[1] A CIE is the commercial real estate equivalent of the residential Multiple Listing Service.
[2][3] CIEs help commercial real estate professionals (brokers, property owners, developers, investors, tenants, etc.)
share information about commercial property, recent sale or lease transactions, market statistics, and contacts.
[4] CIEs tend to exist in larger markets with a more developed, more organized commercial real estate industry.
[7] There are two key differences between a commercial information exchange and a multiple listing service.