Resources

Listed below are links to real estate organizations and other real estate resources on the web.

National Organizations

• Urban Land Institute
  Founded in 1936, the Urban Land Institute (ULI) now has more than 18,000 members worldwide representing the entire spectrum of land use and real estate development disciplines, working in private enterprise and public service.
• NAIOP
  National Association of Industrial and Office Properties
• PREA
  Pension Real Estate Association
• NAREIT
  The National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT) is the national trade association for REITs and publicly traded real estate companies. Members are real estate investment trusts (REITs) and other businesses that own, operate and finance income-producing real estate, as well as those firms and individuals who advise, study and service these businesses.
• NAA
  The National Apartment Association is a federation of 160 state and local affiliates, comprised of more than 30,000 multifamily housing companies representing more than 4.6 million apartment homes throughout the United States and Canada.
• NCREIF
  The National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries (NCREIF) is an association of institutional real estate professionals who share a common interest in their industry.
• AFIRE
  The Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate (AFIRE) is the only not-for-profit association for the foreign real estate investment community. Through an exclusive membership of international investors from 17 countries, AFIRE provides an exclusive forum for investors to meet and exchange information through regularly scheduled meetings in the United States and Europe.

Real Estate News

• GlobeSt.com
  GlobeSt.com provide daily reports on transactions, developments and people in the news in all aspects of the real estate industry.
• Institutional Real Estate, Inc.
  Market research papers, quarterly and weekly real estate news publications.
• Institutional Investor News
  A weekly newsletter on commercial property and capital markets.
• Buildings.com
  An on-line magazine with articles on people in the industry, trends and transactions.
• Emporis.com
  A database on skyscrapers and tall buildings around the world.
• Institute for Fiduciary Education
  IFE is a great source of industry papers written by experts in the business.

Competitions

• National Real Estate Finance Challenge
  The National Real Estate Challenge is a case-based real estate competition between leading business/real estate schools around the country hosted by the University of Texas at Austin. Sponsors of the competition have included such firms as Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Jones Lang LaSalle, and Trammel Crow. The HBS team took first place in the competition in 2005.
  
  
• Urban Land Institute / Gerald D. Hines Urban Design Competition
  The Gerald D. Hines ULI Urban Design Competition brings together interdisciplinary teams of students in business, real estate development, architecture, urban planning, historic preservation, engineering, and law to work on a development plan for a selected parcel.
  
  
• FHLB Boston Affordable Housing Development Competition
  Sponsored by the Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston, the Affordable Housing Development Competition brings together interdisciplinary teams of students from schools in the Boston area to work with community developers and professional architects to develop an affordable housing proposal. HBS students were members of the first place teams in 2005 and 2006.

Real Estate Clubs and Organizations in the Boston Area

• HBS Venture Capital & Private Equity Club
• HBS Entrepreneurship Club
• HBS Finance Club
• Harvard Real Estate Development Club
  The Harvard Real Estate Development Club (RED) is a student group for members of the Harvard community interested in real estate and urban development issues.
• MIT Center for Real Estate
• MIT Sloan Real Estate Club
• MIT Housing Group
• ULI Boston Young Leaders
  The ULI Boston Young Leaders Group (YLG) is a forum for young professionals and students involved in the Greater Boston real estate community to network with their peers, gain exposure to senior ULI members and real estate professionals, and to continue their professional education.
• BAYREP
  The Boston Area Young Real Estate Professionals is an informal networking organization for real estate professionals in the Boston region.
  

Other Resources and Tools

• Baker Library Research Guide
  This guide supports HBS courses taught within the real estate industry. Topic areas include construction, environment, finance, international law, and property types. Each section includes associations, books, directories, glossaries, journals and Web Sites. The full list is a complete view of all resources. The majority of the resources are available to all users of this guide with the exception of several databases accessible only to HBS students, faculty and staff.
• The Realm
  Link to the makers of Argus and other industry software.
• RS Means
  Construction data and cost information source.
• REITNet
  An overview of REITs.
• REBuz.com
  Real estate search engine.

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