Homeowners can also use the app to list their spaces' availability, set prices, and approve rental requests.
Because of its focus on community characterization (Landrigan et al. 2006), the NCS will allow more careful identification of those features of neighborhoods that affect physical activity and diet, such as proximity to play spaces, availability of healthy food stores, and neighborhood walkability.
With information on space availability becoming much more readily available, and with companies popping up offering to match landlords with prospective tenants, some of the information that has been jealously guarded by brokers seems to be slipping into the public domain.
Office space availability is down in Westchester County but, surprisingly, so are rent costs.
Because of the different ways brokerages calculate space availability, their statistics often seem to be at odds.
A recent Grimley industrial survey put commercial space availability as "the highest for 14 years", with 1.6m square feet free for letting.
"We're going to run into constraints in terms of space availability, water availability — particularly fresh water — and also environmental impacts and supply of feed," Mr. Cochrane said.
CBRE also said office space availability is 11 percent today in the garment district, compared with 11.5 percent in Park Avenue South, 12.3 percent in Midtown and 10.1 percent in Midtown South.
Mitchell Rechler, a co-president of Reckson Associates, the largest developer of office space on the Island, said that in the days following the attacks, many New York companies telephoned to ask about space availability but ended up leasing elsewhere.
The rents that landlords are seeking for stores held steady in Manhattan, and increased in some districts, despite a weakening national economy, according to a survey of space availability and asking rents focusing on September 2000 and March 2001.
"Add to that the fact that a privately owned center like Mandalay Bay, in a destination that offers gambling, is in a position to cross-subsidize its space availability with gaming revenues, and you've got a facility that's in a position of competing very well.
