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ยป VISIT US ONLINE @ DSNEWS.COM 93 indicating that homes are selling eight days faster than last year. According to the Hotness Index, the majority of the fastest moving market areas can be found in California. e number one hottest market for both March and February was Vallejo-Fairfield, California; followed by San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, California. e median age of inventory for these two areas were 33 days and 26 days, respectively, well below the nationwide median. Areas in California make up nine of the Realtor.com's top 20 hottest markets. Javier Vivas, Manager of Economic Research at Realtor.com, noted the large drops in days on the market, and its indication of a strong spring buying season. "Calendars might say spring is only a week old, but we're already in the thick of the most frenzied spring home buying season on re- cord," said Vivas. "e median days on market for homes on realtor.com in March saw the biggest drop since the end of the recession, and half of homes are now selling in less than 69 days nationally. Low inventory continues to be a significant problem, but record-high prices are also keeping waves of buyers at bay." Markets on Realtor.com's Hottest Market list tend to receive 1.7- to 2.6-times as many views as the national average, and see inven- tory move 18-44 days faster than the rest of the country. e hottest markets are also seeing faster moving inventory than last month, as the median age for the hottest markets in March is 14 days faster than February. HouseCanary Announces Collaboration With Google HouseCanary, Inc., a provider of real estate insights and predictive analytics with offices in San Francisco and San Antonio, recently announced its collaboration with Google Cloud Platform Commercial Datasets. House Canary will now power the residential real estate datasets for Google Cloud Platform. "Making HouseCanary's platform available in the cloud gives investors and consum- ers greater access to a vast amount of real estate data and analyses that they can act on in real time," said Jeremy Sicklick, CEO of HouseCanary, "By joining the Google Cloud Technology Partner program, HouseCanary is expanding its services to help businesses of all sizes understand different real estate markets around the country and modernize how they make investment and lending decisions." is joint effort between HouseCanary and Google will provide industry profession- als with trends, insights, and indices in nearly every MSA, zip code, and block in the country today and three years into the future. House- Canary's proprietary datasets are exclusively available on HouseCanary.com and now avail- able through Google. CoreLogic, ResMan Announce Strategic Relationship On ursday, CoreLogic announced a new strategic relationship with ResMan, a provider of multifamily management software. e CoreLogic SafeRent screening solution will now integrate into leasing workflows sup- ported by ResMan's Client Services, including initial implementation and ongoing customer support. ResMan Qualifier, the new applicant selection process service, will be launched later in 2017. "e level of collaboration and integra- tion between CoreLogic and ResMan is unparalleled in the industry and combines powerful technologies that provide immediate benefits for property managers and own- ers," said Richard Leurig, SVP of CoreLogic Rental Property Solutions. "By using ResMan Qualifier, they will be able to predict the lease performance of their applicants and improve their ability to measure the credit quality of residents to select the best available applicants with consistency and confidence." e multifamily industry has long been considered a late adopter for implementing new technology. In recent years, there has been a significant shift in technology aptitude and multifamily owners and operators have realized the competitive advantages and added value that industry-leading solutions can provide to their customers. "CoreLogic is a recognized leader in providing data to financial institutions and real estate investors. Working with a technol- ogy company as powerful as CoreLogic helps ensure that ResMan can provide best-in-class screening to customers," states Elizabeth Fran- cisco, SVP of product at ResMan. "Using the combined expertise from our two companies enables our customers to have the best of both worlds; industry-leading screening technology from CoreLogic they can have confidence in, as well as ResMan's dedicated support staff that is trained and proficient in screening support." Utah Robyn Moody SALT LAKE REO RealtyONE Group Signature Sales Agent/Owner Robyn@SaltLakeREO.com 801-566-8288 Office | 801-859-2539 Mobile www.SaltLakeREO.com THE LEADER IN DEFAULT SERVICING NEWS Help shape the next issue of DS News. Drop us a line at Editor@DSNews.com. Home prices are considered overvalued in much of California, with prices reaching over 25 percent above sustainable levels, according to CoreLogic's February 2017 Home Price Index Report. KNOW THIS