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52 Best in Property Valuation Guide SPECIAL ADVERTORIAL SECTION CLASS VALUATION CORPORATE DETAILS: HEADQUARTERS: 2600 Bellingham Drive #100, Troy, MI 48083, 866.333.8311 DENVER R&D CENTER: 518 17th Street, Suite 1105, Denver, CO 80202 COMPANY DESCRIPTION Class Valuation is a top nationwide real estate collateral valuation and appraisal management company (AMC) to the residential mortgage industry. The company is committed to combining the best people, products, processes, and technology available to help lenders make more homeownership dreams come true. Class has consistently been ranked highly in client service by several of the nation's top-10 mortgage lenders and has been recognized as a top place to work, along with receiving many other industry awards. BUSINESS LINES, PRODUCTS & SERVICES As a top AMC, Class Valuation consistently provides outstanding quality and lasting relationships to every client. Approved in all 50 states, Class Valuation offers a comprehensive product suite and a network of more than 12,000 appraisers nationwide. Its guaranteed pricing options bring further transparency and ease to the process. With Class Valuation, you can expect a partner for your current collateral valuations needs so that you can exceed in the appraisal world of tomorrow. COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE In an industry ripe for innovation, Class Valuation endeavors to be the guiding light, partnering with lenders in all channels, including the growing broker market, borrowers, rating agencies, GSEs, and capital markets, to transform collateral risk valuation and define a future that is better for everyone. No matter what the future holds, Class Valuation's number-one priority remains its clients' success. Since 2009, Class has remained committed to creating operational efficiencies and providing world-class service to exceed client expectations every step of the way. Because of this, the company has generated a reputation for being the go-to AMC for outstanding transparency, service, and speed. With the industry mandating changes in valuation modernization, private equity company Narrow Gauge Capital, along with Mike Detwiler, saw a tremendous opportunity to take an already industry-leading AMC like Class and partner with industry stakeholders on modernization efforts. In March of 2018, Class Valuation was acquired by Narrow Gauge Capital with Mike Detwiler joining as CEO. This additional backing came with a commitment to keeping the bar set high on unbiased transparency, service, and speed while defining Thoughtful Change in the valuation space. Since the acquisition, Class Valuation has seen monumental growth and change in an effort to lay the groundwork for the most innovative, forward-thinking AMC in the industry. One of the first orders of business was to bolster the leadership team. Now nearly doubled in size, that team is made up of industry veterans who are experts in their fields, helping lead innovation and modernization from the inside out. Today, Class Valuation is piloting its 3D-imaging technology (powered by InsideMaps), property inspection mobile app (INvision GO), and extensive workflow engine (INvision) to fully digitize the home and create a true digital fingerprint that provides unmatched insights into the property as collateral for a mortgage loan. All components work in harmony to expedite the collection of the data—eliminating the need for rekeying—while ultimately providing greater insight that cannot be provided by the limited data sets historically collected to date. Through the pilot testing, lenders have turned to Class Valuation to bring them into the future of property data collection and valuation products. With their unmatched data collection processes, the company plans on becoming far more sophisticated in how it thinks about differences in properties by running powerful analytics against a broader, more holistic data set. The goal and vision Class Valuation sees for the industry at large is a world where the lending community can have peace of mind that the data collected on each property is completely accurate and transparent, and that this can be done even quicker with Class Valuation's goal of seeing appraisal orders completed in one business day. All plans ultimately circle back to the company's unwavering vision of providing unbiased transparency, service, and speed to each and every client. Powerful valuation technology and machine learning are just some of the ways the company will continue to support all lenders in the years ahead. KEY PERSONNEL Mike Detwiler CEO Jon Tallinger Chief Growth Officer Scot Rose Chief Innovation Officer Tim Staudenmaier Director of Digital Strategy Vijay Taneja Chief Data Scientist CONTACT INFORMATION John Detwiler, SVP of National Sales jdetwiler@classvaluation.com 303.476.8776 Website: classvaluation.com