Scout Vision^TM Trends & Forecasts

Invest With Vision

Now available for NeighborhoodScout Pro subscribers, Scout Vision is the most timely, accurate, sub-Zip code resolution tool for predicting appreciation across all U.S. markets. It is the first data source that offers the best possible accuracy to support investment decision making, like “Should I buy, hold, or sell this property, at this location, at this time?”

To date, most real estate investors have relied on historical appreciation rates as a “baseline” for future performance, or broad-based Zip-code level performance. Some data providers offer “projections” which are little more than educated guesses with no proven accuracy or basis. These flawed and general evaluations impact success. Scout Vision’s micro-neighborhood HPA predictions are more than 80% accurate and backed by data that stretches back nearly half a century.

Accurate Predictive Neighborhood Home Appreciation Rates for the Next 3 Years

Developed by industry veterans and PhD geographers, Scout Vision draws on over a decade of research and development in the latest geo-statistical techniques. Scout Vision uniquely solves for risk by generating home appreciation projections with unprecedented geographic granularity and predictive accuracy, providing:

• Three-year property appreciation forecasts with up to 90% predictive accuracy. (5-Yr available for Scout Vision Enterprise clients)
• The highest resolution product in existence: predictions to the micro-neighborhood (nearly 10X smaller than a Zip Code).
• 100% seamless national coverage
• 200+ independent factors, 35+ unique data dimensions, and 23 models undergird Scout Vision

Scout Vision is the most timely, accurate, high-spatial resolution tool for predicting appreciation across all U.S. markets.

The Power of Precision

Scout Vision digs deep within ZIP Codes to reveal micro-neighborhood-level pockets of investment risk and opportunity, as this example for Buffalo, NY demonstrates (Figure A). At just a handful of city blocks in size, Micro-Neighborhood 1 on the map is expected to depreciate 1.1% over the next 3 years, while Micro-Neighborhood 2 is expected to appreciate by 10.1%.

Scout Vision pinpoints these tiny regions of risk and opportunity with high precision and accuracy. Even within the few ZIP Codes shown in this map, there are three distinct variations in home appreciation revealed at the micro-neighborhood level.

No longer are you limited to making high value business decisions at broad county, metro or ZIP Code levels. Scout Vision breaks through those barriers to reveal true Micro-Neighborhood level asset appreciation details.

 

Scout Vision Enterprise

Scout Vision Enterprise provides Micro-Neighborhood Geographic Resolution, as well as precision forecasting, trend, and score categories, for 3 & 5 Year intervals. Contact our Sales team to learn more about our Scout Vision Enterprise products.

Scout Vision^TM Neighborhood Home Value Trends & Forecast

Scout Vision Home Value Trends and Forecast provide access to accurate, 3-year home price and home price appreciation forecasts, as well as past trends, at the Micro-Neighborhood level. For the first time, Scout Vision provides an exclusive looking glass into every neighborhood in the U.S. so you can Invest with Vision^TM.

Home Value Trends & Forecasts in action:

• Get hyper-local. Uncover the three-year appreciation forecast for different Micro-Neighborhoods across the same nationwide scale. Location matters, not just what city or Zip Code a property is in.
• Learn from the past, understand the future. Determine how a location’s past and future appreciation rates at a hyper-local level compare to appreciation rates experienced in that metro area overall and the U.S. average. By selecting a time period, you can immediately see which neighborhood’s homes appreciate the most through both up and down real estate markets, providing exclusive insights into which neighborhoods are likely good investments for the future.

How this data is unique:

• The only three-year property appreciation forecast available today at 10X smaller than a Zip Code, with up to 90% predictive accuracy.
• Highest resolution available in the market today:  Exclusive appreciation forecasting at the Micro-Neighborhood level (nearly 10X smaller than a Zip Code).
• 100% complete, seamless national coverage. Every address is covered.

Where this data comes from:

Raw data is collected from dozens of sources, including:  U.S. Department of Education, 50 State Departments of Education, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Dow Jones and S&P, Federal Bureau of Investigation, 18,000+ local law enforcement agencies, FHFA, and the U.S. Bureau of the Census.

