Real Estate Internet Resources
DATA
- All about Commercial Property Types
- American Council of Life Insurers : ACLI
- Bluebook International
- Builder Online
- American Housing Survey (AHS) – 2001 - COMPS from the U.S. Census Bureau
- Building-Cost.net
- CB Richard Ellis
- CCIM Institute: CCIM
- Census of Housing – 2000 – Includes Census and American Fact Finder
- Colliers International Market Reports
- Commercial Property News
- Commercial Real Estate Outlook from NAR Research Division
- CoStar
- Cushman & Wakefield MarketBeat Snapshot
- DataPlace
- Data Quick
- Department of Housing and Urban Affairs, US.: Housing and Urban Development: HUD
- Dodge Marketplace: McGraw Hill Construction Company
- Dollars & Cents of Multifamily Housing
- eNeighborhoods PowerSuite
- Fannie Mae: FNMA
- Federal Emergency Management Agency: FEMA
- FEMA Reference Materials
- Federal Housing Administration: FHA
- FFIEC
- Freddie Mac: Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation
- Ginnie Mae: GNMA
- Global Real Analytics
- Grubb & Ellis
- Hanley-Wood Market Intelligence
- Historical Census of Housing Tables Home Values: Median home values for 60 years
- State and County Quick Facts
- Housing Topics
- HUD Programs
- Institute of Real Estate Management: IREM
- Integra Realty Resources: IRR
- Internal Revenue Service: IRS
- Korpacz Real Estate Investor Survey: Price Waterhouse Coopers
- Local Population Statistics and Maps: U.S. Census
- Government, U.S. Maps from Census: Maps by Zip Code
- LoopNet
- Market Data Center: First American Real Estate Solutions
- Marcus & Millichap Group
- Marshall and Swift: The Building Cost People
- Moody’s
- Mortgage 101
- Mortgage Asset Research Institute: MARI
- NAI Global Commercial Real Estate Services: Free
- NAR Research Division
- National Association of Home Builders
- National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts: NAREI
- Partnership Profiles
- Price Waterhouse Coopers: Korpacz Real Estate Investor Survey
- Real Capital Markets
- Real Estate Exchange.com
- Real Estate Research Corporation: RERC
- RealEra.net
- Realty Rates.com
- REIS
- Site To Do Business
- Remodeling Online
- Standard and Poors (S&P)
- Storetrax.com
- Torto Wheaton Research
- U.S. Census Bureau
- U.S. Census Bureau: Income
- U.S. Occupational Outlook Handbook
www.all-about-commercial-mortgages.com - Income properties
www.acli.org - Statistics on commercial mortgage commitments including contract rate, bond equivalent yield, basis-point spread, debt coverage, loan to value ratio and capitalization rate (quarterly) by property types.
www.bluebook.net - The Bluebook -- Residential Cost Data URAR cost approach challenges.
www.builderonline.com - Home sale predictions and information for the home building industry and vital economic statistics for the home building industry
www.census.gov/hhes/www/housing/ahs/ - National and metropolitan data on residential vacancies, number of rooms, rents, mobile homes, median value of home and occupancy demographics
www.building-cost.net - Online estimates for home construction and replacement costs that include materials, design, quality, size, shape, heating, cooling, and geographic area
www.cbre.com - Partners with Torto Wheaton; free global commercial and industrial market info
www.ccim.com - Sale/lease comps
www.census.gov/hhes/www/housing/census/ - Housing characteristics including tables of the past 60 years
www.colliers.com - Free quarterly reports on economic commercial property and includes city submarkets
directories.vnuemedia.com/cpnsurvey/ - Lists surveys from top real estate developers; leading hotel companies; leading industrial real estate investors and developers; top buyers of commercial real estate; leading brokerage firms; top direct lenders; top mortgage bankers and brokers; subscription to DATA Center, commercial including hospitality information; search by regions, property type, financial, and business specialty.
