United States of America Real Estate Resources

We have America real estate resources listed in numerous categories below. Simply click on the link.

• Buying Guides
• Economics & Statistics
• Forums & Blogs
• Landlord & Tenant
• Laws
• Mortgages
• Taxes
• Yellow Pages & Directories

General Country Links

• Country Description
• Investment Climate
• Newspapers, Magazines & Blogs
• Travel & Tourism

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Buying Guides

• 4 Smart Moves for Getting a Great Deal on a House (US News and World Report)
• FHA Consumer Marketplace – Offers a guide to the homebuying process.
• Home Buyer Resources & Information for Buying Real Estate | Coldwell Banker – Provides info, tools and resources to help buyers find a home. Includes a “Buying Your First Home” video and various property buying articles.
• National Association of Realtors: Help Buying or Selling a Home – NAR offers the latest information and resources for home buyers and sellers.
• Realty Times: Buyers Advice
• The Complete Guide to Buying and Selling Your Own Home – A free downloadable ebook about home buying and selling.
• USRealEstate.com Buyers Guide – This guide provides buyers with detailed information to help them understand real estate concepts.
• Zillow.com Real Estate Guide – Learn the ins and outs of real estate with this collaborative wiki-style guide, written by people just like you. Share your knowledge and expertise, too.

Economics & Statistics

• Boston.com Homes – Housing industry news and features.
• Coldwell Banker – Home Price Comparison Index – The 2007 Home Price Comparison Index compiled by Coldwell Banker allows you to quickly approximate how much your home might cost in any of over 340 markets across North America.
• EconData.Net – EconData.Net is designed to help practitioners, researchers, students, and other data users quickly gain access to relevant state and substate socioeconomic data.
• Financial Services & Real Estate News | Reuters.com – Online source for real estate and financial services news.
• Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics (FCREUE) – Real estate research at the Haas School of Business. Provides a number of research reports for download.
• Furman Center – The leading academic research center in New York City devoted to the public policy aspects of real estate, land use and housing development.
• Hanley Wood Market Intelligence – Source for residential real estate research and analysis. Sign up to receive free analysis on the latest economic and housing market statistical releases, new project notifications, product alerts and more.
• Hanley Wood: U.S. Housing Markets – Compiles permits, employment, home prices, rents and other information on all the US metropolitan markets. Publishes the latest data each quarter, with analysis and comparisons to history.
• HUD USER – Policy Development and Research Information Service (PD&R) – Gateway to research and analytic tools produced by the PD&R. It provides free downloads of data sets and publications such as the U.S. Housing Market Conditions quarterly statistical reports.
• Inman News – Real estate news and tips for buyers, sellers & investors.
• Joint Center for Housing Studies – Harvard University-based center for information and research on housing in the US. The Joint Center analyzes the dynamic relationships between housing markets and economic, demographic, and social trends.
• LoanPerformance HPI – Info about LoanPerformance HPI (housing price index), the first HPI resource with full access to real estate price trends in all key local U.S. markets.
• Macroeconomics – Brookings Institution – Brookings is an independent research and policy institute. It offers analyses, research and commentary on the U.S. economy and current political issues.
• MIT Center for Real Estate – Provides breaking news about the US real estate industry, research & publications, and the Moodys/REAL Commercial Property Price Index (CPPI).
• MIT CRE: Moodys/REAL Commercial Property Price Index (CPPI)
• MSN Money: US Sector and Key Indexes
• National Council of Real Estae Investment Fudiciaries (NCREIF) – Provides the NCREIF Property Index.
• National Real Estate Investor – NREI covers commercial real estate news, trends and research pertaining to the office, industrial, retail, hotel and multifamily markets.
• New York Times: Real Estate
• Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight – You can download the latest US House Price Index and find data on housing markets and housing finance (on the Housing Market Indicators page).
• Real Capital Analytics – Data includes recent comparable sales, trend reporting, and Moodys/Real Indices.
• Real Estate Analytics LLC – Designs and commercializes transaction-based real estate indices, derivative products, and asset management vehicles.
• Realty Times – Real Estate News and Advice – Real estate news network. Reports on real estate market conditions.
• Reis – Your Window onto the Real Estate Market – A provider of impartial commercial real estate performance information and analysis at the metro (city), submarket (neighborhood) and property level.
• RISMedia – Residential & commercial real estate industry news, profiles, and articles for agents, brokers, and consumers. National print magazine available.
• S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices (Standard & Poors) – Measures the US residential housing market, tracking changes in the value of the residential real estate market in 20 metropolitan regions across the United States.
• The Federal Reserve – The central bank of the United States. Provides some economic research & data, including recent statistical releases.
• The Housing Bust: a Statistical Portrait (usnews.com) – How a fast-changing mortgage market swamped the whole economy.
• U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) – Source of US economic statistics including national income and product accounts (NIPAs), gross domestic product (GDP) and related measures of national, regional, industry and international accounts.
• U.S. Census Bureau: Housing Topics – Data includes Housing Fact Sheets and various surveys: American Housing Survey, Decennial Census of Housing, Housing Vacancy Survey, Residential Finance Survey, etc.
• U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
• US News & World Report: Real Estate – Coverage of the ups and downs of the turbulent real estate market, featuring The Home Front, a blog by reporter Alex Markels.
• USA.gov: Currency and Economy – Get government information on the US currency and economy. With links to key economic indicators and economic research & data.
• USATODAY.com Real Estate – Provides the latest real estate news.
• washingtonpost.com: Real Estate – Real estate tools and resources from washingtonpost.com, including research sale and tax assessment data on residential and commercial properties.

