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Affordable Housing
Apartment Associations
Blogs
Market Information
Market Research
Newsletters
Organizations
Other Cool sites
Rate Information
Real Estate Directories
Real Estate Publications
Affordable Housing
- Affordable Housing Resource Center This site provides very useful information about LIHTC and bond financing. The site is part of the Novogradac & Company LLC site. Novogradac is a national consulting and CPA firm.
- Bacon David wage Info List of Davis bacon wages by state. If you are planning on developing a property and using the HUD 221 (d) (4) financing program (in our opinion the best program for new construction projects) you need to comply with these costs.
- National Association of Realtors Commercial Group NAR Commercial web page, the commercial real estate division of the National Association of REALTORS®, supports commercial advocacy efforts and provides services specifically for commercial members, incl
- Public Housing Authorities Directors Association This is the association of public housing agencies. It provides information about HUD and other government programs. There is also a comprehensive list of local and state housing agencies web sites.
Apartment Associations
- National Apartment Association This is the site of the national Apartment association a group. Useful information on how apartment associations work, how to form them and what they can do for you.
Blogs
- Multifaimly Housing Blog The multifamily blog for Hanley Woods Multifamily Group
- Multifamilyinvestor A blog relating to multifamily investment. Its run by a broker and focuses on sales, but also has interesting postings about the current state of the multifamily business.
- Real Estate Investing Blog Blog from the REI club
Market Information
- Building Permits The US Census department statistics on building permits. They show relatively current statistics on single family and multifamily building permits by county, city and state.
- Bureau of Labor Statistics This is the site for the US Department of Labor Local Area Unemployment Statistics. This shows monthly and annual employment, unemployment, and labor force data for Census regions, States, counties, metropolitan areas, and many cities.
- City-Data.com Great site that has collected and analyzed data from numerous sources to create as complete and interesting profiles of all U.S. cities as we could. A great resource for simple demographic and interesti
- Fed - Loan Officer Survey results of the Fed quarterly survey on bank lending. Gives all sort of insite into the availability of capital and how banks are looking at lending.
- Joint Center for Housing Studies The Joint Center for Housing Studies is Harvard University's center for information and research on housing in the United States. The Joint Center analyzes the dynamic relationships between housing
- REAL Capital Analytics Real Capital Analytics offers relatively comprehensive reports showing recent sales in a variety of markets. They only track larger sales ?over $5 million? but they do that well. The reports are not free, but the data is good.
- SmallBalance.com Welcome to SmallBalance.com where specialized market data, analytics and automated valuation tools promote faster and better decision-making for lenders and investors in the massive, small commercial pro
Market Research
- Costar CoStar is the number one provider of information, marketing and analytic services to commercial real estate professionals. Most of the site is expensive, but not all and it provides the best sale inform
- PNC Multifamily Market Reports From PNC Bank - Historic trends and forecasts for the national apartment market are covered in this quarterly report. Topics also include employment, occupancy rates, supply, demand and growth in rental
- REIS The Reis web site. Reis provides updated trends and forecasts of rent, vacancy, and inventory for Apartment, Office, Retail and Industrial properties in up to 169 metropolitan areas and more than 1,800 submarkets/neighborhoods.
- U.S. Census Bureau Home of the U.S. Census. Info on american demographis and housing states straight from the source.
- Bisnow Interesting group that sponsers real estate focused events and publishes newsletters by market. Its not very deep, but sometimes its fun.
- George Smith Partners FinFacts Rate and financing newsletter from George Smith Partners. As broker rate sheets go its one of the better ones.
Organizations
- CCIM Commercial Real Estate Network This is the web site for CCIM?s (Certified Commercial Investment Members). A Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM) is a recognized expert in the disciplines of commercial and investment real estate.
- CommercialSource.com This is the official Web site of the realtors? commercial alliance of the national association of realtors?.
- Mortgage Bankers Association The commercial finance page of the mortgage bankers? association web site.
- National Apartment Association Their web site is targeted mainly for members, but there is a link to it?s UNITS publication that provides information about operating an apartment property.
- National Housing Institute The National Housing Institute is a 26-year old independent nonprofit organization that examines the issues causing the crisis in housing and community in America. NHI examines the key issues affecting affordable housing and community
- National Multi Housing Council NMHC is a national association representing the interests of the larger and most prominent apartment firms in the U.S
- National Multi-housing council This site has interesting articles and research focused on multifamily ownership and development. The site also has a listing of the largest owners and mangers of multifamily housing.
- Public Housing Authorities Directors Association This is the association of public housing agencies. It provides information about HUD and other government programs. There is also a comprehensive list of local and state housing agencies web sites.
- Urban Land Institute This has a number of good articles on multifamily and commercial development. There are separate sections for general housing and finance.
Other Cool sites
- Multifamily Insiders Multifamily Insiders was created to provide the first true online networking group for the multifamily industry and its partners. Our goal is to help coordinate professionals within our ranks, share kno
- Multifamilybiz.com MultifamilyBiz.com is the Next Generation Internet Platform for the Multifamily Industry and is the place to be for everything touching multifamily housing. From its robust vendor directories to professi
- Refinance Mortgage Rates A consumer mortgage site that houses some really great low income and niche guides.
Rate Information
- Bloomberg The Bloomberg homepage where you can get current treasury rates as well as general economic news and information.
- FRED Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis keeps historical interest rates. Download data back to the 1930?s.
- PIMCO Enter the site and look for the Bond Market commentary. This is from one of the major investors in debt securities. The articles are usually very informative though sometimes they are difficult to read.
- Wall Street Journal Market Data Center Current data on most major index rates. This site also has many tools to compare rates and look at historical trends. One of our favorite sites.
Real Estate Directories
- Jack Brause Real Estate Library The Jack Brause Library is part of New York University's Real Estate Institute. It contains materials on all aspects of the real estate industry, from finance and investment, to development, management, and economics. Resources include industry forec
- The Texas Real Estate Center The Estate Center is designed to conduct real estate related research. I find it as a good directory for general real estate issues and a good place to find links to other web based real estate information.
- Vandema This is a commercial real estate directory of market information, listing resources, statistics, databases, calculators, daily news, journals, software, discussion groups, maps, etc. It?s sort of a super links directory.
Real Estate Publications
- Apartment Finance Today This is the on line site for the Apartment Finance today magazine.
- Colorado Real Estate Joirnal Great local publication.
- Inman A good clipping service for real estate news. It has a commercial news area that is updated daily. This is the service that most other commercial real estate sites use to gather the news that they post.
- Multihousing News Multi-Housing News provides in-depth news and analysis of the events and players shaping the multi-housing industry.
- National Real Estate Investor Magazine Covering financing, investment, management, development and leasing of commercial real estate.
- The Globest The GlobeSt.com provides news and information on commercial real estate news around the clock in major and secondary markets throughout the country. GlobeSt.com published a daily news blast e-mail giving updated real estate news each day.
- Wall Street Journal Commercial Real Estate This is the commercial real estate site for the Wall Street Journal. The site offers information gathered from other news services as well as their own publication.
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