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Emerging Trends in Real Estate. Lend Lease Real Estate Investments and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Annual. (Reference HD251 .E44).
Covers investment trends, capital markets, markets to watch, and what's happening in multifamily, retail, office, industrial, and hotel development.

SNL                    
Provides web access to SNL Financial's Data, News, and Analytics for Financial Institutions, REITs and Energy. Through the News tab, users can access SNL Real Estate Securities Daily and SNL Real Estate Securities Weekly. See the registration guide for instructions on how to register.

Emporis
Provider of building-related data, including current construction and a directory of companies involved in the real estate and buildings industries.

BOMA Experience Exchange Report. Building Owners and Managers Association International. Annual. (Reference TX980 .N33).
Detailed and reputable source of benchmarking data representing the office building industry across North America. It is the industry standard for office building financial data and operations information.

Real Estate Industry Profiles: Global. Datamonitor. Annual (available in Business Source Premier. On the Advanced Search page, perform a "real estate industry" keyword search with "Industry Profile" selected under "Publication Type").
These industry profiles include market value, market volume, market segmentation, competitive landscape, leading companies, and forecasts.

Plunkett's Real Estate & Construction Industry Almanac. Plunkett Research, Ltd. 2008. (Reference HD1361 .P58).
Guide to the real estate and construction business with profiles of the top 400 firms and latest trends and statistics.

Global Real Estate Now. PricewaterhouseCoopers. Annual. (Reference HD1361 .G57)
Annual survey that tracks trends and changes in international real estate markets. The 2008 edition is available free from the PricewaterhouseCoopers web site.

Plunkett's Real Estate & Construction Industry Almanac. Plunkett Research, Ltd. 2008. (Reference HD1361 .P58).
Guide to the real estate and construction business with profiles of the top 400 firms and latest trends and statistics.

Mergent Online                                                                                  Corporate financial database providing comprehensive company research, including subsidiaries, joint ventures, competitors, and more. Use the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) codes as a filter. For example, 6531 (Real Estate Agents and Managers) and 6798 (Real Estate Investment Trusts). The North American industry classification system (NAICS) codes can be found here.

SNL
Provides web access to SNL Financial's Data, News, and Analytics for Financial Institutions, REITs and Energy. Through the News tab, users can access SNL Real Estate Securities Daily and SNL Real Estate Securities Weekly. See the registration guide for instructions on how to register.

Emporis                                                                                              Provider of building-related data, including current construction and a directory of companies involved in the real estate and buildings industries.

"Top 25 Brokerages," National Real Estate Investor. April, 2009.
Top 25 companies based on total amount of leasing transactions and investment sales.

"Real Estate Services Franchises," Entrepreneur.com.
Listing of real estate franchises available. Provides startup costs, yearly growth, and brief descriptions of the companies.

"Top 25 Shopping Center Owners," National Real Estate Investor. Best of the Best. Annual. July, 2008. 
Total shopping center/freestanding retail gross leaseable area, in millions of square feet.

"100 Best Places to Live in America," Money. August, 2009.
The authors focus on finding areas with populations of 7,500-50,000 that offer the best combination of good schools, economic opportunity, safety, activities, and a sense of community.

"Best Places: The South Rises Again". Forbes. April 23, 2007.
For the second straight year the Southeast placed five metros in the Top 10 of the Best Places for Business and Careers. For this year's ranking, Forbes relied on economic research firm Economy.com for its indexes on business and living costs.

BOMA Experience Exchange Report. Building Owners and Managers Association International. Annual. (Reference TX980 .N33).
Detailed and reputable source of benchmarking data representing the office building industry across North America. It is the industry standard for office building financial data and operations information.

Income/Expense Analysis Series. Institute of Real Estate Management. Annual. 
Data on actual operating income and expenses, with metropolitan, regional, and national reports. Includes separate volumes for Conventional Apartments (Reference HD7287.6.U5 I622), Federally-Assisted Apartments (Reference HD7287.6.U5 I624), Office Buildings (Reference HD1394 .I37), and Shopping Centers (Reference HF5430.3 .I53).

Korpacz Real Estate Investor Survey. PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Quarterly (Reference HD1382.5 .K67).
Contains information on property revenues, operating expenses, and payroll costs by department. Management fees, franchise fees, and selected fixed charges are also tracked. There are two separate sections: full-service and limited service.

Dollars and Cents of Shopping Centers. Urban Land Institute. Annual. 2006 (Reference HF5430.3 .D64).
Including data from U.S. and Canadian centers assembled from year-end financial statements, this edition includes data tables that cover 12 categories of sales, income, and expense data for tenants drawn from more than 30,000 stores, and 56 categories of centerwide operational data.

SNL
Provides web access to SNL Financial's Data, News, and Analytics for Financial Institutions, REITs and Energy. Through the News tab, users can access SNL Real Estate Securities Daily and SNL Real Estate Securities Weekly. See the registration guide for instructions on how to register.

Hospitality and Tourism Complete
Full text database providing access to scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism.

Business Source Complete
Provides full-text both trade journal and scholarly journal articles. Includes Harvard Business Review and other major business journals. Includes company reports and SWOT analyses.

ProQuest Direct (ABI/Inform)
An extensive international business and management database, containing bibliographic citations, abstracts, and full-text from trade and scholarly articles. Includes the Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly and other major business journals.

Commercial Property News. Current Periodicals.
In-depth, objective national coverage of the commercial real estate industry's key trends, issues, and concerns through a wide variety of media. Also available electronically in Business Source Complete.

Development. Current Periodicals.
Ideas, issues, and trends in industrial and office real estate.

National Real Estate Investor. Current Periodicals.
Research on a variety of topics that pertain to the office, industrial, retail, hotel, and multifamily markets. Also available electronically in Business Source Complete.