www.realtor.org/Research - Cap and vacancy rates for commercial properties
www.nrbonline.com - CoStar Property Professional Commercial comps, maps, and aerials. Detailed information on all property types including apartments, retail, and land.
www.cushmanwakefield.com - Highlights market and submarket property statistics in the subscriber's chosen location
www.dataplace.org - Free online source for housing and demographic data sourced from U.S. Census tracts and includes maps
www.dataquick.com - Residential database of sale comps, and avm multiple data sources with detailed property information
www.hud.gov - Regulations and forms for buying, renting, fair housing, and home improvements
www.fwdodge.com - Construction analysis, forecasts, trends and current cost estimate service for construction and improvements
www.uli.org - Income and expense data for commercial rental units and shopping centers
www.eneighborhoods.com - Reports, market analyses, and maps for neighborhoods
www.fanniemae.com - Online tools, rules, guidelines, and secondary mortgage services
www.fema.gov - Disaster information from the Department of Homeland Security
www.fema.gov/library - Maps, publications, photographs, audio and video clips, and other information
www.ffiec.gov and www.ffiec.gov/Geocode/ - Census demographic, census income, census population, and census housing
www.freddiemac.com - Corporate services and information on residential secondary mortgage market information and earnings
www.ginniemae.gov - Secondary mortgage-backed securities
www.graglobal.com - Historical data for prices, rents, and cap rates. For most markets, time series goes back to 1985. National Real Estate Index. NREI Value and rent monitor, market history report, metro market outlook, market score forecast, and custom data set.
www.grubb-ellis.com - Free reports on vacancy, absorption rates, rent, sales price
www.hwmarketintelligence.com - Free housing market information
quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/ - Search by state for facts on people, business, and geography
www.census.gov/hhes/www/ - Includes vacancies, housing survey, and apartment market absorption
www.hud.gov/funds/ - Multi-housing and single-family housing programs
www.irem.org - Income and expense analysis for conventional apartments, federally assisted apartments, condos, office buildings, and shopping centers
www.irr.com - Commercial cap rate discussion in Viewpoint
www.irs.gov - Forms, statistics, and bulletins by topics, and other information for charities and other nonprofits, corporations, individuals, professionals, partnerships, and small business
www.pwcreval.com - Cap rates, cash flow assumptions, and market information
www.loopnet.com - Commercial leases and sales
www.marketdatacenter.com and www.firstamres.com - Sale records, taxes, property characteristics and tax assessor records for residential properties in Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, New York, Oklahoma City, St. Louis, and Tulsa; includes sales records, tax information, property characteristics and access to county assessor records
www.marcusmillichap.com - Free local market reports for office, hotel, apartment, etc., and includes employment, construction, vacancy, and rent
www.marshallswift.com - Residential and commercial appraisal solutions
www.moodys.com/cust/ - Independent credit ratings, research, and financial information for capital markets
www.mortgage101.com/Articles/ - Web site for different commercial classes that includes links to CoStar
www.mari-inc.com - Information provider on mortgages and mortgage fraud
www.naidirect.com - Market research statistics for office, industrial and retail for submarkets
www.realtor.org/research.nsf/ - Free housing information and statistics
www.nahb.com - New housing starts, prices, construction costs, financing, and economic forecasts
www.nareit.com - Free stats on individual REITS and industry as a whole
www.partnershipprofiles.com - Minority interest and family limited partnership data
www.pwcreval.com - Yield and dividend comparisons, key value indicators by market, marketing time, forecast periods, and growth rates and reports covering retail, office, industrial, multifamily, and net lease markets and cap rates
realcapitalmarkets.com and Real Capital Analytics www.rcanalytics.com - Data on real estate investment markets for hotels, office, industrial, retail, and apartments
www.realestateexchange.com - Online price and mortgage information for business and commercial properties
