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There are many commercial real estate listings sites to help you advertise your property listings or help you search for commercial property, and we compiled a collection of the best commercial real estate listings platforms you should be using.
Not all of these commercial real estate websites are created equal, however.
Besides the costly Costar and LoopNet, there are a number of good alternatives to find and advertise commercial real estate with different pricing and advertising options you may want to consider. There are even a few free commercial real estate listings options.
To help you choose the best platform for marketing your commercial real estate listings, we’ve collected a list of some of the best commercial real estate websites to help you make an informed decision next time you want to spend your advertising dollars.
CommercialEdge, Yardi’s all-in-one platform that enables commercial real estate professionals to research property data and active listings. The intuitive system
offers nationwide coverage of all commercial real estate asset types and more than 10 million property records.
CommercialEdge allows users to analyze comprehensive property data – including transaction, ownership and debt information – as well as uncover market insights with the latest sales and listings information. Additionally, CommercialEdge empowers users to manage listings effortlessly and syndicate them within the Yardi Commercial Listings Network, as well as to third-party platforms.
CommercialEdge is the ideal way for brokers and owners to view market data and easily manage and promote their listings.
Managing and marketing listings on the CommercialEdge Listing Network is free of charge and access to Edge Research, a comprehensive nationwide property and listings data costs $250/month or $2,400/year.
Commercial Cafe is a commercial real estate information services provider with nearly 375,000 listings available. Listings include all commercial real estate property categories like commercial office space, industrial space, retail space for lease and for sale.
It is free for brokers to add advertisements and there is a paid advertising model for property owners that costs $250 per month or $2,400 if paid annually.
CommercialSearch (part of Yardi’s CommercialEdge platform) provides free and unlimited commercial listings search spanning all major U.S. markets. Listings are updated daily, include all commercial property types, and are represented by leading commercial real estate brokerages.
The site currently has around 335,000 listings.
PropertyShark uses public and private data to compile the most relevant information about the US real estate market.
The platform provides property reports for both the commercial and residential sectors. It includes all types of data about a specific property, such as when the property was developed, who owns it, key features, sales history and much more.
It has three types of subscriptions, the most basic is the pro version which costs $59.95 per month. The elite version costs $79.95 per month and the platinum version costs $169.95 per month.
Brevitas is a real estate collaboration and workflow platform that offers a marketplace for private, open, and off market commercial real estate.
The company has a membership model that requires a sign up to browse commercial real estate listings for sale and lease.
Based out of Canada, Spacelist has 49,000 properties available from across the country in a number of commercial categories including office space, retail, light industrial, and multi-family.
A Standard account on the site is free and allows for listings and inclusion in the free search tool. For the Pro account, the cost is $39/month and you’ll get enhanced listings, promoted listings, and enhanced search placement.
QuantumListing is a nationwide commercial listing platform. Their listings are not kept behind a paywall, so every listing is searchable by anyone with an internet connection. Brokers and owners can post an unlimited number of listings for the same price.
Individual memberships cost $89.99/year. Enterprise membership is designed for a brokerage office with multiple agents and costs $999.99/year. All listings are treated equally, and all are shared to their social media accounts to increase the searchability on the web.
QuantumListing allows following agents for easy access to their listings and favorite individual listings. In 2018, they introduced a new network feature for commercial broker associations and multi-office brokerages.
LoopNet is one of the most recognized CRE search engines and offers a number of different types of commercial property including office, multifamily, industrial, retail, land, agricultural, hotel & motel, and residential income properties. Their database is among the largest with 1.1 million property listings and 5.1 billion square feet for lease around the globe.
Their listing advertising include different plans, Basic, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond.
