Real Estate: Resources for research

The following is a selective guide to basic research resources available at Avery Library. It is not meant to be complete, but is an overview of materials that may be useful in beginning research. If you need more assistance, speak to a reference librarian (Reference Desk hours) or email reference questions or request a consultation through the Avery Library homepage.

In addition to the resources found in Avery Library, the Business and Economics Library has an extensive real estate collection. They have their own Real Estate guide.

The Jack Brause Real Estate Library at New York University has available several comprehensive subject reference guides under the categories of real estate profession, real estate market resources, geographic market information, and financing real estate projects and acquisitions.

Contents:

• Dictionaries, Directories & Handbooks
• Books
• Journals
• Databases
• Market Data
• Finding Columbia Real Estate Theses

DICTIONARIES, DIRECTORIES & HANDBOOKS

Coop/condo directory of Manhattan.
(Avery Reserves AA50 C765, current edition only)

Cox, Barbara G. Prentice Hall dictionary of real estate: a handy reference pocket edition. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2001
(Avery Reference HD1365 .C69 2001)

Directory of Manhattan office buildings.
(Avery Reserves AA6230 C954 F, current edition only)

Jacobus, Charles J. Real estate dictionary: pocket guide for professionals. Mason: Thomson South-Western, 2004.
(Avery Reference HD1365 .J33 2004g)

Manhattan Cooperative and Condominium Directory.
(Avery Reserves AA50 M3 F, current edition only)

Nelson's Directory of Institutional Real Estate. PortChester, NY: Nelson Publications, 1992-
(Avery Reference AA50 N33)

Real estate directory of Manhattan.
(Avery Reserves AA50 R24, current edition only)

Residential development handbook. Washington, D.C.: Urban Land Institute, 2004.
(Avery AA7545 R298)

Shim, Jae K. Dictionary of real estate. New York: J. Wiley, 1996.
(Avery Reference HD1635 .S48 1996)

Tosh, Dennis S. Handbook of real estate terms. Englewood Cliff, N. J.: Prentice Hall, 1990.
(Avery Reference HD1365 .T67 1990)

BOOKS

JOURNALS

Briefings in real estate finance.

Commercial property news.

Development.  Paper, 1986-.  (Avery AB N151)

Journal of corporate real estate.

Journal of property research.  Paper, 1991-.  (Avery AB L2271)

Journal of real estate finance and economics. 

Journal of real estate literature.  Paper, 1993-.  (Avery AB J82245)

Journal of real estate portfolio management.  Paper, 1995-.  (Avery AB J82247)

National real estate investor.  Paper, 1985-.  (Avery AB N228)

Real estate finance.  Paper, 1984-.  (Avery AB R221, current issues at Avery Reserves)

Real estate finance journal.  Paper, 1989-  (Avery AB R2214)

Real estate forum.  Paper, 1986-.  (Avery AB R222)

Real estate issues.  Paper, 1985-.  (Avery AB R224)

Real Estate New York.  Paper, 1994-  (Avery AB B4681)

DATABASES

ABI / INFORM Global
Citations, abstracts and full-text of over 1800 worldwide business and economics journals. Subjects covered include marketing, economics, and finance.

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
Citations to articles in architectural and related journals covering architecture, city planning, urban design, and related disciplines.

EconLit
Comprehensive indexed bibliography with selected abstracts of the world's economic literature from over 300 major economic journals and collected volumes.

Factiva
Full-text database that provides accesss to global news and business information, including local newspapers, same-day newswires and company reports. Provides company information including market data and competitors.

LexisNexis Academic
Comprehensive online database which affords access to hundreds of information sources, including the full text of newspapers, magazines, wire services, newsletters, journals, and broadcast transcripts.

Real estate index
Produced by the Jack Brause Real Estate Library at New York University. Index to more than 140 real estate journals. Subjects include investment, development, zoning regulations, construction, and finance.

ULI Development Case Studies
Access to more than 300 detailed case studies of completed projects ranging from low-income housing to mixed-use downtown developments to commercial and industrial projects. The case studies provide photographs and site plans, information on costs and rents, innovative features and strategies of the project, and an explanation of the entire development process. It covers projects from 1985 to the present. Thirty new case studies are added every year.

MARKET DATA

COMMERCIAL:

Office Vacancy Index of the U.S from CB Richard Ellis
Quarterly index of office vacancies and industrial availability for 50 market areas. Details for downtown, suburban and metro locations.

Studley from Studley
Two reports are available: the Studley Report and the SERI Report. The Studley Report is an in-depth compilation of office and industrial leasing statistics and investment and development trends for every major market in the U.S. The SERI Report is the Studley Effective Rental Index and remains the commercial real estate industry's most exhaustive study of effective rental rates for prime Class A office properties in the U.S.

U. S. Market Data from Cushman & Wakefield
Useful brief quarterly reports on the U.S. office and industrial real estate market for many municipalities.

RESIDENTIAL:

Census Bureau
Contains quarterly data on new home sales and construction price indexes.

National Association of Realtors
Monthly report on the residential real estate market. Statistics on sales and prices of existing single-family homes, condos and co-ops for the nation and the four regions. Other monthly reports include the Pending Home Sales Index and the Housing Affordability Index. The association also produces state-by-state existing home sales and metro area home prices on a quarterly basis.

 U.S. Housing Markets. Monthly market survey.   (Avery AA7545 Us329)

U.S. Housing Market Conditions from the Department of Housing and Urban Development
Quarterly compilation of statistical data and written reports. Tabular data indicate market conditions on the national level and are presented for each quarter. Historical data are also presented in summary tables. Overviews of economic and housing market trends are presented for ten geographical regions, the report for each of which includes a profile on a selected housing market.

FINDING COLUMBIA REAL ESTATE THESES

• Real Estate Development theses are not cataloged by subject in CLIO.

• To find Real Estate Development theses in CLIO do a search on an author or title if known.

• If the author or title is not known, do a basic keyword search of "real and estate and columbia and thesis." This search will bring up a list of all the theses in alphabetical order beginning with numerals. If you prefer to browse these titles by date click on the drop down box labelled "Re-sort results by."

• If there is a specific topic you are interested in, do the same keyword search but add one or two terms relevant to your interest. For example "real and estate and columbia and thesis and sustainable and development."
  
• Because the catalog records for these theses have no subject headings, the only way to search specific topics is to add keywords that would be in the title.

Theses are considered rare books. Rare books are designated "Classics" in Avery Library. The "Classics" collection (Room 234) is open Monday-Friday from 10am-1pm and 2pm-4:45pm. The books are paged from closed stacks four times per day (at 10:00am, 11:30am, 2:15pm, 3:30pm). Request forms must be received at least 15 minutes before paging times. There is a request limit of four volumes per paging time.

Last updated: March 2008