Real Estate Lending, Property Management and OREO Management

Appraisal	*Commercial Real Estate*	*Compliance (Real Estate)*
*New Construction / Development*	*Real Estate Education*	*Real Estate Investment*
*Real Estate Law*	*Residential Real Estate*

American Society of Appraisers (ASA): This is the site of the ASA, an organization of appraisal professionals. It is the oldest international organization representing all of the disciplines of appraisal specialists. This site includes a search engine to find an appraiser for almost any need, diamonds to real estate. http://www.appraisers.org

Appraisal Institute (AI): The site of the member-based AI, a trade association serving the real estate appraisal profession for more than 60 years. The site provides links, an appraiser search, professional services, and publications. http://www.appraisalinstitute.org/

IRED Appraisers Directory: A site providing a list of professional appraisers. The site also provides hotlinks to over 5,000 real estate related sites. http://www.ired.com

The National Association of Real Estate Appraisers (NAREA): This is a professional organization made up of real estate appraisers for customers requiring professional appraisal reports. The Web site includes selected articles from The Appraisal Times, links, membership information, and publications. http://www.iami.org/narea.html

National Association of Independent Fee Appraisers: This is the site of a trade association founded in 1961 by appraisers for appraisers whose objective is to promote the highest quality standards of the profession. The site includes an appraiser search, short explanation of the appraiser process, and membership information. http://www.naifa.com/

Commercial Investment Real Estate Institute (CIREI): This is the site of an affiliate member of the National Association of Realtors which provides a few valuable services including market trends, a forum, links, and membership publications http://www.ccim.com/

FacilitiesNet: This site provides updated industry news, bulletin boards for easy exchange, Building Operating Management and Maintenance Solutions magazines, a search engine and products and equipment information. http://www.facilitiesnet.com/

FMLink: This site provides news, articles, survey results, and an information exchange for the facilities management industry. http://www.fmlink.com/

Inman Commercial Real Estate News: The site of this real estate publisher is rich in articles covering many facets of commercial real estate. http://www.inman.com/default.aspx

International Assoc. of Assessing Officers: This site provides information about the people who assess your property. http://www.iaao.org/

International Facilities Management Association (IFMA): The IFMA is a trade association serving the facility management profession. The site provides basic glossary-type information, links, a buyer’s guide, and publications. http://www.ifma.org/

National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP): NAIOP is the national trade association for developers, owners, investors and asset managers of commercial real estate in the United States and Canada. The site reports on deals and offers pictures of the week, a buyer’s guide, and provides press releases and news. http://www.naiop.org

Realtor’s Land Institute: The REALTORSŽ Land Institute is an affiliate of the National Association of REALTORSŽ. It is the only branch of the REALTORSŽ family focused on land brokerage transactions of five specialized types: (1) farms and ranches; (2) undeveloped tracts of land; (3) transitional and development land; (4) subdivision and wholesaling of lots; and (5) site selection and assemblage of land parcels. The Web site has a land search engine and help links. http://www.rliland.com/

Self Storage Network by Argus: A site with listings and a quarterly newsletter about the self storage industry. http://www.selfstorage.com/

The Society of Industrial and Office REALTORSŽ (SOIR): This is the site of a professional commercial and industrial real estate association. The Web site includes membership information, a property listing, search engine, links, and education services. http://www.sior.com/index.htm

AllRegsŽ, Mortgage Resource Center, Inc.: This site provides up-to-date regulations, guidelines, and communication from the major public and private residential home lending institutions including: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, FHA, VA, Compliance, PMI Companies, Ginnie Mae, Approved Projects, and State Regulations. Highlights are available free and the full database is available for a charge. CD-ROM is also available. http://www.allregs.com/

American Institute of Architects (AIA): This site of this major trade association includes education, government advocacy, community redevelopment, and public outreach activities. This vast Web site includes primarily member information about services provided, but also considerable information of interest to the general public about the profession. An architect search engine is included. http://www.aia.org/

