Resources

Professional Societies and Associations

• Urban Land Institute
• Pension Real Estate Association (PREA)
• National Association of Industrial and Office Properties
• National Association of Realtors
• Pacific Rim Real Estate Society (PRRES)
• European Real Estate Society (ERES)
• Latin American Real Estate Society (LaRES)
• International Real Estate Society (IRES)
• American Real Estate Society
• National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries (NCREIF)
• National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT)
• International Facility Management Association
• American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association (AREUEA)
• National Association of Real Estate Investment Managers (NAREIM)
• The Counselors of Real Estate
• REIAC - Real Estate Investment Advisory Council

Journals

• Journal of Urban Economics
• Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics
• Journal of Political Economy
• Journal of Real Estate Research
• Journal of Housing Economics
• Commercial Investment Real Estate Journal
• Journal of Property Management
• Commercial Property Executive
• National Real Estate Investor

Institutes and Foundations

• The Appraisal Foundation
• Fannie Mae Foundation
• Real Estate Research Institute
• Homer Hoyt Institute
• Appraisal Institute (AI)
• The Institute of Real Estate Management
• Realtors Land Institute

Miscellaneous

• The Encyclopedia of Housing
• Real Estate Jobs
• Freddie Mac
• CCIM Institute: Commercial Real Estate Network
• Yahoo! Real Estate
• Vandema Commercial Real Estate Resources

Tools for Property Listings

• CoStar - This site tracks 7.3 billion square feet of industrial, office, and flex space (suite-by-suite) down to blocks of 100 square feet in major markets. It claims that it tracks every building in a marketplace, and tracks over 76,000 tenants.
•  LoopNet - This site lists properties and maintains that it increased its activity by 600% in the first half of 1998. It now has a base of over 45,000 real estate professionals.

Software Applications

• Accruent - The developer of Stategen, a software to manage corporate real estate portfolios.

Mortgage Rates

• Bankrate.com

Demographics

• Applied Geographic Solutions
• ESRI Products
• infoUSA.com
• Geographic Data Technology
• National Decision Systems Online Site Reports
• Social Explorer
• Sites USA
• U.S. Census Bureau

Mapping

• Google Maps