Comparisons

Office move and fit-out lead intelligence comparisons

Compare the tools used to find commercial property, office move and fit-out opportunities. Each comparison explains what the product provides, when in the buying cycle it becomes useful, and which business-development use case it suits.

Reviewed with each weekly rebuild · figures computed 8 August 2026 · corrections: hello@officemovesignals.com
The comparisons

Side-by-side pages. None of them pretends the other tool is bad — each explains which question each product answers, and when you should use the other one (or both).

Signal vs Cognism Cognism tells you who a company is and how to reach them. Signal tells you WHEN a London company is about to move or refit. Different question — often both. Read the comparison → Signal vs CoStar CoStar maps buildings, availability and comparables. Signal watches the OCCUPIERS — which London companies are about to move or refit, scored and timed for BD teams. Read the comparison → Signal vs Glenigan Glenigan tracks projects once planning exists. Signal reads occupier signals BEFORE the project forms — lease events, filings, growth — for London offices. Read the comparison → Signal vs CoStar — head to head Signal and CoStar are built for different jobs: CoStar for broad commercial-property research; Signal for a scored shortlist of London occupiers heading for a move or refit. Read the comparison →
The categories

The right office-move lead source depends on whether you need broad property research, contact information, construction-project alerts — or a prioritised list of occupiers showing signs of change. Different tools do different jobs:

Office-change intelligenceScored, timed occupier leads — who is entering an office decision window. What Signal does.
Commercial property databasesBuildings, availability, comps and transactions (CoStar and similar). Research, not prospecting.
Construction project databasesPlanning-led project feeds (Glenigan, Barbour ABI). Fire once a scheme is formally visible.
Contact databasesEmails, mobiles and firmographics at scale (Cognism, Apollo). Reach, not timing.
Tender portalsFormal opportunities after procurement begins — the latest, most contested moment.
Manual researchFree public registers plus your own time. Credible, slow, hard to keep fresh.

How these comparisons are made. Competitor facts come from the vendors’ own public materials and documentation, checked at review; we separate confirmed facts from our interpretation, we don’t publish competitor pricing we can’t verify, and every page says plainly when the other tool is the better choice. Signal’s own figures are live from the London statistics page and update weekly. Spotted something out of date or unfair? Email hello@officemovesignals.com and we’ll correct it against the source.