Commercial Real Estate Exchange, Inc. (CREXi) is the commercial real estate industry’s fastest-growing marketplace and technology platform dedicated to supporting the CRE industry and its stakeholders. CREXi enables commercial real estate professionals to quickly streamline, manage, and grow their businesses using the industry’s most advanced transaction management solution. Since launching in 2015, CREXi has quickly become the most active marketplace in the industry. With six million users, the platform has helped buyers, tenants, and brokers to transact business on over 500,000 commercial listings totaling more than $1 trillion in property value. CREXi has grown to 175+ employees and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
Biproxi is a subscription-free listing, discovery and transaction platform that uses proprietary tech to verify listings, buyers, sellers and tenants. It includes a free commercial multiple listing service, marketing platforms for sales and leasing, and a suite of customized marketing tools – all geared toward improving the transaction process for middle-market CRE brokers, buyers, sellers and tenants.
The commercial listing and data vault portion of Biproxi is completely free. It allows buyers and tenants to find properties that interest them and reach out to the brokers. Besides free listings, they also provide data analytics, prospect contact information, and the ability to receive offers.
Ten-X (acquired by CoStar) is an end-to-end transaction platform for commercial real estate where users are matched with opportunities based on their objectives including asset types like office, multi family, retail, hotel, industrial, self-storage, land, and special purpose. Currently it claims to be powering 90% of all online commercial real estate transactions. Every property listing on the Ten-X marketplace is qualified and all buyers are vetted ahead of each sale. This ensures complete transparency, along with a streamlined, secure online transaction when buying or selling your commercial property.
For all properties sold on the Ten-X platform, a transaction fee equal to a percentage of the winning buyer’s offer (sale price) or a minimum, whichever is greater, will apply.
Catylist (acquired by Moody’s) is designed to provide services for individuals or companies looking for office, industrial, shopping, retail, land, multi-family or hospitality properties. With thousands of listings from across the United States in these categories, there are a lot of options here.
Free Basic Membership allows you to search the listings only. For listing your own properties, gathering leads or using the marketing tools including in the site, you’ll need a Full Access Membership which starts at $99/month.
Digsy is a free commercial real estate listings website to find Office Space, Industrial Space, and Retail space for sale or lease. Digsy also provides searchers with complimentary personal assistance from seasoned industry professionals across various reputable brokerages like Lee & Associates, Colliers International, NAI Capital, Cushman & Wakefield and many more. Digsy has over 31,000 properties listed on its website across the USA and has helped tenants & buyers acquire properties in excess of $100M in value.
Digsy is one of the highest rated commercial real estate listing websites on the internet. It’s 100% free to list or search property listings.
42 Floors, now part of the CommercialEdge network, aggregates CRE spaces for sale, lease, sublease, and coworking throughout the United States.
Searches are unlimited and listings are promoted across CommercialEdge’s network of listing websites that receive 2 million visitors per month.20
OfficeSpace.com (acquired by Biproxi) specializes in all types of office space, including large scale space, smaller offices for independent businesses and coworking spaces. The site currently has more than 570,000 active listings across the United States. Many of these are located in major US cities and users can search by city or state.
The site offers both basic and exclusive listing services. The basic option is free and includes unlimited photos, floor plans and brochures, while the Featured Listings services starts at $39.95 per month with options for volume discounts. This provides real time connections with tenants, broker profile upgrades, and featured listing placement.
Commercial MLS features commercial properties in Washington and Idaho. They have gathered 125,000 properties with 4,600+ current member brokers and 1,300 offices represented. Properties include a number of different types of commercial options. An application is required to join as an office, associate or appraiser. There is a standard membership fee which includes a one-time payment of $150 and annual dues of $325.
Square Foot serves office space listings throughout the country, with a focus on 12 major cities that they have the largest reach into. There are currently between 250 and 900 listings in each of these major cities and fewer in many other cities, for a total of roughly 4,000 listings across the site.
Pricing for listings is not provided on the website, but there is a form to submit your listing and you’ll receive a direct contact from the Square Foot team.
Total Commercial has been providing commercial real estate listing information online since 1995. They position themselves as a full-featured commercial real estate listing service without the high-price hassles and publishing listings costs $120 per year per agent.
