About this event
The affordability problem isn't "can the median buyer afford the median home?". It's "which borrowers can access which segments of which markets?"
That question requires loan-level analytics, not aggregate statistics.
Join Val Buresch, CEO of Polygon Research, and Greg Oliven, CTO of Polygon Reserch, for a methodology session on measuring market affordability using microdata:
We'll cover:
- The limits of traditional affordability metrics (why medians mislead)
- How loan-level data reveals affordability at granular geography (ZIP codes, census tracts)
- Our approach: building an Affordability Index from actual loan characteristics, income distribution, and local market conditions
- Live analysis and revealing Polygon Vision's new interactive Affordability Index—filter markets, adjust scenarios, identify opportunity in real-time.
This session is for:
- Analysts and strategists who make data-driven market decisions.
- Marketers who want to understand their communities better.
- Community development officers.
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Team member
Val Buresch Founder @ Polygon ResearchT
Val Buresch, CMB, CMCP, AMP is the founder of Polygon Research—The Shape of Mortgage Intelligence. Polygon specializes in unlocking open data sets to provide sophisticated mortgage market analytics at the loan level.
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Team member
Greg Oliven CTO @ Polygon ResearchT
As the Chief Technology Officer at Polygon Research, Greg Oliven leads software, cloud, and data science teams to transform complex mortgage data into actionable intelligence. With a Cornell BA and Maryland MBA, he leverages technical acumen to drive innovation and scalable cloud solutions.
Polygon Research
The Shape of Mortgage IntelligenceHosted by Polygon Research
Polygon Research builds interactive mortgage market intelligence dashboards using loan-level open data (HMDA, MBS, and more) to help lenders, credit unions, researchers, and regulators perform market analysis in minutes—without downloads, IT setup, or guesswork.
