Analyzing Commercial Real Estate Market and Property Data: Techniques for the Classroom Using CoStar Information Services

Tom G. Geurts and James F. Black

Journal of Real Estate Practice and Education, 2015, vol. 18, issue 1, 55-76

Abstract: CoStar Group is the largest research organization serving commercial real estate. Its database contains information on commercial properties, tenants and transactions. This paper presents examples of common methods for analyzing real estate markets that can be done by students using the CoStar database. The goal is to highlight how students can utilize data in real estate decision-making. We use examples that feature increasing levels of complexity. Some of the results are interesting findings, in and of themselves, including the differential performance of building owners/operators. We find that some owners/operators consistently underperform the market while others consistently outperform the market.

Date: 2015
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/10835547.2015.12091743 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:rjrpxx:v:18:y:2015:i:1:p:55-76

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.tandfonline.com/pricing/journal/rjrp20

DOI: 10.1080/10835547.2015.12091743

Access Statistics for this article

Journal of Real Estate Practice and Education is currently edited by Reid Cummings

More articles in Journal of Real Estate Practice and Education from Taylor & Francis Journals
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Longhurst ().