Use the library's Real Estate Research Guide.

Go to Sage Data and click Browse by Subject, then click Housing and Construction to find a variety of datasets on real estate topics.

Real Capital Analytics (available in Lippincott Library, ask to be logged in at the Information Desk) focuses on commercial real estate and includes information about transactions and participants (buyers, sellers, lenders, developers, etc.).

REIS (available in Lippincott Library, ask to be logged in at the Information Desk) also has a commercial real estate focus. It includes transactions, current property performance information (rents, vacancies) and overall performance by geographic market.

Bloomberg (see access details) contains a section with data on commercial real estate transactions.

• Type CRE and hit the green GO key.

For real estate case studies go to ULI Development Case Studies, a project of the Urban Land Institute.

See the The State of the Nation's Housing report from the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University.