Systems and methods for home value scoring

• US 7,289,965 B1
• Filed: 03/12/2002
• Issued: 10/30/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 08/10/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Freddie Mac
• Original Assignee: Freddie Mac
• Inventors: Gordon, J. Douglas, Sims, Pamela W., Snyder, Morgan C., Bradley, Michael G., McManus, Douglas A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Vig; Naresh
• Application Number:
  US10/095,006
• Time in Patent Office: 2,058 Days
• Field of Search: 705/1, 705/35
• US Class Current: 705/306
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/00 Commerce
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0278 Product appraisal
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/00 Finance; Insurance; Tax strategies; Processing of corporate or income taxes

Abstract

Systems and methods are provided for generating a model for providing one or more scores indicating a likelihood that an appraisal value is faulty. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving information representative of at least one of a borrower, a property, or one or more demographics; receiving a first appraisal value of the property; receiving a second appraisal value of the property, such that the second appraisal verifies the first appraisal; and determining one or more parameters for the model based on the received information, the received first appraisal value, and the received second appraisal value, such that the one or more parameters enable the model to provide the one or more scores.

Claims

1. A method for providing one or more scores indicating a likelihood that an appraisal value is faulty, said method comprising the steps of:

receiving information representative of at least one of a borrower, a property, or one or more demographics;

receiving a first appraisal value of the property from a first source;

receiving a second appraisal value of the property from a second source, such that the second appraisal verifies the first appraisal;

determining one or more parameters based on the received information, the received first appraisal value, and the received second appraisal value; and

providing the one or more scores based on the one or more parameters.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said step of receiving information further comprises the step of:

receiving information for a plurality of loans.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein said step of receiving information further comprises the step of:

receiving the first appraisal value for each of the plurality of loans.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein said step of receiving the second appraisal further comprises the step of:

receiving the second appraisal value for each of the plurality of loans.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein said step of determining further comprises the step of:

verifying the first appraisal value based on the second appraisal value.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein said step of determining further comprises the step of:

determining one or more outcomes for each of the plurality of loans based on the corresponding first appraisal value and the second appraisal value.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein said step of determining further comprises the step of:

determining a probability for each of the one or more outcomes.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein said step of determining the probability further comprises the step of:

determining the one or more parameters based on the one or more outcomes.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein said step of determining the one or more parameters further comprises the step of:

determining the one or more parameters based on a statistical technique.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising the step of:

defining the statistical technique as a logistic regression.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein said step of determining the one or more parameters further comprises the step of:

determining the one or more parameters based on a neural network.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of:

providing the parameters.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein said step of providing further comprises the step of:

providing the parameters using the Internet.

14. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of:

adjusting the one or more parameters, such that a low score corresponds to a high likelihood that the appraisal value is faulty and a high score corresponds to a low likelihood that the appraisal value is faulty.

15. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of:

adjusting the one or more parameters, such that the one or more scores are within a range of about 300 to about 900.

16. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of:

adjusting the one or more parameters, such that a high score corresponds to a high likelihood that the appraisal value is faulty and a low score corresponds to a low likelihood that the appraisal value is faulty.

17. A system for providing one or more scores indicating a likelihood that an appraisal value is faulty, said system comprising:

means for receiving information representative of at least one of a borrower, a property, or one or more demographics;

means for receiving a first appraisal value of the property from a first source;

means for receiving a second appraisal value of the property from a second source, such that the second appraisal verifies the first appraisal;

means for determining one or more parameters based on the received information, the received first appraisal value, and the received second appraisal value;

means for providing the one or more scores based on the one or more parameters.

18. A system for providing one or more scores indicating a likelihood that an appraisal value is faulty, said system comprising:

at least one memory comprising;

code that receives information representative of at least one of a borrower, a property, or one or more demographics,

code that receives a first appraisal value of the property from a first source,

code that receives a second appraisal value of the property from a second source, such that the second appraisal verifies the first appraisal,

code that determines one or more parameters based on the received information, the received first appraisal value, and the received second appraisal value, and

code that provides the one or more scores based on the one or more parameters; and

at least one data processor that executes said code.

19. A computer program product for a system for providing one or more scores indicating a likelihood that an appraisal value is faulty, the computer program product comprising code, said code comprising:

code that receives information representative of at least one of a borrower, a property, or one or more demographics;

code that receives a first appraisal value of the property from a first source;

code that receives a second appraisal value of the property from a second source, such that the second appraisal verifies the first appraisal;

code that determines one or more parameters based on the received information, the received first appraisal value, and the received second appraisal value; and

code that provides the one or more scores based on the one or more parameters.