A Holistic Approach to Property Valuations

August 20, 2015

The unreliability of property valuations was one of the key findings that emerged from the (2008) Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission’s probe. Two key reasons among the various factors contributing to not-so-fair valuations are missing and/or inaccurate property listing data and not leveraging data from different sources to the fullest extent. Incorporating all the available data (structured and unstructured) has its own challenges. With the current explosion of data, understanding the context and relevance and extracting meaning from the data available has become difficult.

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