CBRE CostLab vs LeaseAccelerator 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.

LeaseAccelerator Real Estate Manager is a cloud-based platform for managing leased, owned, and sublease real estate portfolios. It centralizes property administration, compliance work, expenses, and lease documents. Workflows cover critical dates, lease clauses, tasks, contacts, vendors, budgeting, forecasting, invoices, and payments. A document repository stores lease agreements, subleases, work letters, landlord correspondence, CAD files, plot diagrams, and estoppel letters. Reporting includes predefined reports, a configurable report builder, and configurable dashboards. Lineos, an integrated assistant, answers plain-language questions with contract insights. Real estate changes can synchronize with the optional Lease Accounting Manager application for accounting generation. The service includes one production environment and one non-production implementation environment; extra environments cost separately. It is hosted on Amazon Web Services with separate backup and disaster-recovery protection. Security listings include encryption at rest, single sign-on, SAML 2, HTTPS API transfers, and SFTP. Pricing is available on request.