LoopNet has been chosen to host NAR's commercial real estate website and to grow and develop the site into a worldclass commercial real estate portal. CommercialSource.com is the commercial real estate Internet site of the National Association of Realtors.LoopNet, Inc., founded in 1995, has grown to become the Internet's largest commercial real estate listing service, representing over 88,200 commercial real estate professionals. Founder and CEO Dennis DeAndre believed that the key to success with commercial real estate online was developing a critical mass of listings, which would result in maximum exposure for each property. As a result of this strategy, the majority of the commercial real estate organizations in North America market properties online exclusively with LoopNet. The company is venture capital backed with investments from Trinity Ventures, Indosuez Ventures and the premier Silicon Valley law firm, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.
- Industries: real estate,
- Commerce Types: B2B
- Commerce Services: request for quote, request for proposal,
- Region: World
Contractors eSource streamlines procurement searches by converting those hundreds of calls into one simple transaction on the Web. Use Contractors eSource to identify sources and costs for: Building Materials, Construction Equipment, Construction Finance, Construction Insurance. Contractors eSource matches up buyers and sellers. It does this swiftly, efficiently, and confidentially. As a contractor, you decide whether to release pre-sale contact information to suppliers. As a supplier, you decide whether or not to respond to a request. For both contractors and suppliers, the process is simple: the contractor posts a description of desired materials using eSource's standardized, automated form. eSource matches the request with its database of registered suppliers and sends e-mail to suppliers in the contractor's region. Suppliers respond by clicking an eSource link embedded in the e-mail and submitting quotes. eSource provides a quote summary to the contractor.
- Industries: construction, construction equipment, heavy equipment, commercial building construction, residential building construction
- Commerce Types: B2B
- Commerce Services: request for quote, forward auction
- Region: World