Then, trends and forecasts are built using custom developed spatial statistics at multiple scales applied to every Micro-Neighborhood, MSA, and non-metropolitan economic region in the U.S. with hierarchical techniques. In all, 200+ variables were used to build 23 custom, geographically-nested multivariate models, each fully backed and tested over 16 years for complete validation, based on data that spans nearly half a century.

Scout Vision^TM Proximity Index

Scout Vision Proximity Index provides a comparison of the benefits that potential investors, buyers and renters can expect in one location compared to surrounding neighborhoods.

Proximity Index in action:

• Compare apples to apples. Easily compare home values per square foot in your desired neighborhood to other neighborhoods nearby. Are they less expensive than surrounding neighborhoods? A few blocks down could mean a few hundred dollars in equity or rent.
• Understand how access to opportunity influences your investment. Does your neighborhood provide a short commute to myriad high-paying jobs? The answer contributes to the likelihood of upward home values over the next few years, and can also indicate upward or downward trends already underway.

How this data is unique:

• The only home values per square foot and number of high-paying jobs index available at the micro-neighborhood resolution (nearly 10x smaller than a Zip Code).
• The only analytics with 100% complete, seamless national coverage.

Where this data comes from:

Scout Vision’s detailed geo-statistical models and analytical interpretation are transformed into easy-to-understand metrics. The Price Advantage utilizes a 5-point scale to rate how your location’s price per square foot compares to other surrounding neighborhoods. The Jobs Score Index also rates neighborhoods on a 5-point scale, according to how many high paying jobs are within commuting range of the location. Then every neighborhood is ranked relative to other neighborhoods in the region and across the nation.

Scout Vision^TM Real Estate Trends and Forecast

Scout Vision Real Estate Trends and Forecast provide a snapshot of the average annual increase or decrease in home ownership, rent prices, and vacancies in the neighborhood over the most recent 5 years.

Real Estate Trends and Forecasts in action:

• Determine key neighborhood price drivers. Does this neighborhood yield a robust rental market with minimal vacancies? Are rental prices low, but starting to pick up?

How this data is unique:

• The only home ownership, rent price, and vacancy rate trends calculated at the micro-neighborhood level (nearly 10x smaller than a Zip Code).
• The only analytics with 100% complete, seamless national coverage.

 

 

Scout Vision^TM Crime Trends and Forecast

Scout Vision Crime Trends and Forecast provide access to accurate, 5-year total crime, property crime, and violent crime rates, as well as past trends, at the Micro-Neighborhood level, so you can easily interpret nationally normalized crime rates.

Crime Trends & Forecasts in action:

• Evaluate risk. Understand the property crime risk before investing.
• Interpret clues. Is crime starting to decrease in a certain location? The neighborhood could be gentrifying, which means a diamond-in-the rough

How this data is unique:

• The only crime trends and forecasts calculated at the micro-neighborhood level (nearly 10x smaller than a Zip Code).
• The only nationally normalized crime score covering 100% of U.S. geography.
• Five-year forecast with up to 90% predictive accuracy.

 

Scout Vision^TM Education Trends and Forecast

Scout Vision Education  Trends and Forecast provide a snapshot of the average annual increase or decrease in the percentage of college graduates living in a neighborhood over the most recent 5 years. College graduates are defined here as adults 25 and older with at least a 4-year college degree. It also provides a nationally-comparable average of how your neighborhood’s K-12 schools are performing.

Scout Vision^TM Economic Trends and Forecast

Scout Vision Economic Trends and Forecast provide a snapshot of the average annual increase or decrease in per capita income, household income and unemployment rate in the neighborhood over the most recent 5 years.

 

Scout Vision^TM Demographic Trends

Scout Vision Demographic Trends provide a snapshot of the average annual increase or decrease in population in the neighborhood over the most recent 5 years.

Scout Vision^TM Regional Housing Market Analysis

Scout Vision Regional Housing Market Analysis provides access to past trends to metro area housing affordability trends (defined as years of average household income needed to buy the average priced home), as well as regional one- and two-year growth trends.

Where this data comes from:

Raw data used as input to NeighborhoodScout’s demography models are from the U.S. Bureau of the Census, the U.S. Geologic Survey, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. Department of Education, the National Center for Education Statistics, and the Federal Housing Finance Authority.