CityFeet, owned by CoStar, has listings for every state in the Country, but is primarily focused on New York City with custom search built for New York neighborhoods and boroughs. Listings include office space, retail space, industrial space, and other types of commercial property. In New York alone, they have 13,200 listings available.
Plans are available monthly or quarterly, with the Standard plan starting at $99/month and the Platinum plan which includes access to their partner network and top search placement, starting at $316.65/month.
OfficeFreedom is a comprehensive office space search engine with a global focus. The homepage allows you to break down your search globally, for the UK or for the US. With a portfolio of 10,000 business centers and 50 consultants around the world, they strive to make connections or offices, shared offices, virtual offices, conference space, light industrial and virtual offices.
Search Office Space acts as a broker rather than a search engine from a monetary perspective. That means there is a 10% rate charged for successful leases.
Showcase, owned by CoStar, is a search engine allows you to search for all types of commercial real estate including office, industrial, retail, multi-family, and land with options to buy or lease. Focused on the US and UK, there are thousands of properties to review.
It is free to list your properties on Showcase.com, though there are several advertising options to feature your properties, build out custom profiles, and more to feature your properties. You must contact the company to get rates.
The Broker List (tBL) is the CRE community’s first free online platform for finding brokers, deals, services and vendors. Verified members get access to share their listings, wants and transactions, via social media, e-blasts and RSS feeds. Features include easy migration of data via listing upload tool and concierge service to add and update teams and an internal messaging system.
RealNex‘s Marketplace portal offers a free alternative to list and search a growing nationwide portfolio of property offerings. Built upon the 25-year legacy of PropertyLine and the innovative technology of Buzz Target, the MarketPlace launches with 200,000 listings across North America, totaling $300 billion for sale and 5 billion sf for lease.
LDCRE (Leavitt Digital) enables brokers and owners to increase local and global reach on listings through LDCRE’s national and international listing syndication platform into city based news websites.
It allows brokers to list their properties in one location and have it distributed through a long tail of local listing platforms.
Craigslist is one of the largest listing engines in the world, with tens of thousands of listings for every major geographic region in the world. In the Office & Commercial property section you’ll find a collection of listings for most major regions. Listings are free in this category as well.
With more than 370,000 registered members and $500+ billion in available property, CIMLS (the commercial investment multiple listing service) is a large commercial real estate listing service with all types of properties, throughout the united states. From land to retail, office and multi-family properties, there is a bit of everything on this search engine.
A basic plan is free and allows you to submit listings to the site, or you can upgrade to the $20/month gold membership which allows you to include additional images, documents, and lead generation tools in your listings.
Instant Offices has a listings of office spaces around the world, with top searches localizes to the United States. There are currently 15,000+ offices in their listings, which include general office space, shared office space, managed office space, light industrial, and other general office locations.
Instant Offices charges a success fee and does not provide pricing or listing information for agents or brokers on their website. You have to contact them directly to learn more about partnership or operator connections.
BizBuySell, owned by CoStar, has 65,000+ active for-sale listings of businesses including individual locations and franchises. The site includes several features such as broker matching and financing assistance for those interested in investment. If you are selling a property, a basic listing costs $59.95/month for 6 months, a showcase listing costs $79.95/month for 6 months, and a diamond listing costs $129.95/month for 6 months. The higher the listing level, the more exposure and features.
Land and Farm, owned by CoStar, specializes in farm land, ranches, commercial and residential property with land attached. Currently, the site has 680,000 listings across all categories and locations. Organized by state and with several hundred properties minimum per state is a substantially sized search engine.
Registration on Land and Farm is free, however, advertising costs may vary. There are three different types of advertising plans, the standard, the premium (4x more exposure) and the signature plan (10x more exposure).
If you’re looking for free commercial real estate listings or a Zillow for commercial real estate, there is likely a service or search engine available to help you. The above list will provide the necessary information needed to choose the sites that best fit your needs and budget for those looking for alternatives to LoopNet, CoStar or (now liquidated) Xceligent.
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