Loopnet/Costar Changes
Anyone else have experience with Loopnet and Costar, and find the recent changes really annoying? For smaller companies, it could threaten their business. Loopnet is getting intentionally hamstringed, pushing people towards Costar. I can no longer access old listings, they disappear. Mandatory videos and annoying "listings" only available on Costar. They argue they have an all-in-one service, yet I still find data on Loopnet that is not on Costar. Their prices are insane, and Loopnet was the only reasonable national service. Costar has no competition and they are buying out every competing service. Xceligent, who's existence was the one of the reasons for approving the buyout of Loopnet, is in lawsuits and losing with Costar due to terrible business practices involving stealing Costar data. I don't get how the buyout was originally approved... There is no competition.

I don't see any news articles on the issue, and comment boards on Costar and Loopnet have been removed...
[{"id": "dpasz9v", "text": "CoStar called me recently trying to put a hard sell on signing up. I let them schedule a call and pitch me for a half hour. I ended up passing.", "replies": [{"id": "dpaw7cl", "text": "Same here, the value is not worth the price for me", "replies": [], "depth": 2}, {"id": "dpbaocl", "text": "But holy shit is it better than REIS", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "dpate9k", "text": "Costar bought loopnet to kill it. What you are seeing is a feature not a bug. \n\nExpect things to get worse. ", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "dpavlrg", "text": "Nothing like Costar, but there is Compstak, Reonomy, Real Capital Analytics, Rudolph Property Explorer, and others that have interesting nationwide products that might be able to help you.", "replies": [{"id": "dpbjn81", "text": "RCA is really more focused on comps and transactions than listings and holdings.", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "dpaw64u", "text": "It\u2019s incredibly annoying. My Loopnet fees are literally tripling and they are really pushing everyone to get on Costar", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "dpbhxke", "text": "[I\u2019m particularly tired of the emails and hard copy letters hitting my inbox:](https://i.imgur.com/mOEevXn_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&amp;shape=thumb&amp;fidelity=medium) ", "replies": [{"id": "dpbjql8", "text": "Did you get the one about how xceligent was using a contractor that was also associated with a sex trafficking site? A little bit of a reach for costar to try to take credit for busting that one.", "replies": [{"id": "dpbju9b", "text": "Yeah, I got them all. Totally ridiculous to see actual corps behave this way. ", "replies": [], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "dpc4qtf", "text": "We need another site like the old Dealmaker site. \nAnybody know of anything similar ?", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "dpc4vqk", "text": "First of all, thank you for a real CRE post (vs an ad or something residential). My thing with CoStar is it's a great place to get bad info. I can't rely on anything on there. On top of that my phone is exploding every day because one of my listings is wrong and they claim to not be able to fix it. As far as raising their rates: they have to to afford all the weird marketing they send everyone.\n\nMy recommendation is to join CCIM to get access to STDB. That group of sites can give you everything CoStar can plus some and they are striving to improve instead of striving to put a strangle hold on everyone. You don't have to be a CCIM candidate or member to join and have access to STDB. It's like $600 or $800 a year I think, can't remember exactly.\n\nThe smear campaign CoStar is running is exactly that. Maybe what they're saying is true and maybe not, but at the end of the day they're taking my information and trying to claim it as their own and that it's proprietary to them. If what they say about Xcelligent is true then CoStar is suing Xcelligent for doing what CoStar does do to every broker. ", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "dpht8fm", "text": "They all become trading in the stock exchange so they have to make the investors happy. same with Zillow and others.\nThe only way to change this is only if we the agents create our own driven portal. pull all the listings from all those third parties.\nThen we will start generating buyers and sellers within the same platform which agents are in control of it.\n", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "dt9av9e", "text": "Check RealtyZapp.com for marketing your listings.  Built by brokers for brokers. ", "replies": [], "depth": 1}]