Data anomaly analyst flags 89% of 'real estate' price increases tied to what she calls 'mirror listings'—properties that disappear from records exactly 24 hours after being sold, then reappear in another county owned by a buyer with the same face, but different social security number.
'Every single one of these sales has a 2.3-second gap in the county assessor's server log,' the analyst says. 'It's the only time the system hiccups. Call it a glitch. I call it a pattern.'