CREhunt Commercial Valuation Methodology

1. Data Inputs

Our valuation engine combines listing attributes, nearby comparable sale records, lease references, county-level market indicators, and category-specific cost factors. Inputs are normalized by geography, property use type, and listing intent (sale vs lease).

2. Comparable Weighting

Comparable records are weighted by recency, geographic proximity, and attribute similarity. We prioritize high-confidence records with clear location and pricing metadata and reduce influence from stale or sparse sources.

3. Lease and Sale Pathways

Sale and lease valuation pathways run independently. Sale pathways emphasize transaction values and NOI-derived signals. Lease pathways emphasize rent-per-square-foot, available space, and local vacancy pressure where available.

4. Confidence and Guardrails

Each estimate includes confidence scoring driven by source quality, data completeness, and variance across comparable evidence. Where evidence is thin, we widen output ranges and label results conservatively.

5. Transparency Principles

CREhunt publishes methodology details to support transparent interpretation of model output. Estimates are decision-support signals and should be reviewed alongside property due diligence and professional advice.

6. How a Broker's Market Figure Reaches a Page

The market figures on report pages and listings (asking rent, vacancy, absorption, submarket rents) are not CREhunt estimates. They are reproduced from quarterly market reports, under these rules:

1. A named publisher. Every figure comes from a report by a brokerage we can name, and is shown with that publisher and the quarter it covers. Figures from documents we cannot attribute are not shown.
2. The report's own unit. A rent is published in the report's unit ($/SF per year, $/SF per month, or $/unit per month for multifamily). Where a report prints no period, the publisher's own convention for that series is used, and only when the figure's size agrees with it. A rent whose unit cannot be established that way is withheld, never converted or guessed.
3. Internal consistency. A report whose figures contradict each other is withheld, and a report's summary row ("Totals") is never shown as a submarket.
4. Recency. A submarket rent is shown only from an edition published within the last eight quarters.
5. Submarket placement. A lease listing is placed in a broker-defined submarket from the nearest addresses brokers themselves listed in each submarket, or from a district the report itself defines, under a rule measured against the brokers' own placements on held-out addresses. Where the evidence nearby is too thin, no submarket is shown.
6. Several sources. Where more than one brokerage reports a market, each row is shown with its own publisher. CREhunt's consensus figure reconciles the reports that agree with one another (it can rest on a single report when only one published that figure) and is labelled as CREhunt's, never attributed to a firm.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is CREhunt?

CREhunt is a United States marketplace for commercial real estate and small businesses for sale and lease, with searchable listings segmented by location, asset type, and listing intent.

How does CREhunt estimate commercial property value?

CREhunt combines listing attributes, nearby comparable sale records, lease references, county-level market indicators, and category-specific cost factors. Comparables are weighted by recency, geographic proximity, and attribute similarity to produce a value estimate with a confidence score.

How are sale and lease valuations different?

Sale and lease valuation pathways run independently. Sale pathways emphasize transaction values and NOI-derived signals, while lease pathways emphasize rent per square foot, available space, and local vacancy pressure where available.

How reliable are CREhunt estimates?

Each estimate includes a confidence score driven by source quality, data completeness, and variance across comparable evidence. Where evidence is thin, output ranges are widened and results are labeled conservatively. Estimates are decision-support signals and should be reviewed alongside due diligence and professional advice.

Does CREhunt cover the entire United States?

Yes. CREhunt provides commercial real estate and small business listings across all 50 US states, with browse and search pages by category, state and city.

Where do CREhunt's market figures come from?

From quarterly market reports published by named brokerages. Each figure is shown with its publisher and quarter, in the report's unit (where a report prints no period, the publisher's own convention for that series, checked against the figure's size). A figure that cannot be attributed, or a rent whose unit cannot be established, is withheld rather than estimated.