Commercial real estate property insights

What is REsimplifi?

REsimplifi is a commercial real estate data company that aggregates listings, brokers, and available suites from across the market into one standardized property record. It tracks everything from land parcels and industrial buildings to office suites and retail space, capturing both the listing itself and the granular building attributes that come with it.

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What academic researchers should know about REsimplifi commercial real estate data

On Dewey, REsimplifi publishes three related datasets. Listing Data covers historical, off market commercial listings for all property types across the United States, refreshed quarterly with coverage back to 2021, and includes attributes like building class, square footage, cap rate, price per square foot, construction type, dock and rail access, power and utility specifications, zoning, and floodplain status. Suites reports the individual spaces available within a listing, including available square footage ranges, asking rate, lease term, and whether a space is being subleased. Brokers links each listing to the broker or brokers associated with it.

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Why academic researchers choose REsimplifi on Dewey

Commercial real estate research has historically leaned on aggregated cap rate or vacancy indices from a handful of markets, which flatten out the building-level detail that actually drives leasing and investment decisions. REsimplifi instead standardizes raw, listing-level records across property types and markets, down to individual attributes like dock count, clear height, and power specifications that matter for industrial and logistics research specifically. Because listings, suites, and brokers are separate but linked datasets, researchers can study a property, the individual spaces inside it, and the brokers marketing it as distinct units of analysis. It pairs naturally with other Dewey partners for a fuller picture: GovFiles for verifying the business entities behind a listing organization or tenant, ClimateCheck for physical climate risk at the same address, and the U.S. Census Bureau for local demographics.

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REsimplifi academic research ideas and use cases

• Industrial and logistics site selection. Attributes like dock count, clear height, crane capacity, and distance to the nearest port, highway, or rail line make it possible to study what physical characteristics actually predict industrial leasing activity or ecommerce warehouse demand.
• Office and retail market cycles. Tracking price per square foot, cap rate, and time on market for office and retail listings since 2021 supports research on how those markets adjusted through the return to office period and shifts in retail formats.
• Opportunity zones and local investment. The listing-level opportunity zone flag can be paired with property price and building attributes to study whether opportunity zone designation is associated with different investment or redevelopment activity.
• Sublease markets as an economic indicator. Because Suites flags whether a space is being subleased, researchers can use sublease share and available square footage as a leading indicator of tenant downsizing or distress in a local office market.

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