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This guide will help you locate real estate industry information. Which sources are best will be determined by what your area of interest within the real estate industry. Is it commercial or residential data, or financing, investments, development, land use, etc.? This will determine which resource is best to locate relevant research.

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Business & Industry
Business & Industry is a broad business information database that focuses on facts, figures, events and market information about companies, industries, products and markets. It covers all industries and is international in scope. B&I draws content from a large number of trade and industry publications, regional, national and international newspapers, business dailies and newsletters. This is a good database to search for recent events about a company or industry and tends to have very good coverage of marketing topics. It is also useful for finding information about regional company and industry news. [more]

Business Source Premier
BSP provides coverage to virtually all subject areas related to business, including management, marketing, economics, finance, accounting, and international business. In addition to covering the major scholarly business journals, BSP also covers company reports, SWOT analyses, working papers, country reports, industry reports and other searchable categories like case studies, book reviews, product reviews, speeches, and interviews. This database is the exclusive online provider of many major journals like the Harvard Business Review, but it does not contain the fulltext of the Wall Street Journal (see Factiva for WSJ). [more]

e-Marketer
This database contains market research reports that focus on how e-commerce and the Internet affect business and industry. Coverage includes 21 different industries and several business functions. The eStat portion of this database has statistics and graphs on Internet-related topics. Running approximately 200 pages, each report combines eMarketer’s original analysis with aggregated data from leading market research firms, such as IDC, Gartner, Forrester, Yankee Group, government, non-profit, and academic sources. [more]

Factiva
Factiva is a multi-functional database. It is primarily used to find the full-text of business publications, including magazines, trade publications, and newspapers. It has full-text coverage of the Wall Street Journal. It is a good source for international and local business news, which typically isn't covered in other databases. Also included in this database are company profiles and financial quotes. [more]

General BusinessFile ASAP
Analyze company performance and activity, industry events and business trends as well as the latest in management, economics and politics. Access to a combination of trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory listings with full text and images available. Includes some Investext brokerage reports, but they are usually older reports. See Reuter's Research On Demand database for more up-to-date brokerage reports. [more]

MarketLine Business Information Center
Locate detailed company, industry, and country profiles published by Datamonitor Market Research. This database includes 10,000 reports on public and private companies, both U.S. and international. Reports feature: business description, history, major products and services, locations and subsidiaries, top competitors, SWOT analysis (top 1,000 companies only). The industry profiles contain: Market overview, value, segmentation, share, and forecasts, competitive landscape, and leading companies. [more]

NBER Working Papers
The National Bureau of Economic Research concentrates on four types of empirical research: developing new statistical measurements, estimating quantitative models of economic behavior, assessing the effects of public policies on the United States economy, and projecting the effects of alternative policy proposals. The working papers series offers access to the latest economic research. [more]

ProQuest
A multi-disciplinary database, ProQuest has full text availability for nearly 2,000 journals in all academic fields. Users can search the entire database or individual modules (such as Newspapers) in such areas as arts, business, education, health, humanities, law, psychology, science and social science. Full text is available for about one half of the journals included, with graphics available for many of the full text articles. It includes same-day, full-text coverage of the Wall Street Journal. [more]

TableBase
This easy-to-use database contains tables and text excerpted from numerous publications. Along with simple keyword searching, users can also limit searches by choosing from lists of concept terms, marketing terms, countries, industries, and document types. If you're looking for a ranking of products or companies in table format, this is a great resource to begin your search. You can select to view the table only- or you can select the full text article which includes the table within the context of the original article. [more]

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Books, Reference & Print Resources

Dictionary of Real Estate Terms
REF HD 1365 .F75

Commercial Real Estate Analysis and Investments
REF HD 1393.55 .G45

US Real Estate Register
REF HD 1394 . I45

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Internet Resources & Websites

American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association
Can subject search their publication Real Estate Economics.

American Real Estate Society
Covers RE information about economics, finance, marketing geography and other areas, for professional researchers, analysts, appraisers and others. Includes 5 real estate industry focused journals.

Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate
Foreign institutions with investment interests in the U.S.; domestic firms that manage and advise real estate investment accounts of foreign investors; accounting and law firms with offices overseas. Encourages foreign real estate investment in the U.S. Informs the public of the benefits of foreign investment; disseminates information.

BOMA International (Building Owners and Managers Association
Includes separate Market Highlight Reports on the US Office Market, Corporate Facilities, and the Canadian Office Market.

Urban Land Institute
Publishes papers and studies on the use and development of land.

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