CityFeet vs LoopNet — What Each Is Actually For

Short version: they’re corporate siblings with different day jobs — and for net lease investors, one of them isn’t really trying.

The relationship

CoStar Group owns both. LoopNet is the flagship marketplace spanning sales and leasing nationwide; CityFeet began as a New York-centric commercial leasing site and survives as a leasing-focused channel with heavy metro-office DNA, syndicating largely from the same CoStar ecosystem. Listings you find on CityFeet frequently exist on LoopNet too, wearing different wrapping.

Who each serves

Hunting office or retail space to occupy, especially in dense metros, CityFeet’s leasing-first interface is perfectly serviceable. Hunting investment property — single-tenant deals, cap rates, lease terms — LoopNet is categorically deeper, and CityFeet’s investment inventory is mostly an echo of it. There is no meaningful universe of NNN deals living on CityFeet alone.

The investor takeaway

Use LoopNet (alongside Crexi) for browsing breadth; skip CityFeet unless you’re leasing space in its core metros. And remember what all the portals share: they’re where deals go to be seen publicly, which is one step after where deals go to be sold quietly. For the earlier step, register criteria with a buy-side broker — the fee structure means it costs you nothing to be early.