Membership

Where real estate investment professionals learn to be fiduciaries.

- Jacques Gordon, Global Strategist at LaSalle Investment Management

NCREIF is an association of institutional real estate professionals who share a common interest in their industry. 

They are investment managers, plan sponsors, academicians, consultants, appraisers, CPAs and other service providers who have a significant involvement in pension fund real estate investments.

They come together to contribute to NCREIF quarterly performance data on their properties and funds, and also to address vital industry issues and promote research on the asset class.

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Academic

Full-time academic appointees who have a significant research role in real estate and/or finance.

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Please note we do not forecast market performance and do not produce market reports. Please refer to our Data Products page to understand our quarterly outputs.
       
 
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Data Contributing

Investment managers who manage or own institutional real estate with a market value of at least $50 million held in a fiduciary setting.

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Plan Sponsor

Institutional investors with real estate assets under management.

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Professional

Organizations with significant involvement in the institutional real estate industry, and do not have real estate assets under management.

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Membership Benefits

PRESTIGE

NCREIF is recognized as the premier institutional real estate association.  You join other professionals who are committed to excellence in our industry.  Your selfless contribution of data is a true investment in the future of the asset class.

CONFERENCES and EDUCATION

NCREIF holds three conferences per year. These conferences are held at various locations throughout the US and are open to members-only with the exception of selected guests.  NCREIF also offers a variety of educational programs and seminars throughout the year focusing on each of our industry’s disciplines. 

PEER INTERFACE AND SPECIALTY INVOLVEMENT

Our conferences consist of interaction between highly motivated, knowledgeable professionals.  Issues are dealt with in a collegial “hands-on” atmosphere.  Through our three conferences held each year, we have a committee structure that is open to all members and focuses on technical disciplines within our industry (Accounting, Information Management, Performance Measurement, Portfolio Management, Research and Valuation).  This unique committee structure has established NCREIF as the industry forum for addressing technical issues.

ACCESS TO ALL NCREIF DATA PRODUCTS AND TOOLS

NCREIF produces several index and performance reports utilizing our Property, Fund, Timberland and Farmland databases.  In addition to reports and spreadsheet files, we offer members a variety of analytical tools to access the data directly.

 

Non-Member Product Orders

As a condition of ordering NCREIF data products, all firms must be pre-screened to ensure that subscribing firms do not have U.S. real estate assets under management.

If a firm does have U.S. real estate assets under management and they wish to receive data products, they are required to join NCREIF as a Data Contributing Member and must contribute all qualifying real estate data for incorporation into the NCREIF databases for use in the NCREIF Property Index (NPI) and other such indexes and reports as deemed required by the NCREIF Board of Directors.

Please see the Data Subscriptions page via the link below for more information on non-member data subscription orders.

Data Subscriptions