Vol. I Data Registry Source Catalog · 2026
Where the CRE capital-markets data actually lives.
The metadata layer behind the registry — who publishes what, on what cadence, and how to access it.
A practitioner-built catalog of recurring US CRE intelligence sources — who publishes them, on what cadence, how to access them, and what they’re actually useful for. v1 covers the 30 highest-priority publications.
- Catalog
- 30 priority sources · 23 publishers · 27 free or email-gated · 3 paid
- Method
- Ranked by usefulness, not prestige. Practitioner-tested, source-attributed.
- Access
- Free & public. Updated as sources release.
01 / Source Catalog
The 30 priority sources
- CBRE
U.S. Cap Rate Survey
Free Semi-annualDe facto industry cap rate benchmark — ~3,600 estimates across 50+ markets and all major property types.
- Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA)
Quarterly Survey of Commercial/Multifamily Mortgage Bankers Originations
Free QuarterlyAuthoritative quarterly read on origination volume by property type and capital source (CMBS, life co, GSE, depository, investor-driven).
- Federal Reserve Board
Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey (SLOOS)
Free QuarterlyOfficial Federal Reserve read on bank CRE lending standards and demand — construction & land development, multifamily, nonfarm nonresidential.
- Trepp
CMBS Delinquency Report
Free with email MonthlyIndustry-standard monthly read on CMBS delinquency by property type — the headline benchmark for office distress.
- Free Quarterly
Quarterly snapshot of CRE investment volume, the CBRE Lending Momentum Index, lender composition, spreads, and cross-border flows.
- Green Street
Commercial Property Price Index (CPPI)
Free MonthlyThe most timely US CRE pricing index — REIT-derived, published monthly with ~4-business-day lag.
- MSCI Real Capital Analytics
US Capital Trends
Paid QuarterlyQuarterly transaction-volume + cap-rate trends + buyer-type capital flows; the institutional standard for CRE deal-data depth.
- NCREIF
NPI + NFI-ODCE
Free with account QuarterlyInstitutional CRE total-return benchmark. Per the 3Q 2025 release, the NPI consists of 12,923 properties / $899B market value.
- Northmarq
Current Rates / Rate Matrix
Free Continuously updatedBest public proxy for current lender pricing — multifamily, CRE, and affordable rate sheets refreshed regularly.
- Cushman & Wakefield
US MarketBeats (Office, Industrial, Retail, Multifamily)
Free QuarterlyComprehensive quarterly metro-level fundamentals across 90+ US markets and four core property types.
- Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA)
Quarterly CREF Loan Performance Survey
Free QuarterlyDelinquency rates by capital source (banks, life cos, CMBS, GSEs) — the complement to Trepp's CMBS-only data.
- Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA)
Commercial/Multifamily Mortgage Debt Outstanding
Free QuarterlyThe authoritative stock-of-debt figure — total CRE/multifamily outstanding allocated across banks, life cos, CMBS, GSEs, and other holders.
- Federal Reserve Board
H.8 — Assets and Liabilities of Commercial Banks
Free WeeklyThe highest-frequency US bank CRE loan series — weekly bank balance-sheet data via the Fed and FRED.
- Free Quarterly
Bank-level CRE / multifamily PDNA (past due and nonaccrual), charge-offs, and concentration metrics by bank size.
- Free Quarterly
Diffusion-index measure of multifamily market tightness, sales volume, equity financing, and debt financing.
- Free Quarterly
A composite multifamily-investment attractiveness index combining NOI growth, prices, and mortgage rates across 25 US metros.
- Fannie Mae
Multifamily Market Commentary
Free MonthlyMonthly multifamily commentary from the Fannie Mae ESR Group — supply, absorption, rent growth, origination forecasts.
- Free with account Annual
The industry's leading annual forecast for US/Canada CRE, drawing on 2,000+ practitioner contributors.
- Paid Quarterly
Quarterly cap rates, discount rates, IRRs, and cash-flow assumptions across 40+ US markets (formerly the Korpacz survey).
- Real Estate Roundtable
Sentiment Index
Free QuarterlyA senior-executive sentiment read on current/future CRE conditions and capital availability, surveyed by Ferguson Partners.
- Paid Quarterly
An anonymized $190B+ bank CRE loan database — criticized loan rates, originations, risk metrics by property type.
- Cushman & Wakefield
Glide Path / Money Matters / Debt Market Talking Points (Investor Insights series)
Free with email QuarterlyQuarterly + ad-hoc debt-market commentary authored by Abby Corbett (Senior Economist, Head of Investor Insights) — balanced macro + CRE debt color.
- Free Semi-annual
Semi-annual read on data-center colocation/hyperscale supply, vacancy, leasing, and pipeline.
- Free Semi-annual
8-quarter forward net-absorption forecasts for US industrial and office, modeled by Guirguis (Manhattan U.) + Harris (Fordham) using CoStar.
- Prologis
Industrial Business Indicator (IBI)
Free MonthlyA proprietary diffusion index of Prologis customer activity — the closest thing to a monthly PMI for US industrial real estate.
- Free Quarterly
Quarterly FFO, NOI, same-store NOI, dividends, and balance-sheet metrics across listed US REIT sectors.
- Free Quarterly
Quarterly + annual multifamily research from one of the top GSE agency lenders, plus the ongoing Beyond Insights series.
- Walker & Dunlop
Walker Webcast + W&D Research
Free WeeklyWeekly executive webcast plus quarterly research from one of the largest multifamily debt originators, including an in-house ~1.5M-unit rent survey.
- Harvard JCHS
America's Rental Housing
Free BiennialThe biennial benchmark study on US rental demand, supply, and affordability from the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies.
- Free with email Monthly
Free monthly national + 140-market reports for multifamily, industrial, and self-storage rent + occupancy fundamentals.
No sources match those filters. .
02 / Synthesis
Skip the aggregation — buy the synthesis
Every priority source, synthesized into one quarterly read.
A single quarterly briefing that pulls headline data from all 30 priority sources in the Source Catalog — rates, originations, cap rates, delinquency, lending standards, transaction volume, sentiment — into one decision-ready desk reference. Hours of source-by-source aggregation, compressed into ~25 pages.
Practitioner-aggregated · Source-attributed · Quarterly · One-time purchase per issue
- Cap-rate ranges from CBRE Cap Rate Survey + PwC Investor Survey, side-by-side
- Origination volume + lender-mix tracking (MBA + CBRE Lending Figures)
- Credit / distress dashboard (Trepp + MBA CREF LPS + FDIC QBP)
- Bank lending standards + demand (SLOOS) with H.8 trend overlay
- Property-type fundamentals (multifamily, industrial, office, retail, data center)
- Indicative rate matrix (Northmarq + broker-partner inputs)
- Every figure source-attributed to the catalog entry it came from
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