Web Sites about Real Estate and Housing Economics

Industry Associations in Canada:

• Appraisal Institute of Canada
• RENOVA: A Renovation Calculator
• Ontario Association- Appraisal Institute of Canada (OAAIC)
• Association of Ontario Land Economists (AOLE)
• Building Owners and Managers Association of Toronto (BOMA) http://www.boma.org or http://www.bomatoronto.org
• Association provinciale des constructeurs d'habitations du Quebec
• Canadian Real Estate Association
• Ontario Real Estate Association (OREA)
• Real Estate Council of Ontario (RECO) (Ontario Government Regulator)
• Toronto Real Estate Board
• Guelph and District Real Estate Board
• Kitchener Waterloo Real Estate Board
• Canadian Bankers Association
• Canadian Home Builders' Association
• Ontario Home Builder's Association
• Canadian Institute of Planners
• Real Property Association of Canada (REALpac)
• Canadian Manufactured Housing Association
• Canadian Real Estate Women and Toronto CREW
• Commercial Investment Real Estate Institute (CIREI, CCIM)
• Commercial Source
• Cooperative Housing Federation of Canada
• International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC)
• National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP)
• National Commercial Council of the Canadian Real Estate Association
• Royal Architectural Institute of Canada
• Urban Development Institute of Canada
• Urban Development Institute/Ontario
• Real Estate Institute of Canada (REIC) and its suggested links
• Canadian Urban Institute
• Society of Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR)

Government:

• Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC)
• Intergovernmental Committee on Urban and Regional Research
• Provinces
  • Alberta Municipal Affairs
  • Manitoba Housing
  • Newfoundland and Labrador Housing Corporation
  • Nova Scotia Department of Housing and Municipal Affairs
  • Nunavut, Department of Community Government
  • Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing
  • Ministry of Public Infrastructure Renewal
  • Ontario Municipal Board
  • Ontario Realty Corporation
  • Prince Edward Island Health and Social Services Agency
  • Saskatchewan Municipal Government
  • Societe d'habitation du Quebec
  • NWT Housing Corporation
  • Yukon Housing Corporation
• Housing and Urban Development (U.S.) and information service
• Federal Housing Finance Board (U.S.)
• "Fannie Mae" (U.S.)
• "Freddie Mac" (U.S.)
• Big Cities
  • Toronto
  • Montreal
  • Vancouver
• Federation of Canadian Municipalities http://www.fcm.ca
• Towns, Cities and Regional Governments near Toronto
  • Durham Region
  • Halton Region
  • Peel Region
  • York Region
  • Ajax
  • Aurora
  • Brampton
  • Brock
  • Burlington
  • Caledon
  • Clarington
  • East Gwillimbury
  • Georgina
  • Guelph and Wellington County
  • Halton Hills
  • King
  • Kitchener and Waterloo
  • Markham
  • Milton
  • Mississauga
  • Newmarket
  • Oakville
  • Oshawa
  • Pickering
  • Richmond Hill
  • Scugog
  • Uxbridge
  • Vaughan
  • Whitby
  • Whitchurch-Stouffville

Journals and Academic Associations

• AREUE Association: Real Estate Economics
• Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics
• Journal of Housing Economics
• Journal of Urban Economics
• American Real Estate Society (ARES) (Publisher of the Journal of Real Estate Research and others) and its suggested links
• Real Estate Organizations around the world
• RICS Foundation (UK)

Geographic Information Systems

• GIS at UG
• Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure
• Google's Earth Project
• Mapquest
• DMTI Spatial
• ESRI
• MapInfo

Job Hunting Info

• Career Services at University of Guelph (including info on co-op programs)
• Note: this site links to other job sites, and students may be able to use their student ID to obtain access
• Workopolis
• Job Bank (HRSDC)
• Monster.ca