1. Grubb & Ellis Picks LoopNet. … Grubb & Ellis recently launched its newly designed web site and chose LoopNet, the Internet commercial listing service, to provide the database for its property listings. … When you are in the G&E site, the transition to listing information is seamless, and you would not know that you were looking at information on the LoopNet server, except by the URL. … According to Dennis DeAndre, President of Loop Ventures, each G&E office is responsible for inputting its own listings into LoopNet. … During the first week and a half, DeAndre states that LoopNet received over 1,000 listings, about equally divided between for sale and for lease listings.

At the LoopNet web site, all G&E listings are available, along with all other listings; while at the G&E site, only G&E listings are visible. … This alliance reflects the realization, I believe, that in the future large service providers will not derive value in simply knowing property availability, but rather in understanding the "why" of a property’s availability. … Why is it available? How is it valued? What are its pluses and minuses? … Providing easy public access to all G&E listings also reflects, I believe, the pressure on owners to have their properties exposed as widely as possible on the Internet. … Can REITs and investment advisors be far behind?

2. Web Success--E-Mail Launches WinStack Solution. … When Bruce Hursh, investment broker at Trammell Crow, needed stacking plans to include in offering circulars for a thirteen-building BancOne portfolio, he visited WinStack’s web site and sent e-mail to Ted Stearns, president of Winstack, to request further information. … According to Bruce, he created the stacking plans in numerous formats in less than a day by importing tenant data for hundreds of tenants from his lease analysis system. "WinStack saved me more than a week of work to create these plans and they look so much more professional." … Do you have a Web Success story? … Send me e-mail. …For hyperlinks to sites mentioned above, click the story at the top of the Billboard on the home page.

3. New and Notable. … Heitman Retail Properties manages a portfolio of shopping centers in 35 states, including 50 submarkets. … Strata Real Estate Services, a division of Heitman Properties Ltd., provides property and facilities management, and leasing services. … Headquartered in Atlanta, Carter & Associates offers brokerage, development and property management services in the Southeast. … Alliance is a master-planned development for manufacturers and distributors in Fort Worth, TX. … Realty Stock Review is an online newsletter edited by Barry Vinocur.

Cambridge Realty Capital, Ltd. offers lending and financing for senior housing and healthcare providers. … The Boulder Group provides commercial real estate services for the Chicago area from its office in Northbrook, IL. … 1730 North First Street is an office/R&D development in the heart of Silicon Valley in San Jose, CA. … National Realty Funding Commercial, headquartered in Kansas City, MO, provides capital for mortgage bankers, brokers and banks.

4. Knowledge Base--Is 123yourstreet.com available? … As you build your property’s brand identity on the web, you’ll want to consider registering the domain name of your street address, if possible. … Need to know if your street address, e.g., 123yourstreet.com or onecorporateplaza.com has already been registered? … Visit InterNIC’s Whois Search function. … For step-by-step instructions, go to the PikeNet Knowledge Base by clicking the icon at the top of the home page. ... Select the "Web Related" section and click the last question.

5. Banners and Mini-banners Promote Your Service. … For advertising and sponsorship information, check out the new online Media Kit posted this week. … Click "Media Kit" under the Billboard on the home page or the hyperlink below:

http://www.pikenet.com/advertising/advertising.html

6. New Categories. … I’ve added a number of new subcategories at PikeNet this past week, e.g., Lease Auditing (Consulting Channel), Project Management (Corporate Real Estate Channel), Direct Lenders (Financial Services Channel), and Office Buildings and Shopping Centers (both in the Property Web Sites Channel). … You can see all PikeNet Categories by clicking the "PikeNet Categories" hyperlink at the bottom of the home page. … My policy is to list companies in up to three categories, assuming each category is a core.

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--Peter Pike