Housing & Urban Finance Lab
Data
To support the production of high-caliber research across an array of related topics, the Housing and Urban Finance Lab (HUFL) provides access and insights to UVA faculty through access to a robust suite of data maintained by the McIntire School of Commerce and affiliated centers.
Offering comprehensive information and analytics for property, mortgage, consumer, financial data, digital performance, marketing effectiveness, consumer and business credit data, identity management, and more—these datasets are located in the Rivanna Research Computing Environment, so UVA researchers will need to be familiar with this HPC environment to access and use them effectively.
CoreLogic
National coverage of residential parcel characteristics, ownership history, mortgage records, and building permits over time.
Used for:
Housing markets, neighborhood effects, mortgage dynamics
Experian
An anonymized subsample of Experian’s credit database, providing detailed measures of household credit behavior and financial outcomes.
Used for:
Household finance, credit access, refinancing behavior
Infutor
Person-level demographic and address history data, including aliases, residential mobility, and inferred consumption preferences.
Used for:
Mobility, neighborhood sorting, social spillovers
L2
National voter file data including registration, address, and turnout history.
Used for:
Politics, residential sorting, civic engagement