Reports

The 2020 NAR Real Estate Forecast Summit consensus forecasts are compiled as the median of the responses of 23 economic and housing market experts who participated in the 2019 and 2020 Real Estate Forecast Summit events.

REALTORS® reported a decline in sales and leasing transactions, except for industrial properties, clearly the strongest leg of the commercial sector. The land market has also been a strong sector, especially sales of land for recreational use, as the pandemic has curtailed leisure activities in the urban areas.

This report looks at the use of Section 1031 like-kind exchanges involving NAR members and assesses their views on the economic impacts of repealing Section 1031 as is being proposed by some current tax proposals. 

The objective of this survey was to gather information about international residential real estate transactions of Mainstreet Organization of REALTORS® (MORe) members during April 2019–March 2020.

NAR developed a Work from Home Score reflects the current fraction of workers already working from home and factors that are expected to support the trend to work from home or work remotely―internet connectivity, the fraction of workers that work in industries that have normally been heavy occupiers of office space, home affordability, and a county's population growth.

This report highlights the results of a survey of international residential transactions experiences of Raleigh REALTORS®.

NAR’s Quarterly Market Survey gathers information about the commercial transactions of REALTORS® and members of affiliate organizations (CCIM, SIOR, RLI, IREM, and the Counselors of Real Estate) and the opportunities and challenges facing commercial practitioners.

This report discusses the results from a survey about leasing conditions in the second quarter of 2020, capturing the critical period when almost all states implemented stay-at-home or shelter-in-place orders that ground business to a near halt, resulting in office, business, and recreational facilities closures and an unprecedented surge in unemployment.

The coronavirus has affected markets across the nation, but members are in the process of regaining their footing. This report provides a snapshot of the recovery process for both residential and commercial markets.

These markets were chosen for affordability, inventory availability, strong presence of millennial residents, a lower share of the industries most affected by the lockdown, and fewer job losses during the pandemic than the average.