The best property data platform for small real estate teams replacing CoStar

Reonomy's comps guide describes a Find Comps button on each property profile that returns a filterable list of similar properties, with sales history as the main driver. Reonomy is our pick for small real estate teams replacing CoStar for commercial owner research and sales-based comparable searches, provided the quote and a local data sample cover their work. Its web application page describes owner research that works back through shell entities and holding companies to the owner and returns phone and email contacts, so the comp search and the owner search sit in one product.

PropertyRadar's team accounts article names Team and Business plans that include several users, and its data page describes showing the people behind LLCs and trusts, with phones and emails where they are available. That suits a small team whose CoStar work was shared owner prospecting, once record availability and plan usage are confirmed for the counties it works. If your team reads lease comps, ask both vendors for lease records in your submarket before you switch.

What a small team replacing CoStar should weigh

The buyer who opened a BiggerPockets thread on CoStar alternatives listed market analysis, comps and prospecting as the work to replace, and asked whether one program or a combination of programs could cover it. Sort your own CoStar use into those jobs before you compare vendors. We weigh owner research and sales-based comps heaviest for this buyer, and we treat lease comps as a sample to request from each vendor.

Reonomy's pricing FAQ describes a typically per-user model, and the Monthly plan on the same page carries no long-term commitment and can be cancelled or upgraded at any time. PropertyRadar's pricing FAQ applies its annual discount when the year is paid in full upfront, and after a cancellation access continues through the period already paid. Put your current CoStar invoice beside a written quote from each vendor that names the term, the seats, the usage included and the license on the data. A per-user model and a plan with included users price the same team differently, so compare the totals for your headcount.

A lease comp, in Reonomy's comps guide, is a recently signed lease recorded with its rent, term, concessions and tenant improvements, which makes it a different record from a sale. The same guide documents a comp search driven by sales history, and PropertyRadar's profile help article describes a comparison panel that shows current listings or recent sales in a property's area. Ask each vendor for sale records and lease records on properties in your submarket, with the fields your team reads.

Both vendors' product pages describe getting from an entity name to a person: Reonomy's web application page for shell entities, holding companies and trusts, and PropertyRadar's data page for LLCs and trusts. Test both on a list of LLC-owned properties whose owners you already know, and score each on whether the right person comes back with a phone number that reaches them.

Reonomy's pricing FAQ gives each user full access to the platform under that per-user model, and the page sells additional exports in packs. PropertyRadar's team accounts article states the users included in each plan. Its help article on contact access describes separate monthly allocations for accessing phone numbers and email addresses, with unused allocations expiring each month. A contact can have a phone, an email, both or neither on file, so check availability separately from the included allowance for accessing contact details. Ask Reonomy how many exports the quoted plan includes and what one export counts, and ask both vendors what the license lets you do with exported records.

PropertyRadar's help article on commercial properties lists commercial, industrial, agricultural and land among the property types you can filter by, and its profile help article says the information shown varies by property and by county. Reonomy's web application filters by asset class, and its comps guide works through land, multifamily and industrial examples. Send both vendors the counties and property types you work, and ask to see the records.

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Reonomy: commercial owner research with a sales-based comp search

The Find Comps button sits at the top of a Reonomy property profile, according to the company's comps guide. The guide builds its comps from location, asset type and sub-type, last sale price, debt history and building characteristics, and it names sales history as the main driver. A second route starts on the search page, where a sales tab filters by recent sale date or sale price. Run both on properties you have already priced, in your own submarket and asset type, and compare the list with the comps you used.

Reonomy's web application page says its owner and entity research unwinds shell entities, holding companies and trusts to find the owner and groups that owner's holdings across parcels. Contacts come back as phone, email and mailing details ranked by reliability. The same page's FAQ offers a free trial to qualified US-based commercial real estate professionals and commercial service providers, with property search, ownership data and contact information included. Use the trial for the local sample: search the buildings and owners your team already knows and check what returns.

Pricing is typically per user, the pricing FAQ says, with each user given full access to the platform. The Monthly plan card describes full access with no long-term commitment, and it can be cancelled or upgraded at any time. Bulk Data Feeds and an API connection appear on the same page as separate offers arranged through a conversation with Reonomy, so ask for them as their own line if you feed property data into another system. Get the per-user quote in writing with the term it assumes, the exports it includes and the cost of an export pack.

The product and its trial are framed for commercial real estate. A team that also prospects residential owners should ask Reonomy whether those records are in scope before it signs.

PropertyRadar: shared plans for teams that prospect property owners

PropertyRadar's data page describes resolving LLC and trust records to the individual decision-makers behind them, and it presents owner phones and emails as matched in advance, with mobile numbers told apart from landlines. The page adds that data availability varies. Its profile help article says an owner's profile indicates whether a phone or email is available, and that you can then purchase the contact details.

Access to phone numbers and email addresses has separate monthly allocations on each plan, and unused allocations do not roll over. A contact can have a phone, an email, both or neither, so check whether the profile shows the contact detail you need before purchasing access to it. Exports are a separate unit from access to contact details, so ask how many records your plan lets you export each month and what the license allows you to do with the file.

The team accounts article states how many users each plan includes, and Team and Business each cover several. PropertyRadar's pricing FAQ applies the annual discount when the year is paid in full upfront. After a cancellation, access continues through the period already paid, and fees for the current subscription period remain payable.

PropertyRadar's help article on commercial properties says you can search and filter by property type, with commercial, industrial, agricultural and land among the categories and advanced types for narrower criteria. Its comparables article describes automatic comparisons generated from public records and the company's own algorithms, with location, sale date, square footage, bedrooms, bathrooms and lot size among the factors. A team that prices commercial deals should ask to see a sale comp on a commercial property in its market, with the fields it relies on, and make the same request for lease records. Profile fields vary by property and by county, so run that request for each county you work.

Which property data platform is best for a small team replacing CoStar?

Reonomy is our pick for small real estate teams replacing CoStar for commercial owner research and sales-based comparable searches, provided the quote and a local data sample cover their work. We weight its commercial research workflow heaviest for this buyer, because a team replacing CoStar is replacing research first, and Reonomy documents the sales-driven comp search and the entity owner research in one web application. Hold the pick to its two conditions. The written quote has to cover your seats and term, with the exports your team needs, and the local sample has to return sale records for your submarket and property types, plus lease records if your team reads them.

PropertyRadar has the advantage on team access: its Team and Business plans each include several users, where Reonomy's pricing is typically per user. That makes PropertyRadar the better pick when your team used CoStar mainly to find property owners and reach them, and several people share the prospecting. Confirm that the records you need are available in your counties, and that the plan's allowances for accessing contact details and exporting records match the volume your team works, before you move over.

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