What Yardi Matrix does

Yardi Matrix is a U.S. commercial real estate market intelligence platform and a division of privately held Yardi Systems, Inc. The company was initiated in Phoenix in February 2001 and today covers 189 U.S. markets, tracking 22.5M multifamily units across 115,000+ properties, 26,000+ affordable properties totaling 3.36M units, 35,000+ self storage facilities covering 2.3B+ sq ft, and approximately 200 universities for student housing. Its platform is structured around seven property types — multifamily, student housing, affordable housing, office, industrial, self storage, and vacant land — plus a recently added Single-Family Rental Build-to-Rent (SFR-BTR) data module and RV & boat storage niche tracking.

The underlying technology aggregates and anonymizes operating expense, revenue, and operational metric data drawn directly from the Yardi property management system stack, providing near real-time market descriptive updates rather than the industry-standard quarterly cadence. The platform is differentiated by two US patents (7,974,930 and 8,060,450) covering the Context® improvements/location rating system, which segments rental households into Workforce, low mid-range, high mid-range, discretionary, and affordable (subsidized) categories. Additional proprietary capabilities include ownership entity piercing across LLCs, limited partnerships, and trusts, full supply-pipeline tracking from planning through stabilization, and short- and long-range rent and occupancy forecasts at the market and sub-market levels.

Yardi Matrix operates a sales-led B2B subscription model with annual billing at competitive pricing based on markets subscribed and number of users. Customers are horizontal personas across the CRE industry: investment professionals, equity investors, lenders, and property managers using the platform for acquisition and underwriting, brokerage, loan origination, portfolio management, and development workflows. The Matrix Institutional Research sub-brand extends the funnel through free national and market reports, research bulletins, and webinars. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of Yardi Systems, Yardi Matrix does not have disclosed funding, M&A, or revenue figures.

Name

Yardi Matrix

Legal name

Yardi Systems, Inc.

Website

https://yardimatrix.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2001

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Yardi Matrix is a U.S. commercial real estate market intelligence subscription platform covering 189 markets across multifamily, student, affordable, office, industrial, and self storage properties. It serves investment professionals, equity investors, lenders, and property managers with property-level data, sales comparables, supply pipelines, and patented market segmentation, operating as a division of Yardi Systems, Inc.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Commercial Real Estate Market Intelligence

NAICS

Offices of Real Estate Appraisers (53132), Portfolio Management and Investment Advice (52394)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Mortgage Secondary Data, Analytics & Pricing/Valuation Services (FSALAFAN)

akta.pro secondary industry

Property Valuation: Appraisal Management (AMC) & Appraiser Networks (FSALALAI)

Keywords

• Commercial real estate data
• Market intelligence platform
• Property analytics
• Multifamily research
• Real estate subscriptions

Headquarters

HQ city

Santa Barbara

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Subscription-based Market Intelligence: Yardi Matrix generates revenue through competitive subscription pricing based on markets and users. The service provides comprehensive commercial real estate market intelligence including property-level information, sales data, new development tracking, and rental market conditions for multifamily, student housing, office, industrial, and self storage property types.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Yardi Matrix is a subscription-based commercial real estate market intelligence platform that delivers property-level data, sales comparables, new development tracking, and rental market conditions for multifamily, student housing, affordable housing, office, industrial, self storage, and vacant land assets across 189 U.S. markets. The platform is built on aggregated and anonymized operating data sourced from the Yardi property management system and includes a patented Context® improvements and location rating system for market segmentation. Subscribers include investment professionals, equity investors, lenders, and property managers who use it for acquisition underwriting, loan origination, portfolio management, brokerage, and development decisions.

