ActiveRain Real Estate Network -
A free social network and marketing platform for real estate professionals. Allows real estate agents, mortgage professionals and brokers create a customized profile.
Al Raha Beach - Located at the entrance to Abu Dhabi city, on the beach side of the main highway leading into Abu Dhabi from Dubai. It is opposite ALDAR’s Al Raha Gardens development, adjacent to Khalifa A, in close proximity to the Abu Dhabi Golf Club, and only 10 minutes drive from Abu Dhabi Airport. Al Raha Beach is made up of eight precincts, each with their own personalities and appeal. Some are relaxed beachfront communities, some offer a vibrant café society lifestyle, while others are home to businesses looking for a uniquely inspirational setting. There are hotels, marinas, parks, restaurants and numerous leisure facilities linked together by a network of canals, bridges and water transportation.
America's Most Livable Communities - This website is an initiative of Partners for Livable Communities, a DC-based non-profit. Partners has honored 32 communities with the designation of the title, "America's Most Livable." This site allows you to explore first-hand why each city was chosen, and perhaps learn how you can have similar success in your own community.
California Office of Real Estate Appraisers (OREA) - charged with developing and implementing a real estate appraiser licensing and certification program that complied with the federal mandate. OREA's Licensing Division sets the minimum requirements for education and experience, according to criteria set by the federal government and California law, to ensure that only qualified persons are licensed to conduct appraisals in federally related real estate transactions. OREA is also responsible for the accreditation of educational courses and providers for real estate appraisers in California.
Casden Real Forecast Reports -
Provides detailed information on real estate vacancy rates and lease rates for Los Angeles, Orange County and the Inland Empire, as well as individual submarkets. The Office and Industrial Forecast report is released in December of each year. The Multifamily Forecast Report appears annually in April.
Center for Housing Policy - Works to broaden understanding of the nation’s housing challenges and to examine the impact of policies and programs developed to address these needs.
Also see Paycheck to Paycheck, where the Center for Housing Policy presents wage information for more than 60 occupations and home prices and rents for more than 200 metropolitan areas.
City-Data - Profiles of U.S. cities, including tens of thousands of city photos not found anywhere else, hundreds of thousands of maps, satellite photos, stats about residents (race, income, ancestries, education, employment...), geographical data, state profiles, crime data, housing, businesses, birthplaces of famous people, political contributions, city government employment, weather, hospitals, schools, libraries, houses, airports, radio and TV stations, zip codes, area codes, user-submitted facts, similar cities list, comparisons to averages.
Commercial Real Estate Direct -
News and information directed at professionals in the commercial real estate industry.
CommercialSource.com - Official site of the National Association of Realtors (NAR). The Association works for America's property owners by providing professional development, research, and the exchange of information among its members and to the public and government for the purpose of preserving the free enterprise system and the right to own, use and transfer real property.
CourthouseDirect.com - Provides immediate delivery of document images and copies of real property and official records for 105 counties nationwide.
craigslist - Provides local classifieds and forums for jobs, housing, for sale, personals, services, local community, and events.
Curbed - This blog attempts to deflate real-estate hype. Updated roughly a half dozen times a day, the site, run by former magazine editor Lockhart Steele, takes on overpriced condo listings, pokes fun at the language brokers use to pump up properties, and links to the relevant news from mainstream press and other blogs. A running feature called PriceChopper highlights grossly overpriced apartments and takes credit when the asking price drops. Another fixture called BubbleWatch links to optimistic market forecasts. Curbed's major drawback is its New York-centric coverage and its obsession with celebrity and luxury properties. Recent posts on projects in Los Angeles and Boston, however, indicate the site's willingness to acknowledge there is a real estate world outside the Big Apple.
Durst Organization - Owner, developer, manager of premier midtown Manhattan properties.
Emporis - The world's largest free-to-use website about buildings. Professionals and people with an interest in structures can find buildings, developments, and photos in thousands of cities worldwide.
Escape Artist - Living overseas, international real estate, overseas jobs.
Fannie Mae - Federally chartered private corporation providing financial products and services for low, moderate- and middle-income families to assist them in buying homes.
FastFacility - Building and site search tool for corporate real estate. The site helps users find reliable information on available buildings and sites around the globe.
First American Corporation - A leading provider of business information and related products and services: title information and services, which provides insured information about real property along with technical and software solutions for the real estate industry; real estate information and services, which provides a full menu of products and services that mortgage lenders need to originate, close and service loans; and consumer information and services, which offers a broad range of credit reporting, insurance services and other informational products that operate independent of interest rate and real estate cycles.
French Property News - World's leading English language publication for French property. Buy and sell property in France.
Freddie Mac - A stockholder-owned corporation chartered by Congress to create a continuous flow of funds to mortgage lenders.
Global Education Locator - Conduct a quick national search and locate information within the four areas: postsecondary institutions, public schools or districts, public libraries, or private schools in the U.S. Or visit the different sites for more comprehensive searches.
Homes.com - Find homes and apartments, agent and brokers, home services.
HomeSeekers.com - A comprehensive up-to-date national database of commercial and residential real estate listings and complimentary services.
Homestore.com - Homestore.com's family of sites is the leading destination for home and real estate-related information on the Internet:
CommercialSource.com - The official commercial real estate site of the National Association of Realtors (NAR).
HomeBuilder.com - A leading provider of information on newly built homes, with listings for over 125,000 new home and planned developments throughout the U.S.
HomeFair - Comprehensive content and services for people moving to a new home or relocating to another community. Real estate, mortgage loans, new homes, relocation, moving, van line, apartments, cost of living, crime comparisons, school reports, financial tools and calculators.
