This guide lists the property fields home insurance buyers commonly expect, the validation checks to run before you post, what a consent record should hold, and how duplicates happen with homeowner leads. The fields are industry information; which ones apply to your account is agreed with buyers. Summit currently works with web leads (form fills), not calls or live transfers.
Key points
- Buyers judge a home lead by whether an agent can quote the property from it.
- Standardize the address: most property checks start from it.
- Run sanity checks across fields, such as a roof that is older than the house.
- Match duplicates on address as well as phone, because households submit more than once.
How buyers measure home insurance lead quality
Home insurance buyers track what happens to each lead after delivery: whether the agent reached the homeowner, whether a quote was run, and whether a policy was written. They also track returns. A source with a low contact rateContact rateThe share of leads a buyer or its client actually reaches by phone, text or email. Glossary or many returns gets lower bids or is turned off.
Most quality problems can be found before the lead is posted. The sections below cover the checks that catch them.
Property fields buyers commonly expect
| Field | Common format | Quality check |
|---|---|---|
| Property address | Street, unit, city, state, ZIP | Standardizes to a deliverable address; ZIP matches city and state |
| Dwelling type | Single-family, condo, townhome, manufactured | A condo or townhome usually has a unit number |
| Year built | Four-digit year | Not in the future and not implausibly old |
| Square footage | Number, often a range | Within a believable range for the dwelling type |
| Roof age and material | Years or year replaced; shingle, tile, metal | Roof is not older than the home |
| Occupancy | Owner-occupied, rental, secondary or vacant | Matches the reason for shopping (a homebuyer is usually moving in) |
| Current insurance | Insured or not; renewal month | A renewal month is given if the homeowner says they are insured |
| Purchase details | Closing date; lender name if known | Closing date is in the near future, not the past |
Some buyers also ask for prior claims, bundle interest with auto, or safety features such as alarms. Each added field lowers form completion, so add only what your buyers pay for.
Validation checks to run before you post
- Run the address through a standardization service and reject addresses that do not resolve.
- Check that the phone number is a working number and the line type is what you expect.
- Check the email format and domain.
- Compare fields with each other: roof age against year built, occupancy against reason for shopping, unit number against dwelling type.
- Flag names that are obviously fake, such as keyboard strings.
- Check the IP address location against the property state, and review mismatches instead of rejecting them, since people shop for homes in other states.
For the general methods behind these checks, see lead validation and fake leads and lead fraud.
Consent records for each homeowner
A buyer who receives a complaint asks for the consent record. It should show the exact consent text on the page, the time of submission, the IP address and the page URL. If the consent text changes, keep each version and the dates it was live, so every lead maps to the text that homeowner saw.
The consent has to cover insurance contact. A lead from a mortgage or contractor form that never mentioned insurance is not a home insurance lead. See TCPA consent, TCPA consent record-keeping and insurance lead consent and documentation.
Leads from purchased data are not form fills
Some marketers build homeowner lists from credit or property data instead of quote forms. A record built that way is not a homeowner who asked for a quote, and it does not carry a consent record from a form.
Federal law also limits one source of this data. The Homebuyers Privacy Protection Act (Public Law 119-36, September 5, 2025) amends section 604(c) of the Fair Credit Reporting Act. When a person requests a consumer report in connection with a residential mortgage loan, the consumer reporting agency may not, based on that request, furnish a prescreened report to another person unless the transaction is a firm offer of credit or insurance and that other person has the consumer's authorization, or originated or services a current residential mortgage loan of the consumer, or is an insured depository institution or credit union that holds a current account for the consumer. It took effect 180 days after enactment. This is a summary, not legal advice.
Duplicates in home insurance leads
Homeowner leads repeat in ways other leads do not. Two owners of the same home may each fill in a form. A homebuyer may submit on several sites while comparing. A renewal shopper may come back a week later to change an answer.
- Match on the standardized address as well as phone and email, so a second owner at the same address is caught.
- Agree a duplicateDuplicateA lead for a consumer the buyer has already received within a set lookback period, from the same source or another one. Glossary window with each buyer, and do not post the same household to the same buyer inside it.
- Keep the first submission and update it, rather than posting a corrected copy as a new lead.
More on how duplicates arise is in duplicate leads.
Common mistakes
- Accepting any typed address. Unverified addresses fail the buyer's property lookup.
- Skipping cross-field checks. A roof replaced before the house was built tells the buyer the answers were guessed.
- Treating contractor requests as insurance leads. A homeowner asking for siding or roof work belongs on a contractor form. See selling home improvement leads.
- Losing old consent text. Without the version a homeowner saw, the record cannot answer a complaint.
Frequently asked questions
How should a seller record the renewal month on a home insurance lead?
As a month and year chosen from a list, not free text. Check that it falls within the coming year, so buyers can filter and time their calls on it.
How do buyers spot a fake address in a homeowner lead?
They run it through address standardization and property records. An address that does not resolve, or a home whose records do not match the answers, is usually returned.
Should a home insurance lead include the mortgage lender's name?
Some buyers ask for it on homebuyer leads, because the lender is listed on the policy. It is optional unless a buyer requires it.
Is a renter's quote request a home insurance lead?
Not usually. Renters buy a separate policy type. Most homeowners insurance buyers filter renters out unless they also buy renters leads.
Related guides
Sources
- Homebuyers Privacy Protection Act, Public Law 119-36, Congress.govcongress.gov
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