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Key Factors to Achieve Reliable Replacement Cost Estimates
Replacement cost estimates are an essential component of the underwriting process. Reliable estimates help you protect you policyholders, collect adequate premiums, and analyze your catastrophe risk. In this session, you’ll gain a better understanding of the factors that contribute to reliable replacement cost estimates. You’ll also get insights on how to improve your company’s estimates and how to use the property valuation process to enhance other aspects of your company’s business.

Bridging the Gap Between Underwriting, Claims and Policyholders
Learn about the challenges and solutions for maintaining adequate insurance-to-value in today’s difficult economic times. With insurer revenue in question, underwriting has a unique opportunity to help contribute to the bottom line with a re-focused effort on enhancing insurance to value. Join us for an overview of the current property valuation landscape and how bridging the gap between underwriting, claims, and policyholders can help enhance insurance to value.

The Relationship between Market Value and Replacement Cost Estimates

A lasting impact of the U.S. housing market crash are homes that cost more to rebuild than they can be sold for in a real-estate transaction.

The phenomenon is making many homeowners question Coverage A values, asking why a home should be insured for more than its worth. Xactware has dedicated time to investigating the topic and developing resources to help insurers and policyholders navigate this challenging circumstance.

Declining Residential Market Values Spur Customer Service Concerns for Insurers
This article, published in the inaugural issue of Verisk Review, provides an overview of the differences between market values and replacement cost estimates in several metropolitan areas.

Understanding the Difference between Market Value and Replacement Cost Estimates
This website details the differences between the two values that insurers and agents can use to explain to a homeowner why the replacement cost estimate may exceed the market value of their home. It also provides some tips to help homeowners maintain insurance-to-value over the life of the policy.

Green Building Article Series

What is green building? Depending on who you ask, you’ll likely get a different response. As green building continues its growth in the construction industry, it will soon become a question property insurers will need to be able to answer. The 360Value team wants to give you information you need to prepare you for the green building revolution.

The series of green building articles below will redirect you from this site to the ISO Property Resources web page.

The Evolving Impact of Green Building
Consumers looking to build or remodel are finding more and more reasons to go green. Read about the effects of green building on property insurers and building owners, and the impact on claims costs and underwriting.

What is Green Building and Why is it Important?
Not sure how to define green building. Read how our green building experts look at the topic and better understand its growing role in the construction industry.

Green Building Methods
Building techniques are constantly evolving and more and more are now turning green. We’ll cover some of the new green building methods that may become main stream in the coming years and look at the potential impact they will have on building costs.

Green Building Materials
Many green building materials have been recently introduced to the construction industry and many more are on the horizon. We’ll look at green building materials that property insurers will likely soon encounter.

Shades of Green: Green Certifications
Confused about the different certification programs for green building? In this article, we help straighten things out by examining the more popular certifications.

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