CoStar
The #1 commercial real estate information, analytics, and marketing company
- Pricing
- Subscription
roughly $300-$800+/mo per seat reported by resellers; annual deals commonly cited $3,000-$23,000+/yr, averaging ~$15,000/yr; large enterprise deals go well higher
- Asset classes
- Office Retail Industrial Multifamily Mixed All
- Built for
- Pe Funds Reits Lenders Brokers Appraisers Property Managers
- Notable integrations
- Excel/Argus exports, owns LoopNet, owns Apartments.com, STDB (demographics)
Status notes
founded_year: 1987; acquisitions: acquired LoopNet (2012), Apartments.com, Ten-X, Homes.com push, many roll-ups over decades; publicly traded (NASDAQ: CSGP); shutdown_risk: none — dominant incumbent, near-monopoly on CRE comps/listings data in the US
Who it's actually for
The default data backbone for any institutional CRE shop that can afford it — broad but expensive, and pricing is deliberately opaque, so it's a negotiated enterprise sale, not self-serve.
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