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Where do you get your data?
Information is derived from proprietary research, including
the cumulative sourcing and cross-referencing of over 250 independent
reliable sources. These sources include:
- Press releases & news reports
- SEC filings and public records
- Listing services (confidentiality honored)
- Industry associations
- CMBS filings
- Investment brokers
- Feedback from subscribers
- Other available/licensed databases
Which property types does Real Capital Analytics cover?
Since July 2000, RCA has followed five property types: Office (single
tenant, CBD and suburban, medical and parks), Hotels, Industrial (warehouses, showrooms, distribution facilities,
etc.), Apartment (garden and mid/high-rise) and Retail (strip centers, malls and others).
We have also made available Development
Site sales, which we've been tracking since 2004.
While RCA tracks properties $2.5 million or
greater in the United States, our aggregate analysis takes
into account only properties or portfolios valued at $5 million
or greater. Outside the U.S. our analysis is focused on properties or portfolios valued at $10 million or greater.
We do not offer information on raw land, parking garages, mini-storage
facilities and other specialty uses.
What markets does RCA cover?
We cover ALL markets globally. We try to capture all apartment,
hotel, industrial, office and retail activity involving properties
or portfolios that exceed $2.5 million. However, as mentioned
above, our charts and analysis are generally based on properties
or portfolios valued at $5 million or greater, and $10 million or greater for global analysis.
Why do your publications focus only on properties
or portfolios valued at $5 million or greater?
The levels $5 million or greater for U.S. property transactions and $10 million or greater for non-US or global transactions have been established to approximate "institutional quality" property transactions that generally have some investor interest outside of the property's immediate region. The majority of U.S. properties under $5 million are typically acquired by local investors.
Subscribers can opt to have access to these smaller deals by contacting their RCA client service representative.
What property deals are considered in the Property Trade Search tool's aggregate statistics and graphs?
Only properties and portfolios valued at USD $5 million or greater are included in U.S. figures, and USD $10 million or greater in global or non-U.S. figures. Using Advanced Search price limits, this range can be further limited, but not expanded. No cap rate averages are shown unless the sample size is five or more properties with known cap rates. US-only results exclude entity-level transactions; these deals are only included in global or non-U.S. aggregate figures. Average prices per unit (sq.ft. or sq.m.) and deal price ranges (in mil.) contain only appropriately qualified prices.
How do I download RCA reports like Global Capital Trends and Market Trends & Trades?
Once you're logged in to the Real Capital Analytics homepage, you'll see all of the reports we have to download. US Capital Trends and Global Capital Trends each have a tab. Click the "More Reports" tab to find links to
Market Trends & Trades, Special Reports, and all of RCA's other report types.
Subscribers can also use our Topic Search tool to find older reports.
Non-subscribers can find these reports in our Publications Shop.
Are the transaction summaries and prices confirmed?
The majority of our data is confirmed through two or more independent
reports from sources that have been deemed to be reliable. Prices
are qualified and a full explanation of the qualifiers can be
found in our notes
& definitions page.
How do I run a Property Trade Search by market?
To search properties by Region or Market, select criteria using the pull-down menus on the Property Trade Search page and click
the Search button. You
may also narrow your search by property type by changing “All property types” to one of your available property types and/or subtypes.
If you prefer, you may confine your search to a particular state/province, city, county or postal code, select the “State/City/County/Zip” radio button. This is helpful when comparing property data with census data and similar geographic boundaries.
How do I run a Property Trade Search on a specific location?
To search for properties at or near a specific US address, select
the “Radius from US Address” and enter the distance
and center point of the search. The center can be a full address, or simply a city and state, in which case the radius will begin from the city's geographic center.
You may also search by the actual property name or address name by selecting “Property Name or Address.” For example, enter “Fifth Ave” to find all properties with “Fifth Ave” in the name or address.
How do I use the search "by Address"?
This new search method uses Google Mapping technology to pinpoint a location and then match to properties in the RCA database using geocodes.
While most RCA search results are sorted by date, results from these address searches are sorted by location (closest first), but you may re-sort by clicking other column headers.
- Provide as much address as possible – e.g. 139 Fifth Avenue New York 10010
- If you do not have the full address you can try just the zip/post code or just the city name. The results will then plot from the geographic center of post code or city you entered.
- Outside of the United States you will often get better results using addresses in the local language. For Example:
• Searching for the English version of the address “4-15-7 Nishi-shinjuku” gets poor results
• But searching for the exact same address in Japanese 新宿区西新宿４－１５－７ returns excellent results.
• Similar results can be accepted in all languages that use a non-Latin character set like Cyrillic and other accented European character sets or Asian character based languages.
- If you know a geocode – the Latitude and Longitude, separated by a comma (34.089773, -84.252315) – will also yield excellent results.
- Always remember this functionality is rooted in Google technology so if you can get a good map results from the Google maps web site you will probably have similar results using this tool so it can be helpful to test your search at maps.google.com.
- Due to the above you will also often have good results with a building name “Sears Tower, Chicago” or neighborhood designation coupled with a city “Berlin Mitte” or “Kensington London”
- Advanced Searches help you limit your results with more criteria, such as property type, price, year built or tenant name. Select “Radius from Address” to enter a location as above.
