The short version
PropStream is built for residential investors and property-data research, not for industrial and logistics brokers running occupier-first prospecting. The two platforms come up side by side often, so it is worth being precise about which user each one serves.
- PropStream: real estate investor lead generation platform. Property data, ownership records, mortgage information, comparables, skip tracing, and motivated seller identification. Built for wholesalers, flippers, and rental investors.
- SCAYLED: the territory intelligence platform for industrial and logistics brokers. From any listing it maps every occupier in the surrounding precinct and returns the verified decision-maker for each, lets you scan any target area or estate directly, and surfaces fortnightly movement signals that precede a move.
PropStream answers: "Who owns this building and are they motivated to sell?" SCAYLED answers: "Who operates inside this precinct, which of them is about to move, and how do you reach their decision-maker?" Different questions for different users.
What each tool actually does
PropStream is built for
- Looking up property ownership, purchase price, and mortgage data
- Finding motivated sellers (pre-foreclosure, tax lien, vacancy, divorce, probate)
- Skip tracing property owners for direct outreach
- Analyzing deals with comparables and ARV (after-repair value) estimates
- Building targeted mailing lists for direct mail campaigns to owners
- Filtering properties by criteria (equity, days on market, owner type)
SCAYLED is built for
- Mapping every occupier in the precinct around a listing
- Identifying the decision-maker at each operator (VP Operations, Facility Manager, GM)
- Returning verified email addresses checked against live domain records
- Flagging same-building and direct-neighbour matches (the highest-converting leads in industrial leasing)
- Scanning any target area, estate, or occupier set directly, not only around a listing
- Surfacing fortnightly movement signals before a requirement reaches the open market
The core difference: owners vs occupiers
PropStream is built around ownership. Who owns the property? What did they pay? What do they owe? Are they likely to sell? That is exactly what a real estate investor needs to find deals, and PropStream does it well.
SCAYLED is built around occupancy. Who is operating inside the building? Who manages the facility? Which occupiers in the territory are showing signs of a move? That is exactly what an industrial and logistics broker needs to prospect tenants and buyers around a listing, where ownership-data tools leave a gap.
A PropStream user is looking for their next acquisition. A SCAYLED user is looking for their next tenant or buyer, and the signal that a move is coming. Different workflows built on different data.
Feature comparison
| Feature | PropStream | SCAYLED |
|---|---|---|
| Property ownership records | ✅ Core product | ❌ Not covered |
| Mortgage and lien data | ✅ Core product | ❌ Not covered |
| Motivated seller identification | ✅ Core product | ❌ Not covered |
| Skip tracing (owner contact info) | ✅ Built-in | ❌ Not the model |
| Comparables and deal analysis | ✅ Core product | ❌ Not covered |
| Direct mail campaign lists | ✅ Built-in | ❌ Not covered |
| Live occupier scan (any address) | ❌ Not the model | ✅ Any US address |
| Decision-maker contacts (verified) | ⚠️ Owner contacts via skip trace | ✅ Occupier contacts, per-scan |
| Same-building match flagging | ❌ Not automated | ✅ Automatic |
| Outreach draft generation | ❌ Not covered | ✅ Per-listing personalized |
| Compounding private occupier database | ❌ Not the model | ✅ Grows with every scan |
| Fortnightly movement signals | ❌ Not covered | ✅ Territory intelligence |
| Access | Public sign-up | By request |
Pricing and access
PropStream
- Published subscription for property data, filters, and comparables
- Skip tracing billed as an additional per-record cost
- List Automator, Marketing Tools, and other add-ons at extra cost
- Open public sign-up
SCAYLED
- We build you a free demo account on one of your own listings, with plans scoped to the size of a broker's territory
- Neighbour Scan, Target Scan, and fortnightly movement signals included as the core platform
- Compounding private occupier database, drafted outreach, and cross-broker send protection
- The free demo is built on your own listing, so the platform can be judged on live conversations
The practical difference: these are not substitutes. PropStream is property and ownership data for finding deals to buy. SCAYLED is territory intelligence for finding tenants and buyers to lease and sell to, and for seeing a move coming before competitors do. Teams that do both investment and leasing work run them side by side, because each covers data the other does not.
When to use which
You're a wholesaler looking for motivated sellers in a zip code
→ PropStream. Ownership data, distress signals, and skip tracing are exactly what this workflow needs, and it is outside what SCAYLED does.
You're an industrial broker who just won a new listing and needs to prospect the precinct
→ SCAYLED. A Neighbour Scan maps every occupier around the listing and returns the verified decision-maker for each, ready to call. This is the workflow the platform is built around.
You want to find properties with high equity and absentee owners
→ PropStream. Property filtering by financial criteria is a core feature.
You need to know which companies are operating in the buildings around your listing
→ SCAYLED. That is the core of the platform: live occupier identification with verified decision-maker contacts.
You're analyzing a potential acquisition with comparables and ARV
→ PropStream. Deal analysis tools are built for investor due diligence.
You're pitching for a new leasing mandate and want to show pre-built tenant targets
→ SCAYLED. Walk in with a named, verified prospect set around the property, built from a Target Scan and sharpened by movement signals. It is a routine way brokers win mandates against competing brokerages.
The bottom line for each user
PropStream is the right platform for an investor. It is the most popular property data platform for wholesalers and flippers for good reason: the ownership data is comprehensive, the skip tracing works, and the filtering makes it easy to build targeted lists. For that job it earns the recommendation.
It is not, however, a CRE broker tool. It does not tell you who is operating inside a building. It does not give you the facility manager's email. It does not flag which surrounding occupiers are the best prospects for your listing, or which of them is about to move. Those are occupier-level and territory-level questions, and PropStream works at the ownership level.
For industrial and logistics brokers, SCAYLED is purpose-built for exactly that work: mapping occupiers around a listing, scanning any target area directly, and surfacing the fortnightly movement signals that precede a requirement. We build you a free demo account on one of your own listings, real occupiers in your market with the verified decision-maker for each, so the platform can be judged on live conversations. Teams that also do investment work run PropStream alongside it, because the two cover different data.
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