Commercial Real Estate Databases

The integrated economic and commercial real estate expertise of Moody’s Analytics provides a strong foundation for analyzing CRE markets and submarkets. Access more than 500,000 time series, including space market data and forecasts, comparative market scores, and enhanced rent measures to support CRE decision-making.

• 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 risk and return of a prospective property.

Detailed supply indicators and market scores cover CRE inventory, vacancies, stock, absorption, rents and cap rates. These estimates and forecasts are based on demand drivers such as employment and income, aligned with the macroeconomic forecasts developed by our team of economists. A full suite of scenarios consistent with our economic forecasts enable you to model a range of possible outcomes for your portfolio.  

Comparative market and submarket scores based on CRE space market data reliably predict near-term space market performance and revenue trends by property type. The Market Momentum Score is a leading indicator of vacancy shifts. The Relative Strength Score benchmarks revenue growth relative to peers, while the Cyclical Stability Score measures resilience across economic cycles.

The commercial real estate datasets are delivered through the powerful Moody’s Data Buffet platform with flexible automation options including API, scheduled baskets and Excel add-in. You can easily perform bulk data downloads to compare, for example, a single concept such as retail rents across geographies.

• Coverage: CRE markets and submarkets, metro areas aligned with OMB definitions
• Market and submarket property types: affordable housing, apartment, hotel, industrial, office, retail, self-storage, senior housing, student housing
• Metro area property types: apartment, hotel, industrial, office, retail
• Variables: 
  • Estimates – inventory, vacancies, occupied stock, absorption, rent
  • Economic drivers – population, employment, income
  • Comparative market indicators – assess relative and projected rent, vacancy and revenue performance
  • Cap rates – equal weighted and value weighted, 5^th percentile, 95^th percentile, and plus/minus one standard deviation
• Periodicity: mostly quarterly, some annual—depending on the series
• Delivered via API or the Data Buffet interface for easy downloading, charting and scheduling
• Monthly updates
• 10-year forecasts with scenarios