Malibu, California · Photograph by Nikky Lewis
The finest homes in Los Angeles, advised with rigor.
The finest homes resist easy comparison. Curator Index represents buyers and sellers at the top of the Los Angeles market, and builds the research and technology that make value legible.
A residential practice built around its own research and technology.
Curator Index is a Los Angeles firm working at the top of the residential market. We represent buyers and sellers of exceptional homes, and we develop the research and the software behind that counsel ourselves. That work stands on its own where principals, advisors, and developers have the opportunity to engage with us for valuation research, market analysis, and custom analytical systems, whether or not a sale is involved.
Buyers and sellers, represented with full discretion.
We take on a small number of engagements at a time, giving each the attention that a significant residence deserves. This is where the research meets the market.
Value studied, not estimated.
We model how value forms within a specific submarket and read the movements that shape the top of the market. Research engagements are available independent of any transaction.
Systems built in house, for work without a template.
We design and build proprietary analytical systems, and take on bespoke engagements where the question is unusual, from custom valuation tooling to analysis supporting a development or portfolio decision.
Centered on the Platinum Triangle of Beverly Hills, Bel Air, and Holmby Hills, and extending wherever the finest homes are found, from the Hollywood Hills and the Bird Streets to Brentwood, Malibu, and the coast.
A research program at the heart of the firm.
Curator Index grew out of original quantitative research into how the world's most exclusive residential markets set value. What began as faculty-advised work in the Dartmouth College Department of Mathematics now shapes how we advise our clients every day.
A Multimodal Machine Learning Framework for Luxury Real Estate Valuation
The foundational research, advised by faculty in the Dartmouth College Department of Mathematics, showing that structured records, listing photography, and language, learned together, sharpen how value is understood at the top of the market.
Read the paper → Applied Research · In PracticeBringing the Framework to Life
The applied continuation, translating the foundational findings into a working method now used in live advisory engagements across Los Angeles.
Read the note →The research continues, extending into new questions of how value forms across the world's most exclusive markets. For the full methods, results, and discussion, the papers are the place to begin.
Private advisory,
by introduction.
For principals, advisors, and developers seeking representation in a sale or acquisition, valuation and market research, or a bespoke analytical engagement. Every enquiry is handled directly and in confidence.
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