Crexi and Reonomy serve different core purposes: Crexi is a commercial listings marketplace with a data tier, while Reonomy is a research platform built on entity resolution. Brokers pick between them by whether the next deal is listed or off-market. A roofer or solar installer weighing the two is usually asking a third question, which this guide answers at the end.
Disclosure: Scout Data is our product; treat that entry as a maker’s pitch and the rest as our honest read.
Listings vs. Entity Resolution
Crexi built its footprint as an active marketplace for buying, selling, and leasing commercial properties. Its PRO tier layers on property records, comparables, and owner contact information. If your primary motion involves active listings and marketing properties, Crexi aligns well with that workflow.
Reonomy starts from the other end: the deed. Its reason to exist is the building whose owner of record is a holding company, and its job is naming the people behind it. That makes it the tool for a deal nobody has listed yet.
When the listing is not the lead
A roofer or solar installer who signs up for Crexi usually finds the same thing in the first week: the buildings worth calling are mostly not for sale. A marketplace shows you the assets someone is trying to move this quarter. The flat roof that took hail in April, or the warehouse paying a heavy evening demand charge, belongs to an owner who is not listing it and has no reason to.
Reonomy gets closer, because it starts from the deed rather than the listing. But it still hands a rep one building at a time, and the principal it finds is often the investor, not the operator or the facilities lead who approves a re-roof.
Where Scout Data fits
Commercial data from Scout Data starts from the buildings you can sell to, whether or not they are for sale: flat roofs inside a recent hail path, roofs at the end of their life, or buildings that already carry solar. Each one comes back as an owner dossier naming the business inside, the entity on title and the people who decide, with their numbers. Choose Crexi to list or buy, Reonomy to research a deal; for a call list, the Reonomy alternatives guide sorts the rest of the field.
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Crexi and Reonomy?
Crexi is a commercial real estate marketplace designed for listing, discovering, and auctioning properties, with a PRO tier that adds market data. Reonomy is a dedicated research platform focused on entity resolution—stitching records together to find the human owners behind LLCs.
How does Crexi PRO pricing compare to Reonomy?
Crexi PRO is priced by Crexi’s sales team, and this guide quotes no Crexi price. Reonomy advertises a self-serve subscription starting at $500 per month (or $400 per month billed annually).
Can Crexi replace Reonomy for finding building owners?
If you are evaluating them to supply an outbound sales team, neither research seat is the most efficient choice. While both provide owner records, commercial data from Scout Data delivers a pre-built list of owner dossiers formatted specifically for outbound outreach, without the overhead of a research platform.