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Juy 7, 2010 - Integrated Asset Services releases a new report titled A New Era Of Mortgage Servicing: Out of Crisis, Solutions outlining the latest advancement in valuation technology that has emerged in response to the U.S. foreclosure crisis.

June 14, 2010 - Integrated Asset Services announced today that it has completed a planned transition of the company’s day-to-day management. Effective today, Ryan Tomazin, formerly Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer, will become President of IAS leading a seasoned senior team, many of whom have been with the company since its founding in 1995.

June 8, 2010 – U.S. housing prices turn positive in April as the IAS360 moves ahead .9% as federal tax incentives wind down. Three of the four U.S. census regions registered respectable gains for the month, with the Midwest adding 1.9%, the South, primarily on strength along its central corridor, 1.8%, and the West 1.1%. Only the Northeast, with a 0.7% decline-the region's eighth in a row-lost ground for the month. Boston and New York, the Northeast's leading metropolitan areas, also reported negative months, their eighth straight as well.

May 11, 2010 – U.S. housing market showing signs of life. Outsized monthly gains in two of the four U.S. census regions—3.2% in the Midwest and 2.5% in the South—accounted for the bulk of the monthly turnaround. The West did manage a slight 0.8% improvement, this following seven straight declines, but the Northeast, mostly on weakness up and down the Washington-to-Boston corridor, slipped 0.4%.

April 13, 2010 – With February’s drop - the seventh straight monthly decline - the IAS360 House Price Index is down 7.5% from July 2009, and 25% from July 2007, the IAS360’s high-water mark. February’s closing level is only fractionally higher than the index’s closing value six years ago.

March 10, 2010 – 2010 housing market off to a chilly start. 2.3% Drop in IAS360 House Price Index marks sixth straight down month for house price benchmark. Unusually severe winter weather in large regions of the country may have added to the housing market’s woes, most likely in the Midwest where prices dropped another 2.6% for the month, this following a similar drop in December. The region, which includes hard-hit states like Illinois (-4.9%), Missouri (-4.4%), and Minnesota (-3.5%) has now given back all of its 2009 gains.

February 9, 2010 – U.S. housing prices slide into year end with another down month. IAS360 House Price Index drops 0.7% In December to cap mostly cheerless year. Based on the timeliest and most granular data available in the industry, the index for national house prices fell 0.7% in December Save for a brief rally across the summer, the leading benchmark for U.S. housing was down nearly all of 2009. Finishing with five straight down periods, the IAS360 was off 5.3% for the 12-month stretch. This relatively modest decline follows an 11.7% decline in 2008.

January 12, 2010 —Seasonal chill settles over November housing prices. Warm-up in the south not enough to lift IAS360® House Price Index into positive territory.

December 8, 2009 —Tax credit not enough to push housing prices into positive territory. The latest IAS360® House Price Index reports northeast leads the way down as the IAS360 House Price Index slides again In October.

November 10, 2009 —The latest IAS360® House Price Index reports national house prices fell 0.6% in September. Compared to the 3.1% decline for the same period last year, the modest decline for the leading U.S. housing benchmark indicates the typical seasonal downturn has been somewhat delayed.

October 13, 2009 —The latest IAS360® House Price Index reports indicate that U.S. house prices defy recover. Though slight, the decline marks the second down month in a row for the big benchmark after a healthy 2.8% rise across the second quarter. With August's report, the leading U.S. housing benchmark is now virtually unchanged for the year.

September 8, 2009 —The latest IAS360® House Price Index reports prices were down 0.5% in July. The slight decline marked the first down month for the IAS360 since February. The leading U.S. housing benchmark remains ahead fractionally for the year but still well off (-16.2%) its high in June 2007.

August 18, 2009 —Mortgage industry gains new category of servicing with launch of Statebridge. Integrated Asset Services announced today the launch of Statebridge. The new company will provide custom, high-touch investor-focused servicing for the mortgage industry.  Statebridge's risk-based servicing will introduce a new adaptive approach designed to optimize investor success through tailored, high-touch servicing that maximizes return on performing and non-performing loans. This new approach to servicing was developed by the team that helped create the market for independent surveillance of mortgage securities.

August 11, 2009 —The IAS360 House Price Index (HPI) reports U.S. house prices climbing with a 1.2% rise in June. The IAS360 reports gains in all four U.S. census regions for second quarter 2009. With June's gains — the fourth consecutive positive month — the U.S. housing benchmark advanced 2.7% for full second quarter 2009, virtually offsetting the 2.6% decline across the first three months of the year. The IAS360 HPI is still down 16.7% from its high in June 2007.

