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 Membership Packages

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?

*You can choose between one of the flagship reports or subscribe to both depending on your coverage needs.

Single-Family Rental Package

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?

Building Products Package

This package provides current, in-depth insight into building products industry conditions in the country, including a forecast for residential new construction and repair and remodeling spend over the next four years.

What’s included?

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?
RESEARCH PACKAGES
Metro and Regional Housing Package
Single-Family Rental Package
Building Products Package
Geographic Overview of the Public Home Builders
RESEARCH PACKAGES
Macro and Micro Level Outlook Package
Single-Family Rental Package
Building Products Package
Geographic Overview of the Public Home Builders
Flagship Reports

*For the Metro and Regional Housing Package you can choose between metro or regional or subscribe to both depending on your coverage needs

Burns Metro Analysis and Forecast
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Burns Regional Analysis and Forecast
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Burns Single-Family Rental Analysis and Forecast
Burns Building Products Industry Analysis and Forecast
Burns Home Builder Analysis and Forecast
Burns US Housing Analysis and Forecast
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Burns Interactive Dashboard
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Proprietary Surveys
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Burns Home Builder Survey
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Burns Residential Land Survey
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Burns Real Estate Agent Survey
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Fix and Flip Survey
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Burns New Home Market Pulse
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Single-Family Rental Survey
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Burns Building Product Dealer Survey
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Kitchen and Bath Market Index Survey
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US Remodeler Index Survey
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Structural Building Components Survey
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Additional Reports
Quarterly Community Counts
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Single-Family Rental Market Fundamentals
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White Papers
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Earnings Summaries
Public Home Builder Earnings Summary
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Public Home Builder Company Individual Earnings
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Single-Family Rental REIT Earnings Summary
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Single-Family Rental REIT Individual Earnings
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Public Building Products Earnings Summary
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Public Building Products Company Individual Earnings
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Proprietary Indices
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Monthly Webinars
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Invitation to Exclusive Events
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Access to Team
Meet Our Team
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Ability to Request Data
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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.

Rental Communities Analysis and Forecast

Every quarter, we provide a detailed look into the US apartment and build-to-rent industries, relevant macro drivers, outperforming/underperforming markets, for-sale housing market impact on rentals, and public-operator metrics.

The Rental Communities Analysis and Forecast is only offered as a subscription add-on. You must be subscribed to one of the main subscription packages in order to subscribe to this report.

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.

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.

All Research Packages

Burns Monthly Housing Market Update Webinar

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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.”

New Home Trends Institute Only

New Home Trends Summit

February 22–23, 2023

Dallas, TX

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.

All Research Packages

The Summit

May 23–24, 2023

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.

All Research Packages

2024 Housing Market Outlook

November 7, 2023

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.

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Building Products Package

This package provides current, in-depth insight into building products industry conditions in the country, including a forecast for residential new construction and repair and remodeling spend over the next four years.

Metro & 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 provide an overview of major housing and economic trends across 100 MSAs nationwide.

Single-Family Rental Package

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.

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.

Geographic Overview of the Public Home Builders

This package is designed for those who compare the publicly-traded builders to each other (including securities investors and the builders). Each month we rank each of the publicly traded home builders based on the recent, past, current, and forecasted future performance of their geographic footprint.

Rental Communities Analysis and Forecast

Every quarter, we provide a detailed look into the US apartment and build-to-rent industries, relevant macro drivers, outperforming/underperforming markets, for-sale housing market impact on rentals, and public-operator metrics.

What clients say about us

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CEO, Public Home Builder

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.

Managing Director, Real Estate Investment Manager

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!

Senior Managing Director, Real Estate Investment, Development, and Management Firm

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

Managing Director, Capital Provider and Investor for For-Sale Residential

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.

Executive Director and Principal, Real Estate Investment and Brokerage for SFR/BTR

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.

President and COO, BTR Operator and Developer

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.

CEO, Public Home Builder

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.

Managing Director, Real Estate Investment Manager

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!

Senior Managing Director, Real Estate Investment, Development, and Management Firm