Ranked by real-world weight
Each item below is marked sourced (a real institution tracks or ranks it) or judgment (no such institution ranks it — included on domain knowledge, not fabricated data).
Nareit's live REIT market data is broken out by its 14-sector property
classification (Office, Industrial, Retail, Lodging/Resorts, Residential, Timberland, Health
Care, Self-Storage, Telecommunications, Data Center, and more), directly sourcing REITs (5) plus
8 property-type items by REIT sub-sector: Commercial property/office (2), Industrial &
logistics (3), Retail real estate (4), Hospitality (8), Data center (9), Multifamily &
apartment (11), Healthcare & medical (14), Self-storage (15), Digital infrastructure/cell
tower (17). OECD's Housing Prices Database tracks Residential property (1); FAOSTAT's Land Use
domain tracks Agricultural land (7); FAO's Global Forest Resources Assessment tracks Forestry
& timberland (19); the OECD Affordable Housing Database tracks Affordable housing (20); the
Federal Reserve's Financial Accounts (Z.1) and Mortgage Bankers Association survey data track
Mortgage & real estate finance (12); the US Census Bureau's New Residential Construction
release tracks Multifamily & apartment housing (11) alongside Nareit. UN-Habitat/World Bank,
as SDG indicator 1.4.2 custodians, track secure land tenure — sourcing Land value &
ownership (6), though that covers tenure specifically, not market pricing. UN-Habitat, as SDG
11.3.1 custodian, tracks the land-consumption-to-population-growth ratio, sourcing Urban land
use policy (13). Property development, Mixed-use development, and Vacation & second-home
property have no verified institutional tracker and stay editorial.
Item citations:
Nareit ·
OECD Housing Prices Database ·
FAOSTAT Land Use ·
FAO Forest Resources Assessment ·
OECD Affordable Housing ·
Federal Reserve Z.1 ·
US Census New Residential Construction ·
UN SDG 1.4.2 (UN-Habitat/World Bank) ·
UN SDG 11.3.1 (UN-Habitat)
Part of 20 Human Endeavors — the sectors most essential to human life and most influential in the global economy. See the full ranked list, methodology, and every category's citations at /items/.