Best Commercial Property Data for Contractors (2026): 8 Providers Compared

Commercial property research often starts with a broker’s transaction or an investor’s purchase decision. Ownership portfolios and financing history occupy much of the published property intelligence offering, which also serves lenders and other property professionals.

A contractor’s test is whether the data can select buildings with the roof, equipment or exterior area the crew services and hand those addresses to a salesperson with a reason to call. A warehouse ownership record answers one question. Selecting nearby warehouses with metal roofs and loading docks answers a different buying request.

I would start with Ground Control by PorchRocket for that second request. Compare the alternatives by what arrives in your team’s hands, then put the remaining research hours beside the purchase price. A cheap address that consumes an afternoon can cost more than a building selected for your work.

How we compared commercial property data for contractors

Ground Control ranks first because this comparison prioritizes delivered buildings selected for trade work, purchase flexibility and the hours left for a salesperson to reach buyers.

PorchRocket publishes this comparison and sells Ground Control. I would judge the eight options against the same campaign specification, using their published product pages and buying terms:

• Building fit: Can the purchase select your roof age band, material, rooftop HVAC, parking areas, tanks or loading docks in the territory dispatch approves?
• Buying terms: Can you pay per selected building, or does the work require a software subscription, licensed feed or separate export purchase?
• Delivery and remedy: When does the sales file arrive, what explains each selection, and what happens to a wrong match?
• Buyer research: Are owner records and decision-maker contacts included, separately priced or still assigned to your staff?
• File handoff: Can the address and match reason load into your existing sales tools without another round of building screening?

For an HVAC campaign, my test would be offices in one service area with 5+ visible rooftop units. A dock-service shop would test warehouses with loading docks. Those are the buying criteria behind the ranking.

Commercial property data providers compared for 2026

Ground Control is the best fit for buying a trade-selected prospect file; the seven alternatives below serve ownership research, sales platforms, parcel mapping or roof-object analysis.

This comparison covers the named products and public pages checked November 5, 2026. “Not specified” means the cited page does not establish that feature for the offer being compared. Ask for the exact product and fields on the quote.

Provider and offer	Built for	What it sells	Visible features	Owner contacts	Published pricing model	Contract or commitment
1. Ground Control	Best for trade companies buying matching buildings	Matching buildings in CSV and Excel within 48 hours after payment	Roof attributes, rooftop HVAC, docks, parking, tanks and yards	Owner info and decision-maker research as add-ons	$10 to $20 per commercial building	Pay per order, starting at 10 buildings; wrong-match credit within 30 days
Reonomy	Property researchers and service providers	Property, ownership and transaction intelligence	Contractor roof-object selection not specified on cited page	Owner records and contacts	Plans advertised from $400/month; confirm term and exports	Monthly or annual on pricing page; confirm three-month availability
CoStar Owners	Ownership and investment research	Portfolios, transactions and linked comparables	Trade-feature selection not specified on cited page	Ownership and investment-company contacts	Contact sales; no rate on cited page	Obtain term and user rights with quote
Convex	Commercial service sales teams	Property-based search, contact lists and outreach tools	Building-size, property-type and permit criteria; confirm requested equipment fields	Names, emails and mobile numbers described	Sales-led purchase; no public dollar price on cited page	Request team price, term and export rights
ATTOM API and bulk data	Application and analytics teams	Structured property and transaction records	Roof-object selection not specified in cited offer	Ownership information; confirm contact fields	Basic Property API starts at $500/month; other scope priced separately	Confirm license term and permitted use
Regrid	Parcel research and mapping	Parcel boundaries, attributes and exports	Imagery and footprint layers; equipment selection not specified	Ownership and mailing fields	App subscriptions and paid downloads; API record pricing	API offers monthly self-service or annual enterprise licenses
Nearmap Commercial Roof Objects	Roof-object analysis	Aerially derived feature layers	HVAC, skylights, ducts and other roof objects	Not specified in this pack	Subscription pricing set in order form	Initial term in order form; renewal terms apply
PropertyRadar	Property and owner prospecting	Search, exports and marketing tools	Rooftop equipment selection not specified on pricing page	Phone and email allowances by plan	Solo $119/month, or $99/month prepaid annually	Monthly or annual billing; paid subscriptions nonrefundable

Read the deliverable column before the price column. A geometry layer needs someone to use it. A research platform needs a person to run the campaign. A selected prospect file starts with the service criteria and returns addresses. Price the work that remains with your staff.

