About Coda Verified
Coda Home has spent over a decade managing luxury homes across Greater Boston — Wellesley, Newton, Brookline, Dover, Cambridge — as a hands-on owner's rep with a simple philosophy: radical transparency, and homes built and maintained to last. That meant knowing a home inside and out, catching small problems before they became expensive ones, and having the right person show up when something needed attention.
The harder that work got at scale, the clearer one thing became: the homes that gave us the least trouble were the ones where we actually knew what was happening inside them — not just when we visited, but all the time.
Most "smart home" products stop at the sensor. They tell you a pipe is leaking or a door is open, and then leave you to figure out what to do next — usually alone, usually at the worst possible time. That's not smart. That's just a notification.
Coda Verified is different because Coda Home is different. Every alert from your system reaches a real dispatcher who can actually do something about it: diagnose what's going on, and schedule the right contractor from a vetted, private network — the same network we've built over ten years of managing homes just like yours. The sensors are the nervous system. The dispatch and the network are the brain.
A home should tell you what it needs before it becomes an emergency. You shouldn't have to be the one watching it — or scrambling to find someone who can help when something goes wrong. That's the job we've always done in person for Coda Home clients. Coda Verified is how we do it at scale, for more homes, around the clock.
We're just getting started. As Coda Verified grows, we're working to connect what a well-monitored home already proves — fewer surprises, faster response, better-maintained systems — to real savings on homeowners insurance. If that's something you're interested in, take a look at our insurance rebate page.
Founder
Greg Cohen brings over twenty-five years of experience in the real estate industry and is a founding principal of Coda Managed Homes. Greg's real estate journey began in 1992 where he worked in real estate construction, development and general contracting. In 1995, Greg founded Coda Development, which focused on the production of high-end residential properties in the Greater Boston area. His network of home care and construction professionals in the Boston area is endless. Through his expertise, reliability and trustworthiness, Greg has been involved with developing, historically preserving, renovating and restoring homes that have been standing for multiple generations. Greg is a Wellesley resident and is an avid skier, fisher and hiker who can be found spending time with his family and two dogs when not building luxury properties.
Founder
Otto Magdanz is the president of Coda Managed Homes. A graduate of Harvard Business School, he has over 15 years of experience in service-based businesses and is an entrepreneur by nature. Otto's passion for helping others has been highlighted by his development of various successful concierge-type businesses throughout the years. Otto's leadership has helped to propel Coda Managed Homes to be the standard for quality concierge caretaker services in the MetroWest area. In his free time, Otto enjoys ice hockey, snowboarding and blowing glass at his family's glass studios in Martha's Vineyard and Cambridge.
Founder
Jon has worked in Real Estate and Property Management since 1997. He started as a leasing consultant for Princeton Properties where he managed roughly 800 apartments spread across 8 communities. After many years there he left to start his own mortgage corporation, an experience that gave him extensive experience in construction and finance. In 2011, Jon joined Skinner Demolition where he helped grow his division and launched a new branch within the company, Skinner Disposal. Jon's experience also includes multiple ground-up residential developments. At Coda, this varied and extensive experience makes him the perfect fit to run our field operations, and to oversee our medium to large projects. Jon lives in Sharon with his wife and 2 children, and he is the head coach of Sharon High School Lacrosse.
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