Guides: Real Estate Market: Data, Statistics, and Demographics

U.S. & CA Government Data Resources Real Estate & Construction (Free Resources)

The following sites provide government data and information related to U.S. and California real estate and construction:

Historic and Real-Time Commercial Listings Data

42Floors provides current and historical commercial real estate data in U.S. Urban Markets.

REIT Data from Bloomberg (Library Subscription Database - IN LIBRARY ONLY)

Bloomberg is one of the world's leading financial databases and contains a significant amount of information related to real estate. Use Bloomberg equities search to locate publicly traded REIT company profiles and obtain performance data.

Bloomberg terminals are on-site only workstations available on the Malibu campus at the Payson Library and Drescher Library. These workstations are limited to Pepperdine students, staff, and faculty and require an account. Students can set up the account the first time they use one of the terminals. Special assistance from a library worker is required to use the Bloomberg Terminals at the Drescher Campus Library.

Bloomberg is a command driven system. Use Bloomberg commands to locate data and analysis specific to different ares in real estate such as data for specific REIT securities or trends in the Real Estate Industry. Some relevant real estate commands include:

Real Estate Main Menu: BI REAL <Go>
Real Estate Prices & Statistics: ECST <Go> (Choose Country>Housing & Real Estate Category)
Top News on the Real Estate Market: TOP REL <Go>
REIT Indices: SECF <Go>
Ratios for a specific REIT: ticker symbol then type DES3 <Go>
Commercial Real Estate: CRE <Go>
US Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities (CMBS) Market: CMB <Go>
US CMBS Property Performance Trends, US Property Sales Trends, Loan & Property Composition for CAN, EUR, US, Annual Weighted Average Mortgage Ratios for Fixed and Floating Rate Loans by Type of Commercial Prpoerty: CRE2 <Go>
Special-Servicers and Delinquency Information for CMBS Market: CRE3 <Go>
Asset-backed securities issuance: MCAL <Go>
Commercial real estate delinquencies foreclosure data by MSA, state and countries: REDQ <Go>
Bloomberg Mortgage Research Insight for Reports, Historical Research, Model Projections, and White Papers: BMMI <Go>

REIT Data from WRDS - CRSP /Ziman Real Estate Data Series (Library Subscription Database)

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This dataset - the CRSP/ Ziman Real Estate Data Series - is part of Pepperdine's subscription to WRDS. It includes all REITs that have traded on the NYSE, NYSE MKT and NASDAQ exchanges since 1980. It contains series of indexes based on all REITs and subsets of REITs based on REIT type and property type. It also contains underlying individual security information for the indexes
Includes qualitative measures important for evaluating information in thinly populated index series. The CRSP dataset identifies changes in REIT status for the universe of publicly-traded REITs
Daily and monthly indexes are available (Equal and value weighted; REIT and property type; Herfindahl-Hirschman Index & Concentration Ratios). Included within individual securities are CRSP Permanent Identifier provided with Name, price, share count, and return information (also included are REIT type, property type information and Identification of changes in REIT status for publicly traded REITs universe with 450+ REITs: equity, mortgage and hybrid). Tip: use the CRSP Ziman Guide when getting started.

About WRDS: Wharton Research Data Services provides instant access to important databases in the fields of finance, accounting, banking, economics, management, marketing and public policy. Currently Pepperdine subscribes to COMPUSTAT, CRSP, and KLD. Access is limited to Pepperdine faculty, staff, and doctoral students. Users must apply for account access and be approved by the Pepperdine WRDS representative the first time they log in.