Guides: Real Estate Market: Industry & Market Reports

Industry Overviews (Library Subscription Databases)

The resources listed below are the subscription databases best suited for learning about the overall industry. Access is limited to current Pepperdine students, faculty, and staff.

Statista This link opens in a new window
Real Estate in the U.S. 2020
Office Real Estate in the United States
Emerging Trends in Real Estate - United States and Canada 2019
IBISWorld This link opens in a new window
Real estate loans
REITs
Real estate appraisal
Sales and brokerages
Asset management
Apartment rental
Commercial leasing
Land leasing
Land development
Storage and warehouse leasing
Property management
Landscape services

IBIS World also provides one page Business Environment Reports. Tip: To locate these, go to US Business Environment Profiles and use the terms listed above to perform a keyword search. Some relevant reports specific to residential real estate include:
Existing Home Sales
Housing Starts
Rental Vacancy Rates
Private Fixed Investment - Residential
Mortgage Interest Rates
Private New Residential Building Permits
Property Yields - REIT Dividend Yields
Residential Buildings - Value of Construction
House Price Index
S & P NetAdvantage (Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage) This link opens in a new window
Industries are analyzed from an investment point of view and include financial comparisons of the largest players in each industry. There is a section detailing what to look for in a company's performance for each industry, another on trends and another detailing how the industry operates. Related industry surveys include:
Thrift & Mortgage Finance
REITs
Refinitiv Workspace (now named LSEG Data & Analytics) This link opens in a new window
Financial news, financials, global pricing data and analytics, analyst research reports, bank investment reports and forecasts for publicly-traded companies.
This database is only available to Pepperdine students, faculty, and staff for non-commercial, academic research, and requires registration.

Market Analysis (Free Resources)

The resources below are all freely available and provide insight into different aspects of the real estate market.

Emerging Trends in Real Estate, a joint effort from PriceWaterhouse Cooper (PwC) and the Urban Land Institute, is an annual report providing outlook on real estate investment and development trends, real estate finance and capital markets, property sectors, metropolitan areas, and other real estate issues throughout the United States and Canada.

Deloitte - Real Estate provides overviews about various markets within real estate and construction including the Commercial Real Estate Outlook - 2020 Report.