Forums & Blogs

• HousingZone.com – Housing industry blog, with housing market news, commentary and analysis.
• Professional Remodeler–  offering information about trends, news and innovative ideas of interest to all remodelers.
• Get Rich Slowly: House and Home – Personal finance blog. This page shows the blog posts on house and home topics.
• House Beat (Professional Builder) – An armchair view of the housing industry. In this blog, the editor of Professional Builder strives to present the industry to you in new ways that are fun, surprising, eye-opening, and refreshing.
• Inman Blog – Real estate news blog.
• Money Smart Life: Real Estate
• My Money Blog: Real Estate – Personal finance and investing blog. This page shows the blog posts on real estate topics.
• New York Real Estate Lawyers Blog
• The Consumerist: Real Estate
• The Home Front (usnews.com) – A blog by Luke Mullins, an associate editor at U.S. News, covering real estate, and personal finance.
• The Simple Dollar: Housing – Personal finance blog. This page shows the blog posts on the topic of housing.
• Zillow Blog – Real Estate News and Analysis – Brought to you by the employees of Zillow.com and Zillow Real Estate.

Landlord & Tenant

• Bad Landlords – The Source For Renters Rights – Resources for tenants listed by state with a forum for discussion.
• Better Business Bureau (US)
• Consumer Action Website – Online version of the Consumer Action Handbook, a must-have consumer survival guide from the Federal government.
• Consumer.gov: Home & Community – Rental housing information for consumers.
• Fair Housing – Read stories of housing/renting discrimination and learn about fair housing laws.
• Google Directory: Tenant Rights – Links to websites of tenant rights organizations, with a heavy focus on US-based sites.
• Housing Discrimination Complaints – Information on how to file a complaint of housing discrimination.
• Landlord-tenant (LII / Legal Information Institute) – An overview of landlord-tenant law.
• Landlord-Tenant Law For Every State (The Consumerist) – Provides a list of links to landlord-tenant statutes by state.
• Landlord.com – A one-stop resource network for landlords, property managers and other real estate professionals, providing free tools to increase cash flow, rent vacancies fast, and retain good tenants.
• Landlords & Property Management Resource Center (NOLO) – Find good tenants, collect and return security deposits, end leases, evict bad tenants and maintain safe premises. Get the forms you need.
• NeighborWorks America – NeighborWorks is a national network of more than 240 community development and affordable housing organizations.
• Realty Times: Apartment and Rental News
• Renting Kit – Learn more about renting and HUD rental assistance programs.
• Tenant Net – The Online Resource for Residential Tenants Rights, offering information, advice and advocacy for tenants from New York and many other states and localities.
• Tenant Rights, Laws and Protections – The US Department of Housing and Urban Development website provides information on tenant rights by State.
• The Consumerist: Renting

