Our Story
Proud to call New England home
My family has lived and worked in all six New England states over the years: Newburyport MA, Boston MA, Kittery ME, Hampton NH, Bristol RI, Ludlow VT, Dover NH, Portland ME, Portsmouth NH, Newmarket NH, Hatfield MA, Northampton MA, North Andover MA, and Simsbury CT.
Professionally, since 2007 I've worked to help underwrite and insure the oldest and most complex stock of residential and commercial properties in the U.S. I understand those complexities as both a business leader and a homeowner. My own home's tax assessment shows an 1806 year built. I know from multiple sources it was actually constructed in 1800, by a clipper ship captain who sailed across the Atlantic Ocean for his own work.
“Here in New England, the character is strong and unshakable.”
— Norman Rockwell
Obtaining accurate and comprehensive property data and provenance for New England properties is difficult — often nearly impossible. Working for a top-5 insurance carrier, I've overseen underwriting and data accuracy not just for our six New England states, but countrywide.
For 400 years, New Englanders have built and maintained properties unlike anywhere else. And they've done it in their own way — with a mix of unique, uneven, and strikingly original architecture, governance, recordkeeping, and ownership.
National data providers steer their big ships away from New England's complexity, optimizing instead for “easier” modern developments, tract homes, and readily-accessible data sources. New England Provenance — NE Provenance — embraces our region's complexity. We live here. We work here. We raise families here.
I'm proud of our history, which is why I set out to create the most comprehensive, authoritative data intelligence record for the most valuable assets that New Englanders own: our homes and businesses. By doing so, NE Provenance helps ensure accuracy, insight, and opportunity for all professionals working with New England properties — and their customers. We believe that's a win-win for everyone involved.
We care deeply about New England and its one-of-a-kind properties and residents. Our work, our intelligence, and our journey prove that. I welcome you to partner with NE Provenance, and connect property intelligence from over 140 independent sources to your own work, expertise, and data across our coverage area in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Maine, and Vermont.
Mike Luekens
Founder & CEO, NE Provenance
Mike Luekens
Founder & CEO
NE Provenance
Senior Director, Product Management
Underwriting Data Accuracy, Personal & Business Lines
Vice President, Underwriting & Agent Service
National Top-5 P&C Carrier
Managing Director, Policy Production & Underwriting Operations
Product Management
Leader, Analytics & Process Improvement
Underwriting & Production
How we operate
Operating principles, not slogans
These are not aspirations. They are decisions baked into every algorithm, every data structure, and every customer interaction. They determine what we build, what we ship, and what we refuse to ship.
Inconclusive is better than wrong
An unmatched record is always preferable to an incorrect match. When our data cannot determine something with confidence, we say so — because a wrong answer costs our customers far more than a missing one. This principle is embedded in every matching algorithm, every classification model, and every quality gate in the pipeline.
Partnership over transaction
We are not building a data vending machine. Every customer relationship — from a local inspector buying a single lookup to a carrier integrating our feed — is a partnership where we learn what matters and deliver more of it. The feedback loop between customers and our pipeline is how the intelligence gets better.
Earn trust with provenance
We do not ask anyone to trust a number. We show where it came from — which source, which date, which method. Our customers are professionals who evaluate evidence for a living. They do not need confidence scores. They need receipts.
Build for the long term
Every fact in our system carries full temporal history — when it was observed, when it was valid, what it replaced. We do not overwrite data; we accumulate evidence. This means our platform gets more valuable with every passing month, and our customers can see how properties change over time.
Regional depth over national breadth
We cover six states deeply rather than fifty states thinly. New England has unique housing stock, municipal systems, weather patterns, and regulatory complexity. Building for a region we know — and have lived in since 1985 — means we catch what a national aggregator misses.
Derived intelligence, not passthrough
We do not resell assessor records or repackage public data. Every attribute in our platform is a computed output — assembled, corroborated, and validated from multiple independent sources. The raw facts are evidence. The intelligence we derive from them is what we deliver. That distinction is what separates a data vendor from a data partner.
What we've built
The most comprehensive property intelligence platform in New England
Every number below is real, current, and growing. This is not a projection or a roadmap — it is what exists in our production database today.
Properties
4.7M+
across 6 New England states
Intelligence attributes
430+
per property record
Data sources
140+
corroborated at the address level
Counties
29
86% of NE parcel coverage
Data Accuracy & Accessibility
Bringing order to a chaotic data environment
Working with data is inherently messy. New England properties date back 400 years. Lot lines follow rock walls and rivers. Skyscrapers peer over buildings used to plan the American Revolution. Over a thousand offices keep records in hundreds of formats. Paper records are still a reality in more than a few local towns today. Errors made centuries ago can and most definitely do persist in primary source data today. It comes with the territory.
The data itself — building permits, deed records, property assessments, environmental reports — is public information, maintained by public agencies with public funding. We believe it should be easily accessible to the professionals and communities that depend on it. In practice, it rarely is. It's scattered across 1,500+ municipal offices and records, published in inconsistent formats, and often requires public access requests or manual research to obtain. That gap between what's public in principle and what's accessible in practice is exactly why we built NE Provenance.
We collect this data from every source we can find — municipal permit databases, registries of deeds, state and federal environmental records, business filings, aerial imagery, and more than 140 independent, primary sources in total. We collect it, clean it, normalize it, triangulate it across sources, corroborate it, and connect it all at the individual address and owner level. Then we analyze, model, and distribute the result as professional-grade intelligence. The raw data is public. The work of making it useful at scale across 4.7 million properties — that's the service, and that's what we price fairly and transparently.
Our goal is to be not only the largest and most comprehensive intelligence record for New England properties, but also the most accurate. If you see errors or omissions of any kind, please email [email protected] and we'll work on fixing them. We make frequent updates to maintain data integrity, with quarterly macro refreshes across all sources. We share your commitment to accuracy, and appreciate your partnership in building the provenance record for New England properties.
Interested in learning more?
Whether you're a carrier exploring data partnerships, a broker looking for better property intelligence, or an inspector who wants to show up prepared — every partner conversation starts with Mike directly.
Explore the intelligence for yourself
Open a Property Wallet for a real New England property. With over 4.7 million similar records across all six New England states, see how it fits into your workflow.
Newburyport, MA · Federalist · 3,524 sq ft · 4 bed / 3 bath · Built 1800 · Historic District
NEP Property Intelligence Summary
ConditionC1Fire ClassBFlood ZoneXOwnerIndividualOccupancyOwner-Occupied
Purchased2018 (8yr)Permits11 total · 4 in 5yrSystems3 updated · newest 0yrLiensClearAssessed$1.6MOcean0.3 miSurgeCat 2
EraPre-1940HistoricDesignatedRenovationRecent (5yr)CommercialNo Business ActivityRadonZone 1 — Highest
AES-256 encryption
US-hosted infrastructure
CCPA compliant
Customer data never sold or shared
Authoritative, primary sources
PostgreSQL — enterprise-grade infra