I kept running into the same wall.
Every time I tried to research a small-bay industrial market — find the right properties, figure out who owned them, understand what was happening at the submarket level — I hit the same frustrating dead ends. The data was out there, somewhere, scattered across dozens of disconnected public sources. But nobody had pulled it together in a way that was actually useful for the people doing the real work.
So I decided to build it.
The Problem That Wouldn't Go Away
If you work in small-bay industrial — the 5,000 to 250,000 square foot warehouses, flex buildings, and multi-tenant parks that keep America's small businesses running — you already know what I'm talking about.
The data is a mess. Property records sit in one place. Ownership records sit somewhere else. Transaction history is in a third system. Market context? Good luck. You're stitching it together yourself, every single time, for every single deal.
The big platforms weren't built for us. CoStar, Reonomy, the major CRE databases — they're optimized for institutional product. Class A office. 500,000+ SF distribution centers. Trophy assets. When you need to find a 15,000 SF shallow-bay building with an out-of-state owner in a secondary submarket, those platforms give you noise instead of signal. They don't understand our market because they weren't designed to.
Everyone is doing it the hard way. Brokers spend hours cross-referencing public records with listing databases. Investors keep their own spreadsheets trying to track who owns what. Acquisitions teams drive markets hoping to stumble onto something good because there's no systematic way to see what's really out there.
I watched this play out over and over. Smart people, good instincts, terrible tools.
What We Believe
We believe small-bay industrial is one of the most important — and most underserved — segments in commercial real estate. The tenants are sticky. The supply is constrained. The returns have been quietly outperforming for years.
But the people who work in this market — the brokers, investors, operators, and developers — deserve the same quality of data and intelligence that institutional players have for their asset classes. Not a watered-down version. Not an afterthought. Purpose-built.
That's the conviction behind SpanVor.
What SpanVor Actually Does
SpanVor is a property intelligence platform built specifically for the small-bay industrial universe.
We pull data from current public sources across the country and combine it into one searchable layer. Today, we track over 1.2 million properties. But the raw data is just the starting point — here's what we actually do with it:
Ownership intelligence. We figure out who actually owns each property. Not just the name on the record, but whether they're an individual, an LLC, an institutional holder. Whether they're local or absentee. Whether their holding patterns suggest they might be looking to exit. That's the kind of insight that turns a cold database into a warm prospecting tool.
Scoring that saves you time. Not every property deserves your attention. We score properties across multiple dimensions — location, building quality, ownership profile, market dynamics — so you spend your time on opportunities that actually fit what you're looking for.
Real market context. Every property sits inside a market. We layer in demographic data, income levels, nearby transactions, and competitive supply so you're not just looking at a building — you're looking at a building inside its real-world environment.
Coverage where nobody else goes. Small-bay, shallow-bay, flex, multi-tenant industrial, service-commercial, owner-user buildings. The exact product types that the big platforms treat as an afterthought. That's our entire focus.
Who This Is For
I built SpanVor for the people I kept meeting who had the same frustration I did:
- Industrial brokers tired of spending half their day on manual research instead of actual deal-making
- Investors and acquisitions teams who want to source systematically instead of waiting for the phone to ring
- Owner-operators who know there are expansion opportunities nearby but can't see them clearly
- Developers who need to understand competitive supply and site potential before committing capital
- Anyone whose livelihood depends on understanding this market better than the next person
If you make money by finding, analyzing, or transacting small-bay industrial properties — SpanVor was built for you. Full stop.
What Comes Next
We're opening SpanVor up publicly because we're convinced this market is ready for it. The asset class is too important, the information gap is too wide, and the people who work in it have been underserved for too long.
This isn't about replacing your expertise. It's about giving you a better starting point. Better data. Better context. Less time wasted on manual research and more time spent on the work that actually creates value.
If that sounds like something you could use, I'd genuinely love to show you around. Get in touch — no pitch deck, no pressure. Just a look at what 1.2 million properties of structured intelligence looks like when it's built for the market you actually work in.