Make informed housing industry decisions
Our research memberships help clients navigate the housing industry, making better business decisions and strategic investments along the way.
Research
Overview
Research Membership Packages
Choose the membership packages that meet your specific needs. Our esteemed research members, experts in various segments of the housing industry, often subscribe to multiple packages in order to gain a comprehensive understanding of the residential real estate industry.
Metro and Regional Housing Package
This package provides a complete picture of housing supply, demand, and affordability through local insight, proprietary surveys, and extensive data analysis. We currently offer an overview of major housing and economic trends across 100 MSAs nationwide.
What's Included?
- Metro Analysis and Forecast*
- Regional Analysis and Forecast*
- US Housing Analysis and Forecast
- Home Builder Survey
- Burns Interactive Dashboards
*You can choose between one of the flagship reports or subscribe to both depending on your coverage needs
Single-Family Rental Package
SCATTERED-SITE SINGLE-FAMILY RENTAL
This package provides a comprehensive overview of the single-family rental (SFR) industry’s major markets, including forecasts, SFR market rankings, macro drivers, housing supply, and demographic trends.
What's Included?
- Single-Family Rental Analysis and Forecast
- Rental Communities Analysis and Forecast
- Single-Family Rental Market Fundamentals
- Single-Family Rental Survey
- Single-Family Rental REIT Earnings Summary
- US Housing Analysis and Forecast
- Home Builder Survey
- Burns Interactive Dashboards
Rental Communities Package
BUILD-TO-RENT AND APARTMENTS
This package provides complete look into the multifamily sector, including apartments and dedicated build-to-rent communities. A deep dive into the sector’s major markets, including forecasts, rental market ratings, key fundamentals, economic drivers, demographics, and the impact of alternative housing sectors.
What's Included?
- Rental Communities Analysis and Forecast
- Rental Communities Market Fundamentals
- Apartment REIT Earnings Summary
- US Housing Analysis and Forecast
- Home Builder Survey
- Burns Interactive Dashboards
Building Products Package
This package provides current, in-depth insight into building products industry conditions across the country, including a forecast for residential new construction and repair and remodeling spend over the next four years.
What’s included?
- Building Products Industry Analysis and Forecast
- Regional Analysis and Forecast
- Building Products Dealer Survey
- Building Products Earnings Summary
- Kitchen and Bath Market Survey
- US Remodeler Survey
- US Analysis and Forecast
- Home Builder Survey
- Burns Interactive Dashboards
Geographic Overview of the Public Home Builders Package
This package is designed for those who compare publicly-traded builders (including securities investors) to each other. Every month we rank each publicly-traded home builder based on the past, current, and forecasted performance of its geographic footprint.
What’s included?
- Home Builder Analysis and Forecast
- Regional Analysis and Forecast
- US Housing Analysis and Foreecast
- Home Builder Survey
- Burns Interactive Dashboards
Discover the perfect research membership package for you by exploring the table below. Compare and find the best fit for your needs.
RESEARCH PACKAGES | Metro and Regional Housing Package | Single-Family Rental Package | Rental Communities Package | Building Products Package | Geographic Overview of the Public Home Builders |
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Special Packages
Additional Research
New Home Trends Institute Membership
Backed by deep-dive research at JBREC and supported by our experts across the nation, the New Home Trends Institute pairs design inspiration with exclusive insights into the “why” behind consumers’ housing choices.
Burns Interactive Dashboards
An exciting way to access our industry-leading research. Our interactive platform allows you to visualize, analyze, and compare our extensive housing research and data.
Our Clients
Who utilizes our research
Outperform your competition by aligning your strategic decisions with current and forecasted market conditions in the housing industry.
Home Builders and Land Developers
Understand real estate and housing fundamentals, trends, and economic drivers with local market knowledge combined with timely, accurate data. Make informed investment decisions by staying up-to-date on market trends.
