Commercial Real Estate

Comps & sale history · Commercial Real Estate

Comps you can defend. Down to the deed number.

When a seller anchors high or a committee questions your number, “the platform says so” doesn’t hold. Axiom builds comps from recorded deeds and transfer records — price, date, parties, instrument — so every number shows its work.

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2140 Harney StreetOmaha, NE · Office · 42,300 SF · Built 1987 Subject

Radius Sold within

4 comps median $71/SF range $64–$77/SF Computed

2210 Douglas St 0.3 mi · 47,800 SF · Office Deed 2024-18904 $3,060,000Dec 2024 $64/SF

1912 Farnam St 0.4 mi · 38,500 SF · Office Deed 2026-00981 $2,890,000Feb 2026 $75/SF

509 S 22nd St est. from stamps 0.6 mi · 24,600 SF · Office/Retail Deed 2025-14212 $1,620,000Oct 2025 $66/SF

1015 Howard St 0.8 mi · 31,200 SF · Office Deed 2025-06730 $2,410,000May 2025 $77/SF

Comps refreshed weekly, as counties post deeds · doc stamps · assessor

Every comp cites its instrument
Deed & doc-stamp refs, verifiable at the county

Every salerecorded at the county becomes a comp

3,100+counties & jurisdictions covered

Decadesof transfer history, as far as counties digitized

$0per-comp or per-report fees, on any plan

The comp problem

Everyone has comps. Few can show where they came from.

Ask any broker, appraiser or analyst how they pull comps today and you’ll hear the same three complaints.

The comp paywall

Legacy platforms charge $300–$1,000+ per user, per month — largely for the right to see what sold. The records underneath are public, and the renewal creeps up every year.

The favor network

Without a subscription it’s texting brokers across town — “got anything on Dodge Street?” Slow, partial, secondhand, and every comp costs you a favor.

The indefensible number

A comp with no source dies in the room. Sellers anchor high, committees push back — you need price, date, parties and the instrument, not “trust me.”

How it works

Every recorded sale becomes a comp. Automatically.

A closing leaves a paper trail — the deed, the documentary stamps, the mortgage behind it. Axiom pulls those records as counties post them, links them to the parcel and its people, and files the sale as a comp with the instrument attached.

Price, date & parties

Sale price from the recorded deed and documentary stamps, with grantor and grantee named. Not a rumor — an instrument you can pull.

$/SF computed — and labeled

Price against assessor building SF gives you $/SF on every comp. Computed fields say “computed” — math is never passed off as a reported figure.

The debt behind the deal

The mortgage recorded with the sale shows lender and amount — how the deal was capitalized, right next to the price.

The whole chain of title

Every prior transfer, as far back as the county digitized — the owner’s tenure and basis at a glance, on every parcel.

Check our work. Every comp carries its deed number — pull the instrument at the county and verify it line by line.

An honest note about comp data Two limits we won’t paper over. In non-disclosure states the recorded price can be missing — where transfer tax implies a price we compute it and mark it estimated; where nothing is public we show the transfer without inventing a number. And no public record confirms cap rate or NOI the way a listing broker can — so computed figures are labeled computed. What you’ll never see in Axiom is a number with no source.

In the workflow

From comp set to deliverable. No spreadsheet round-trip.

On data platforms, comps end at the export button. In Axiom the comp set feeds the rest of the deal — underwriting, the pitch, the deal room.

Pull the set

Around any subject — on or off market — filter recorded sales by type, size, distance and date. Save the set to the deal so the whole team works from one list.

Underwrite in a click

Median $/SF flows into cap rate, NOI and $/SF snapshots computed from the record and its comp set — assumptions stay visible and editable.

Drop it in the pitch

The same set flows into BOVs, brochures and NDA-gated deal rooms — and when your number is challenged, the deed reference is right there.

FAQ

Fair questions about comps

Something else on your mind? Talk to our team.

Recorded deeds and transfer records across 3,100+ counties, linked to assessor parcels and Secretary of State entity filings. Every comp shows its source down to the instrument number, so you can verify it against the county yourself.

Some states don’t require the sale price on the record. Where transfer tax or documentary stamps imply a price, we compute it and label it as an estimate. Where nothing is public, we show the transfer — date, parties, instrument — without a price. We don’t invent numbers.

Records refresh weekly as counties post. Recording-to-posting lag varies by county — days in most metros, longer in some rural jurisdictions — and every record shows when it was last refreshed, so you’re never guessing.

As far back as each county digitized its records — decades in most metros. The full chain of title shows on every parcel, so you can see tenure and basis before you ever pick up the phone.

No. Comp and sale-history searches draw from the same monthly allowance included in every plan — from $75/mo for the whole team. No per-comp fees, no per-report fees, no per-seat data licenses.

Yes — export any comp set to CSV, or skip the spreadsheet and feed it straight into underwriting snapshots and print-ready brochures without leaving Axiom.

Pull the comps on your next pitch.

14 days free. Run the addresses you know cold and check our deed numbers against the county. If the comps don’t hold up, walk away having paid nothing.

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