The Open Property Information Affiliation (OPDA) has launched a brand new YouTube channel to assist make sense of the crucial adjustments shaping the way forward for homebuying.
The channel is now stay and incorporates a rising library of movies designed to elucidate all the things from the fundamentals of sensible information and belief frameworks to detailed technical knowhow of OPDA’s schema and membership accreditation course of.
The organisation was based in 2023. Its govt committee of 15 consists of mortgage lenders, property and Proptech companies, conveyancers and property brokers.
The chair of OPDA, Maria Harris, explains: “We’ve been speaking for a very long time about creating easy, accessible sources for individuals throughout the property and mortgage sectors who need to perceive what’s coming and might share with their groups and prospects – whether or not that’s the Information Use & Entry laws, the federal government’s Industrial Technique, or the requirements that may underpin a extra digital homebuying journey. So, we lastly took the plunge and made it occur.”
The channel at the moment options three primary playlists tailor-made to completely different audiences:
- Introductions and explainers – bite-sized movies masking OPDA’s mission, the present homebuying course of, sensible information, belief frameworks, shopper insights, and related laws. Appropriate for business professionals and shoppers.
- Technical deep dives – walkthroughs of OPDA’s information schema and API spec, created for builders and product groups.
- Membership and accreditation – step-by-step guides for companies and software program suppliers trying to turn out to be OPDA-accredited.
New content material is within the pipeline. Subjects coming quickly will embrace OPDA’s Good Information Problem prototype, the Property Information Belief Framework sandbox, reusable digital ID and threat checks, and extra.
“We’re in no way video execs however the objective is to make these large, transformative concepts simpler to know for everybody, and to create some generally used language round digitisation of homebuying and mortgages,” says Harris. “We’d love to listen to from individuals throughout the business if there’s one thing they’d like us to cowl subsequent.”
