Beyond the Buildings

In April, the Federal Emergency Management Agency will be updating its flood insurance risk grading systems. After decades of using the same system to understand the flood risk for properties in and around flood zones, these changes will be far-reaching, and the results of this shift will be numerous.

In this episode, host Maiclaire Bolton Smith sits down with Scott Giberson, principle of flood compliance at CoreLogic, to discuss the implications of this migration to Risk Rating 2.0.

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We are wrapping up the season by bringing back five of our favorite guests from the year to get their take on 2021 and their outlook for the new year ahead.

At CoreLogic, supporting veterans is close to our hearts. One organization that we are proud to align with is the World War II Foundation. On Veterans Day, they will release a documentary, Elvis and the USS Arizona, and CoreLogic is a presenting sponsor.

In this episode, host Maiclaire Bolton Smith speaks with Tom Gray from the WWII Foundation to learn more about the documentary and the foundation.

Natural disasters can have long-term effects on a community. As noted in our 2021 Hurricane Report, lower-income homeowners are left with few options when homes are destroyed. When affected homes are deemed unsuitable for habitation, displaced people may resort to living at motels and similar, creating added expenses. Natural catastrophes can result in financial hardship as people struggle with additional expenses.

In this episode, host Maiclaire Bolton Smith sits down with Amy Gromowski, senior leader of science and analytics at CoreLogic, to discuss financial implications as a result of natural disasters.

Real properties have a jumble of identifiers rather than a single standardized number that clearly defines each piece of property. Often, these overlapping and incomplete data sets of property information can result in a mess that takes hours to unravel before the property data is clean enough to use. This applies to if data is being used for understanding property vulnerability, to a natural hazard, how close it is to a power line, to a home or complying with regulations to build a pipeline.

In this episode, host Maiclaire Bolton Smith sits down with Sachin Rajpal, head of enterprise data at CoreLogic, about this issue and the impactful ways that CoreLogic is solving it.

Browsing for a new home is a hobbyist activity, even for people not looking to immediately purchase. The home buying experience tends to now start online, and shoppers are seeing estimates from an automated valuation models or AVMs.

In this episode, host Maiclaire Bolton Smith sits down with Ann Regan, Executive Product Manager from Collateral Solutions to learn what exactly is an AVM? How does it work? What is it used for?

At CoreLogic, one of the areas we keep close tabs on is how weather and climate affect property as this could have some surprising downstream effects. The CoreLogic Hazard HQ team keeps a close eye on the state of weather covering catastrophes in the US and around the world. 

Host Maiclaire Bolton Smith sits down with David Smith, Senior Leader of Science and Analytics to answer some questions about what is a loss estimate? What exactly are we estimating? Why are reconstruction costs different from actual losses? 

It’s been over a year since the beginning of the pandemic, and in that time, much has changed in the world of property. Home prices, rent prices and construction costs have skyrocketed, and housing inventory has only been getting slimmer.

Host Maiclaire Bolton Smith sits down with Chief Economist Dr. Frank Nothaft to get a status update on the situation. When will home prices come down? What will happen when the forbearance moratorium ends, and what’s in store in 2022?

When we think about climate change, we often think of its impact on life as a whole, and the lifestyle changes that will occur from rising temperatures and sea levels to solar panels and electric cars. But one of the most profound areas, a changing climate can impact is our homes.

Host Maiclaire Bolton Smith sits down with Chief Scientist Dr. Howard Botts to ask the questions on everyone's mind: Will our dream beach home be underwater in the next century? Will the reclaimed land of Louisiana disappear into the Gulf? And how will we grapple with the cost, both human and financial, of major disasters to come?