- Urban Land Institute is a major land use and development advocacy and research organization and publishes area-specific real estate trends.
List of useful associations in the real estate field - member based, they publish trade journals and reports that provide news, trends and statistics about their industries. They host conferences, advocate for and educate about their industry.
- NAOIP publishes research reports for commercial real estate developers and hosts conferences. US focused.
- NAR (National Association of Realtors) hosts conventions, advocates, educates and publishes monthly reports on national real estate markets - see Research and statistics. US focused.
- NAREIT - research and statistics on REITs.
Reports by real estate firms:
- Cushman and Wakefield's reports on commercial and industrial real estate for cities and states in the US (and globally.)
- Knight Frank is a UK firm that publishes high level reports on real estate for all areas of the world.
- Jones Lang LaSalle has research on global markets.