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?
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