Send each vendor the same territory, building criteria and required file format. Ask who does any remaining research and keep that answer with the quote.

There is plenty of stock to sort. EIA’s commercial building statistics report 5.9 million buildings and 96 billion square feet in the 2018 CBECS. Use those historical survey estimates for context while defining a much narrower service territory in the contractor market intelligence guide.

Reonomy alternatives for building-first prospecting

Reonomy centers its offer on ownership and property research; Ground Control fits a purchase defined by the building features your service crew needs.

The Reonomy product page describes property records and transaction history alongside owner contacts, including ownership behind LLCs. Construction and service providers are among its stated customers. Evaluate its ownership research against the buyer information your campaign needs.

Its May 2026 subscription release announced monthly, three-month and annual options. The current pricing page advertises plans from $400 per month in its page description; confirm the price and commitment at checkout. Its plan cards list monthly access with an optional 1,000-export package and annual access with 1,000 monthly exports included. Ask whether the announced three-month option remains available.

Give the representative your equipment criteria and ask for an export preserving those fields beside each address. Inspect the rows and time any research still assigned to your staff.

For an existing portfolio, ownership research can be the missing piece. For a new metal-roof warehouse campaign, test building selection first. Count qualifying addresses before comparing contacts.

The Reonomy alternatives comparison for contractors focuses on those selection and export questions. Pick Reonomy if your staff needs repeated ownership and transaction research on properties it will investigate itself.

CoStar alternatives for contractors selling service work

CoStar’s Owners module organizes portfolios and investment activity, while a contractor buying prospect data needs to establish service fit at individual buildings.

The CoStar Owners page describes portfolio filters and recent transactions. It connects ownership-company contacts with property records and comparables. The page routes buyers to sales without publishing a standard price or contract term.

I would evaluate portfolio research when sales wants to approach an owner about several buildings. Ask which properties lie inside your service area and who approves maintenance at each one. A portfolio contact gives the rep an opening; qualification establishes whether that person can authorize the proposed service or must route it to a building manager.

For a service campaign, require a row showing the building’s qualifying feature and the person to approach. If staff must add the feature assessment themselves, budget those hours. Ask sales to spell out the relevant export permissions and seat requirements before signing. The quote should explain what your field salesperson can receive and use after the researcher has finished the search.

The CoStar alternatives guide for service companies compares that research purchase with ordering selected buildings. Pick CoStar if owner portfolios and lease or sale comparables are the work your team needs to perform throughout the year.

Convex for a commercial service sales platform

Convex serves commercial service sales teams with property-based prospecting, making it a closer comparison for contractors than a tool centered on investment research.

The Convex product site identifies the company as part of ServiceTitan and describes building-size, property-type and permit criteria, contact lists, and calling and email tools. It directs buyers to sales without a public dollar price. Request the team quote, purchase term and export rights for the proposed package.

The buying question is how much of that platform your crew will use. If your reps already have an assigned territory, a working CRM and a follow-up process, price the additional software against the smaller job of delivering the next building list. Have the representative demonstrate your required roof or equipment criterion. A permit field and a count of visible rooftop units answer different questions; preserve the one your service offer needs in the sample export.

Assign someone to run the platform and budget their training and administration time. The Convex alternatives comparison weighs that purchase against a selected file worked in existing sales tools.

Pick Convex if your sales manager wants an ongoing property-based prospecting and outreach platform and will assign staff to run it.

ATTOM for property feeds and internal sales systems

ATTOM supplies property records through APIs and bulk delivery, making the integration and screening work part of a contractor’s buying decision.

An API lets software request data. ATTOM’s delivery page describes that route alongside bulk files for in-house analytics. Its Property Data API pricing starts Basic Property at $500 per month and includes property profiles, ownership and mortgage information; Premium pricing depends on requirements.

