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Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a system and method for matching two or more addresses. In one embodiment, the system and method includes extracting certain strings or tokens from the addresses, storing the extracted portions into address property containers, and comparing the extracted properties in a layered approach based on the information constructed in the address property containers. In the first layer, the primary properties of the first address are compared to the primary properties of the second address. In the second layer, for each common primary property the modifiers associated with the common primary property of the first address are compared to the modifiers associated with selected primary properties of the second address.