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A new climate-related metric advanced by a company linked to private equity firms is quietly subverting the U.S. housing market, a new report claims.<\/p>\n

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Major online real estate platforms such as Zillow, Relator.com, Homes.com and Redfin all have featured predictive climate-risk scores, according to a from the American Energy Institute and Consumers\u2019 Research first obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The scores, developed by private company First Street, can often directly contrast with the Federal Emergency Management Agency\u2019s (FEMA) official flood maps and determinations.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor most American families, a home is their single largest financial asset and the primary vehicle for building generational wealth,\u201d the report claims.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese scores lack statutory authority, formal appeals, and frequently contradict FEMA maps,\u201d it adds. \u201cA documented $6.2 million case study shows buyer interest collapsing and prices dropping after a private score assigned a 9\/10 flood risk to a FEMA Zone X (minimal risk) property.\u201d (RELATED: Blackstone Stock Nosedives As Trump Comes For Their Real Estate Cash Grab)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Consumers\u2019 Research asked multiple federal regulators including congress to investigate First Street over concerns about its impact on residential real estate, according to the report.<\/p>\n

\u201cBlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street hold 19 to 25% combined ownership stakes in the parent companies distributing these scores,\u201d the report added.<\/p>\n

A BlackRock spokesperson directed us to the firm\u2019s Global Voting Spotlight, which states, \u201cSetting, executing, and overseeing strategy are the responsibility of management and the board. As one of many minority shareholders on behalf of our clients, BlackRock does not direct a company\u2019s strategy or its implementation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBlackRock Investment Stewardship does not act collectively with other shareholders or organizations in voting shares and does not follow any proxy research firm\u2019s voting recommendations.\u201d<\/p>\n

First Street did not immediately respond to the DCNF\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n

Molly Vogt, Senior Fellow at the American Energy Institute told the DCNF that First Street is an \u201cunregulated private company\u201d whose \u201cscores routinely contradict official FEMA flood maps, undermine property values, and influence homebuyers without any transparent methodology or meaningful appeals process.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cEven more concerning, BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street, the same asset managers that championed destructive Net-Zero initiatives across corporate America, hold significant ownership stakes in the platforms distributing these scores,\u201d Vogt continued.<\/p>\n

Will Hild, Executive Director of Consumers\u2019 Research told the DCNF that First Street is \u201cimplying federal scientific backing, when in reality they are using their own arbitrary scores to push a climate agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBy pushing activist-driven modeling, First Street is denying homeowners any meaningful path to challenge the damage being done to their largest asset,\u201d he added. \u201cIt\u2019s no coincidence that Wall Street giants like BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street hold major stakes in the platforms pushing these scores, giving them yet another lever to impose ESG [environmental, social and governance] agendas on American families.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAmerican homeowners deserve to know who is shaping these property valuations, how these scores are calculated, and what safeguards exist to protect them from inaccurate or misleading assessments,\u201d Vogt told the DCNF. \u201cCongress must investigate before more American families watch their biggest financial asset quietly eroded by an unaccountable, Wall Street-linked scoring system.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Editor\u2019s note: This story has been updated to include comment from BlackRock.<\/em><\/p>\n

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