Name the employee who will maintain the feed. Have them import a sample and explain how changed ownership records will reach reps already calling those buildings. Budget initial setup and recurring import checks.

For one 300-building campaign, request a file showing exactly what arrives for the territory. Require the commercial fields needed for the trade rather than assuming that every property dataset carries them. If visible rooftop equipment is part of the specification, have the vendor identify the field and demonstrate the selection with sample records. Put any additional research or data purchase into the campaign budget.

Pick ATTOM if you have an employee building and maintaining an internal property-data application or recurring analytical feed.

Regrid for parcel boundaries and ownership records

Regrid supplies parcel geometry and property attributes; a contractor should evaluate it when mapping land and ownership is part of the assignment.

The Property App page describes parcel boundaries with ownership and mailing fields. Exports come in CSV or mapping formats. App access and paid downloads are separate purchases, with download pricing varying by volume and fields. Its API plan documentation describes monthly self-service access with record pricing and annual enterprise licenses.

Ask to see a multi-building parcel. Mark the structure your crew would service and retain a building identifier so reps can distinguish separate opportunities at the same street address.

Keep ownership mailing addresses separate from service addresses during import. For a roof-material or equipment campaign, also require a demonstration of those selection fields before ordering parcel records.

Pick Regrid if parcel boundaries and ownership mapping are the deliverables, with staff available to establish building-level service fit afterward.

Nearmap for visible rooftop features

Nearmap documents rooftop HVAC detection in its Commercial Roof Objects pack; compare that feature with the work needed to deliver a usable sales file.

The pack documentation lists HVAC, ducts, roof equipment and skylights among its layers. It identifies API access and map visualization, while marking offline delivery unavailable for this pack. Ask which product and delivery method the proposed purchase includes.

Its current subscription agreement places pricing and the initial term in the order form. Section 6.1 sets twelve-month automatic renewals unless either party gives at least thirty days’ written notice before expiry; digital-only customers can give online notice. Check the applicable order form and put its renewal deadline on the buying calendar.

The contractor still needs an assigned account. I would have the person proposing this purchase show the path from a detected roof object to an address in the sales file, with enough evidence attached for a rep to understand why the building fits. Time that work on a sample. Ask who researches the buyer after the address is selected. That staffing question belongs in the purchase decision for an ongoing internal system.

For campaign design, the aerial imagery prospecting guide explains how to begin with visible building features. Put the required feature and delivered file format on the same buying specification.

Pick Nearmap if your team needs licensed roof-object layers for a continuing analysis workflow and will build the sales assignments from that output.

PropertyRadar for property and owner outreach

PropertyRadar combines property search with contact and marketing allowances; contractors still need to test the selection against their required building features.

Its November 2026 pricing page lists Solo at $119 monthly or $99 per month when prepaid annually. That is $1,188 paid for a year, compared with $1,428 for twelve monthly payments. The plan includes one user, 10,000 monthly exports and a 250 monthly phones-and-emails allowance. The page states that paid subscriptions are nonrefundable and that access continues through the paid period after cancellation.

Put the campaign dates beside the allowance. If your salesperson has one month to work the territory before moving to another assignment, compare the contacts needed during that month with the amount included in the plan and price the excess before choosing annual billing. Count the records sales can work. Review a sample selected by your commercial service criteria as well.

Assign the equipment or exterior-feature check separately from contact research. Include both tasks in the purchase budget.

Pick PropertyRadar if a rep will use ongoing property search and contact allowances and can verify the required commercial-building features before outreach.

Ground Control’s filters, contacts and delivered file

Ground Control selects commercial buildings by your service criteria and delivers a file explaining why each property belongs in the campaign.

Start with business type and territory. Choose from uses such as warehouse, industrial, retail, office, restaurant, medical or multifamily. Apply building-size bands such as 25,000+ or 50,000+ square feet when that scale supports the account you want. For roofing, select commercial roofs by age band and material, including membrane, metal, gravel or built-up roofing in a 10+ year band.

