Experienced broker
March 09, 2018
Experienced broker
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with COSTAR
CoStar is used across our entire company as a research and multiple listing tool (MLS). It allows us to keep track of building information regardless of who the listing agents/owner/managers are. We can store marketing documents for public distribution and confidential back-end data for our own in-house analysis.
- For my role within the company, I find CoStars database of historical information very helpful. Previous users, owners, financing lien holders, tax information and county data are things I look for on a daily basis.
- In our market (Portland, OR), not enough users implement the tools that could make CoStar so much better. For example, I specialize in medical but brokers and owners don't take the time to mark medical as an approved use in their buildings so I have to search much longer and cross-reference the data by contacting the brokers directly.
- I find it really annoying that when I download documents CoStar doesn't use smart technology to automatically name my files. It is especially irritating since every piece of marketing we post to CoStar has a relevant file name yet when we download the same file we have to rename it.
- Since CoStar has linked with LoopNet we have had fewer bad data calls. By which I mean old data from LoopNet that was available to the general public is now more regularly updated through CoStar so we have less confusion with our clients.