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/reecon.htm    

American Society of Appraisers: This is the site of the professional appraisers organization. It contains primarily membership information. http://www.appraisers.org/asa/default.asp    

The Appraisal Foundation: This is the source for information on appraisal standards. http://www.appraisalfoundation.org/    

The Appraisal Institute: This site provide primarily membership information. http://www.appraisalinstitute.org/    

Arent Fox Business Bullets: A site providing a newsletter with topics on real estate environmental law. http://www.arentfox.com/    

Building Managers and Owners Association (BOMA): This site locates special studies on office tenants, custodial issues, and building maintenance and operating expenses. http://www.boma.org/

Certified Commercial Investment Members affiliated with the National Association of REALTORS: This site brings you discussion groups and commercial real estate listings. http://www.ccim.com/   

Commercial Real Estate Secondary Market And Securitization Association: This site provides Information about commercial real estate securitization with a useful in-depth introduction into the industry as well as a quarterly newsletter. http://www.cssacmbs.org/    

Counselors of Real Estate affiliated with the National Association of REALTORS: This site provides summaries of articles that have appeared in their tri-annual publication, Real Estate Issues, and other information relevant to the counseling and advisory aspects of real estate. http://www.cre.org/

Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics at UC Berkeley: A site providing information about and research papers by this research center. http://haas.berkeley.edu/~creue/    

Department of Housing and Urban Development: HUD's research section provides online the U.S. Housing Market Conditions, American Housing Survey, Home Mortgage Disclosure Data and much more. http://www.hud.gov/resrchrs.html    

Federal Housing Administration Programs (Department of Housing and Urban Development): Department of HUD site providing consumer information on FHA programs, obtaining a mortgage, loan limits by metropolitan areas, rehabilitation loans and much more. http://entp.hud.gov/fha/fhabuy.html    

FractalNet Real Estate Server: A site providing listings for San Francisco, California, and outside California in that order of inclusion organized geographically. http://www.fractals.com/realestate.html    

General American Credits: A site of a firm that specializes in appraisal and title services. http://www.gencredits.com/    

Institute of Real Estate Management: The site of the nation's leading real estate management organization brings you a comprehensive listing of related publications including articles from their own publication, Journal of Property Management. http://www.irem.org/   

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

International Council of Shopping Centers: This trade association sponsors meeting, educational seminars and provides data on the shopping center industry. http://www.icsc.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   

International Union for Housing Finance: This is the site of an international trade group of housing finance agencies and mortgage lenders. This site includes membership information and international mortgage and housing information. Articles from Housing Finance International are available. http://www.housingfinance.org/    

Lincoln Institute of Land Policy: This organization is dedicated to land policy, zoning, and land tax issues. The site includes LandLines, the Institute's bi-monthly newsletter. http://www.lincolninst.edu/       

McCary Steven's Associates: The site of a commercial real estate lender with useful mortgage rate information, particularly on larger recently-closed deals, including nursing home, retail, office, and other property types. http://www.mccarystevens.com/   

MIT Center for Real Estate: The research center sponsors a full agenda of research on issues related to real estate development, investment, and management. http://web.mit.edu/cre/www/    

Mortgage Market Information Services, Inc.(MMIS): MMIS is one of the world's largest publishers of mortgage, and real estate information. MMIS provides over 300 newspapers each week up-to-date information. http://www.interest.com/    

Mortgage-Net: A resource for purchase, refinance and home equity loans. Features include a large lender database, an extensive reference desk, calculators, interest rate trends, interactive forums: http://www.mortgage-net.com/    

National Association of Residential Property Managers: A site of this professional association provides primarily membership information. http://www.marketnet.com/mktnet/narpm/         

 National Association of Home Builders: This site provide an excellent source of statistics for housing, prices, interest rates, and mortgages. http://www.nahb.com/   

National Association of Industrial and Office Properties: The site provides office and industrial development information. http://www.naiop.org/   

National Association of Real Estate Editors: At this site find their newsletter, membership directory, and information about those who write about the real estate industry. http://www.inman.com/naree/

National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts: This site provides information about REITs. It also has a very complete database of REITs. http://www.nareit.com/   

Peckham's Real Estate Investments On-Line: A site with available investment real estate. http://www.inetworks.com/revest/invest.html    

Pension Real Estate Association: This site is devoted to issues involving the ownership and investment of real estate by pension funds managers, portfolio managers, and advisers. Find related articles, interviews and membership information. http://www.prea.org/   

Realty-Lawnet: A site sponsored by a law firm providing information on legal issues related to real estate. http://www.realty-lawnet.com/   

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

Society of Industrial and Office REALTORS: This site features publications, course and seminar offerings. http://www.sior.com    

Urban Land Institute: The site provides a summary of articles from Land Use Digest, previews From Urban Land, and more. http://www.uli.org   

Veteran's Administration Home Loans: This valuable site provides lender and consumer information on types of VA loans and qualification. http://www.va.gov/vas/loan/