Visible features narrow the selection around the work your company sells:

• HVAC teams can order buildings with rooftop HVAC, selecting equipment present, 2+ visible units or 5+ visible units.
• Dock-service crews can select warehouses and other buildings with loading docks.
• Paving and striping crews can target properties with paved parking areas.
• Fuel and tank-service companies can select properties with visible storage tanks.
• Yard-service campaigns can begin with properties with industrial yards, while grounds crews can target commercial lawns and planting beds.

Other supported features include installed solar, skylights and pools. For roofing campaign design, the roofing data provider comparison separates prospect selection from estimating, and the commercial roofing leads guide connects selected buildings to an outreach plan.

I would keep the first campaign narrow. An office maintenance campaign needs one service offer and a service area dispatch approves. A second campaign for restaurants deserves its own call notes and access questions. Combining both into one undifferentiated file makes it harder to tell which offer earns appointments.

For commercial HVAC targeting, use the visible-unit filter to select addresses. Collect equipment capacity and service records at the authorized visit. For paving, measure the area to be serviced before estimating crack fill or sealcoat. Those steps give the estimator the quantities needed to price the work.

The delivered file includes a match reason for every property. Ground Control combines property records with aerial imagery no older than two years when the order runs. It sends properties only when it is 90%+ sure they match. Report a wrong match within thirty days for credit back.

Owner information and decision-maker research are separate add-ons. Decision-maker research supplies named people with roles, email, phone and LinkedIn where found; you never pay for a contact that is not found. Ask the person reached to confirm which part of the property and which spending decisions they handle.

Commercial buildings cost $10 to $20 each, with orders starting at ten and a lower per-building price as order size increases. The exact price appears before payment, and delivery is within 48 hours after you pay, often sooner. CSV and Excel files include import layouts for SalesRabbit and SPOTIO, plus help mapping fields into your CRM. Use the property data pricing page when setting the buying budget.

Whole-state work, several markets or an unusual selection detail belongs in a custom building-data request. Describe the detail and desired output before treating it as an orderable filter.

When another data product is the better purchase

Choose another tool when the assignment requires transaction comparisons, parcel geometry or a continuing sales platform that someone in your office will operate throughout the year.

• A brokerage researching leases and sales can evaluate the CoStar Owners module and linked comparables.
• A mapping employee buying parcel boundaries and ownership fields can evaluate the Regrid Property App.
• A commercial sales manager replacing a prospecting and outreach system can evaluate the Convex platform against that wider assignment.
• A developer feeding property records into an internal application can evaluate ATTOM’s API and bulk delivery.

For a defined trade campaign, I would still buy the buildings first. Count staff hours and usable sales assignments before adding a research license.

Public work needs its own search. Bid Control by PorchRocket finds opportunities from school districts and local governments, with bid papers and addenda beside the due dates. Use it for the public side of roofing, HVAC, paving or grounds work while Ground Control supplies the private-building campaign. Put an agency opportunity into the bid process when you find a solicitation that fits your crew.

What should you ask a building data vendor before paying?

Require a territory sample and written field definitions before approving a 300-building purchase, then assign someone to test the file against your service specification.

I would send these questions with the selection criteria, so each vendor answers the same buying request:

1. What exactly does one paid record represent: a building, a parcel, an owner or a contact? How are several buildings at one address represented?
2. Which requested features are directly selectable? For each one, what value will sales see in the delivered file?
3. What is the source date for the selection evidence? How does that differ from the date you assembled or exported the list?
4. Which fields identify ownership, and which identify a person responsible for the proposed service? What happens when that person cannot be found?
5. What file and fields will we receive? Can our sales manager test an export before we approve the full purchase?
6. What does our payment cover, including seats, export volume, contact research and any setup? When do allowances reset?
7. What use of the data is permitted for our employees or dealer network? What happens to retained files when access ends?
8. What is the process and deadline for reporting a wrong match? Does the remedy address the property selection or a separate contact problem?

Ask for dates and examples. “Updated regularly” does not tell your sales manager when the image used to select a roof was captured. “Owner data included” does not identify the field containing the person who approves a maintenance visit. Copy the answer into the buying sheet and inspect that field in the sample.

Give the sample a pass condition

For a first commercial HVAC test, I would use the following acceptance sheet. These are proposed purchasing checks, so adjust them to the service you sell.

