Frequently Asked Questions
Answers to your questions about submissions, deadlines and awards.
As the Power Broker award ranking is based upon each calendar year's transactions, we request that you provide all transaction information, not just top deal information.
For lease transactions, we require the building address, city, state/province, property type, square footage leased, floor or suite (if multi-tenant building), sign date, contract rent, tenant move-in date, name of tenant, names of brokers involved, and notation of new lease, renewal, or sublease. If you are not restricted by a confidentiality agreement, please include the lease term.
For sales transactions, we require building address, city, state/province, property type, rentable square footage of the building, date closed, sale price, buyer name, buyer broker company, buyer agents, seller name, seller broker company, seller agents, and notation of investment or owner/user sale.
If the sale was an investment, please send us the cap rate for the transaction (if it has one). If the sale was an owner/user, please send us the date the new owner is moving or has moved in.
CoStar provides lease and sales transactions MS Excel templates that will assist you in providing deal information in the appropriate MS Excel format. If you have your own sheet that has all of the required information, please transfer that information into the supplied MS Excel template. Please go to our Submit Deals page for transaction templates.
To submit your deals one at a time: Go to our Submit Deals page. Fill out your contact information in the Submit Single Deal form, then select the deal type from the drop-down menu. Click Submit. You will be redirected to another page where you can enter all of the required deal information. Click Submit to submit your deal. If you have more than one deal to enter, you can click Add More to submit additional deals.
To upload your MS Excel files: Go to our Submit Deals page. Fill in your contact information and select your market from the drop-down menu. Click Browse to find and upload your Excel* submission file and then click Submit.
* Deals submitted must include all required information and be submitted in the MS Excel spreadsheets provided in the links below OR via the online form to the right in order to be considered for a Power Broker Award.
The Power Broker Award acknowledges the top brokers and firms in each market in relationship to other brokers and firms within the market. There is no minimum threshold for receiving one.
We cannot provide rankings throughout the submission process or in the final winner announcement.
No. The required transaction information must be reviewed and verified by our internal research team.
When submitting contract rents it is not required to convert monthly to annual rents (or vice versa); however, we do ask that you quote them consistently. Also, please quote rents as a per square foot value regardless of whether it is a monthly or a yearly rent.
No. Please upload your completed transaction sheet through our Submit Deals page. You can also enter your deals one at a time as they close through our online submission form.
Choose the market where your office is physically located.
No. In order to be fair to all participants, we will not accept any deal submissions sent after 11:59pm EST on a submission deadline date.
Even if you miss the deadline, both you and your firm will still be considered for a CoStar Power Broker Award. You and your firm are eligible for consideration based on the lease and sales transactions already in our database that CoStar Research confirmed and added throughout the calendar year. Our Customer Relationship Consultant continually monitor the market for transactions and add them as they happen. The details of these transactions are collected and confirmed from a variety of sources, including:
- Ongoing broker interviews to update current for lease and for sale listings
- Monitoring of local and national media sources for news articles written on significant transactions in your market
- Review of public record documents and corporate securities filings for lease and sale transactions
- Ongoing discussions with key research representatives at major brokerage firms and local market organizations
- Telephone interviews to identify and confirm sales comparables
Looking forward to the next CoStar Power Broker Awards, please help to build awareness about the deals you are doing by proactively informing your CoStar Customer Relationship Consultant about your transactions as they happen and submitting your deals through our online submission form, located on the right side of every page on our Power Brokers website.
On the lease side, deals are calculated primarily based upon square footage multiplied by the contract rent. On the sales side, winners are calculated based upon sales dollars. Only deals that occurred during the most recent calendar year are considered. For more information, please visit the Power Broker Methodology page.
CoStar understands that in some cases the broker will represent both parties involved in the transaction. In cases where the broker was the only broker involved in the deal, the broker will receive 100% of the transaction value. If two brokers were involved in the deal but represented opposing sides, each broker will receive 50% of the transaction value. For more information, please visit the Power Broker Methodology page.
Yes! You should submit deals outside of your home markets. CoStar counts deals conducted anywhere in the United States, and Canada during the most recent calendar year; however, they will all contribute towards the awards in your home market.
Yes. CoStar gives credit to every broker involved in a deal — According to the methodology, we first allocate 50% of the transaction’s value to the tenant rep side and 50% of the transaction’s value to the landlord rep’s side; or 100% to either side if there was no opposing representation. A broker representing the tenant on a transaction with a total of three tenant representative brokers will receive credit for one-third of 50% or 100% of the transaction’s value respectively.
For sales transactions, we allocate 50% of the transaction’s value to the listing agent’s side and 50% of the transaction’s value to the buyer broker’s side; or, 100% of the transaction’s value to either side if there was no opposing representation. This amount is then divided by the total number of brokers who worked as part of a team, if applicable.
When submitting the deals, please make sure that all brokers are included on the same line of the spreadsheet. Please do not send the same deal twice.
Western Region: Albuquerque, Austin, Bakersfield, Boise City/Nampa, Colorado Springs, Denver, East Bay/Oakland, El Paso, Fresno, Hawaii, Inland Empire (California), Las Vegas, Little Rock/N. Little Rock, Los Angeles, Marin/Sonoma, Orange County (California), Phoenix, Portland, Reno, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, San Antonio, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle/Puget Sound, South Bay/San Jose, Stockton/Modesto, Tucson and Vancouver.
Central Region: Birmingham, Calgary, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Des Moines, Detroit, Edmonton, Houston, Indianapolis, Jackson (MS), Kansas City, Knoxville, Louisville, Memphis, Milwaukee/Madison, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Mobile, Nashville, New Orleans, Oklahoma City, Omaha/Council Bluffs, Pittsburgh, Springfield, St. Louis, Toledo, Tulsa, and West Michigan.
Eastern Region: Albany, Atlanta, Baltimore, Baton Rouge, Boston, Buffalo/Niagara Falls, Charleston/N. Charleston, Charlotte, Columbia (South Carolina), Greensboro/Winston-Salem, Greenville/Spartanburg, Hampton Roads, Hartford, Jacksonville (Florida), Long Island (New York), Montreal, New York City, Northern New Jersey, Orlando, Ottawa-Gatineau, Pensacola/Ferry Pass/Brent, Philadelphia, Portland/S. Portland (Maine), Providence, Raleigh/Durham, Richmond, Rochester, South Florida, Southwest Florida, Syracuse, Tallahassee, Tampa/St Petersburg, Washington DC, Westchester/S. Connecticut and Toronto.
The number of awards given in each market is dependent upon the tier. In larger tier markets, up to 15 awards are given for each of the individual and company levels. In middle tier markets, 5 to 10 are awarded, with other markets awarding two firms for leasing and sales.
The firm that a broker is with as of March 1st of the current year will be the company name appearing on the plaque. If the broker changes to another company after the March 1st cut-off, the company name will still be the firm that the broker was with prior to the deadline.
Yes. Please email powerbrokers@costar.com to request a replacement. Please include the following information in your request: Name, company name, market, year, and your shipping address.