What websites, newsletters, literature, etc do you read on a daily/weekly basis?

I am tired of the fluff pieces on real estate where real estate is always going up and with only watching 3 episodes on HGTV your grandma can flip a 20 unit apartment building with 0% down. Market reports from brokerage firms, articles on Reuters and Forbes, etc are all just mouth pieces for Realtors, Inc.

Where are the unbiased, technical newsletters and websites? They have a plethora for equities, their has to be someone out there doing it for real estate.

Suggestions?

 
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I read NREI Online and Bisnow everyday. There's usually something interesting to find. WSJ's RE section sometimes has interesting stories.

Mouth pieces abound, but that's not any different than any other business area. As long as you understand the bias, it's trivial to discount it.

I'd love to find something unbiased and technical but it's normally behind a crazy paywall (perenews @ $2k/user).

Depending on your market there's often a local business journal like bizjournals.com/insertcityhere, it wont be real estate specific, but there is often interesting local info regarding political votes and business movements which can translate to real estate transactions and/or growth.

I'd love to see if anyone else has some worthwhile sources

 

I read through Commercial Property Executive. So far this is the best info I could find that is not behind a paywall. https://www.cpexecutive.com/

Curbed can be pretty good too. They lean a certain way in their writing and information, but if you're into development it can be very useful.

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I would add commercial observer, brownstoner, therealdeal for nyc (all biased and with mouth pieces but awesome to track deals you may not have heard of.)

I personally love reading GlobeSt as well. In addition Corenet and ULI put out some decent articles though they are usually less deal specific and more EndUser focused.

 

Bisnow is my go to. Follow the big markets and the national newsletters in addition to your local market for a solid view on current transactions. PERE News may be best, but that subscription price tag is flagrant.

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Everyone should download an app called Feedly. I use it to follow ULI, Globest., Curbed and a few other publications. Unfortunately Bisnow is not available on the app, but I follow this as well.

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CoStar puts out reports by market covering commercial RE. The Economist is a great publication for general business and economic reporting.

You can actually find some good RE discussions on Bigger Pockets at a micro/regional level -- just a note, the audience is not the institutional crowd, more DIY guys and local power brokers answering questions.

 

Feedly is an RSS consolidator that lets you set up different news needs onto a single page for convenience. As others have stated, Bisnow is great for local RE news (i.e. each major city typically has a Bisnow feed) and if you're more interested in macro stuff check out National Real Estate Investor. NREI has an iPhone app that's decent too.

 

How do you find time to read all of this? I get WSJ delivered to my apartment. I read it in-between classes/when I am on the bus.

 

dont read every article in every publication, browse through the articles on google reader to see the headlines that are out there and read the ones that seem interesting

 

In google reader, my IB related feeds are: WSJ NYT dealbook TheDealBlogs FT (Lex usually) HLS Corp. Governance blog Corp Fin Law blog

and email updates/recaps from WSJ & FT

and Knoweldge@Wharton and Bloomberg mag. whenever published

I just skim over them though... I definitely don't have the time to read it all (plus most of WSJ/NYT/dealblogs are duplicates)

 

i have my home page set as WSJ so whenever I open up a webpage, the first thing I see are the headlines of the day. I'll usually click on one or two just to know what's going on, but don;t read through every article unless I have an interview or something coming up.

 

...i am a big reader so will be interesting to see if i find anything new from everyones lists...here's some of the public (ie not subscription research) stuff i read daily or weekly:

Newspapers: WSJ NYT FT economist barrons international herald tribune NY Post for celebs and coverage of stories like Travis the Chimp!

Blogs: dealbreaker clusterstock accross the curve bondheads (just an aggregation of other news but sometunes has something i missed) for what its worth (mostly about greenwich real estate but still fun) lewrockwell.com (just b/c im a libertarian) page six (because i have to know which celebrities are fukking each other)

 

Is it worth it to shell out the extra $$ to get Lex with the Financial Times?

I started my subscription a few months ago and have been reading the WSJ much less, as I like the FT content better.

I read - FT NYT WSJ

Economist

NYMag Dealbreaker Naked Capitalism Edge

 

I read the WSJ pretty religiously and scan the PE Week wire everyday. Would really prefer to read the FT but I don't have a subscription and don't feel like shelling out for it. I also read the Business Week MBA section just for grins. At night when I'm bored I'll watch CNBC as well.

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FT Alphaville Calculated Risk Alea Baseline Scenario Naked Capitalism Dealbreaker Economist Free Exchange NY Times Front Page feed Deadspin

 

Bloomberg news is basically the source for anything current, I'm on there constantly. For analysis and half-decent journalism (when I have time) it's the Economist and the International Herald Tribune.

Used to read WSJ and FT as a student because they were free at my school. Don't read those anymore though. Plus FT wants me to pay money to read articles on their website. lol.

 

iambateman,

I'm pretty sure FT limits the number of articles you can read on a monthly basis if you aren't a paying member. I'd like to read more than a dozen articles a month!

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WSJ and I subscribe to various teen and bestiality oriented e-newsletters.

I have to keep up with whats hot in porn as much as which company filed for bankruptcy that day.


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I second Dealbreaker and Zerohedge. And WSJ, the FT and others mentioned above are pretty solid too.

These are not RE specific but I regularly visit NewsNow - especially their sections on currencies and FTSE news - their RE section is here.

Divestopedia

Aswath Damodaran and Chris Mercer (business valuations)

Axial

Private Equity Wire

Pitchbook

Dealgate

Merrill Corp

And more occasionally lesser known blogs like Built To Sell, TEF, The Middle Market and others picked at random from places like this one.

 

There are quite a few publications I read to keep a pulse on the market and stay tuned to current events (real estate specifically). I won't mention the paid subscriptions that my current company spoils us with, but the ones listed below are completely free.

You can also check out this article that gives a more in-depth list and explanations why I follow them:

https://www.realestateanatomy.com/free-news-you-should-be-reading-to-fo…

Free Publications:

  • National Real Estate Investor

  • GlobeSt

  • The Business Journals

Free Newsletters:

  • Smartbrief

Free Magazines:

  • NAREIT REIT Magazine

If you're looking for relevant real estate books, check out the following link:

https://www.realestateanatomy.com/books/

There's also a great thread of real estate books here:

https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/wsos-best-real-estate-books

"Helping you break into the commercial real estate industry" http://www.realestateanatomy.com
 

I read it every day religiously, in addition to the WSJ, FT and International Herald Tribune. The daily email is the best summary of M&A, IPOs, PE and VC acitvity you can get for free online. Also, the blog is updated throughout the day and is great.

http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/

 
dfratz:
I read [DealBook] every day religiously

DealBook is great, and free to boot! I got started with it long before the blog showed up; have found that the daily newsletter is sufficient for my needs.

Conversely, working in equity research, I just canceled my RealMoney subscription. Visited it religiously for the first couple of years of my career, but for the past few years I almost stopped visiting it entirely.

 

ouija board

barometric pressure of various cities I've visited in the past year

palm reading of the first person I come in contact with (usually my girlfriend, so this one's less helpful)

size of the moon relative to my normal BM (I keep a spreadsheet and track the results compared to various indices). surprisingly this one is very informative, if we have a full/waxing moon and I eat mexican, probably going to be a good day in the markets.

 

Good idea!

Can't wait to run regressions of my Blinks per Minute, Length of Train Delays and the Days my favorite cash Register Lady Works, on the market!

Keep the sources coming, the Skimm was interesting

 

Aside from all of the research I get in my inbox:

Bloomberg terminal Seeking Alpha Wall St. Breakfast Business insider 10 things you need to know before the opening bell

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