Check	Evidence to review	Action if it fails
Territory	Every address falls in the approved service area	Set the address aside and document the boundary issue
Building identity	Sales can distinguish the selected structure from nearby structures	Ask for the identifier or clarification needed to assign it
Service match	The record identifies the required rooftop feature and business type	Request review against the written selection criteria
Export usability	Address and match reason appear in separate working fields	Fix the field mapping before importing the whole order
Contact scope	Paid contact fields match the add-on ordered	Separate missing-contact questions from property-match questions

Have the salesperson perform the import. Give them the sample without a vendor walking them through it, then watch for the point where they leave the file to find information they need before assigning a building or preparing the first call. Record the time spent there. Include cleanup and buyer research in the cost comparison.

Set up outreach before buying contact volume

Keep one suppression list across campaigns and assign someone to maintain it. The FTC’s CAN-SPAM business guide applies to business-to-business commercial email. It calls for truthful sender and subject information, identification of the advertisement, a valid postal address and a clear opt-out method. The opt-out mechanism must work for at least thirty days after sending, and requests must be honored within ten business days.

Put the required identification and opt-out information into the sending template. Test that replies reach the person maintaining the suppression list before loading the first batch.

The cost of a 300-building campaign

Ground Control’s property charge for 300 buildings is $3,000 to $6,000; compare that with the full license commitment and the sales labor required by each option.

Start with the same buying request: 300 offices in one metro, 25,000+ square feet and 5+ visible rooftop units. A subscription quote needs to identify how those buildings will be selected and delivered. The published charges below buy different amounts of that work.

Provider	Data purchase for the 300-building request	Work to price before comparing totals
Ground Control	300 x $10 to $20 = $3,000 to $6,000 before contact add-ons	Selected buildings delivered; budget buyer research if you do not buy the add-on
Reonomy	Plans advertised from $400 per month; confirm the term and required export package at checkout	Demonstrate required unit-count selection, then price screening and buyer research
CoStar Owners	Sales quote for the required access and term	Price building-feature screening and the permitted sales-file handoff
Convex	Team quote; no public dollar rate on cited page	Demonstrate equipment criteria and count platform setup and campaign administration
ATTOM Basic Property API	Starts at $500 per month; confirm the scope and usage needed for 300 records	Price integration, building-feature screening and buyer research
Regrid	App subscription plus any paid downloads; price depends on volume and fields	Distinguish buildings from parcels and add the required equipment assessment
Nearmap Commercial Roof Objects	Subscription quote under the order-form terms	Price conversion from roof-object output to addresses, then buyer research
PropertyRadar Solo	One monthly payment: $119; annual prepayment: 12 x $99 = $1,188	Confirm equipment selection, contact volume and any extra research or contact charges

Ground Control is my first purchase for this request because the price covers the building selection. A lower subscription bill still needs a budget for the staff who will produce the requested list. The commercial property data cost guide separates those buying units in more detail.

Say a two-truck HVAC service shop in Fort Worth is choosing data for one 300-building office campaign. Budget 180 sales hours at a loaded cost of $63 an hour and $420 for nonlabor outreach expenses. Use an assumed annual research-license budget of $6,840, all assigned to this campaign because no other use is planned.

Use the published $10 to $20 per-building range for the Ground Control column. The salesperson performs contact research within the hours shown, so this comparison buys no contact add-ons. Both columns exclude service delivery costs, which appear later in the account model. Taxes are excluded from the purchasing illustration.

The same 180 hours, assigned differently

Assume the research platform requires ninety hours of building screening and buyer research, while the selected list requires fifty. Outreach takes fifty hours in each case. Allocate the remaining time to authorized surveys and proposals at four hours apiece, including travel.

Assume sixty database prospects qualify as buying opportunities, compared with 120 selected-list prospects. Qualification requires a service scope the shop can cover and a confirmed path to a purchasing decision within the campaign period. Half produce buyer conversations. One-third of those conversations produce surveys, and one in five surveys produces a signed maintenance agreement. Those steps yield two signed accounts from ten surveys, or four from twenty.

