ValuePoint® 4
Affordable Valuation Analytics for Distressed Properties – ValuePoint® 4
Cost, speed, and accuracy are critical to evaluating potential mortgage defaults and deciding between forbearance and foreclosure. Recognizing that a significant percentage of delinquent loans may ultimately cure, expenses tied to valuations are seldom recovered, resulting in lost profits for lenders. ValuePoint® 4 Default is an advanced and affordable analytical tool that instantly delivers solid disposition value and decision-making information to your desk.
Traditional Approaches Fall Short
Industry-standard methodologies for valuing foreclosures fall short during periods of economic instability when default volumes increase. Classic approaches suffer from being too costly, time-consuming, or inaccurate. Traditional automated valuation models (AVMs) tend to overvalue distressed properties because they assume the home is in average condition, which is often untrue. Broker price opinions (BPOs), valuations compiled by real estate professionals, have been a core resource for pricing defaults. Problems are inherent, however, because BPOs are expensive and time-consuming to produce. Professional appraisals are most likely to be accurate, yet they are the most costly and time-consuming to complete.
Accounting for Intangibles
First American CoreLogic’s new valuation tool, ValuePoint® 4 Default, is a hybrid model compensating for traditional model valuation limitations, delivering fast, affordable, and consistently high reliability on properties with delinquent or defaulted mortgages. It is especially suited for servicers seeking more accurate loan-to-value ratios within the critical first three months of delinquency. ValuePoint 4 Default assumes possible and predictable deficiencies usually associated with distressed properties—property-specific and fundamental neighborhood dynamics—that conventional approaches often miss. Homes may be in less than average condition, purported improvements may not exist, and there may be external, negative factors contributing to delinquency or default. Logic built into ValuePoint 4 Default tempers distressed property analysis, consistently delivering more conservative, realistic, and reliable valuations. Its performance is enabled through index, assessment, neural-net methodologies, and proprietary reconciliation procedures.
Additional Benefits
- Affordable, fast disposition valuation tool to streamline workflow
- Proven accuracy over traditional AVMs and many BPOs
- More thorough property evaluation through detailed data report
- Capability to evaluate more loans sooner, without increasing current budgets
- Foundation to validate and compare BPO provider accuracy
Valuation Accuracy Is Paramount
The key objective of any valuation model is accuracy. In a study comparing ValuePoint 4 Default to a conventional AVM, ValuePoint 4 Default delivered vastly superior results on more than 20,000 real estate-owned (REO) properties. ValuePoint 4 Default overestimated REO sale prices by just 3.6 percent, compared to 32.4 percent for the conventional AVM.
When tested against a traditional BPO using a sample of more than 800 REO sales, the ValuePoint 4 Default overvaluation rate on the sample properties was half that of BPOs. ValuePoint 4 Default also came within 10 percent of the eventual sales price 44 percent of the time, compared to the BPO figure of 40.3 percent.
Accuracy, low cost, and quick turnaround times make ValuePoint 4 Default an essential workflow tool for early-stage delinquency valuations and provide a foundation for ensuring the accuracy of BPOs.
Data-Rich Reports Guide Workfl ow Decisions
ValuePoint 4 Default results are delivered as an easy-to-use report via Web-based HTML, XML, or bulk processing. Reports offer more than a disposition value and value range; they provide a lender with crucial data about the surrounding neighborhood and the likelihood of continuous delinquencies in the zip code. Drawing from the best of First American CoreLogic and LoanPerformance information and analytics reports, guide workflow decisions and enhance valuation determination. ValuePoint 4 Default reports provide recent sales data, comparable distressed and foreclosed subject and nearby property details, street and aerial maps, and trends on 12-month price changes and sales activity
An optional on-site property inspection and verification report provides essential visual and condition confirmation, including five property and nearby influence photos.