What is the alternative to Cityscope for Australian commercial brokers?
For tenancy and ownership records, the main alternatives to Cityscope are other Cotality products (formerly CoreLogic and RP Data, which bought Cityscope in 2007), plus CoStar in the larger cities and your own records. For finding businesses that will need space, Cityscope is not really the tool, and that is where Scayled fits. Scayled lists the businesses around a property and across Australia whose operations fit, names the person who decides at each, tracks them for hiring, new sites and other signs of needing space, and drafts outreach sent from your own inbox. Most brokers keep Cityscope and add Scayled.
- What is Cityscope?
- What is Cityscope good at?
- Where does Cityscope stop for prospecting?
- How does Scayled work alongside Cityscope?
- What other tools do Australian brokers compare?
What is Cityscope?
Cityscope is a commercial property database now sold by Cotality, the company formerly called CoreLogic, which acquired it through RP Data in 2007. It covers office, retail, industrial and development sites, with more than 30 years of history, an interactive map of properties and precincts, ownership and occupancy records, sales history and development tracking.
Cotality sells it in plans. At the time of writing its store lists Cityscope from $159.50 a month, a Lease Expiry Diary from $66 a month that covers commercial tenants in NSW and Queensland only, and a combined plan from $205.70 a month, each including three users. Check Cotality's site for current terms.
What is Cityscope good at?
Knowing who is in a building. For CBD office in particular, Cityscope's floor-by-floor tenancy records, managing agents, ownership and sales history are a strong reference. The Lease Expiry Diary is useful for tenant rep and leasing teams in Sydney and Brisbane that want to time calls around expiries.
It is also strong on development activity and planning approvals, which helps brokers anticipate new supply and pre-commitment opportunities in the capital cities.
Where does Cityscope stop for prospecting?
It describes occupancy, not intent. A tenancy record tells you a company is on level 12; it does not tell you the company has doubled its hiring, opened a second office or won a contract that means it will need space. Lease expiry data is limited to NSW and Queensland and, like any expiry list, every subscriber sees the same names.
Coverage is strongest in capital city CBDs. Industrial estates in Western Sydney, Melbourne's west and south-east, or regional centres are thinner, and those are where many industrial brokers work. The person who decides on space at each business is also not always recorded, so brokers still have to find and reach them.
How does Scayled work alongside Cityscope?
Scayled starts from the business rather than the building. Around a property, it lists every business nearby with the person who decides on space. Across the market, a Target Scan finds businesses anywhere in Australia whose size, use and property type fit, which is how you find the Eastern Creek 3PL or the Dandenong manufacturer that would suit a listing but is not yet searching.
Every business found is tracked for hiring, contract wins, new sites, funding and lease events on a map and a feed. Emails are drafted per business and sent from your own inbox, and everything stays in your Occupier Database. Use Cityscope to confirm who is in a building and when a lease ends; use Scayled to find and approach the businesses that will need space.
What other tools do Australian brokers compare?
Cotality's wider property data platform, long known to brokers as RP Data, for sales, ownership and valuation data. CoStar, which operates in Australia, for listings and analytics in the larger markets. realcommercial.com.au and commercialrealestate.com.au for advertising listings. LinkedIn and contact databases for people.
For a fuller comparison of Cotality and occupier tools, see the alternative to CoreLogic for Australian brokers. For a worked example in one market, see industrial real estate leads in Sydney, and for a plain definition of the occupier layer, what occupier intelligence is. Scayled's 3-day free trial at /start runs in Australia with 4 scans.
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