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General Economic Data

Bureau of Economic Analysis
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BEA's national economic program provides a quantitative view of US domestic production, consumption, and investment, of exports and imports, and of national and domestic income and saving. It features the estimates of GDP, which is one of the most closely watched of all economic statistics. Also produces detailed data on economic activity by region, state, metropolitan area.
Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Access statistics on wages and employment trends in specific geographic areas.
Census Bureau
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Access economic, demographic, and housing data. Use the American FactFinder or American Community Survey to drill down to the zipcode, city, or county level. Also includes access to the Economic Census and mapping services.
Federal Housing Finance Agency
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Creates House Price Index (HPI) a broad measure of the movement of single-family house prices. Other data includes research and working papers on mortgages and home prices.
Federal Reserve Board
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The Federal Reserve provides a wealth of economic and market data. Through the statistical releases locate daily interest rates for U.S. government securities and private money markets. In addition check out the Economic Research and Data section for historical data, surveys, and working papers. The Federal Reserve has tweleve district banks. Check out the websites for the district banks for additional financial and economic data.
Federal Statistics
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Statistics from more than 100 agencies available to citizens everywhere.
HUD - U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
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Provides access to over 800 datasets on housing related issues.
US Census Data and Statistics
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STAT-USA/Internet, a service of the U.S. Department of Commerce, is a single point of access to authoritative business, trade, and economic information from across the Federal Government.

Real Estate Trends

Emerging Trends in Real Estate by Urban Land Institute
Call Number: HD251 .E47
ISBN: 0874201063
General overview of real estate trends. Also see the following for region specific trends: Asia Pacific (Call Number: HD581.E44) and Europe (Call Number: HD581.E44)

Atlanta Real Estate News

This is an RSS feed from the CoStar Group about commercial real estate news in Atlanta.

Real Estate News

Real Estate Journal - The Wall Street Journal Guide to Property
Access Wall Street Journal news articles on real estate. Tools are available to view recent home sales values, locate comparable sales, and create demographic maps within a 3 mile radius. Commercial real estate section includes a building cost calculator.
CoStar Group
A fee-based real estate research firm that maintains an extensive database of properties and tenants.
Southeast Real Estate Business
Access articles addressing issues impacting real estate in the Southeast.
Ernst & Young Real Estate Center
Provides news on global trends in real estate.

Business Librarian

Daniel Le

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Subjects:Business, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Institute of Insight

Acknowledgements...

Thank you to Ashley Dupuy for her contributions to this research guide. During the Summer of 2009, Ms. Dupuy worked as an intern at Georgia State University. During her internship, she updated much of the content and created pages covering the areas of Mortgage/Finance, Appraisal/Valuation, Construction, REITS, Corporate Management, and Misc.