What is the best software for industrial property funds in 2026?
The best software for an industrial property fund in 2026 is a stack, not one product: Yardi or MRI to run leases and accounts, ARGUS Enterprise for cash flows and valuations, VTS for leasing deals, CoStar for market data, and a credit service such as Creditsafe or Dun & Bradstreet to watch tenant covenants. Scayled covers the step none of them do. When a unit is vacant or coming back, it finds 250 to 350 businesses the building suits, the person who signs at each, and drafts an approach per business, as a Full Campaign at US$749 per vacancy, paid once, with no commission on the letting.
- Which software runs an industrial fund's leases and accounts?
- What do funds use for valuation and cash flow modelling?
- Which tools track leasing deals and market data?
- How do funds monitor tenant credit risk?
- What software finds a replacement tenant for a vacant unit?
- How should a fund choose, and what does each layer cost?
Which software runs an industrial fund's leases and accounts?
Yardi Voyager or MRI is usually the system of record: leases, rent, recoveries, arrears, critical dates and investor reporting. Smaller landlords and syndicates often run Yardi Breeze or a cloud commercial platform such as Re-Leased, which tracks lease events and arrears without the weight of an enterprise install.
These systems are good at what is already contracted. They tell you exactly when a lease ends, what the tenant owes and which option dates are coming. They are not built to tell you who will take the unit if the tenant leaves, and that is the question that decides how long the income stops for.
What do funds use for valuation and cash flow modelling?
ARGUS Enterprise, from Altus Group, is the standard tool for institutional cash flow modelling and valuation. Each lease rolls into market leasing assumptions: a renewal probability, months of downtime if the tenant goes, the incentive and the letting cost for a new tenant.
Those assumptions carry a lot of the value. A renewal probability and a downtime figure are house estimates, not observations, and the downtime number in particular depends on how the re-let is actually run. Anything that shortens real downtime against the modelled figure shows up directly in income and, at the next valuation, in value.
Which tools track leasing deals and market data?
VTS is widely used by landlord leasing and asset management teams to track deals, lease roll and tenant relationships in one place. CoStar supplies availability, comparable deals and submarket vacancy, and MSCI is the usual benchmark for portfolio performance.
Both are strong at describing the market and the deals already in motion. VTS records an enquiry once it exists; CoStar shows what is available and what has let. Neither names the specific businesses in your submarket whose operation suits your vacant warehouse, or the person at each who would sign for it.
How do funds monitor tenant credit risk?
Most funds put material tenants on a business credit monitoring service. Creditsafe, Dun & Bradstreet and Experian all let you add companies to a watch list and receive alerts when a credit score, filing, legal event or director changes. CreditRiskMonitor's FRISK score is focused mainly on public companies.
Credit monitoring is good at default risk. It is weak at the more common industrial departure: a solvent tenant that leaves because its operation changed, after an acquisition, a contract loss or growth the unit cannot hold. That still needs a lease diary, news alerts and regular conversations with the tenant.
What software finds a replacement tenant for a vacant unit?
Listing portals such as LoopNet, Crexi, realcommercial.com.au and Rightmove reach the businesses searching this month, and an agent brings the requirements already on their books. Both are worth keeping. Neither reaches the company that ends up taking many industrial units: one that was not searching yet, aware its site was getting tight or its lease was coming up.
Scayled is built for that gap. The brief covers the building's size, type, what it suits and who to leave alone, and from it Scayled assembles 250 to 350 businesses the unit could work for, near the asset and across the market, with the number set by how dense that market is. Each comes with its owner, director or property lead, a contact checked as deliverable and a personal email, loaded into the owner's Scayled account and email drafts in about five working days, with nothing advertised or disclosed to the market.
It covers industrial and logistics property: warehouses, distribution and logistics facilities, yards and showrooms. It is not built for residential, shopping centres or retail parks.
How should a fund choose, and what does each layer cost?
Choose by the question each layer answers: Yardi or MRI for what is contracted, ARGUS for what it is worth, VTS and CoStar for deals and the market, credit monitoring for covenant risk, and Scayled for who could take a unit that is empty or coming back. Yardi, MRI, VTS, ARGUS and CoStar are priced on quote, so compare them on a proposal for your own portfolio.
Scayled publishes its price. A vacant unit runs as The Campaign: US$749 for a Full Campaign of 250 to 350 businesses, paid once, with no subscription and no commission on the letting, or from US$449 for a Focused one covering the strongest 100 to 150. The emails are written as the owner, work alongside an appointed agent, and for US$299 more Scayled sends them from a mailbox on the fund's own company email. The method behind it is set out in how to backfill a vacant warehouse.
Lease The Vacancy In-House, Before You Appoint An Agent.
The Campaign finds the 250 to 350 businesses the building suits, names the person who decides at each and writes every email, ready in about five days. One payment of US$749 per property, no commission and no subscription. A focused 100 to 150 from US$449.