CoreLogic Announces Upgrade to Its University Data Portal

CoreLogic has announced that its online University Data Portal now includes access to the industry’s most comprehensive foreclosure and mortgage information. The CoreLogic University Data Portal enables faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, to run queries, extract residential and commercial property characteristics and download reports for qualified academic research at preferred rates.

The portal now offers two additional datasets:

►Foreclosure Data, which contains nearly 45 million historical pre-foreclosure and foreclosure records through court action, judicial and non-judicial foreclosure and foreclosure sales, providing coverage of 94 percent of U.S. counties.

►CoreLogic MarketTrends, which contains 45 million geographic-level records from 2000 to the present, covering more than 85 percent of all outstanding mortgages. MarketTrends data elements include median sales price, median loan-to-value, delinquency, distressed sales, real estate owned, housing stock, number of sales and negative equity.

The company developed the portal and preferred rate structure in response to the hundreds of requests it receives each year from academics researching various real estate, mortgage and risk-related issues. CoreLogic data has been widely used in academic research examining subjects such as housing migration, unemployment, demographics, housing reform and other topics relevant to the U.S. housing market and overall economy.

“These enhancements significantly expand the scope of research that can be performed through use of the CoreLogic University Data Portal and provide deep insight into the most seismic real estate event of the last 80 years: the mortgage and foreclosure crisis,” said Frank Nothaft, chief economist for CoreLogic. “By expanding the portal, we hope to help economists shape and provide insight into the future of the housing and commercial real estate industries.”