- From RCA’s homepage, a QuickSearch begins with a maximum radius of 1,000 miles from your target, but the Advanced Search tool allows you to set this limit to distances as small as a tenth of a mile (0.1 miles).
How do I run a search by company name?
To search for a specific buyer, seller or broker, enter the
company name, type the firm's name in on our home page's “by Company” search field. If you like, limit the role the company may have played in the transactions (Buyer,
Seller, Broker or all three), and click the Search button. Shorter text strings
will yield more results (i.e. "Colliers" instead of "Colliers
International").
How do I copy my search results?
The Property Trade Search results are formatted for the web but can easily be placed into Microsoft Word.
- select the deals (or text) you'd like to copy
- choose "Copy" from the Edit menu
- open Word, create a new document and set margins to 0.5 inches in Page Setup
- choose "Paste" from the Edit menu in Word
The report will be pasted with formatting and can be manipulated just as any other document.
Please refer to the Terms of Service
How do Alerts work?
If you can search the RCA database, you can easily setup an Alert to send new search results to your email address automatically. After reviewing any search results for Property Trades or Troubled Assets, click the "Save: set a Deal Alert" button on the upper right of your search results. Name the search and select the frequency you'd like to be alerted of new data (daily, weekly or monthly). The first alert will include the full results from your search. After that first email, you’ll only receive an alert if there are new deals matching your criteria.
What if I can't find a transaction or see an error?
Our transactional information is derived the broadest spectrum
of sources in the industry, but we do miss some deals or have
incomplete information on others. We encourage your feedback
to ensure the accuracy of our information. To report an error,
omission, or inaccuracy, click on the orange "Report a change/request
info" button at the upper-right of the Search results page to
send us an email with updated information. When you report a
change, please also state the source of your information or
your participation in that transaction.
What if I can't search by the criteria needed?
You can do more advanced searches using our Property Trade Search. Clicking "More Search Options" will show a great variety of search parameters beyond what's available on our home page. If your particular search criterion isn't available, it is possible it is being incorporated soon. Email us at , and we'll help answer your question or perform a more specialized search for you.
How do I view prices in my preferred currency?
As a subscriber, you can change your default currency settings by logging in and clicking "My Info/Options" from the upper right of any page. You may also change the default unit of measure: square feet & acres or square meters & hectares (metric). From any search results page you can also temporarily change these settings, or choose "Local Currency" to translate prices to the currency of the country where a property is located.
Values are based on currency conversion rates on the first of the month when the deal closed. Some comments may remain in native price and size formats.
If I subscribe to one property sector, do I have access to information on any of the other
sectors?
Searching within your subscribed property type(s) is unlimited, but to access information for other property types you will need to speak to your RCA sales representative. A limited free trial to other data may be available.
How do I save my Property Trade Searches?
The results of your Property Trade Searches are formatted in HTML and can be copied into Microsoft Word or Outlook, but some formatting may be lost. For best results, select only the text you need, and then select “Copy” from the Edit menu. In the other application, click Paste.
In Word we recommend setting the margins at 0.5 inches in Page
Setup. The report will be pasted with formatting and can be
manipulated just as any other document.
For better results, make a screenshot of the
webpage: hold down the “Alt” key and press “Print Screen”
on the upper right of your keyboard, and then paste the image into
Outlook or Word.
How do you prepare your U.S. brokerage rankings?
Rankings are based upon the aggregate sales price and the number of properties involved in each transaction reported in the United States. If price is unknown, an estimated sales price is used based upon current market averages.
Sales and recapitalizations are included only when a majority or controlling interest in an existing property is conveyed.
The rankings reflect property transactions only. Mergers between REITs, privatizations of REITs and other transactions based on share price are excluded.
Full credit is given to the sellers’ representative. When two brokerage firms represent the same seller, both sellers’ representatives will be given full credit. While RCA does maintain buyers’ representatives and mortgage brokers, this information is not currently used in published rankings.
The rankings are based on U.S. sales of office, apartment, industrial, retail and hotel properties and portfolios valued at $5 million or greater. The property types are as defined by RCA and posted on its web site. Land, self storage, gas stations, convenient stores, restaurants, nursing and congregate care facilities, hospitals among others property types are not included. Senior, independent living facilities are included as part of multi-family, but those providing medical and food services, more commonly referred to as assisted living, are not included in the rankings. Since January 2008, hotels are included as part of the overall rankings.
The data is compiled from a variety of public and private sources that have proved to be reliable, however, the seller’s broker is not always known and transactions can and do go unreported.
RCA may omit transactions that do not meet its sourcing requirements or that lack required information.
Brokerage firms are encouraged to make sure their activity is properly recorded by RCA. Upon request, RCA will furnish any firm a list of all deals credited to that firm and will accept any and all corrections or omissions to that list.
Any data provided to RCA is considered public and it is the duty of each firm to make sure it does not broach any agreements it may have regarding confidentiality.
Please refer to the Terms of Service on restrictions regarding this information.