Private Equity
Evaluate new investments and make informed housing investment decisions by understanding real estate and housing fundamentals, trends, and economic drivers.
Single-Family Rental and Build-to-Rent Operators
Understand and monitor the for-rent and for-sale markets. Stay up-to-date on housing fundamentals, trends, and economic drivers to make informed investment decisions.
Institutional Investors
Trade with confidence and outperform the market. Use JBREC’s timely research, analysis, surveys, and data to stay up-to-date on housing trends and make strategic investments.
Building Products Companies
Understand home builder product purchasing decisions, construction timelines, and supply chain constraints. Plan your business and growth through our repair & remodel and new construction spend forecasts.
Multifamily Developers
Make strategic housing investment decisions by understanding apartment and housing fundamentals, trends, and economic drivers with timely and accurate data.
Architects and Interior Designers
Understand market composition in a shifting design landscape and leverage curated floor plan inspiration, backed by consumer research. Find inspiration for new home features and projects in our DesignLens database, and get ahead of coming design trends.
Industry Innovators
Develop a go-to-market strategy for new ideas and technologies by understanding real estate and housing fundamentals, trends, and economic drivers.
Trusted by executive decision makers
Why JBREC?
We provide trusted analysis for executive decisions.
We deliver the most honest, valued, clear, and timely solutions in the industry. As experts in housing, we offer a holistic view of the market, pairing just about every data element possible with qualitative insights from local market experts.
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.
Proprietary Tools
We have created many tools to provide unique and timely insight. Our surveys, indices, and interactive dashboards allow our clients to accurately track the market at any time.
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.
Top-Down, Bottom-Up Analysis
We analyze the housing industry from every angle. Our company has both a top-down (cyclical analysis, demographic trends, macroeconomic trends, policy changes) and a bottom-up (local market consulting, local market surveying, local market analysis) approach to our products and services.
National Footprint
We have one of the largest and most geographically diverse real estate consulting groups in the US. Our executives live in many of the major housing markets across the country and regularly travel to others.
Rigorous Review
Before sending any of our reports, our peer-review team checks facts, calculations, methodology, graphics, and language for the highest possible quality.
OUR DIFFERENCE
What makes us different?
Forecasts
See our forecast of key housing variables for over 100 markets across the US.
Interactive Dashboards
Download data quickly, gain new insights, and make timely decisions with our interactive platform.
Proprietary Surveys
Get monthly insights from various proprietary surveys—often leading indicators to the market.
Proprietary Indices
Accurately track the market with access to our proprietary indices that analyze all the major metropolitan statistical areas in the US each month.
Access to Our Team
Work with a team that lives and breathes the data and that creates and maintains a deep understanding of the housing industry—from dirt to roof.
Invitations to Events & Webinars
Network with a wide variety of industry experts as you attend exclusive events and monthly webinars.
Client-Exclusive Events
Gain exclusive access to our events by subscribing to one of our available research memberships.
Burns Monthly Housing Market Update Webinar
Monthly
Virtual Webinar
We host monthly webinars, as well as special-topic webinars throughout the year, exclusively for research members. Many of our clients call these “the most informative hour of the month.”
2024 Housing Market Outlook
November 7, 2023
The Plaza Hotel in New York, NY
Each fall, we invite the most intelligent executives we know to share where they see the market heading. We will hear from an accomplished group of panelists and cover a range of educational topics.
The Summit
May 14–15, 2024
The Montage in Laguna Beach, CA
The Summit is our annual client-only conference that brings together the smartest and most influential people in the industry to discuss and debate the current state of housing and where the industry is headed. Intimate, highly interactive, and thought provoking, The Summit helps executives take advantage of the opportunities in today’s market.
New Home Trends Summit
September 10–11, 2024
The Brown Palace Hotel in Denver, CO
Each year, the brightest executives in community and home building design meet to learn from each other and build a network that helps them make informed decisions year round. Executives will network, share their recent successes (as well as lessons learned), and listen to provocative educational speakers.