Co Star
About Costar
Comprehensive, accurate and independent CoStar Group is the world's leading provider of information services to commercial real estate professionals in the United States, and now in the UK too. Agents, owners, surveyors, developers, retailers, investors, lenders, valuers and many other industry professionals rely on our suite of web-based services for access to the most comprehensive database of availability and deals information.
Independent, Gold Standard Research At CoStar, we recognize that the quality, accuracy and timeliness of the information available when making decisions can create true competitive advantage. This is why we heavily invest in Research, employing the industry's largest, constantly growing army of field and office based researchers.
Hundreds of highly trained professionals personally inspect and photograph each property as well as contact agents, owners, developers and tenants in an effort to ensure the completeness and accuracy of every listing. The result is a vast inventory of fully researched and continuously updated commercial properties of all classes and types, plus an astounding assortment of analytic tools - giving our customers unbeatable insight and perspective.
Our History
Twenty years ago CoStar Group, Inc. - a NASDAQ quoted company (NASDAQ: CSGP) - revolutionised the industry with a simple yet powerful idea: create the most thoroughly researched, unbiased source of commercial property information anywhere. Today CoStar's proprietary database covers more than 2 million properties, over 37 billion square feet of inventory across all commercial property types and classes and includes more than 3 million high-resolution photographs and images in its digital library.
Headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, CoStar has approximately 1,300 employees, including the largest professional research organization in the industry.