Redeemable Noncontrolling Interests	6 Months Ended
Redeemable Noncontrolling Interests	Jun. 30, 2011
Noncontrolling Interest [Abstract]
Redeemable Noncontrolling Interests [Text Block]	Redeemable Noncontrolling Interests In April 2010, we exercised our call option related to Experian Information Solutions Inc.’s ownership interest in the CoreLogic Real Estate Solutions, LLC joint venture. We paid the remaining purchase price of $313.8 million on December 31, 2010. We made a final profit distribution of $4.2 million and a tax distribution (based on the fourth quarter of 2010 profitability of the joint venture) of $0.1 million in the first quarter of 2011. In March 2010, we entered into an agreement to acquire the 18% redeemable noncontrolling interest in CoreLogic Information Solutions Holdings, Inc. On March 29, 2010, we acquired half of the noncontrolling interests (approximately 9% of the total outstanding noncontrolling interests) in exchange for a cash payment of $72.0 million and agreed to acquire the remaining half of the noncontrolling interests in 2011 in exchange for additional consideration of $72.0 million. In February, 2011, we agreed to pay all of the additional consideration in cash and we closed the transaction.

The entire disclosure for noncontrolling interest in consolidated subsidiaries, which could include the name of the subsidiary, the ownership percentage held by the parent, the ownership percentage held by the noncontrolling owners, the amount of the noncontrolling interest, the location of this amount on the balance sheet (when not reported separately), an explanation of the increase or decrease in the amount of the noncontrolling interest, the noncontrolling interest share of the net Income or Loss of the subsidiary, the location of this amount on the income statement (when not reported separately), the nature of the noncontrolling interest such as background information and terms, the amount of the noncontrolling interest represented by preferred stock, a description of the preferred stock, and the dividend requirements of the preferred stock.

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