See how organizations all over the world grow their businesses and gain efficiencies with CoStar.
CONTACT USKen Ashley
Executive Director
Cushman & Wakefield leverages CoStar’s commercial real estate data and market insights to drive multi-million-dollar decisions. CoStar equips the firm’s brokers with tools for effective prospecting, real-time relationship building, and in-depth asset analysis.
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Chad Griffiths
Partner and Associate Broker
With CoStar, NAI Commercial Edmonton knows every detail on every property, helping its brokers find more opportunities and close more deals. The firms revenues have grown significantly as a direct result of their brokers using CoStar.
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Scott Chandler
Senior Managing Director
Marcus & Millichap gains a competitive edge with CoStar. The firm uses CoStar to perform custom research, generate leads, win new business and onboard new brokers, enabling them to be even more efficient.
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Scott Hughes
Broker & Owner
CoStar has enhanced RE/MAX Commercial Capital’s efficiency in market research, allowing the firm to focus on client relationships and closing more deals. From access to global market insights to in-depth property information, Scott credits CoStar for giving RE/MAX Commercial Capital a competitive advantage.
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Allen Grinberg
Principal
Since leveraging CoStar's industry-leading commercial real estate data and analytics, Avison Young has realized an 80-90% time savings on market research.
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Jamie Grossman
Managing Principal, Broker
Over the last three years, Cresa has achieved year-over-year growth by increasing its speed to market intelligence with CoStar. Cresa utilizes CoStar's reliable market information to advise clients on their commercial real estate strategy and deals.
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Jonathan Gorenstein
Partner & Broker
Lennard attributes CoStar as crucial for generating and closing deals, including a $90 million transaction from an off-market property. CoStar provides smaller brokerages with the leverage to compete with larger firms.
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Greg Evans
President and Broker of Record
The Behar Group utilizes CoStar to find opportunities that fit its clients' criteria and initiate relationships. The firm attracts top brokers and expands its sales team as a result of using CoStar.
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Richard Lizotte
President and Broker
Lizotte & Associates improved agent productivity by 60% and reduced research time by 80% using CoStar. CoStar enables the firm to compete with larger brokerages in the global market.
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Paul-Eric Poitras
Managing Partner
Brokers at NAI Terramont Commercial save 80% of their time and generate 50% of their leads using CoStar. CoStar is a one-stop shop for the firm to validate information on sale and lease comparables.
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Rob Renaud SIOR, CCIM
Managing PartnerPresident and Broker of Record
ENCOR Advisors leverages CoStar’s unbiased data platform to enhance its services and productivity. CoStar’s robust tools, continuous innovation, and excellent support are integral to the firm’s operations, enabling them to provide detailed market insights and strategic advice to their clients.
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Lorenzo DiGianfelice
Broker of Record and Owner
Commercial Focus Realty has enhanced its efficiency and client relationships by using CoStar. CoStar generates 80% of its leads, allowing brokers to focus on building strong relationships and securing more business.
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Brett Elofson
Vice President and Principal
Broker explains how CoStar has increased the firms productivity by 50% and revenues by 20%.
Geoff Godding
Senior Vice President & Sales
Broker explains how critical market knowledge leads to 25% revenue growth.
Joe Giglio
President
Broker explains how firm uses CoStar and LoopNet to boost revenues by 25%.
Matthew Hudson
Managing Director, Investment
Private equity real estate firm Balfour Pacific uses CoStar to expedite its commercial real estate acquisition process and create significant returns for its investors. CoStar has transformed the firm’s operations, serving as a crucial due diligence tool for new opportunities and providing valuable market intelligence, enhancing Balfour Pacific’s ability to compete in multiple markets.
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Jason Haun
Partner, Senior Vice President
Zom Living, a national multifamily and senior living developer, makes faster and more informed CRE acquisition decisions with CoStar. The firm gains a competitive advantage by using CoStar’s market data to understand trends and outlook, and its fund data and comparables to analyze deals and validate assumptions.
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Wendy Waters
Vice President, Research Services & Strategy
GWL Realty Advisors benefits from CoStar's reliable and up-to-date commercial real estate data and market trends to manage pension fund assets and institutional clients' investments across various asset types.
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Keith Reading
Senior Director of Research
Morguard Investments utilizes CoStar to efficiently establish property values, evaluate trends in related markets and provide more comprehensive analyses for its clients.
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Meaghan Tullis
EVP, Income Producing Properties
SHAPE Properties achieves efficiencies and enhanced collaboration by employing CoStar across its development, leasing and finance departments to perform competitive analyses and generate the best return on investment.
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Michael Le Coche
Director, Strategy and Research
Owner explains how CoStar provides comprehensive, dynamic data that surpasses their expectations.
Joshua Blum
Vice President, Real Estate & Concessions
With actionable market insights, competitive benchmarks and portfolio optimization tools from CoStar, Hertz makes smarter, data-driven real estate decisions. Joshua shares how CoStar helps the team source locations, stay responsive and support business growth.
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Bob Ghislandi
Site Selection, Real Estate Strategy
International restaurant brand Bonchon uses CoStar to determine markets and sites where its franchises can operate successfully. Direct access to industry-leading commercial real estate data has enabled the company to streamline its market research process and work effectively with brokers.
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Tammy Mitchell
Franchise Real Estate Manager
Franchise business Scenthound utilizes CoStar’s market insights to find the best locations for growth. See how data-driven decisions fuel Scenthound’s expansion in high-performing areas.
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Andrew Gaines
Real Estate Manager
Electrical wholesale distributor City Electric Supply (CES) has saved millions of dollars on leases and acquisitions using CoStar. The company utilizes CoStar’s sale and lease transaction data to save time and come to the negotiation table prepared.
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Matt Cozza
Vice President of Development
United Franchise Group credits CoStar with helping the company double its deal volume each year and cutting its research time by 70%. CoStar’s market, property and demographic data enables the company to expedite its site selection process and open franchise locations faster, setting it apart from other franchise organizations.
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François Huot
Director, Property Tax & Valuation Services
Leyton uses CoStar as a risk management tool to demonstrate property, portfolio and market expertise, helping clients make sound financial decisions.
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Giovanni Worsley
National Leader
Appraiser conducts 50% more tax assessments each year, and sees at least 90% reduction in research time for tax assessment review using CoStar.
Adam Powadiuk
Assistant Vice President, Commercial Financing
CoStar gives First National Financial the edge to get deals across the finish line, reducing research time by 90%, and speeding up the lending process exponentially.
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Jesse Selles
Assistant Vice President, Commercial Financing
Lender explains how CoStar supports all their underwriting needs, helping them make good prudent lending decisions by avoiding high risk deals.
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Rick Bachalo
President
CoStar enables Canada ICI to speed up its data collection and analysis, leading to increased efficiencies and less strain on underwriting resources.
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Jim Freiberg
Senior Business Analyst
Nucor gains a competitive edge with CoStar’s data and analytics, uncovering new business opportunities, gaining deep market insights and strengthening partnerships. With one powerful platform, they identify building owners, track trends and drive strategic growth.
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