Easily access the information available with your CoStar account from your phone! While away from the office, commercial real estate professionals can now find detailed information on properties, space for lease, properties for sale, sale comparables, lease comparables, and tenants and benefit from the depth of verified, continuously updated information provided by the CoStar service. With the new CoStar app, you now have access to the most accurate & comprehensive property information available from anywhere, and on the go!
Disclaimer: CoStar™ app is a mobile extension of the professional suite of CoStar Professional services and is intended only for CoStar users.
Features:
· Answer questions on the spot with access to CoStar information on your phone
· Access CoStar’s massive database of over 5.2 Million commercial properties throughout the US, Canada and the UK!
· View in-depth CRE information around your current location, including millions of photos.
· Lookup every CRE professional in your area and access their contact information and properties they are associated with.
· Communicate instantly with a call, email, or text message from the app
· Perform Live map searches in your current location and see the map update with listing in real time while you’re on the move.
· Move the map with your fingers or do a lookup to change your search area
· Search for any property, available space, properties for sale, sale comparables, lease comparables, and tenants
· Search filters are country specific and criteria options work seamlessly based on where the map is positioned. (eg. viewing London will display UK specific filter criteria)
· Lookup geographies like cities, counties, postcodes/zips, submarkets, streets, as well as property addresses and building names.
· Custom areas can be drawn on the map via interactive draw tools for area, radius, line corridor.
· Analyze properties across all commercial property types.
CoStar’s professional suite of products provide unmatched local market insight and nationwide coverage, supported by the industry’s largest property research organization. With nearly 1,500 highly trained professionals, CoStar field and analytic researchers:
• Log more than 5.1 million data changes per day
• Make more than 1.9M calls a month (60K Calls a day) to brokers, owners, developers and other commercial real estate professionals
• Canvass more than 500,000 properties nationwide annually
• Take more than 1 million property photographs annually
The result: Comprehensive, accurate and continuously updated commercial property information that helps win clients and close deals.
Note: Continued use of location services (GPS) running the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
The CoStar app is my favorite resource when in the field. I can swiftly connect with property data and contacts. Those who complain about the app do not remember the days when everything was paper and in person. I can define an area on my ipad and immediately pull up market analytics for the client on site, demonstrating rents & vacancy factors as may be specifically relevant to their property. Clients are always impressed with the rapidity of results!
Two words: User experience
Field team member
Problem 1: Why should I need to authenticate via text (multiple times a day) on the iPad version (and the web version), but not on my phone.Solution 1: If you’re going to insist on having text authentication, maybe only require it once per account per 12 hours.Problem 2: If I leave the app idle for too long, it logs me out, usually requiring yet another text authentication to get back in again. There doesn’t seem to be any rhythm or reason to how long this idle period is either. Sometimes it’s 2 minutes, other times it’s 30.Solution 2: Set a standard idle logout time, or better yet don’t have one at all. If you’re so worried about your precious data, maybe set it to a standard 8 hours so people only have to log in once a work day.Problem 3: App stability. It’s non-existent. Sometimes it’s fine all day. More often then not, it crashes after a few minutes of use, starting the whole cycle of logging in all over again.Solution 3: Stabilize your app rather than pushing out tiny updates that are mandatory and seem to do absolutely nothing. I’d rather things stay the same for the next 12 months if it means the app won’t crash or freeze up multiple times a day.Problem 3: iPhone version doesn’t show faved PID pins on a map, only a list. This forces me to use the iPad. The phone version doesn’t suffer as badly from the first few problems, so this is added frustration.Solution 3: standardize the app across devices.You’re focused too much on hiding your data from any potential competitor that you’re actively hurting the people who pay good money to use your product. It’s as though you sold someone a phone, but because you’re scared of it being ripped off, you hide all the functionality behind a pay wall and multiple over the top security.Just make the app useable.
Awful
Carly0017
Daily desktop user. This app is an absolute waste of my time to scan my phone to my computer screen to log in with every - single - day. Cheers you for screwing your paying customers with this extended log in so you can MAYBE find people who found a loophole. App does not work as well as desktop version.Looks like Costar deleted my last 1 star review? Wish I could give you negative 1 Stars. We also had a looplink through them to link our properties to our website. After 4 months, they still can’t get it right. Our listings seem to be at random - some are not even states we service. Having difficulty with anyone being able to actually personally help. The only helpful person is our property researcher who responds and acts quickly, but doesn’t always have authority to make bigger changes.
Bait and Switch/Subscription is Useless Now
NTroege
CoStar is rolling out a new security feature that requires users to take a picture of their computer screen to log in to their account. I work on a secure floor at a bank so I’m not able to take a picture of my screen and now I’m locked out of my account but my company still has to pay for it until my subscription comes up for renewal. The subscription fee is a non-trivial amount of money.This is a total bait and switch. Basically, some analysts at a different bank got caught pirating CoStar like nine months ago and the company overreacted and is collectively punishing all of its customers. To add insult to injury customer service hasn’t responded to my email for over a week.
Bug fixes and general enhancements
Version 7.4
The developer, CoStar Group, Inc., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
Location
Contact Info
User Content
Search History
Identifiers
Usage Data
Sensitive Info
Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