Campaign input or result	Ground Control building list	Assumed annual research license
Starting buildings	300	300
Screening and buyer-research hours	50	90
Outreach hours	50	50
Survey and proposal hours	80	40
Total sales hours	180	180
Qualified buying opportunities	120	60
Buyer conversations	60	30
Authorized surveys	20	10
Signed accounts	4	2
Data purchase	$3,000 to $6,000	$6,840
Sales labor, 180 x $63	$11,340	$11,340
Nonlabor outreach expense	$420	$420
Total campaign cost	$14,760 to $17,760	$18,600
Cost per signed account	$3,690 to $4,440	$9,300

The arithmetic is visible: $6,840 + $11,340 + $420 = $18,600, divided by two signed accounts. The list column is ($3,000 to $6,000) + $11,340 + $420 = $14,760 to $17,760, divided by four. Across the starting 300 addresses, the assumed signed-account rates are about 0.67% and 1.33%.

Qualifying on buying responsibility and timing happens after property selection. The 120 opportunities in the list column therefore describe a sales qualification assumption. They do not describe how many delivered buildings match the requested visible features. Keep those two measures in different fields when evaluating the campaign.

Forty saved research hours fund ten more surveys. At four hours per survey and a signing rate of one in five, the model produces two additional accounts inside the same 180-hour budget, provided the salesperson can book the appointments needed to use those hours. Check both inputs against the campaign log before repeating the purchase.

Customer acquisition cost (CAC) is total campaign spending divided by accounts won. Hold spending and the twenty surveys fixed for this sensitivity check. Assume 10%, 20% or 25% of surveys sign, producing two, four or five accounts:

Ground Control campaign case	Signed accounts from 300 buildings	CAC at $14,760 total cost	CAC at $17,760 total cost
Low	2	$7,380	$8,880
Base	4	$3,690	$4,440
High	5	$2,952	$3,552

Even with two signings, the selected-list campaign saves $420 to $1,920 per account against the assumed license campaign’s $9,300 CAC. With four, the same sales hours produce twice as many agreements. Use observed signings in the denominator and keep open proposals out of that count.

A wasted visit also has a price. At the same $63 hourly assumption, a 78-minute trip and unsuccessful stop costs 1.3 x $63 = $81.90 in sales capacity. Twelve such trips consume $982.80. Count that time within sales labor to avoid double counting it as a separate campaign expense.

Where the annual license catches up

Data charges are equal at 342 buildings priced at $20 each, or 684 buildings priced at $10 each, against the assumed $6,840 annual license. Beyond those counts, the license costs less on data charges alone if its allowances cover the work. Use your quoted per-building price in $6,840 / price to find the applicable crossing point, then add research labor and buyer qualification costs.

If the shop runs six 300-building campaigns using that license, the allocated data cost becomes $6,840 / 1,800 = $3.80 per building. That changes the buying decision. Use credible campaign capacity when spreading the cost, and confirm that the license and export allowance cover the planned work. An unused list does not create a seventh campaign.

Check the license already on your books. I would ask the employee using it to produce a matching list before ordering overlapping records, then compare the added purchase cost with the hours saved and the extra qualified accounts the new selection is expected to produce. Keep the existing subscription in the annual software budget. Judge the new order on its additional cost.

What one service account can support over five years

For the same HVAC campaign, assume a six-unit office account brings $4,680 a year in maintenance revenue, with 42% remaining after direct service costs. That leaves $4,680 x 0.42 = $1,965.60 a year before sales expense and overhead. Assume an 84% renewal probability at each annual renewal, unchanged pricing and margin, and no repair or replacement revenue.

For each later year, multiply the prior year’s expected revenue and contribution by 0.84. This is an undiscounted five-year budget for one newly signed account.

Year	Probability account remains active	Expected maintenance revenue	Expected contribution after direct service costs
1	100%	$4,680.00	$1,965.60
2	84%	$3,931.20	$1,651.10
3	70.56%	$3,302.21	$1,386.93
4	59.27%	$2,773.85	$1,165.02
5	49.79%	$2,330.04	$978.62
Total		$17,017.30	$7,147.27

The expected contribution totals $1,965.60 x (1 + 0.84 + 0.84 squared + 0.84 cubed + 0.84 to the fourth power) = $7,147.27, rounded. Subtract the selected-list acquisition cost of $3,690 to $4,440, leaving about $2,707 to $3,457 before overhead across five years. The first year’s contribution alone does not cover acquisition.