Product overview

Yardi Matrix is a commercial real estate market intelligence platform offering a unified product portfolio covering seven property types: Multifamily, Student Housing, Affordable Housing, Office, Industrial, Self Storage, and Vacant Land. The platform is built around a fully-bundled data model providing property-level information, sales comparables, and new development tracking all in one subscription. Key proprietary technologies include the patented Context® improvements and location rating system for market segmentation. The platform serves investment professionals, equity investors, lenders, and property managers across 189 U.S. markets. Recent additions include Single-Family Rental Build-to-Rent (SFR-BTR) data and RV & Boat Storage niche tracking. Solutions are organized by use case: Acquisition & Underwriting, Brokerage, Loan Origination, Management & Portfolio Health, Development, and Service Provider. The platform integrates data from the Yardi property management system stack for aggregated operating expense, revenue, and operational metrics.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Matrix Institutional Research: Commercial real estate market research and analytics service providing national and market-level reports, research bulletins, and webinars.
• Matrix

Products and services

• Yardi Matrix Multifamily Subscription market intelligence product covering 50+ unit apartment properties across 189 U.S. markets, providing property-level details, ownership/management information, rent and occupancy history, sales comparables, supply pipeline data, and short/long-range forecasts for CRE investment professionals, equity investors, lenders, and property managers.
• Yardi Matrix Student Housing Subscription market intelligence product covering student housing properties across Yardi 200 universities, with property search by university, university profiles, dorm capacity and live-in requirements, rent data by bedroom and unit, school-year leasing curves, supply pipeline from prospective to stabilization, and sales comps.
• Yardi Matrix Affordable Housing Subscription market intelligence covering 26,000+ affordable properties with 3.36 million units, including owner types, project types (LIHTC, Project-based Section 8, state programs), AMI requirements, REAC scores, affordability metrics, revenue and expense data, and five-year new supply forecasts.
• Yardi Matrix Office Subscription market intelligence providing property-level office data with detailed lease and listing comparables, property sales information, patented building class ratings systems, in-place loan and expiration tracking, and new supply pipeline information at asset, competitive set, and market levels.
• Yardi Matrix Industrial Subscription market intelligence providing property-level industrial real estate data with detailed lease and listing comparables, in-place loan and expiration tracking, ownership/management information, and new supply pipeline coverage at asset, competitive set, and market levels.
• Yardi Matrix Self Storage Subscription self storage facility intelligence covering 35,000+ facilities and 2.3+ billion sq ft across 147 markets, with site-level information, rents by storage unit size, rent comparable reporting, patented property improvement and location ratings systems, and dedicated RV & boat storage tracking.
• Yardi Matrix Vacant Land Subscription inventory of vacant land properties with publicly available data, supporting list or map views, inventory summaries filtered by zoning, lot size, and tax valuation, and sales history reporting with vacant-land-specific filters.

Quantifiable outcome

• 189 U.S. markets covered since 2001
• +2 more outcomes

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• RealPage: Multifamily-focused property management software and data analytics platform serving similar CRE investment and operations professionals. Overlaps with Matrix in market intelligence and asset performance benchmarking.
• CoStar Group: Dominant CRE data and analytics incumbent offering comparable multifamily, office, industrial, and retail intelligence through its LoopNet and Apartments.com platforms. Closest direct competitor to Yardi Matrix in commercial real estate market intelligence.
• Cushman & Wakefield: Global CRE services firm publishing institutional research and market forecasts. Comparable to Matrix in providing CRE market intelligence, though primarily through brokerage-distributed reports rather than subscription data platform.
• JLL: Global CRE services and investment firm with substantial research and data analytics capabilities. Comparable to Matrix in serving investment professionals with market intelligence across office, industrial, and multifamily.
• CBRE: Largest global CRE services firm producing institutional research and market data. Comparable in delivering market intelligence to investors and lenders, though primarily through advisory relationships rather than self-serve subscription.

Direct peers

• CompStak: Crowdsourced CRE lease and sales comp platform serving brokers, appraisers, and lenders. Comparable in providing granular transactional data and lease comparables for underwriting workflows.
• MSCI Real Capital Analytics: Provides CRE transaction data, cap rate analytics, and pricing benchmarks used by institutional investors and lenders — directly comparable to Matrix's sales comp and underwriting intelligence offerings.
• ATTOM Data Solutions: Property data and analytics provider covering ownership, transaction history, and valuation across U.S. real estate. Overlaps with Matrix in property-level intelligence, valuation, and ownership piercing.
• Reonomy: CRE property and ownership intelligence platform serving brokers, lenders, and investors. Comparable to Matrix in property-level data aggregation, ownership identification, and underwriting use cases.

Emerging players

• HouseCanary: Residential real estate valuation and analytics platform using AI-driven models. Comparable to Matrix in providing automated valuation, market analytics, and forecasts, primarily for single-family and residential markets.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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