Maximize your opportunities in the housing market with unbiased analysis
Our experienced team of consultants thrives on helping clients around the country. Our combined backgrounds in homebuilding, land development, architecture, multifamily, and finance guide clients to strategic, practical solutions.
Overview
Custom Consulting Services
Our objective is to make our clients more successful. We work with many types of stakeholders in the industry: builders and developers, private equity and institutional investors, financial and professional service firms, and building product manufacturers.
National Perspective
We work on real estate analyses throughout the country every day, and we see emerging trends first-hand.
Boots on the Ground
We have offices throughout the country with regional experts who work and live in their markets.
Product Expertise
With housing as the focus, our expertise ranges across for sale, rental, and building products.
Timely Insights
We provide in-depth analysis and guidance under strict due-diligence timeframes.
Customized Analysis and Recommendations
We tailor recommendations to specific projects, given their unique characteristics.
Research Analysis
Our local market experts are resources to our research clients. We are available to discuss the nuances of housing markets throughout the US.


Solving today to help you navigate tomorrow.
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Completed Consulting Projects
in 2022
404
Consulting Clients Serviced in 2022
143
in 2022
Consulting Services
Real Estate Consulting
Home Building, Land Development, Build-to-Rent, Single-Family Rental, Apartments, Mixed-Use
Our experienced team of consultants thrives on helping our clients make great investment decisions. We will be an extension of your team, helping develop the right strategy for your next project.
capabilities
- Market Feasibility
- Home Price and Absorption Recommendations
- Rent and Lease-up Recommendations
- Product Recommendations
- Master Plan Segmentation by Product Type
- Demand Analysis
- Consumer Targeting
- Amenity Analysis
- Market Expansion Strategy and Rankings
- Acquisition Due Diligence
- Portfolio Valuations and Cash Flows
- Highest and Best Use
- Mixed-Use Strategy
- Home Design Trends
- Affordable Housing
Building Products Consulting
Structural Building Materials, Interior Fixtures, Prefab Construction, Commercial Construction
Our team is comprised of industry experts with diverse sector and functional experience. We partner across organizations to provide custom consulting reports to aid organic and inorganic investment decisions, strategic planning, and marketing.
Capabilities
- Strategy Advisory
- Deals Support (Pre-IPO, M&A, etc.)
- Custom Surveys
- Product Innovation Studies
Consumer and Design
Custom Consumer and Design Insights
Consumer and Design Consulting
Our team offers custom advisory services to help clients better understand industry trends, home design, and target consumers.
Capabilities
- Data-Backed Design Charrette Services
- Custom Consumer Surveys
- Custom Industry Professional Surveys
- Product and Community Visioning
- Custom Industry Trends Reports
Why JBREC?
We provide trusted analysis for executive decisions.

Reputation
We provide logical, unbiased recommendations and advice, trusted by the best and brightest in the real estate industry.
Trusted Integrity
We do not recommend stock investments or take contingency fees. We aim to be as accurate and honest as possible, with no conflicting agendas.
Experience
Our team includes national housing-market leaders, many with direct industry experience, as well as regional experts who live and work in their markets. Our experts have learned from multiple housing cycles.
Client Service
Some of the biggest names in the industry use JBREC's products and services. Our clients have personal access to our team of market and industry experts. We also connect clients to opportunities for new business.
Timely Data
We create, collect, and buy the best industry data available, enabling our analysts to evaluate market conditions. At JBREC, we focus exclusively on housing and strive to have the most current data at our fingertips.
Rigorous Review
Before sending any of our reports, our peer-review team checks facts, calculations, methodology, graphics, and language for the highest possible quality.
Find the Right Consultant
Connect with one of our industry experts on LinkedIn to discover how John Burns Research and Consulting can help your business.
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What our clients say about us
John Burns is our primary resource for up-to-date industry trends and has proven their unique value as a trusted partner in evaluating growth opportunities. When we started looking to expand our geographic footprint, there was no question who we would engage with. Working with John and his team was a great decision for our company.
Our first step on researching new BTR projects is to check John Burns market reports. It is the “level-set” we need to assess whether or not the project is aspirational or grounded in real-time metrics.
John Burns has been a significant resource for our teams across the Southwest region, assessing new business and evaluating existing developments. Their market-specific knowledge has been a great value-add for our local teams!
John and his team of housing experts provide the best and most accurate information on all of our housing markets and their forecasts are invaluable in guiding our business plans and investments
We highly value our business relationship with the entire John Burns Research and Consulting team who is always hyper responsive, approachable, polished and proficient. We highly cherish our partnership with JBREC, the housing industry’s top real estate research firm.
The JBREC reports, data and forecasts are a critical component to our decision making process as you are only as good as the information you rely on. JBREC are the foremost experts in our growing asset class and we are grateful for their long time support and pursuit of better information to serve the broader real estate market.
John Burns’ research is consistently comprehensive and thoughtful providing valuable insight into current and future market conditions. John Burns’ research and data is unmatched in quality and timeliness and is invaluable to successful execution in today’s residential real estate market.
John Burns Research and Consulting consistently provides our executive team invaluable research and insight strategies to successfully navigate the market on a consistent basis.
We have been using and working with the JBREC group since the early days, dating all the way back to 2014. They have been a phenomenal resource in providing market intelligence before the rest of the world caught on to what we were up to. Today, they continue to be a beacon and leader nationally.
JBREC really is the industry reference for SFR data and research. The breadth of detail in the monthly US Housing Analysis and Forecast reports is really impressive, with 350+ pages of well presented data, analysis and insights every month.
We find JBREC to be an invaluable partner. Their collection of data is the most comprehensive in the SFR industry, but on top of that, the John Burns Research team is incredibly responsive. Whenever we have custom requests (or just need help locating information in their voluminous collection of publications) the team there consistently delivers.
JBREC provides more rigorous data and analysis on US housing than any other firm. John and team have been trusted advisors to our team for decades.
No research platform is as comprehensive as John Burns–our subscription has been invaluable and informs the strategic decisions we make on a daily basis. Their platform combines market sentiment and backs it up with concrete empirical data. We will continue to rely on their research to help direct our decision making.
We are very active investors in building products companies and highly value JBREC for their insights and custom studies of specific building product segments in support of our deals. They are critical sources of information in helping us understand the latest housing market trends and outlook for our areas of investment.
For the past 5 years, the team at John Burns Research and Consulting has been a valued partner, providing us with vital research and market trend information that has allowed us to stay ahead of the curve
John Burns assists our company by giving timely data that allows us to make more strategic decisions. Their interactive dashboards allow for both high level and in-depth trend analysis. The Burns Home Value Index gives an easy-to-understand aggregation of key real estate factors that influence home price and value.
More than a research firm they are a research partner comprised of talented professionals who are accessible, highly responsive and incredibly accurate in their analysis and forecasts. Hard to imagine doing business without them!
John Burns is our primary resource for up-to-date industry trends and has proven their unique value as a trusted partner in evaluating growth opportunities. When we started looking to expand our geographic footprint, there was no question who we would engage with. Working with John and his team was a great decision for our company.
Our first step on researching new BTR projects is to check John Burns market reports. It is the “level-set” we need to assess whether or not the project is aspirational or grounded in real-time metrics.
Contact us to maximize your opportunities in the housing market.
If you have any questions about our services or would like to speak to one of our experts about how we can help your business, please contact Client Relations at clientservices@jbrec.com.
