PropertyShark vs Reonomy

PropertyShark and Reonomy approach commercial real estate data from different angles: PropertyShark provides deep, per-address public records in specific markets, while Reonomy focuses on nationwide entity resolution. One is priced for an individual researcher, the other for a deal team. Both stop at the owner, which is where a commercial roofer or an HVAC contractor needs to start.

Disclosure: Scout Data is our product; treat that entry as a maker’s pitch and the rest as our honest read.

Public Records vs. Entity Resolution

PropertyShark is built for granular property research. It is widely used for pulling deeds, running detailed comparables, and reviewing zoning. If you are doing single-asset research in a market they cover heavily (like New York), its depth of public records is highly valued.

Reonomy is less about the paperwork of one address and more about the owner across many. Its users follow a holding company from one state to the next, building a picture of who controls what before they make an offer.

The phone number problem

Both tools will give you an owner. PropertyShark’s Platinum plan adds the real owners behind LLCs and their phone numbers; Reonomy builds its product around the same step. For a rep, the catch is whose number it is. The owner of a strip center may live three states away and never think about the roof. The person who signs for it is often the property manager, the tenant who holds the lease, or a family member who runs the portfolio.

Where Scout Data fits

Commercial data from Scout Data is built for that last step. Each building in your list comes back as an owner dossier that says who operates there, whether they own or lease, who decides, and how to reach each of them, plus every other parcel the owner holds. Pull deeds in PropertyShark and trace a deal in Reonomy; for the person to call about a roof or an array, ask for five sample dossiers on buildings you pick.

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