s premier property database, today released its 2017 Environmental Hazards Housing Risk Index, which shows that median home prices in U.S.... Read More »
The Mortgage of the Future Will Be Designed for Digital Natives
By Manvinder Saraon of LendingHome The mortgage industry has finally begun to move from the Dark Age into the Digital Age. While technological innovations have re-imagined many other consumer financial services over the past few years, mortgages lagged behind. Now, with the recent introduction of the online mortgage (otherwise known as the... Read More »
Building a Better Home Value Mousetrap
By Clifford A. Lipscomb of Greenfield Advisors Introduction to Automated Valuation Models Property valuation is an integral part of the housing industry that is long overdue for disruption. Although much could be said on the topic of automated valuation models (AVMs), in this piece I explore the current state of the commercially available AVM... Read More »
ATTOM Data Solutions Acquires Onboard Informatics, Adding Best-in-Class Neighborhood Data
New Data Features Neighborhood Boundaries, Schools, Crime, Amenities, Commuter Times; Combined with ATTOM Tax, Deed, Mortgage & Foreclosure Records in One-Stop Data Shop IRVINE, Calif. – Feb. 15, 2018 — ATTOM Data Solutions, curator of the nation’s premier property database, today announced it has acquired Onboard Informatics, the leading... Read More »