While my days are often filled with meetings, calls, and emails, I think it’s important to carve out an hour or so each day to stay atop the market. This is just as much a part of my job as is my daily responsibilities. It’s from these articles, interviews, and research that I get my inspiration and form my market opinions. Readers often ask me how I stay on top of the market -here goes: Real Estate Market News (Daily Check)

• National Real Estate Investor Online
• Globe Street
• Commercial Observer
• CoStar News
• Multihousing News Online
• Multifamily Executive Magazine
• Bloomberg (Real Estate)
• Bisnow (various markets)
• WSJ (Real Estate)
• NYT (Real Estate)

Economic News/Data (Weekly Emails)

• PIMCO Insights
• Wells Fargo Insights
• Cushman & Wakefield Research & Insights
• Brown Advisory
• Mauldine Economics

Real Estate Periodicals

• The Institutional Real Estate Letter – this magazine is the single best real estate periodical out there. It’s pricey, so get ahold of a free copy if you can. 

Other

• The Daily Skimm – a daily email which covers all the day’s headlines from politics to pop culture.

This is in no way a comprehensive list of sources, it’s just the ones that I’ve found to be most valuable. What would you add to this list?