Our Story:

​Deciding where to invest in property shouldn't be so hard. Our co-founder, Steven, started buying single family home rentals in the US while working outside the country. Finding the right location that offered high investment returns — at low risk — was a research project that took months. Sounds fun if you are a researcher. But for most people, it is a process that should be simplified.

​Our goal is to make that process of building an investment strategy as simple as a few minutes of setting criteria, and a few clicks.

Our mission is to help single family home investors find locations – down to the block level – that offer the highest possible rental returns at the lowest possible risk.

Founders

Steven McCord

Co-Founder, CEO

Steven is a real estate research professional with extensive experience in market research, analysis, and reporting for global real estate investors. He previously worked as a research professional in Asia and the U.S. for 12 years with JLL, a global real estate professional services firm.  He is also an investor in single family homes in the southern United States. ​

Shaofei Chen

Co-Founder, CTO

Shaofei is a location analytics expert who has worked in the intersection of geographic information systems (GIS) and retail real estate for the past 11 years. In his role at boutique consultancy Tango Analytics, he worked with global clients on portfolio and market optimization. He has advised some of the world’s largest private equity funds. Shaofei has introduced geospatial thinking to challenge prevailing views in the real estate world. Key accomplishments include data innovation through geofencing and mobile data in retail estate research, the first of its kind in the industry, and the use of remote sensing and open source data.

Advisory Board

Issi Romem, Ph.D.

Dr. Romem is an economist and the founder of MetroSight. He is also a fellow at the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at U.C. Berkeley, and has served as Chief Economist of Trulia and Senior Director of Housing & Urban Economics at Zillow. His research on metropolitan growth patterns, construction trends and housing has been featured in major publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and more. He regularly speaks at industry and research forums. Prior to that, Issi served as Chief Economist of BuildZoom, advised the Rentonomics team at Apartment List, and worked as an economist at OnPoint Analytics and the Bay Area Council. He earned B.A. and M.A. degrees from Tel Aviv University and the Hebrew University, and a Ph.D. in economics from U.C. Berkeley, where he has also taught as an adjunct professor.
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Norm Miller, Ph.D.

Dr. Miller is the Hahn Chair of Real Estate Finance at the University of San Diego (USD), and Vice-President of the Homer Hoyt Institute, a think tank of global real estate scholars and industry research directors. Until recently he was Senior Vice President of Research for Collateral Analytics (now Black Knight) where he helped develop real estate analytic products and tools to support financial institutions, banks and investors including valuation models, mortgage risk products, and using machine learning for data analytics.  He was previously Vice President of Analytics for the CoStar Group, a leading commercial real estate data and market analysis company. 

Vignesh Clingam

Vignesh is obsessed with solving wicked problems using data and tech. A computer engineer turned marketer with over 15 years of expertise in marketing strategy, digital design, predictive analytics and business transformation. He led marketing strategy for several global brands including ExxonMobil, HP, AMD, Google, McDonalds and Best Buy. An avid news-junkie and futurist, Vignesh believes that all of marketing will be data-driven and direct in the coming years. He is passionate about helping brands navigate this new normal and unlocking new growth opportunities along the way. When he’s not working, he enjoys the outdoors, comedy and music - he has visited 17 US national parks, with a goal to visit all 50 sometime.

Shawn Xu

Shawn is the co-founder of “U Property Management”, a Dallas-based property and asset manager for single-family rental home portfolios owned by domestic and international investors. He leads the company’s strategic direction as well as daily operations and acquisitions. Following 15 years of experience in professional services in several global companies, his property management company has added $30m to assets under management in the last two years. Shawn provides advice from an agency and property management perspective, to help guide product development to best meet user needs.

Jay Fang

Jay co-founded "Bolor Consulting" in 2017. As a real estate broker in Texas, he directs business development and has helps clients expand their business by finding the ideal real estate investment. With a family background in real estate development and many years of real estate consulting, he understands the true pain of individual investors and small-mid sized business owners. Jay provides strategic advice to Spatial Laser from a residential real estate practitioner's perspective.
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