Yesterday, the Federal Reserve met for the final time of the year and as expected, the central bank announced its decision to cut the federal funds rate by 0.25 percentage points—bringing it to a range of 4.25% to 4.5%.

Topics: Real Estate Analytics Tool, Landlord Rep Brokers & Owners Industry, Commercial Real Estate Analysis Software

Over the last two weeks, there’s been a lot of chatter about the presidential election, and as there was in 2016, plenty of discussion about the shortcomings of pre-race polls.

Topics: Elecction Results, Data Quality, Competitive Analysis, Customer Analysis

Happy Halloween week! 🎃

Topics: Data Study, Population Study, Population Data

SiteSeer is a powerful analytics platform used by brokers, shopping center developers, retailers, franchise companies, and multi-site chain businesses in many different industries. We’re highlighting how different types of businesses can leverage SiteSeer to make intelligent site selection decisions and gain valuable insights about their operations.

Topics: Model Builder, Demographic Data, Retail Site Selection, Analyzing Retail Sites, Grocery, Commercial Real Estate Analysis Software, Site Screening

Growing retailers use SiteSeer software to evaluate markets and choose the right locations for their next store or site. That analysis involves defining a trade area, building a site screening scorecard using the retail chain’s key performance indicators, and running a model to analyze a geographic area a retailer is interested in.

Topics: Retail Trade Area, Real Estate Analytics Tool, Data Partner, Landlord Rep Brokers & Owners Industry, Tenant Rep Brokers & Developers Industry, Data Quality, Commercial Real Estate Analysis Software

SiteSeer is a powerful analytics platform used by brokers, shopping center developers, retailers, franchise companies, and multi-site chain businesses in many different industries. We’re highlighting how different types of businesses can leverage SiteSeer to make intelligent site selection decisions and gain valuable insights about their operations.

Read our Industry Spotlight on Hotels.

Topics: Demographic Data, Retail Site Selection, Restaurant Industry, Restaurant Site Selection, Competitive Analysis, Customer Analysis, Site Screening

Growing a multi-site business is no easy endeavor in today’s ultra-competitive, uncertain climate.

Topics: Hotspot Analysis, Model Builder, Location Profiles, Retail Site Selection, Data Quality, Site Screening

When screening and choosing new sites, an important component is the trade area. A trade area is the geographic area surrounding a site or store where the majority of your customers are located. In SiteSeer, these are displayed on a map as a geographic polygon.

Topics: Retail Trade Area, Retail Site Selection, Site Selection Software, Site Selection Checklist, Site Screening

If you’ve been following this blog for a while now, you know that twice a year we release our semi-annual population study to share the 15 metro and micro areas in the country that are growing the fastest. This iteration looks at population change (as a percentage) between April 2023 and April 2024.

Topics: Market Data, Population Study, Data Quality, Population Data