MidOcean merges real estate data firms

MidOcean Partners is acquiring and merging Hanley Wood, the B2B information services company serving the US residential construction industry, and Meyers Research, the provider of real-time market data to the homebuilding industry, which was previously a subsidiary of global real estate investment company Kennedy Wilson. Through Metrostudy and Zonda – the respective data products of Hanley Wood and Meyers Research – the combined company will offer data spanning the full homebuilding lifecycle, from land acquisition and property development and build, to new home sales and marketing.