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Posts about Real Estate Property Data

February 13, 2024

2024 Housing Market Outlook: Showing Signs of Strength

First American Data & Analytics recently presented its 2024 Housing Market Outlook webinar, featuring Odeta Kushi, Deputy Chief Economist of ...

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November 28, 2023

How Data and Technology Will Help Us Get Ready for Whatever 2024 Brings

We all know the critical role data plays in the mortgage and real estate ecosystem: powering decision-making, reducing risk, improving productivity, ...

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October 5, 2023

Exciting Tech, “People Data”, Partnerships and Funding Were All Front and ...

Blueprint Las Vegas is the must-attend event for industry executives interested next-gen concepts for real estate technology, attracting a wide array ...

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May 18, 2023

How Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Have Expedited Real Estate ...

First American Data & Analytics Chief Information Officer Calvin Powell shared his thoughts last quarter on the evolution of data extraction ...

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February 2, 2023

2023 Housing Market Outlook Shows Signs of Hope, Despite Challenges Ahead

There’s much speculation about what the housing market will look like in 2023, with some predicting a positive uptick in the second half of the year ...

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August 23, 2022

AVMS: Taking a Giant Leap Forward ... Just in Time for the HELOC Wave

Automated Valuation Models (AVMs) have come a long way since they were introduced almost three decades ago. Initially developed as a tool ...

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April 12, 2022

4 Key Considerations for Prospect List Generation and Management

The race to capture more business is on, and one of the ways to win is by identifying the types of customers you want. If you are contemplating ...

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Data as a Service

June 15, 2021

DaaS: How the Mortgage Industry Will Handle Data Now And In The Future

Most people and firms in the mortgage industry are very familiar with Software as a Service (SaaS). It’s a method of delivering software that can be ...

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August 4, 2020

DataTree Annette Cotton Named to 2020 HousingWire Women of Influence List

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December 5, 2019

DataTree President Robert Karraa Wins HousingWire Vanguard Award

We’re honored to be honored… First American® DataTree® is proud to wrap-up 2019 with recently awarded HousingWire Vanguard winner, Robert Karraa, ...

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June 27, 2019

What is Skip Tracing?

Skip tracing is a term that is used to describe the process of locating a person who can't be found at their place of residence or usual hangouts. ...

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June 14, 2019

The 5 Layers of GIS Mapping: What They Are and How They Work

If you’ve ever looked up an address on Google Maps or a real estate software program, you’ve used a form of geographic information system, or GIS. A ...

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June 4, 2019

What Is Catastrophe Modeling and Why It's Important

Hurricane season is an annual expectation in places like Florida. Nonetheless, a hurricane that makes landfall can have potentially catastrophic ...

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May 28, 2019

Mortgage Lenders: If 2020 Brings a Recession, Then What Will Happen to the ...

As someone who works in the mortgage industry, you probably have vivid and unpleasant memories of the Great Recession of 2008. The first signs that ...

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April 30, 2019

What is Moral Hazard?

Moral hazard refers to the risk that a contract has not been entered into in good faith. This typically includes one of the members in the agreement ...

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