Hamp is the author of several key works, including Measuring Square Footage with ANSI, The Guide to the Standard & ANSI FAQs – The American Measurement Standard, Death of an Industry, Real Estate Appraisal – Reporting Square Footage to MLS, and Professional’s Dictionary of Real Estate Terms. He also offers a variety of online courses such as the ANSI, Home Measurement & the Power of Price-Per-Square-Foot Appraisal CE Course, Public Records, Square Footage & the Power of Price Per Square Foot, and Big Data-Big Trouble—an online class for Real Estate Professionals.

Since 2003, Hamp has advocated for the implementation of a single, mandatory national measurement standard for real estate. He believes that all real estate professionals must use a unified language to measure and communicate residential square footage. Until such a standard is established, and Realtors® are held accountable for providing accurate square footage data in MLS, property valuations—including CMAs, appraisals, and AVMs—remain at risk. This leaves both home buyers and sellers vulnerable, as the accuracy of their home’s size (and value) is dependent on who is determining it. In today’s price-per-square-foot market, the importance of accurate square footage has never been greater. To help real estate professionals better understand the impact of size on property valuations, Hamp created the Home Measurement Specialist (HMS) certification. HMS is a registered trademark.

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David “Hamp” Thomas is a Certified Residential Appraiser and a residential square footage expert, who has researched public records, MLS, AVM’s, the appraisal industry and big banking for the last twenty years. We have an information crisis in the real estate industry and Big Data can never work without Better Data to rely on. Appraiser/CDEI/CRS/ABR/GRI/MNAA/PSA/HMS/Realtor®. Moore County, NC