Data catalog

EQUIRE reads from five bodies of data. Three are yours and stay inside your organization. Two are shared reference data that every customer sees identically. This section states what each one measures, who publishes it, what it does not measure, and where it surfaces in the product.

Nothing here is a marketing inventory. If a dataset is thin, undated, or measured on a basis that does not answer the question you are asking, that is stated on the dataset's own page.

The five groups

Your deal record

What EQUIRE extracted from the documents you uploaded: property attributes, rent roll and lease terms, operating statements, debt terms, and the conflicts between documents that remain unresolved. Every field carries its source document and a verification state. Covered in Your deal and firm data.

Your firm's memory

Organization-scoped records that outlive a single deal: fund defaults, the approved house view, closed and passed deal outcomes, institutional patterns, the context vault, and deal notebooks. These shape underwriting defaults and give the assistant precedent to cite. Also covered in Your deal and firm data.

CRE market evidence

Four independent commercial real estate bases, kept separate on purpose: securitized transactions from SEC filings, broker asking listings, the CBRE cap rate survey, and REIT quarterly disclosures. Covered in CRE market evidence.

Economic and demographic indicators

205 metro-level metrics across 17 categories, drawn from federal statistical agencies and a small number of research publishers. Employment, population, income, housing supply and prices, affordability, migration, lending conditions, and climate risk. Covered in Economic and demographic indicators.

Reference corpora

The indexed CRE listing inventory used by Listings and Prospecting, and an academic paper corpus the assistant can search. Both are global and read-only.

Where each group is used

Valuation reads market data narrowly and deliberately. Market research proposes assumption changes and never writes them into the DCF. See Valuation for how a proposal becomes an applied assumption.

Two rules that govern every figure

Bases are never blended. A cap rate struck at securitization, a broker asking cap rate, a survey range, and a REIT-disclosed yield are four different measurements. EQUIRE reports them beside each other with their bases labelled and does not average them into one number. The reasoning is on CRE market evidence.

Absence is reported as absence. When a metric has no source, EQUIRE says so rather than substituting a related figure. Five commonly requested CRE metrics have no source in this pipeline at all, and the product names them rather than approximating them. See Coverage, freshness, and limits.

Freshness and definitions in the product

The metric definitions, units, and unavailability reasons on these pages are published by the upstream data producer as a machine-readable contract, and EQUIRE reads that contract at runtime rather than from a copy. Ask the assistant for getMetricDefinitions to see the live definition, unit, and publisher of any metric. Each metric's observation date travels with the figure itself rather than with its definition. Market research shows each figure's observation date separately from the time the index was last refreshed.

Figures quoted on these pages were measured on 14 September 2026 and move as the upstream producers publish.

Related

• Data isolation for tenant boundaries and who can read what.
• Processing and AI data for sub-processors and retention.
• Tools reference for the specific assistant tool behind each read.