About Altos Research

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20 Jan 2020 - Mike

Founded in 2006, Altos Research is the premier resource for real time real estate market data. Every week Altos monitors 100 million residential properties across the US, tracks everything for sale and everything for rent, and compiles the data into a compelling, easy-to-use system used by thousands of financial institutions, investors, and real estate professionals every day.

Our statistics and insights are frequently featured in national media such as NPR, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, and Bloomberg TV, as well as local news outlets across the country. We’re also a regular contributor to Inman News and the Xplode conference series.

Altos was founded by Mike Simonsen, a 20-year Silicon Valley analytics software veteran.