The six-year-old online real estate data firm PropertyShark.com is opening a new front in the commercial listing wars by publishing free local retail and office listings, in a direct but limited challenge to market leaders Costar Group and Loopnet. While not yet complete, PropertyShark.com began listing office and retail space availabilities in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens several months ago, but discussed the plans publicly for the first time with The Real Deal. The company plans to have comprehensive retail listings by January and office listings by the end of the first quarter of 2010, company founder Matthew Haines said. That information would be followed in the second quarter with commercial property sales listings. “We want to have the most comprehensive and the most accurate database of listings available,” Haines said. “We want to capture market share from Loopnet, Costar and the New York Times.”
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PropertyShark.com expands commercial listing resources
