Introduction

HOA fees can be an important variable in analyzing the risk factors for real estate investment portfolios. Datafiniti can help you collect this data at scale and feed it into any risk analysis you may be performing

Searching for HOA fees

Fees are a top-level field within the Datafiniti property schema. You can search for any property with associated fees data by doing something like:

{
  "query": "fees.type:HOA"
}

Any returned fees data will look something like:

 "fees": [
   {
     "amountMax": 473,
     "amountMin": 473,
     "currency": "USD",
     "dateSeen": [
       "2023-03-08T02:11:00.000Z",
       "2023-03-27T13:15:00.000Z",
       "2023-03-28T17:28:00.000Z",
       "2023-02-18T04:42:00.000Z"
     ],
     "type": "HOA"
   },
   {
     "amountMax": 320,
     "amountMin": 320,
     "currency": "USD",
     "dateSeen": [
       "2020-11-05T02:29:00.000Z",
       "2020-11-07T02:00:00.000Z"
     ],
     "type": "HOA"
   }
 ],

Here's a quick breakdown of these sub-fields:

amountMax and amountMin: The price values of the fee
currency: The currency of the values
dateSeen: The dates that Datafiniti collected this fees
type: The type of fee. Datafiniti collects other types of fees beyond just HOA

Using this information, you can build a timeline of HOA fees for each property.

Example Records

Here are example bulk download files of our previous query:

Conclusion

With the HOA data report, you can confidently create prices and analysis reports about HOA's in your area. This will also allow you to tailor your HOA report to clients in your area.