REALTOR.com - The most visited real estate site on the Internet, with approximately 1.3 million home listings from over 600 regions in the U.S. and Canada.
SpringStreet.com - Listings for over 6 million apartment units in 6,000 cities nationwide.
International Movers - Find international moving companies that can help you plan your international move, from packing, to shipping, to relocating your entire family.
Is It Better to Buy or Rent? - Whether renting is better than buying depends on many factors, particularly how fast prices and rents rise and how long you stay in your home. Compare the costs of buying and renting a home using the calculator on this page.
Live/Work Institute - A non-profit entity that advocates, encourages and assists the development of Live/Work and Zero Commute Housing. On this website you can find information about the basics behind live/work architecture, examples of built and planned live/work projects, ideas about live/work and community, information about live/work planning and building codes, and news on the latest issues involving live/work.
LoopNet - A leading commercial real estate marketplace, offering a selection of online products and services designed to streamline commercial real estate transactions.
LuxuryRealEstate.com -
A global network of over 1,500 luxury real estate brokerages. Also, provides a reference for luxury real estate agents worldwide in a hardbound, annually published directory.
Moving.com - Find moving companies, real estate agents, mortgage quotes and more.
MSN HomeAdvisor - Find and compare homes for sale and apartments.
Mortgage Lender Implode-O-Meter - Tracking the housing finance breakdown: a saga of corruption, hypocrisy, and government complicity.
MoveCentral - A complete moving service designed to help make your move easier.
MyApartmentMap - Search for rental apartments by plotting listings on a map. Search thousands of apartments with hundreds added every day.
National Housing Conference (NHC) -
Advocate for national policies and legislation promoting suitable housing in a safe, decent environment.
National Real Estate Index - Reports on commercial real estate trends in more than 65 metropolitan markets in North America.
National Real Estate Investor (NREI) - In-depth coverage of the financing, investment, management, development and leasing of commercial real estate. NREI delivers news and trends covering the six major property types - hotel, industrial, multifamily, office, retail and seniors housing.
Neighborhoods - Get neighborhood profiles, cost of living info, school statistics and more. Provided by Yahoo!.
NeighborWorks - Financial support, technical assistance, training for community-based housing programs.
NETRonline Real Estate and Public Records Research - An information portal to official state websites, and those Tax Assessors' and Recorders' offices that have developed websites for the retrieval of available public records over the internet. Public records information that you may find includes copies of deeds, parcel maps, GIS maps, tax data, ownership information and indexes.
New York City Loft Board - The Board is charged with responsibilities that include: determination of Loft Law coverage issues, rent disputes, legalization deadline extension applications, and other controversies presented by landlords and tenants; enforcement of residential legalization deadlines set forth in the Loft Law; and enforcement of minimum housing maintenance standards for buildings under the Board's jurisdiction.
NYC Building Information System (BIS) - NYC Department of Buildings' database of licensee information, complaints, Department of Buildings (DOB) and Environmental Control Board (ECB) violations, boilers and property profile and construction application information.
Owners.com - Homes for Sale Nationwide - Real estate services (including a global real estate marketplace for home buyers and sellers), tools, and educational content.
Paycheck to Paycheck - Wage information for more than 60 occupations and home prices and rents for more than 200 metropolitan areas. Utilizes consistent measures of wages and housing costs so you can see how workers in your metropolitan area are faring in the housing market; view the big picture for housing affordability for working families in various occupations across the country; and use these analyses as a template to examine wages and housing costs in neighborhoods in your community.
PikeNet - Over 3,000 commercial real estate links to resources and service providers worldwide.
Property World Middle East - The focus of this forum is real estate for sale and onward rental including multi-country purchasing guidance, related service and special interest editorial. It is aimed at both expatriates and nationals who live and work in the Middle East Region as well as overseas residents interested in the Middle East property market.
Real Estate Guide USA - Directory for finding local realtors, real estate listings, mortgage lenders and information on buying and selling your home
Real Estate Library - Resources for real estate professionals, buyers, sellers.
RealHome.com - A free membership web service that provides homeowners and first-time homebuyers with convenient, one-stop shopping for a wealth of unbiased information, trustworthy services and solutions, spanning every aspect of home buying and home ownership.
Realtor's Land Institute (RLI) - Presents properties marketed by RLI members throughout North America who specialize in brokering, leasing, managing and developing land in all its agricultural, urban, recreational and transitional uses.
Realty Times - Real estate news and advice: agents, homes, apartments, mortgages and mortgage rates, insurance, home improvement, real etate guide.
REIT
Growing Risk in REITs - Article by Jeffrey R. Kosnett, Senior Editor, Kiplinger's Personal Finance (05 Mar 2010)
Rental Housing Online (RHOL) - Encyclopedic information and services for landlords, tenants, property managers, real estate investors and housing professionals.
Rentals.com - Property management and communications service for the rental housing industry. Find apartments for rent and other property listings online.
SF Prospector - Identify available commercial property in San Francisco by using a geographic information system (GIS) database with interactive maps. View, create, and print maps; perform site selection searches; and customize and analyze demographic and business data.
Slatin Report, The - Delivers all-original commentary and analysis on the world of commercial real estate. The brainchild of veteran real-estate journalist Peter Slatin, the site weighs in on real-estate investment trusts, industry dealmakers, and design and architecture.
TEN Real Estate - Property resource for Dubai and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Contains a searchable list of properties in the UAE, along with information on real estate developers and their developments.
Tenants Together - A nonprofit organization dedicated to defending and advancing the rights of California tenants to safe, decent and affordable housing.
Zillow - Provides free real estate information including homes for sale, comparable homes, historical sales, home valuation tools and more.
Also see Zillow Real Estate Market Reports.
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