Apartments.com vs. LoopNet vs. Zillow

LoopNet is well suited for many different industries. Obviously it is great for real estate professionals or real estate buyers when researching properties that are available or may become available. The history of the properties provided is excellent and provides details that would be very helpful to the real estate industry. Facility Service companies are also well suited for the use of LoopNet. With the property information it provides it makes it much easier to get to the decision-makers when selling facility services or products. LoopNet may be less appropriate for product sales as these providers may need to be more connected with the occupants of the properties more than the owners.

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I used Zillow for the longest time and it worked okay. But then I started using Redfin and I like it much better. They are both very similar, but Redfin allows you to see the flood map across the whole property, which is important for me when considering spacial use of the property

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• Immediate alerts can be set up for new listings that meet your criteria
• You can map an area you are interested in searching
• The report writing has some decent functionality
• You can email prospects about your listing

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• Save searches
• Manage favorite properties
• Clean interface

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• LoopNet needs to do a better job of sifting through to delete old and stale listings. These listings are inaccurate and clutter a report to lower its credibility.
• I am not a fan of the reporting. As a broker, I can make sense of the reports but the public is not always as savvy.

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• Map view and flood plain views
• Zoomed out / nation-wide map view
• Automatically Showing listings in a general area, rather than the specific city boarder

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It is very useable, I’ll give it that. Zillow has done a good job or making a clean and simple interface. They make it very easy to get in contact with an agent. Maybe a little too easy because they put you on a list and follow up multiple times

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LoopNet/CoStar representatives are ready to help and willing to come out to the office to give presentations or meet with the team at any time. They are a valuable resource when you are trying to utilize the program to its fullest advantage.

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LoopNet is the most well known, with the widest audience. This is why I selected it. But, they cannot get the simplest of details correct for the purpose of advertising the listings I have for sale. When they can't get even a unit count correct, why bother? Not to mention that getting those sorts of core details wrong is actually damaging to the marketing efforts.

I like Redfin better because it shows a flood map of the property. But I think Zillow does a better job of managing saved searches and favorite properties. Redfin also sends me a bunch of emails whereas Zillow sends less emails. But overall, they are very similar so it might just come down to personal preferences

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• Time saved in researching owners has helped our sales and ops teams greatly.
• The ability to research properties from the computer in lieu of in-person is very helpful.
• One person can research as many properties as a team of people in the field in a much quicker time frame.

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• Streamlined search process
• Tracking favorites properties over time
• Assessing market value of similar properties in the area

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