July 14, 2009 —The IAS360 reported gains in May for nine of the nation's 10 largest metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs), a notable turnaround from just two months ago when Denver was the only region in the nation with positive performance. For its part, Denver added another 0.4% in May, while Boston and Chicago followed solid April numbers with increases of 3.7% and 1.5%, respectively. The gains in the West, meanwhile, were particularly apparent with San Francisco up 3.0%, Los Angeles 2.8%, and San Diego 1.2%. Only the Las Vegas housing market continued to slide with a drop of 0.9% for the month.

June 9, 2009 — The April 2009 IAS360 reports U.S. house prices leveling off in April indicating some return to normalcy in nation's hardest hit markets. April's report reflects the first non-declining numbers for the index in 10 months. The IAS360 had fallen more than 19% from its high-water mark in June of 2007.

May 20, 2009 — IAS applying "distressed" methodology to automated real estate valuations. This new feature is available within the iValue suite of AVM products and is intended to help mortgage servicers around the country more accurately value distressed residential properties and loans associated with such collateral.

May 12, 2009 —The slide in house prices slows in March. The latest IAS360® House Price Index reports March numbers come on top of a 3.0% drop in February and a 3.5% plunge in January, the index's worst single-month decline ever. On a year-over-year basis, U.S. house prices are now down 13.9%, with a full 10.7% coming since September when the economy began unwinding. IAS data show prices down 17.7 % from the height of the real estate bubble in 2006.

April 14, 2009 — House prices' vital signs remain in critical condition. The latest IAS360™ House Price Index showed house prices falling another 3.0% in February 2009. "We have seen no indication of a positive turn in the housing markets we track, if anything the rate of decline in some areas has increased," said Dave McCarthy, President and CEO of Integrated Asset Services. "Because we use the most current data available in the market place, the IAS360 House Price Index will be the first to see a turnaround – when it occurs."
 
March 25, 2009 — IAS launches the first cost-effective real estate valuation model to apply physical condition adjustments. The Conditioned Valuation Model™ (CVM®) is a first-of-its-kind cost-effective integration of automated transparent property analytics with human observation. CVM is uniquely positioned along the continuum of existing property valuation products between the widely-used Automated Valuation Models (AVM) and Brokers Price Opinions (BPO). At half the price of a standard BPO, the new CVM allows for more comprehensive and affordable due diligence for those business applications requiring more than an AVM but less than a BPO.

March 11, 2009 — Tailspin continues for U.S. Housing Market. IAS360® House Price Index, based upon the timeliest and most granular data available in the industry, reports a staggering 3.5% plunge in house prices for January, the worst single-month decline since its peak in November of 2006. January's drop by itself represents more than $610 billion in reduced value of U.S. housing stock and brings the total loss from the start of the economic meltdown last September to roughly $2.4 trillion. Following a 1.1% decline in December, the national housing index has now fallen 24.7% from its peak in November of 2006.

February 10, 2009 — Latest IAS360® show U.S. house prices fell 13.8% in 2008. Based on the timeliest and most granular data available in the industry, the index showed a 13.8% decline in house prices for the full year 2008 and an overall decline of 19.1% since the market's peak at the end of 2006. This after December 2008 posted continued declines of 1.1%. The IAS360 report also identified 10 of the counties hit hardest during the national decline. Not surprisingly, most were in states that experienced the largest gains during the housing bubble, California and Florida in particular.

February 5, 2009 — IAS rolls out ground-breaking due diligence service for the mortgage industry. CDA Credit Due Diligence Analytics delivers what IAS calls a "surgically precise" review of borrower credit worthiness, collateral valuation, and compliance for loan buyers. The company expects hedge funds, mutual funds, private investors, government agencies, ratings agencies, and mortgage originators and service providers to benefit from this innovative approach to due diligence.

January 13, 2009 — County Level House Prices Continue Sharp Declines in November. The IAS360™ House Price Index reports a 1.7% decline in house prices on a national level in November, with an annual decline of 13.3%. County level house prices across the country continued to post weak results in November. At the census region level, results for November show all four U.S. Census regions experiencing declines in home prices, with the South and West experiencing double digit declines year-over-year of 11.5% and 18.4%, respectively. The South and Northeast saw slight improvement in their rate of decline from October. And, the Midwest continued to generate the largest drop in values with a decline of 2.9% in November.