Reis is a leading provider of commercial real estate market information and analytical tools. These tools, which are utilized by real estate professionals Reis, consist of an actively maintained proprietary database of detailed information on commercial properties in major metropolitan markets and countless neighborhoods throughout the United States. Their database has information on office, retail, apartment, retail, warehouse/distribution, flex/research & development, self storage and seniors housing properties, and is utilized by investors in real estate, lenders and other commercial real estate professionals to make more highly informed buying, selling and financing decisions.
In addition to this, Reis data is used by investors, both debt and equity, to assess, quantify and better manage the risks of default and loss that is associated with mortgages, properties, portfolios and real estate backed securities. Reis provides its information services to numbers of the nation’s leading lending institutions, equity investors, brokers and appraisers. Their product portfolio includes Reis SE, ReisReports, and Mobiuss Portfolio CRE.
The video above, seemingly produced for recruiting efforts at Reis, nicely profiles the operations of the company.
Dr. Victor Calanog
Frequently representing Reis in public presentation is Victor Calanog, PhD CRE®, its Chief Economist and a Senior Vice President of the company. Along with his team of economists and analysts, he is responsible for the firm’s market forecasting services, valuation services, and real estate portfolio analytics services.
Dr. Calanog’s research has received numerous awards and fellowship support from several institutions. Among these are the Russell Sage Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Penn Lauder Center for International Business Research. His papers on real estate economics, rban fiscal policy, and local government competition have been presented in meetings of the American Finance Association, the American Economic Association, the Brookings Institution. They have also been discussed in academic forums sponsored by Columbia University, Stanford University, Harvard Business School, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and the Stern School of Business at NYU.
Further, Dr. Calanog serves as contributor and peer reviewer for a number of academic journals, with scientific papers of his published in , the Journal of the Risk Management Association, the Journal of Banking & Finance, and cited in the Journal of Finance and more. His assessments of conditions in the market have been featured in national publications like the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Bloomberg News, Financial Times, National Real Estate Investor, and Reuters News, and in the Miami area in The Real Deal and this site, HawkinsCRE.com.