Method And System For Assessing Environmental Risk Associated With Parcel Of Real Property
First Claim
1. A method of assessing the environmental risk associated with a property comprising the following steps:
- (a) determining a current use or uses of a property;
(b) determining an intended use or uses of the property;
(c) determining whether the property will be redeveloped, and if not to be redeveloped then further providing an automatic quote for environmental insurance;
(d) determining whether underground storage tanks are present on the property, and if present, then site with said tanks is excluded from said insurance;
(e) determining a water distance to nearest surface water;
(f) determining a residential distance to a nearest residential property;
(g) determining an agriculture distance to a nearest agriculture property;
(h) combining the above determinations of steps (a)-(g) to generate an environmental risk assessment report, wherein said report does not involve a physical inspection of the property;
(i) providing said report to at least one person.
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Abstract
Disclosed is a system and method for assessing environmental risk associated with a parcel of real property through the form of reports which can be generated without the significant expense and time delay of a physical site inspection. Also disclosed is a method to facilitate contaminated land transactions by reports that provide consultancy, legal, and/or financial advice based on factors determined in the absence of a property site visit. In one aspect, the disclosed method comprises several steps based on certain determinations made using commercially-available and publicly-available databases. In another aspect, the disclosed method is a way of providing financial assurance via an insurance policy with the steps of supplying an environmental risk report and automatically supplying an environmental insurance quote based upon the environmental risk report.
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23 Claims
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1. A method of assessing the environmental risk associated with a property comprising the following steps:
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(a) determining a current use or uses of a property; (b) determining an intended use or uses of the property; (c) determining whether the property will be redeveloped, and if not to be redeveloped then further providing an automatic quote for environmental insurance; (d) determining whether underground storage tanks are present on the property, and if present, then site with said tanks is excluded from said insurance; (e) determining a water distance to nearest surface water; (f) determining a residential distance to a nearest residential property; (g) determining an agriculture distance to a nearest agriculture property; (h) combining the above determinations of steps (a)-(g) to generate an environmental risk assessment report, wherein said report does not involve a physical inspection of the property; (i) providing said report to at least one person. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method of assessing the environmental risk associated with a property, said method comprising the following steps:
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(a) determining a current use or uses of a property; (b) determining an intended use or uses of the property; (c) determining whether the property will be redeveloped, and if not to be redeveloped, then further providing an automatic quote for environmental insurance; (d) determining an age of the property; (d) determining whether underground storage tanks are present on the property, and if present, then site with said tanks is excluded from said insurance; (e) determining a legal indicator for legal advice, said indicator selected from the group consisting of no-change selling, freehold, buying leasehold, renting leasehold, insolvency, refinancing, takeover, and unknown; (f) determining an approximate cost of any transaction involving the property; (g) determining a timescale of said transaction from step (f); (h) combining the above determinations of steps (a)-(g) to generate an environmental risk assessment report, wherein said report does not involve a physical inspection of the property; (i) providing said report to at least one person. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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21. A method of providing financial assurance via an insurance policy comprising the following steps:
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(i) supplying an environmental risk report to a party interested in a parcel of property; (ii) automatically supplying an environmental insurance quote based upon said environmental risk report; wherein said environmental risk report is generated by; (a) determining a current use or uses of a property; (b) determining an intended use or uses of the property; (c) determining whether the property will be redeveloped, and if the property is to be redeveloped then not supplying an automatic environmental insurance quote; (d) determining whether underground storage tanks are present on the property, and if present, then site with said tanks is excluded from any automatic insurance quote; (e) determining a water distance to nearest surface water; (f) determining a residential distance to a nearest residential property; (g) determining a agriculture distance to a nearest agriculture property; (h) combining the above determinations of steps (a)-(g) to generate an environmental risk assessment report, wherein said report does not involve a physical inspection of the property; and wherein at least one of steps (a)-(h) is performed with a computer. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23)
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