Laws

• ABA Guide to Home Ownership – This book is designed to help you understand that legal framework surrounding home ownership and answer questions you might have. Online version of The ABA Guide to Consumer Law. Provided by the American Bar Association Division for Public Education.
• American Bar Association: Real Property, Probate and Trust Law – The Real Property Division focuses on legal aspects of property use, ownership, development, transfer, regulation, financing, taxation and disposal.
• Constitutions, Statutes, and Codes (LII / Legal Information Institute) – U.S. legal information organized by topic and source from Cornell Law School.
• Fair Housing Laws – Read stories of housing/renting discrimination and learn about fair housing laws.
• Justia: Real Estate & Property Law Overview
• Law Library of Congress (Library of Congress) – The worlds largest collection of law books and legal resources.
• National Association of Realtors: Law and Policy – Real estate & property law information.
• Overview of Real Property Law in the United States
• Property & Money Resource Center (NOLO) – Legal resources and information to help you in dealing with debt, taxes, or real estate.
• Real Estate Transactions (LII / Legal Information Institute) – Information on real estate transactions as governed by a wide body of federal statutes and state statutory and common law.
• Real Property (LII / Legal Information Institute) – Provides an overview on real property (land law).
• Realty Times: Legal Resource Center
• Supreme Court of the United States
• The Bill of Rights
• The Constitution of the United States: A Transcription
• The Constitution of the United States: Amendments 11-27
• THOMAS (Library of Congress) – The Library of Congress THOMAS site is the source for federal legislative information. THOMAS provides several options for finding bills, resolutions, and legislative histories from 1973 to the present.
• Topical Index: State Statutes (LII / Legal Information Institute) – An index of U.S. state statutes on the Internet, organized along topical lines, including Civil Code, Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Taxation, and so on. [For
• U.S. House of Representatives – Provides access to the laws of the United States. Find a Bill, Amendment, or Debate. Search the Congressional Record or the legislative archive.
• U.S. Senate – Through the Virtual Reference Desk, provides links to information about the Senate, Congress, the US legislative process and the federal government.
• US Law.com: Real Estate Law – Real estate law articles and self-help legal resources.
• Wikipedia: Law of the United States
• Yellowkey Realty – Home and property law, plus other resources

Mortgages

• Bankrate.com – News, tips and advice to compare mortgage rates, home equity loans, CDs, car loans, credit cards and money market accounts. Mortgage calculators and tax advice content for home owners.
• Boston.com: Mortgages – News and advice about home mortgages.
• Center for Responsible Lending – The Center for Responsible Lending (CRL) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research and policy organization dedicated to protecting homeownership and family wealth by working to eliminate abusive financial practices.
• Coldwell Banker: Mortgage Center – Find the mortgage information, calculators, and payment calendars to plan your purchase.
• FRB: Consumer Handbook on Adjustable-Rate Mortgages
• FRB: Foreclosure Resources for Consumers – If you are having difficulty making your mortgage payment, the following resources provide information and links to agencies and organizations that may be able to help you.
• Homescape: Mortgage Center – Mortgage finder, rates, news, and expert advice.
• Inside Mortgage Finance – Mortgage industry data, news and analysis: “What the Mortgage Market Reads”
• LoanPerformance – Provider of data and analytics used by banks and Wall Street to manage their mortgage and mortgage-securities portfolios.
• Mortgage Bankers Association
• MSN Money: Personal Finance – Get personal finance advice on mortgages, retirement planning, taxes, and other money topics. Use calculators to help figure out your mortgage payments and find the latest mortgage rates.
• National Mortgage News – News on the commercial mortgage industry, covering topics such as commercial mortgages and real estate, mortgage software, and loan origination.
• National Mortgage News – Buyers Guide – A comprehensive directory of the housing finance sector and the vendors providing products and services to it.
• New York Times Real Estate: Home Finance Center – Research mortgage and home equity rates. Get mortgage and refinancing loan quotes from lenders. Use financial tools to calculate your monthly mortgage payment and loan costs.
• Realty Times: Advice For Borrowers – Mortgage and home financing news and advice.
• SenteMortgage.com– financial learning tools
• The Consumerist: Mortgages
• US News and World Report: Mortgages – Mortgage market news.
• washingtonpost.com: Real Estate Financing – Financing news.
• Wholesale Access – A research and publishing company focused exclusively on the residential mortgage market. Provides broker studies, mortgage data, monthly broker surveys, and more research.
• Zillow Mortgage Help Center – Get up-to-speed on some mortgage basics and find out the latest mortgage rates.
• Zillow Mortgage Marketplace – Offers an online marketplace where lenders truly compete for your business. Get anonymous mortgage quotes.

Taxes

• Internal Revenue Service – The U.S. tax collection agency that administers the Internal Revenue Code enacted by Congress.
• MSN Money: Tax Center – Tax planning, tools, articles and advice.
• Taxes & Audits Resource Center (NOLO) – All the information and forms you need to file late tax returns, respond to an IRS audit, appeal an audit decision, pay a tax bill in installments, etc.
• The Consumerist: Taxes
• Top 10 “What Not to Do” List for Taxpayers (eXtension News)
• USA.gov: Money and Taxes – USA government portal for online resources dealing with taxes and finance. Has links to federal and state financial agencies.
• USA.gov: Taxes – Federal and State – Government information about federal and state taxes: forms, tips, and filing instructions.

