Just got CoStar Access. What’s people’s favorite functionality
[{"id": "fa8icgn", "text": "Mostly I use it for sales comps and double checking construction activity. Looking up ownership ect is also useful.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "fa8k3in", "text": "If you\u2019re a multifamily guy, the rent comps tab they have is awesome. They use apartments.com data to tell you what search overlap for other buildings. ie if someone clicked on your building what other buildings do they click on. Great for determining which buildings you\u2019re competitive with. \n\nRetail, industrial and office, I think their development pipeline data is best. They literally have a fucking plane that tracks projects with a super high def camera. \n\nIf you\u2019re debt and equity, they also have a great resource from an analytic perspective. They have around 50 people located in market who analyze the data in aggregate. Can reach out to them for no fee. They often provide great data and charts to support investment decisions.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "fa8m4yc", "text": "can anyone get costar access?", "replies": [{"id": "fa8n32u", "text": "Yes, all you need is $$$ and lots of it, every month.", "replies": [], "depth": 2}, {"id": "fa8ovmj", "text": "I got it through my work but yeah very expensive.", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "fa8qylt", "text": "Is there anyone willing to share costar access, gratis or for little out of pocket, Is there even an trial or temporary access? Newbie would appreciate a ton.", "replies": [{"id": "fa8r524", "text": "it's impossible to share with their login processes.", "replies": [], "depth": 2}, {"id": "fa8r66w", "text": "no trials. minimum one year subscription.  biggest mafia", "replies": [], "depth": 2}, {"id": "fa8t9bf", "text": "go to a local college and ask the real estate professor/staff or a student to show you around on it", "replies": [{"id": "fa91hz1", "text": "Thanks, I\u2019ll see few local college if they have any real estate professor, as far as I know none have real estate program.", "replies": [], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}, {"id": "fa94x14", "text": "They\u2019re notoriously protective against sharing. Google costar sharing lawsuits and you\u2019ll see several they\u2019ve won. They require a certificate on your search engine of choice and it won\u2019t work unless you have it or a code each time you log in.", "replies": [], "depth": 2}, {"id": "fbfqxik", "text": "They use 2 factor authentication and it is so fucking annoying, and that's after you install their stupid security certificate (and have to have refreshed every time you get a new computer or whatever).", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "fa8ruv7", "text": "I like to use a polygon for my geographic location, enter in search criteria and then go to \u201cresults\u201d then go over towards \u201cchange\u201d", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "fa8v5xa", "text": "I just started working in CRE recently but all my company\u2019s brokers seem to use costar as their bible for finding tenants/deals. I think it really depends on the area of the country you are in that determines the usefulness of it however. If brokers aren\u2019t feeding the info to costar then they\u2019re data might be useless in certain markets.", "replies": [{"id": "fa8wvwr", "text": "They will keep calling until they get the data. It might be wrong, but they\u2019ll get some.", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "fa8y23p", "text": "Costar is great for general market metrics, vacancy, comparable sets, ownership, however I have never found that the rent comparables / market rent levels are all that accurate. at least on the commercial side of things.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "fa90bly", "text": "Thanks, I\u2019ll see few local college if they have any real estate professor, as far as I know none have real estate program.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "fa94esc", "text": "Listings", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "fa94zc4", "text": "Searching options for tenants I represent. \n\nLooking up competition. \n\nOwnership look up.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "fa9hn5j", "text": "I find that rentometer is better for current apartment rates.  I mostly use CoStar for tracking down owner info.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "fa9ph5i", "text": "Do not like. In LA we regard costar\u2019s accuracy to be less than 50% for comps or tenants, even snails are way off. It actually grabs ownership information from Real Quest and sales are public info. So all in all, those are basically running the biggest scheme in CRE. But we can still use it as a general building information database or as leads to real information. \n\nIf you look at their legal history, they try really hard to sue out the competition every chance they get. I really believe others will overtake them easily in time with better modern tools. \n\nAnyways, favorite function is that it has brokers numbers on the buildings. It\u2019s literally the only thong that\u2019s mostly accurate. I can find any broker and what building they represent. But I\u2019m pretty sure loop net does that for free. (Costar subsidiary)", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "faa76n4", "text": "CDX Mail and the Prospect list", "replies": [{"id": "faajpuf", "text": "CDX Mail makes me laugh so damn hard. After all the lawsuits against Xceligent for stealing, they go out and promote their new email system and give it the exact same name as what Xceligent used.", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}]