That $7,147.27 is the account’s five-year customer lifetime value before acquisition and overhead in this model. Four accounts contribute $28,589.07 using unrounded annual amounts. Lead-list ROI, including outreach and sales labor, is ($28,589.07 minus campaign cost) / campaign cost: about 94% at $14,760 and 61% at $17,760. Put your figures into the lead-list ROI calculator before expanding the order. Buy the next batch when the expected account contribution covers its acquisition cost and dispatch can serve the added work.

At the model’s $9,300 acquisition cost, the research-license campaign spends more to sign an account than that account’s expected five-year maintenance contribution. That shop would need a lower acquisition cost or stronger account economics before repeating it. Count additional repair work only when you have a defensible budget for earning and delivering it.

The commercial customer value guide develops the same buying discipline for roof work. Use your own service margin and renewal history when deciding how much a matching building is worth to your company.

How to test commercial property data, step by step

Ground Control by PorchRocket is the fastest way to test a delivered commercial prospect list selected by the features your trade services. Choose your area, business type and building size, then add roof age band or material, rooftop HVAC, loading docks or paved parking as appropriate. Buildings cost $10 to $20 each, with a ten-building minimum and delivery within 48 hours after payment. Each record explains its match; report a wrong match within thirty days for credit back. Owner and decision-maker research are add-ons. These are buildings that fit your work, whose owners have not requested quotes.

I would run the first file through these eight steps this month, then expand only after a salesperson can work the records without repeated clarification:

1. Define one service offer and territory. For the Fort Worth HVAC campaign, write: offices in the approved service area, 25,000+ square feet and 5+ visible rooftop units, approached for a maintenance-scope conversation.
2. Set rejection rules with dispatch and the estimator. Exclude addresses the crew cannot serve and buildings where the proposed maintenance scope is too small, even if the total building area meets the minimum.
3. Order 10 matching buildings from Ground Control. At $10 to $20 each, the property purchase is $100 to $200 before owner or decision-maker add-ons, with the file delivered within 48 hours after payment.
4. Review every match reason during week one. Check the requested business type and feature, retain the selection criteria beside each address, and report a wrong match within 30 days for credit back.
5. Import the sample into your sales tool. Preserve address and match reason in separate fields, remove existing customers from the prospect assignment, and assign each building to one rep with a next action.
6. Confirm who buys the service. Record purchasing responsibility and contract timing during the first conversations. Log buyer research separately from outreach hours, then arrange authorized surveys where the scope fits.
7. Measure the next batch over a defined follow-up period. Count conversations and surveys alongside accepted agreements, and record all sales time. Keep open proposals with their next decision dates and update the original campaign when a later agreement signs.
8. Recalculate CAC and approve expansion with the service manager. Use your observed signed-account count and expected account contribution, then check the route and response windows before buying the next territory.

Ten records test the file and buying process. Use the larger follow-up batch to measure appointments and signed work, then agree on the next territory with dispatch.

Where Ground Control fits

Ground Control belongs at the start of a contractor’s sales process, where selecting the right building determines which conversations deserve staff time.

For a commercial service campaign, the purchase gives your team six things to work from:

• An area and building profile chosen for your crew, with business-type and size filters that match the account you want to serve.
• The visible feature behind the service offer, such as rooftop HVAC for maintenance outreach or loading docks for a dock-service campaign.
• A reason for each property match, retained beside the address when the salesperson prepares the first contact.
• Optional owner information and decision-maker research, ordered according to the contact work your staff needs help doing.
• A stated property price of $10 to $20 per building, delivery within 48 hours after payment and credit back for wrong matches reported within thirty days.
• CSV and Excel files that load into the team’s working system, with field-mapping help so selection evidence stays with the account.

Assign the first file to a salesperson with a defined time budget. Have that person record why each conversation advances or stops, then review the results with whoever schedules the crew. Order more of the building profile that earns service opportunities at a cost the account can carry.

Order ten buildings that fit your crew and put the first outreach on this week’s calendar.