About Us

Pierce-Eislen, Inc. is a Scottsdale, Arizona based technology company providing an online subscription-based market research service to the commercial apartment industry. The company's services monitor the 50+ unit apartment universe from the property level to the submarket/market level in a form unique within the commercial apartment information industry.

Customizable Searches and Outputs

Search capabilities, unique to Pierce-Eislen, include decision-makers regarding an apartment property’s status – disposition, or day-to-day operations. Pierce-Eislen resolves that issue by revealing the “real” owner and managing entity:

  • Ownership, Single-Asset, entities - LLC's, Limited Partnerships, Trusts...- are pierced; the actual ownership disclosed along with owner-contact information.
  • Property management responsible for overseeing property operations; contact information is disclosed.
  • Trustees appointed to oversee distressed property operations are identified; contact information made available.
  • Critical market descriptive information is updated in near real-time rather than the traditional industry standard quarterly update.
  • Pierce-Eislen's unique Context® rating system, allows segmentation of a market's rental households into definitive category types: Workforce; low mid-range; high mid-range, and; discretionary.

Pierce-Eislen subscribers access up-to-the-minute market information at two levels: The Individual property or; overview of market conditions critical to assessment of current, and prospective, market status required to make informed acquisition, development, lending, and investing decisions.

Property-level information provides photographs, detailed physical characteristics description, prior sales, rental history, and property ownership/management detail needed to make contacts.

Services are Bundled: Property Level Information, Sales, New Development

In high contrast with other services, the Pierce-Eislen product is bundled, providing a full spectrum of reporting on a market's: Apartment inventory status; sale activity; new development, and; rental market conditions. New development, and investor activity are illustrated at the submarket, or market, levels, and updated daily.

Monthly Market Changes are Surveyed and Reported

Supplementing high-level decision-making the company monitors monthly rental, development and investor market condition changes through the Eislen Tállis Index and Eislen Topline reports.

The two reports - unique in format to the real estate information industry - are published monthly (as opposed to quarterly), report on four discrete rental household segments in addition to the traditional "market average" of sampled properties typical of traditional reporting formats.

Since initiating Phoenix services in February, 2001, the company has extended presence into 38 United States markets, from the Pacific Northwest to the Mid-Atlantic.

Reporting Ownership and Management

Questions often difficult to answer regarding a property is how to identify owner/management contacts - the individuals responsible for decision-making regarding hold/sell, or property operations.  To report actual ownership, single-asset entities - limited partnerships, limited liability corporations, or trusts - are pierced, and the actual owner disclosed along with how to contact them.