Possibly Useful Web Sites For Corporate Real Estate Directors
Prepared and Presented by:
Jeffrey S. Weil,
MCRS.h, CCIM, SIOR,
Senior
Vice President
COLLIERS INTERNATIONAL
1850 Mt. Diablo Blvd. Suite 200, Walnut Creek, CA
94596
Phone: 925.279.5590 Fax: 925.279.0450
Email: jweil@colliersparrish.com website: www.officetimes.com
Different search engines do their jobs differently. Searching for the exact same subject under different search engines generally yields different results – experiment until you get the hang of what to use for what topic.
www.officetimes.com
Articles on office subleasing, lease negotiations in a landlord’s market, office
hoteling, links to Y2K as it relates to commercial buildings, listings of Bay Area hotels,
golf courses, transit links, corporate job links, and more.
www.pikenet.com
Over 3,000 commercial real estate Web sites sorted by various categories such as market
data, brokers, appraisers, services.
www.loopnet.com/
80,000/day hits on properties Grubb & Ellis, SIOR, Colliers, The Commercial
Network, CCIM.
www.extendthereach.com/
Demographic and geographic information.
www.workplaceIQ.com
An online service dedicated to organizing, controlling, and optimizing all
information and activities you use to manage your real estate portfolio.
www.ng.com/
Costar, news, comparable statistics.
www.pointcast.com
"Push" technology allows user to customize content finance, stock, weather,
sports; uses multiple media sources, then sends to your screen your requested content as a
screen-saver (free).
www.reisreports.com/
Vacancy, stats, market info.
www.yrinc.com/
Office Buildings Magazine on-line, mostly back East as of now. Virtual tours of office
buildings.
www.natdecsys.com/
Site Reports Online
National Decision Systems
Tons of research tools, i.e., market segmentation, site selection.
www.mapblast.com
Calculate directions, generate maps from anywhere to anywhere.
www.city.net/
Business travel, restaurant review, frequent flyer info, reservations.
www.amazon.com
The largest bookstore in the world, discounted and delivered to your door.
www.biztravel.com
Plane tickets for all airlines.
www.citysearch.com
Restaurants, hotels, motels around the United States.
www.digitalcities.com
Same type as city search.
www.sidewalk.com
Still in its infancy, but a joint venture between Microsoft and Cendant to provide
restaurants, events, movies, arts and music, sports eventually for every city in the
world.
www.landauer.com
Research on commercial real estate.
www.ired.com
Residential real estate around the U.S.
www.realtylocator.com
Residential and related info around the U.S.
www.homefair.com
The Relocation Wizard provides a no-cost way to help employees with their moves.
www.realtor.com
National Association of Realtors, links, US listings.
www.niteowl.net
Title Report research (fee).
www.amcities.com
Business news around the U.S. for landlord research, all other business news.
www.infobeat.com
Stock info e-mailed to you daily (free).
www.palmpilotfiles.com
Hundreds of free or low cost downloadable programs for the Palm Pilot such as HP
calculator functions, other financial, video games, spreadsheets, etc.
www.inman.com
Commercial real estate news, can also be e-mailed to you weekly (free).
www.dot.ca.gov/
CalTrans road info, maps, links to regional weather.
www.indo.com/distance/
Calculate distance between almost any two geographical points.
www.nacore.com
International Association of Corporate Real Estate Directors home page.
www.Buildings.com
Buildings magazine on-line.
If you discover any additional great web sites,
please let me know at jweil@colliersparrish.com
Good luck, and have fun!
Jeffrey S. Weil,
MCRS.h, CCIM, SIOR,
Senior Vice President
COLLIERS INTERNATIONAL
1850 Mt. Diablo Blvd. Suite 200, Walnut Creek, CA
94596
Phone: 925.279.5590 Fax: 925.279.0450
Email: jweil@colliersparrish.com website: www.officetimes.com