Builder Online: This site sponsored by Builder magazine includes news, product information, articles, products and services, and links to building product manufacturers. http://www.builderonline.com/

FW Dodge: This is the site of the leading provider of construction project information used by the construction industry to negotiate contracts and to secure product specifications and sales. This huge site provides data, links, news, and analysis. http://fwdodge.construction.com/

Marshall and Swift: This is the site of a company that provides construction cost estimates and methodologies for virtually every type of construction. This site offers for-sale products including handbooks, periodicals, software, and includes some current price data. http://www.marshallswift.com/

R. S. Means and Co.: This site provides information on construction cost information products and services. The company offers construction cost estimating and management resources and the site includes links, products and services, software, and estimating tips. The site also provides the newsletter ITV Solutions. http://www.rsmeans.com/

Urban Land Institute: This site provides mainly access to ULI publications and information about sponsored meetings. The site does have a small data feature that allows you to download about a dozen data series in Lotus 1-2-3 format. http://www.uli.org//AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home

American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association: This is the site of a professional academic association with current and archived information from their journal, Real Estate Economics. http://www.areuea.org

Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics at Berkeley: A site providing information and research papers by this major academic research center. http://groups.haas.berkeley.edu/realestate/

Institute of Real Estate Management: This organization serves the needs of real estate management professionals - managers of apartments and office buildings, asset managers, property supervisors and management company owners. It confers the CPMŽ designation to qualified professionals. The site provides a few articles from the Journal of Property Management, links, publications, and membership information. http://www.irem.org/home.cfm

MIT Center for Real Estate: This site provides information and research papers by this major academic research center. The site includes access to working papers, statistical data on real estate, and links. http://web.mit.edu/cre/

Wisconsin Center for Land Economics Research: This site of an academic research institute provides research, executive education, and outreach/service covering issues relating to the land, housing, and real estate markets. http://www.bus.wisc.edu/realestate/

InRealty: This site provides an extensive hotlink resource for virtually every topic related to real estate investment. News, 30+ topics, jobs, academics, and government resources are covered. This site is for the researcher. http://www.inrealty.com/

International Real Estate Digest: This site provides a single source for independent real estate information. Offering the top 10 Non-U.S. sites, a USA Directory, World Directory, a guide for finding agents, and classified/want ads. http://www.ired.com

National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT): This trade association provides REIT management and investors with valuable information about the industry. The large site includes data, news, articles, company profiles, and links. http://www.nareit.com

National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries (NCREIF): The NCREIF was established to foster research on various property classes and has developed a database consisting of property operating information supplied by members. Working with the Frank Russell Company, the group created the Russell-NCREIF Property Index. The Web site is divided into six committee sections, Accounting, Research, Education, Valuation, Performance Measurement and Portfolio Strategy. Each provides a variety of resources related to these subjects. http://www.ncreif.com

Pension Real Estate Association (PREA): PREA provides services covering institutional real estate investment through education, research initiatives, membership interaction and the exchange of information. The site provides little except occasional articles from the association’s publications. http://www.prea.org/

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): This site, sponsored by the U.S. Government agency, provides information on laws and regulations, news, projects and programs, links, databases and software, and publications. http://www.epa.gov/

RealtyTrac Information Systems: This company provides up-to-date foreclosure information based on compilations of Default Notices, Trustee Sales and REOs. http://www.realtytrac.com

National Association of Home Builders (NAHB): This large site provides news, facts and data, consumer and builder information, state, local, national, and international information and membership information. http://www.nahb.com/

National Association of RealtorsŽ (NAR): This huge site is of interest to consumers and realtors. The site includes a home and realtor search engine, mortgage and housing news, homeownership and moving information, and a book store. http://www.realtor.com/

The National Association of Residential Property Managers (NARPM): This is the site of NARPM, a permanent trade organization for the residential property industry. It represents managers of small residential properties on such matters as tax law, legislation, legal document requirements, accounting practices, insurance, building codes, zoning, and utilities. This site provides information of interest primarily to members. http://www.narpm.org