Yellow Pages & Directories

• AOL CityGuide – Search your city guide for restaurants, local bars, events, personals and movies.
• Active Search Results (ASR) is an independent
  Internet Search Engine using a proprietary page ranking technology with Millions of popular Web sites indexed.
• Citysearch – Online city guide and yellow pages. Use Citysearch City Guides to get reviews and directions to top restaurants, events, services and more in cities across the country.
• Directory of Local Chambers of Commerce & Visitor Bureaus
• Google U.S. Government Search
• Hours-Locations.com – Store hours, locations, contacts information and directions for 800,000 local businesses across North America
• Localfolder.com – Find local information and services in the US, in categories such as business, real estate, economy, news, computers, health, education, art, shopping, services, travel, and more.
• Official United States Yellow Pages – Online network of city and town phone books with interactive features displaying business listings, phone numbers & addresses in traditional yellow page book format for entire United States.
• Regional USA – Find relevant US business websites on this directory of business information, technology, real estate, environment, culture, society, shopping, and more.
• Switchboard.com – Internet Yellow Pages, Internet White Pages, telephone directory, online maps, reverse phone number search and more.
• USA.gov: The U.S. Governments Official Web Portal – Portal for all government transactions, services, and information. It provides direct online access to federal, state, local, and tribal governments.
• uscity.net – United States internet business directory. A national network of state and city directories.
• Yahoo! Yellow Pages – Find local and nationwide business listings quickly and easily at Yahoo! Yellow Pages.
• YellowPages.com – Online Yellow Pages business listings, phone numbers, addresses, maps, driving directions and more.
• Ypeek.com – Find Yellow Pages, white pages, maps and directions for your city.

Country Description

• BBC NEWS | Country Profile: United States of America – Key facts, figures and dates.
• Britannica Online Encyclopedia: United States
• CIA – The World Factbook — United States
• Country Insight: United States (globalEDGE) – An introduction to United States, including background information, an interactive map, quick links to resources dealing with U.S. economy, and key facts including GDP, population, life expectancy, capital city, currency, and major languages.
• Expat Interviews: USA
• InfoUSA – A web site from the U.S. Department of State.
• United States of America Country Brief (DFAT)
• Wikipedia: United States

Investment Climate

• Country Information: United States (UK Trade & Investment)
• Doing Business In The United States of America (MSI Global) – Doing Business In The United States of America
• Doing Business in United States (The World Bank Group)
• Index of Economic Freedom: United States
• MSN Money: Investing – Market Summary – Get the concise view of financial market happenings with market commentary, news headlines, US market indexes, etc.
• World Investment Report 2007: Country Fact Sheet – United States of America (PDF) – The Country Fact Sheet contains the most relevant indicators about FDI in a country, including the most recent data on FDI flows and stocks, mergers and acquisitions, largest TNCs and regulatory changes.

Newspapers, Magazines & Blogs

• Associated Press – News site of the Associated Press, its member newspapers and broadcasters.
• Boston Globe: National News
• Chicago Sun-Times
• Chicago Tribune
• Forbes.com: US Business News and Financial News
• Los Angeles Times: National US News – Top national news from around the country. Breaking news and in-depth coverage brought to you by the Los Angeles Times.
• New York Times: National News – Breaking US news and multimedia on US politics and government, taxes, health care, business.
• Newsday.com
• Newsweek U.S. Edition – Newsweek magazine online plus daily news, features, blogs, multimedia and commentary from a global network of correspondents.
• SFGate – Home of the San Francisco Chronicle – Breaking US news from around the nation.
• TIME: U.S. News – National US news stories from the pages of TIME Magazine. Read in depth, special reports of local and political news stories from around the country at TIME.com.
• U.S. News | Reuters.com – Get the latest U.S. news stories from coast to coast.
• US News & World Report – Breaking national and international news on politics, business, finance, science, education, and health.
• US News (msnbc.com) – U.S. News from msnbc.com. Read the latest education, business and security headlines from across the US.
• USATODAY.com – Breaking news on USA weather, sports, science, financial, technology, travel, economy, and entertainment.
• washingtonpost.com: National News and Headlines – The latest/breaking national US news, featuring national security, science, business, technology, health and more.

Travel & Tourism

• U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) – Learn about visiting the U.S. temporarily as a visitor (tourist, student, or worker) or permanently.
• United States of America Travel Guide (VirtualTourist.com) – The best United States of America travel tips, reviews and photos, posted by real travelers.
• United States of America Travel Guide (Wikitravel)
• United States Travel (guardian.co.uk) – United States
• United States Travel Guide (New York Times Travel) – Plan your trip to the United States with The New York Times Travel Guide, featuring the best hotels, restaurants, museums, shopping, bars and more in the United States.
• United States Travel Guide (world66) – Complete, objective information on United States travel, including photos and reviews. Add your own wiki-style contributions.
• USA.gov: Travel and Tourism Sites for the 50 States and U.S. Territories – A directory of travel and tourism sites for U.S. States and Territories: sites to help plan your vacations, tours, meetings, and more.