CBRE CostLab vs CoStar Real Estate Manager

CBRE CostLab is a web-based application for estimating and comparing facility operating costs across more than 400 locations and 75+ asset types worldwide. It provides equipment-level estimates for maintenance and repair, custodial work, energy, grounds management, and pest control. Its Cost Library includes labor, utility, and inflation rates, maintenance tasks, operating details, recapitalization assumptions, and national indexes. The Building Wizard uses seven questions to create a component-level estimate; Project Builder groups maintenance and repair work into projects and estimates material, labor, and equipment needs. For capital planning, CostLab estimates equipment failure probability and helps prioritize replacements by portfolio risk and budget. Users can customize building models and adjust rates and task assumptions. It also identifies deferred maintenance by equipment and provides deferred-cost reports and Facility Condition Index estimates. Mass Data Export sends annual and average asset costs, yearly task costs, deferred costs, and inventory to Excel. Access is through a browser on a laptop, tablet, or smartphone. Paid plans include a 7-day trial; there is no free plan.

CoStar Real Estate Manager is a web platform for large-scale and global accounting and real estate teams managing complex portfolios. It provides shared visibility across the lease lifecycle, with accounting workflows that automate classification, measurement, and reporting for ASC 842, IFRS 16, and FRS 102. Teams can handle remeasurements, journal entries, disclosures, roll-forward reports, renewals, critical-date notifications, rent payments, and amendment tracking. Transaction tools support workflow templates, configurable approvals, milestone tracking, deal comparisons, and project kick-offs tied to lease dates. Market and submarket information covers more than 6 million properties for portfolio decisions and research. Managed integrations are listed for SAP, Oracle, Workday, and NetSuite. Access controls include role-based permissions, single sign-on, security profiles, audit trails, and change logs. Pricing is on request and depends on active leases, transactions, or owned or leased locations, depending on the module.