www.rerc.com - In collaboration with Counselors of Real Estate; quarterly investment survey which includes cap rates for income-producing properties; historical data
www.realera.net - Data Library: public data sources; market rents and vacancy rates, census data, retail store locations, recent leases and sales, and crime rates, and customized maps
www.RealtyRates.com - Quarterly publication of national mortgage and equity requirements, cap and discount rates, reserve requirements, and interim financing rates for income; Reed construction cost estimates and data
www.reis.com - Property news and rent and sales comparisons for office, industrial, multifamily (134 market areas), and retail
www.stdbinc.com - Online source of comprehensive commercial real estate information and applications from CCIM
www2.remodeling.hw.net - Current construction cost news and products
www2.standardandpoors.com - Indices\Case-Shiller Metro Area Home Price Indices and free neighborhood housing stock info, and average and aggregate values
www.storetrax.com - Online retail database
www.tortowheatonresearch.com - Partners with CB Richard Ellis; research data on office, industrial, multi-housing, hotel, and retail
www.census.gov - Statistics from the latest census
www.census.gov/hhes/www/income/ - By state: median family income by family size or wage earners
MAPS
- BonData
- British Columbia Floodplain Mapping Program
- Digital Media Service/Floodmaps
- Enviro Mapper
- ESRI
- FEMA Maps: Federal Emergency Management Agency (Some areas are very out-of-date)
- FFIEC
- Flood Maps Online
- Government, U.S. Maps from Census
- National Geomatica: Jungle Lasers, LLC
- Policy Maps
- TIGER: Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing - from U.S. Census Bureau
- Flood Insights
- Google Maps
- Land Voyage
- MapQuest
- National Geodetic Survey (NGS)
- National Resources Conservation Service
- NOAA Satellite and Information Service
- Rockford Map Publishers
- Space Imaging
- Spot Image
- Terra Server
- The National Atlas
- The National Map
- U.S. Department of the Interior Geological Survey: National Geologic Map Database
www.bondata.com - Features geographic information systems and census tract maps
srmwww.gov.bc.ca/rib/wat/fpm/ - Floodplain maps and associated design briefs
www.floodmaps.com - Online flood data and FEMA maps
www.epa.gov/enviro/html/em/ - Free online maps from EPA for a wide range of environmental information
www.esri.com - GIS and mapping software
www.fema.gov/hazard/map/ - Public access to online hazard maps including earthquake, hurricane, and flood. Data exchange site, and GIS mapping products and data
www.ffiec.gov and www.ffiec.gov/Geocode/ - Recent flood map information and census demographic, census income, census population, and census housing
www.floodmaps.com - From Digital Media Services, nationwide coverage, census tract included, printable maps
factfinder.census.gov - Maps by zip code
www.nationalgeomatica.com - Municipality land use information for government employees
www.policymap.com - Local and national maps by categories of data
www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/ - Census and GIS maps
www.floodinsights.com - Monthly updated maps for flood zones
maps.google.com - Free aerial search by location, business, index
www.landvoyage.com - Aerial photos, satellite images, aeronautical charts, and public land maps
www.mapquest.com - Street maps and aerial photos
ngs.woc.noaa.gov - Aerial photograph survey near airports and coastal regions; maps and charts specifically for transportation and navigation, and standards for geodetic systems
soils.usda.gov - Department of Agriculture soil maps
noaasis.noaa.gov/NOAASIS/ml/ - Information page in form of questions includes close-up satellite imagery
www.rockfordmap.com - Land ownership and plata data for public and private sectors
www.geoeye.com/CorpSite/ - Digital terrain models; and imagery, radar, and software mapping products
www.spot.com - Optical satellite images for cartography, defense, agriculture, identifying cadastral parcels, urban planning, telecommunications, the environment, and disaster management
terraserver.microsoft.com - Free maps and aerial photographs of the U.S. by address designed to work with slow speed communications links
www.nationalatlas.gov - From the U.S. Geological Survey
www.nationalmap.gov - From the U.S. Geological Survey
ngmdb.usgs.gov - Earth resources, geophysics, geochemistry, and marine geology
