Black Knight (now part of ICE) and CoreLogic (which rebranded to Cotality in 2025) are the two largest names in enterprise property data. If you are building a mortgage origination platform, an automated valuation model (AVM), or an insurance underwriting tool, choosing between them is a major architectural decision. But for outbound sales teams and call centers looking for homeowner contact lists, comparing the two misses the structural problem: neither is built to sell you phone numbers.
Where the platforms specialize
While both companies aggregate nationwide county assessor, recorder, and tax data, their core markets differ.
Black Knight (ICE): Deeply entrenched in the mortgage industry. Its software infrastructure powers a significant portion of US mortgage servicing. Its data products are optimized for lenders, servicers, and capital markets looking at loan performance, lien positions, and prepayment risk. For more on how to replace this feed, see Black Knight alternatives.
CoreLogic (Cotality): The dominant player in historical property analytics, hazard risk (flood, fire, and storm models), and AVMs. It is the primary source for real estate platforms and insurers who need to evaluate the physical asset and its history. For more on its pricing model, see CoreLogic alternatives.
Why neither fits the outbound workflow
If your business model involves calling or mailing homeowners, enterprise property data presents three hurdles.
- No contact data: You are buying a feed of property attributes and recorded owner names. You still have to pay a separate vendor to append phone numbers and scrub them against the DNC registry.
- Annual commitments: Both vendors sell access licenses, not records. You pay an annual minimum regardless of how many records you pull or whether those records result in a connect.
- Permitted use limits: The license terms for enterprise data often restrict or heavily surcharge the use of the data for direct marketing.
For a team making thousands of dials a day, the cost of data should scale with the number of dialable contacts delivered, not the size of the database.
Frequently asked questions
What is the main difference between Black Knight and CoreLogic?
Both are enterprise property data platforms. Black Knight (now part of ICE) is deeply integrated into mortgage origination and servicing workflows. CoreLogic (rebranded to Cotality in 2025) is known for its automated valuation models (AVMs), hazard risk data, and historical property analytics.
Do Black Knight or CoreLogic sell homeowner phone numbers?
Neither platform natively provides skip-traced phone numbers for outbound marketing. Their data feeds supply recorded ownership and property characteristics. If your goal is cold calling, you will need a separate data provider to append contact information to those records.
Which platform is better for a solar or roofing call center?
Neither. Both platforms sell enterprise data licenses with annual minimums, built for analytics and underwriting. An outbound call center needs dial-ready records priced by the match, which requires a per-record data provider rather than a nationwide feed.