Moody’s Analytics CRE Space and Capital Market Databases deliver detailed insights into CRE performance across more than 400 metro areas. The databases include thousands of time series spanning space market metrics, including enhanced rent measures and capital market indicators featuring CRE price indexes and cap rates. Offered in both forecast and historical database packages, these comprehensive datasets enable consistent, apples‑to‑apples comparisons of income, employment, demographics, housing trends, and other economic fundamentals alongside space market performance and capital market indicators.
Coverage: U.S metro areas aligned with OMB definitions
Property Types: Apartment, retail, office, industrial, and hotel
Periodicity: Mostly quarterly and some annual, depending on the series
Delivery: Monthly forecast updates delivered via API or the Data Buffet interface for easy downloading, charting, and scheduling
Space Market Variables: Rent, vacancy, inventory, and absorption
Capital Market Variables: Cap rates and price index
Forecasting: 10-year forecasts with scenarios and all available history
History: All available history in a time series format
Space market data are also available at the CRE market & submarket level. Learn more
Capital market data are also available at the CRE market & submarket level. Learn more
Use Cases
Portfolio Analysis: Leverage economic indicators combined with CRE data to evaluate portfolio concentrations across property types, geographies, and industries. Easily identify markets where key macroeconomic drivers—such as population, income, housing starts, and employment—have robust growth projections.
Underwriting—lenders and borrowers: Support well-informed underwriting decisions with comprehensive market performance measures to complete all the key fields in your offering memorandum and investment committee memo. Use submarket cap rates and additional performance scores to calculate the risk and return of a prospective property.