1. Corporate Real Estate. ..... What’s the best way to expose surplus corporate properties on the Internet? … Some corporations, like Marathon Oil, Fleming Stores and Payless Shoes, have created their own web sites. … Equis recently launched its own listing service for corporate clients. … AEP, American Electric Power, in the Midwest maintains a Site and Building database of available properties in its multi-state market area, including community information (password needed). … In metropolitan areas, information providers like CoStar, a service of the Realty Information Group, include vacant surplus properties in their reporting. … If you are a corporate services professional, how would you advise your client?

2. Web Success--AmeriCrest.Com Facilitates GSA lease. ....When Peter Hall, President of San Diego’s Centre City Development Corporation, heard that the GSA was looking for 70,000 sf of office space, he used the AmeriCrest.Com listing service to compile a list of available space. … At AmeriCrest.Com, he quickly generated a list of properties with enough contiguous space to satisfy GSA’s requirement. … Hall printed the list and the accompanying property sheets and photos and sent the report to the GSA. … The result: Southwest Value Partners’ high-rise at 525 B Street has a major new tenant and downtown San Diego has enhanced its economic base. … Do you have your own Web Success? Send me e-mail.

3. New and Notable. ..... AMB Property Corporation, a new REIT specializing in industrial and retail properties nationwide, has launched a web site featuring an innovative map showing its portfolio by geographic region and market. … REIS Reports, Inc. features NEWSWATCH, a subscription news service with a searchable database of 30,000 stories from 250 newspapers, weeklies and other periodicals. … SNL Securities, which specializes in REITs, publishes research, including the REIT Daily. … RealtyBytes 0.5 is an e-newsletter published by William D. Fletcher covering sites, dealmakers and digitized tools

4. PikeNet 2.0. ..... On Monday, December 14, I launched a new graphical interface at PikeNet. The primary difference is the use of Channels to more easily navigate you to the information that you need. Next Monday, December 21, I plan to introduce a Discussion Forum in which you’ll be able to post questions and comments about commercial real estate subjects. As I’ve mentioned, I get a fair volume of mail asking me questions like: Where can I get average rental rates in certain cities? Where can I get aerial photos online? Now, using the Discussion Forum, these questions will reach a much larger audience (and will probably receive better answers!).

You’ll notice that in PikeNet 2.0 there are Channel Sponsors and Featured Sites, each of which is one click away from the PikeNet home page (seen over 13,000 times a month). Information on the prices for these premium placements is available under "Media Kit" at the bottom of the home page. Channel advertising is a good way to drive traffic to your web site and potential customers to your service.

5. Knowledge Base--Hotel Sales Comparables. ..... The Lodging Research Network publishes one of the very best real estate web sites. … While some of the information is free, most of it costs a modest amount per transaction, and I believe that it is well worth the price. Want the Top Ten Transactions (by Price, Rooms or Price Per Room)? That’s $25. Want to plot the locations of the four Embassy Suites in Atlanta? That’s $9. … For step-by-step instructions, go to the PikeNet Knowledge Base, select the "Property Information" section and click the last question. … Or use the link below.

http://www.pikenet.com/pike?func=showPublicPage&page= questions/question_property

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