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Just a quick note that earlier this month we implemented new email notifications to go along with your activity as an OpenComps Pro subscriber. Now, every time you subscribe, cancel, re-activate, have a paid invoice or a failed payment, we will send you an email regarding each activity. Thus, you will receive your paid invoice […]

Continuing with the 2012 review, here is a snapshot of the 2012 Top 5 Brokerage Firms rankings as they stand on March 6, 2013. The data is dynamic and changes when new transactions are introduced in the dataset. For the full and most up-to-date 2012 list, you can go to the hotel, office, retail and residential […]

As a follow up to the 2012 Year in Review for Hotels, we thought this graph would be interesting to highlight the slowdown in hotel transactions we observed in 2012. Hopefully, in 2013, we’ll see a return to growth. And hopefully in 2013 we will also make such trend information more easily and interactively available […]

Here at OpenComps we hope that everyone had good holidays. Before we plunge into a hopefully busy 2013, we wanted to take a general look at what happened in OpenComps’ dataset in 2012 as of today January 2, 2013:

Apple – no, not this Apple – (REIT Six) is raking in cash. And so is it’s top executive. As announced recently, Blackstone struck a deal to acquire Glade Knight’s Apple REIT Six for $1.15 billion or approximately $150,000 per room. Apple REIT Six is comprised of 66 upscale, extended-stay and select-service hotels or 7,658 rooms of […]

Although we acquired the opencomps.com domain a few years ago, and many of you founds on that address through general Internet searches, we continued to use the .info domain in the site’s branding and email addresses. We believed that this gave you, the users, a clue of what to expect on the site – (valuable) […]

In late November, we launched a new integrated subscription system that will hopefully make subscribing and maintaining your subscription to OpenComps easier, more secure and convenient.

We are happy to announce that today we are launching our company blog at http://www.opencomps.com/blog. We plan on using this venue to keep you updated on where OpenComps is heading: tweaks, updates, maintenance and vision for the site. We will also share with you our thoughts on real estate transactions, industry trends and other entrepreneurial […]