House Canary

Investors need to identify solid opportunities fast. The property finder helps surface the best leads to the top and provides intelligent insights into which properties are truly great opportunities for investment. This is accomplished by using market attributes that identify a location, property physical characteristics, and calculating financial goals based on user assumptions.

This is where you can learn a great deal about a property all in one place. Completely interactive with photos, maps, street view, and comparable search. There are even interactive charts and visuals to explore insights like transaction and tax history, value forecast, market analysis, crime reports, school ratings, and more. Whether looking to buy or invest in a new property or review your existing portfolio, the property details page gives you everything you need to make sound investment decisions.

The data factory team is responsible for ingesting listing data from various MLS sources to one unified data source that is then used by other HouseCanary products and services. This dashboard helps the team monitor, identify, and resolve various types of issues that may occur with that feed.

The order manager is the place to create single or bulk orders of HouseCanary valuation products. The system allows users to select from a robust list of products, and either enter addresses manually or upload them from a bulk file. Once the order is placed, the software provides in-depth details on the status along with error tracking and tools to correct any of the items in a given order. Once items in the order are fulfilled, all relevant information relating to that property along with the raw data, and the purchased report are provided back to the user.

The Agile Evaluation report is one of many that can be ordered from the HouseCanary Order Manager system. It is a home evaluation report comparable to an appraisal but at a fraction of the cost. It entails many intelligent features, including a condition informed valuation model. This report comes with either an external inspection of the property to ensure high accuracy.

For investors to find investment opportunities, they first need to define their buy box criteria to filter down the noise. The buy box is essentially the parameters by which the property must meet for it to be a viable opportunity. The results of the buy box are what make up the leads. From here there is a bit more diligence to determine the end financials, but this gets them to a shortlist for human review.

When data and algorithms are relied on to provide valuations on properties that are part of a $27 trillion market, it’s important to have checks in place that are both automated and human backed. The quality control platform allows valuation specialists to review orders flagged with issues to ensure that the automated and/or inspection backed value is as accurate as possible.

One of my first big projects with HouseCanary was to try to unify all of the enterprise software products. One of the biggest issues was that is wasn't quite clear what app the user was in, and finding where you need to be, or even what is available. My solution was the Platform landing, which shows all the enterprise products and solutions. In addition to this, I created the global nav, which would be used across the products that showed our brand, what application you are in, as well as account settings, notifications, and a quick app switcher.

To assist with onboarding, I came up with a design system and workflow to follow when working with and creating assets for the consumer product. There ended up being a total of three guides to get started. One for getting your tools and system setup with the correct files, then two more for working with the symbol library, and editing the symbol library.