Commercial Real Estate (CRE)
LightBox Environmental Data Resources delivers the highest quality data in the industry, in the fastest turnaround, along with innovative workflow tools for quality, collaboration, and efficiency. With over 2,000 databases, and the nation’s largest collection of historical resources, LightBox EDR puts the power of quality data and insight into the hands of the industry’s most successful site assessors. Trusted by environmental professionals nationwide, EDR LightBox supports environmental due diligence, Phase I ESA workflows, and environmental site assessment research across commercial real estate.
EDR Environmental Data Packages help environmental professionals perform property due diligence with efficiency and ease. LightBox EDR offers packages, designed to meet your unique needs, offers you the most trusted government records and historical sources, along with cutting-edge workflow tools. These environmental data packages support the full due diligence process, from initial Phase I ESA research through additional investigation.
Order the industry’s leading government records report and a full suite of historical resources, all in one place. Includes regulatory records, historical sources, and environmental data needed to identify potential environmental contamination.
The market has never been more competitive, and turnaround time is critical. Your data comes fast and integrated in a single viewer, and report writer, allowing you to deliver high quality reports, faster. Designed to streamline environmental investigations while maintaining accuracy and compliance.
Tens of thousands of environmental professionals have trusted LightBox EDR since 1990 for their due diligence needs. You have a team of dedicated account representatives assigned specifically to your business, aligned to your success. Backed by specialized knowledge supporting environmental professionals and complex diligence work.
We have enhanced our data, historical reports, and report writing platform to make it easier for you and your staff to meet the new ASTM standard. Keep your staff up to date on industry adoption by visiting our ASTM Resource Center. Supports recognized environmental condition analysis and evolving regulatory requirements.
| Product | Primary Use | Supports Phase I ESA | Data Type |
| EDR Radius Map | Regulatory search | Yes | Government records |
| SANBORN Map | Historical land use | Yes | Fire insurance maps |
| Historical Aerials | Site history | Yes | Aerial photographs |
| Lien & AUL | Title risk | Yes | Legal records |
LightBox EDR packages are designed to make accessing comprehensive Environmental Due Diligence information fast, easy, and cost-effective. With your LightBox EDR Basic, Standard, Premium, and Premium 1980 packages, you will receive the most trusted government records and historical sources, along with cutting-edge workflow tools. These packages integrate seamlessly with property valuation and environmental assessments for comprehensive risk evaluation.
The industry standard for Phase I’s for two decades
The EDR® Radius Map with GEOCHECK® is the leading government records report in the industry.
Rigorously updated and curated, this report searches over 2,000 databases and layers, from federal, state, tribal, local, and proprietary sources. A core resource for identifying environmental liability, hazardous substances, and regulatory records during Phase I ESA reviews.
It is delivered quickly, in either PDF format or through LightBox Live.
Access the largest collection of SANBORN® Fire Insurance Maps available in the market
The Certified SANBORNMAP® Report is the result of a search of the complete holdings of the SANBORN® Library, which dates from 1866 and includes over 1.3 million SANBORN® Fire Insurance Maps.
This essential Phase I ESA historical information source tracks the changing landscape and property uses of approximately 12,000 American cities and towns since the late 19th century. These fire insurance maps help assess historical land use, past activities, and potential environmental conditions.
LightBox City Directories bring tens of thousands of digitized books into one seamless, searchable, mapped platform.
With unmatched coverage across more books, more years, and more historical occupants than ever before, LightBox’s City Directory Report delivers unprecedented depth and context. For the first time, visualize City Directory addresses overlaid with Sanborn Maps, historical aerials, tax parcels, and more. Supports records review for historical occupants, land use changes, and environmental status evaluation.
Access the largest collection of historical aerial photography in the country.
The Historical Aerial Decade Package meets and exceeds ASTM E1527-21 requirements.
Our historical aerial packages include digitally reproduced photos from each decade, typically beginning in the 1930s, ’40s or ’50s and continuing through the 1990s or 2000s.
Historical aerial photos from EDR LIGHTBOX® have been geo-referenced to make locating your target property easier than ever. Historical aerial photos help identify potential impacts from past development, underground storage tanks, and site changes.
Historical topographic maps with QUADMATCH® aid environmental professionals in evaluating potential liability resulting from past activities.
We recently launched QUADMATCH®, an advanced mapping solution that intelligently presents USGS historical topographic quad maps, making review faster and easier. Aids in evaluating environmental conditions related to grading, drainage, and prior land alteration.
Create more consistent, accurate Environmental Reports in 40% less time
Want to do your best work faster? We’ve got you covered with PARCEL Report Writer.
PARCEL is a collaborative platform that gives you the control you need to produce higher quality reports in far less time with a lot less hassle. Property assessors that write reports using Microsoft® Word® struggle with templates, formatting, importing data and images, version control and consistency. Ideal for environmental professionals conducting environmental due diligence across multiple properties and transactions.
PARCEL Report Writer makes it easy to do all of that.
Our reports provide a search of official land title records for environmental liens and activity use limitations.
Environmental Lien & AUL Search Reports can be purchased through EDR as a stand-alone report, and are also included in select packages. Helps identify environmental liens, activity use limitations, and compliance obligations tied to property ownership.
The EDR® NEPASearch Map Report provides the most comprehensive set of NEPA information available.
NEPA requires that federal agencies analyze potential environmental effects of proposed actions and their alternatives, avoid or minimize adverse effects of proposed actions, and restore and enhance environmental quality.
A valuable resource for the preparation of environmental impact assessments and related studies. Frequently used alongside capital markets and lending workflows requiring environmental impact analysis.
EDR LightBox provides trusted environmental data used by environmental professionals to conduct environmental due diligence, Phase I ESA research, and regulatory records review.
Yes. EDR LightBox supports Phase I ESA workflows in accordance with ASTM E1527-21, including historical sources, regulatory records, and environmental data.
EDR LightBox includes government records, historical aerial photos, fire insurance maps, environmental liens, and other regulatory data sources.
Environmental professionals, consultants, lenders, and commercial real estate stakeholders rely on EDR LightBox for environmental investigations and due diligence work.
Yes. EDR LightBox helps identify recognized environmental conditions, potential contamination, and environmental liability risks tied to property ownership.
Absolutely. EDR LightBox is widely used in commercial real estate transactions requiring environmental due diligence and regulatory compliance.