CoStar’s New Star Ratings Aim for Objective Building Classifications
Any number of real estate research reports for 2023 will verify that the United States office sector is struggling, except for the Class A segment.…
CoStar Sharpens Residential Focus After Strong Quarter
Commercial real estate data giant the CoStar Group has posted strong performance numbers throughout 2022 and its most recent earnings report shows that trend continuing.…
What Will the Fed’s Response to Inflation do to the Office Market?
In late 2006 the hot housing market started to slow. This seemingly harmless drop in prices started a chain reaction causing foreclosures and toppling the…
So Much For the Ecosystem Approach to PropTech Software
In the autumn of 2019 I was invited to moderate a panel at MRI’s user conference. For those of you not familiar, MRI is a…
5 Ways Offices Have Tried Convincing Employees to Come Back
Office occupancy is still nowhere near its pre-pandemic levels. Employers are navigating a complex landscape to get their staff back in the office as office…
Flight To Quality Creates the Need for a Better Office Classification System
Big tech firms like Google and Apple changed office leasing forever by bringing hospitality to the workplace. Attracting and retaining the top talent in Silicon…
Why the Failed RentPath Acquisition Is but a Scratch for CoStar
Somewhere in Washington, D.C. at the end of last year, executives at the giant real estate data firm CoStar signed a purchase agreement for a…
Apartments.com’s Super Bowl Ads Show a Different Kind of Marketplace Network Effect
If you live in the U.S., there is a good chance that you usually watch the NFL championship game lovingly referred to as the Super…
CoStar CEO on Company’s Push Into Hospitality, Its Product Roadmap and, of Course, WeWork
If I asked you to think of the most important tech company in commercial real estate, you might wrongly say “WeWork.” It would be understandable,…
Property Bazaar: How the Commercial Real Estate Industry is Adopting Online Marketplaces
Marketing a property has always been a unique enterprise. Even if two buildings are identical, their separate locations make them their own unique, unsuitable product.…