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PROPRIETARY INDICES

Proprietary Indices

Keep a pulse on the residential housing market with industry trusted proprietary indices.

Burns Housing Cycle Risk Index™

Updated Monthly

The Burns Housing Cycle Risk Index™ (HCRI), measures the underlying market risk associated with market fundamentals (demand, supply, and affordability) and has proven to be a very good single metric for market risk.

Burns Home Value Index™

Updated Monthly

The Burns Home Value Index™ (BHVI) measures home value trends for all homes (new and resale) in 133 markets, allowing us to report on and forecast price appreciation without the noise of shifts in the mix of homes selling, as well as other issues. Our BHVI is more current than most other indexes, tracking data from up to one month prior to publication.

Burns Affordability Index™

Updated Monthly

The Burns Affordability Index™ (BAI) provides our historical, current, and forecasted housing-cost-to-income ratio for 140+ metros and the United States monthly from 1985 to present. The index shows how expensive a market is relative to other metros and its own history.

Burns Under/Overpriced Market Index™

Updated Monthly

The Burns Under/Overpriced Market Index™ measures how under/overpriced a market is compared to its history and forecasted future by comparing the Burns Affordability Index™ against an expected new normal housing-cost-to-income ratio for a market.

Burns Resale Housing Market Index™

Updated Monthly

Three subindices generate the overarching Burns Resale Housing Market Index™ (RHMI). They measure current and expected sales compared to seasonal norms as well as demand and supply conditions. The RHMI is based on a proprietary monthly survey of real estate agents nationally.

Fix and Flip Market Index

Updated Quarterly

The Burns + Sundae Fix and Flip Market Index (FFMI) gauges the pulse of the fix-and-flip market in the US. The FFMI is based on a proprietary monthly survey of fix-and-flippers nationally.

Single-Family Rental Market Index

Updated Quarterly

The Single-Family Rental Market Index (SFRMI),  which is based on surveys of the owner-operators of single-family rental homes, reflects the latest perspectives from within the single-family rental industry. This index measures the health and sentiment of the single-family rental sector combining subindices  measuring the current and expected leasing environment and time on market relative to seasonal norms. 

Burns Single-Family Rent Index™

Updated Monthly

The Burns Single-Family Rent Index™ (BSFRI) measures new lease effective rent. We calculate the US roll-up based on a weighted average of the 99 single-family rental markets we track across the country.

Burns Single-Family Rent Tiered Index™

Updated Monthly

The Burns Single-Family Rent Tiered Index™ measures three different price tiers of single-family rental within a market, to get a view of how different product types within a market may perform differently at different times. 

Burns Apartment Rent Index™

Updated Quarterly

The Burns Apartment Rent Index™ is our estimate for historical, current, and forecasted asking apartment rent trends in over 120 markets.

Kitchen and Bath Market Index

Updated Quarterly

The Kitchen and Bath Market Index (KBMI) is an overall gauge on the kitchen and bath industry’s performance, including quarterly sales expectations, future sales growth, and overall industry health. In partnership with the National Kitchen and Bath Association, the Kitchen and Bath Market Survey examines current kitchen and bath industry demand, future expectations, and issues and challenges that industry professionals are facing in their businesses. 

US Remodeler Index

Updated Quarterly

The US Remodeler Index is a diffusion index reflecting weighted response of remodeling companies on three key aspects of their business: growth in project volume in the most recent quarter, expectations about future growth in project volume, and an overall measure of “demand hotness” for professionally completed home repairs, remodels, and improvements.

Structural Building Components Index

Updated Quarterly

This quarterly index is the result of a unique partnership with the Structural Building Components Association (SBCA). The Structural Building Components Index (SBCI) surveys key prefab component manufacturers around the country to measure the health of the structural building components industry in the US.

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Each research package includes our indices

Our proprietary indices help give our clients timely insight into the for-sale, for-rent, resale, and building product sectors.

RESEARCH PACKAGES
Metro and Regional Housing Package
Single-Family Rental Package
Building Products Package
Geographic Overview of the Public Home Builders Package
RESEARCH PACKAGES
Metro and Regional Housing Package
Single-Family Rental Package
Building Products Package
Geographic Overview of the Public Home Builders Package
Burns Housing Cycle Risk Index

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Burns Home Value Index

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Burns Affordability Index

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Burns Under/Overpriced Market Index

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Burns Resale Housing Market Index

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Fix and Flip Market Index

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Single-Family Rental Market Index

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Burns Single-Family Rent Index

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Burns Single-Family Rent Tiered Index

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Kitchen and Bath Market Index

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US Remodeler Index

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Structural Building Components Index

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Subscribe to receive our indices

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 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.

Rental Communities Package

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.

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.

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 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.

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’ 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.

Co-Founder and CEO, SFR/BTR Operator

John Burns Research and Consulting consistently provides our executive team invaluable research and insight strategies to successfully navigate the market on a consistent basis.

President and COO, Public Home Builder

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.

CEO, BTR Operator

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.

CEO, SFR/BTR Operator

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.

CEO, Single-Family Rental Proptech Services Platform

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.

Managing Director, Public, Single-Family Rental REIT

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.

CEO, SFR/BTR Operator

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.

Senior Principal, Large-Cap Private Equity Firm

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

CFO, Water Management Solutions

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.

Chief Data and Analytics Officer, Real Estate Brokerage Service Provider

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!

Director, Architecture Firm

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

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