About Us

Every week, Real Estate Alert is the first to let you in on the confidential dealings of buyers, sellers, brokers and other active players in the U.S. commercial-property arena. That intelligence provides the edge you need to spot new risks and fresh money-making opportunities.

For more than a decade, Real Estate Alert has been recognized as the market’s early-warning system for professionals in the hunt for real estate assets. And now, the newsletter offers so much more, serving as the real estate market’s one-stop resource for news, analysis, transactional data and, yes, even timely gossip.

Subscription price: $2,697 for 46 weekly issues.

What does Real Estate Alert cover?

• Bidding tactics, clashes over broken agreements and other maneuvers you’re not supposed to hear about.
• Supply-and-demand trends that show you where the smart money is flowing.
• Successes and failures of high-yield, opportunistic investment funds -- and planned launches of such vehicles.
• Listings of the hottest and most-disappointing property markets in the U.S.
• Buying and selling plans of pension funds working to meet new real estate allocations.
• Career openings for real estate investment professionals.
• Property holders preparing portfolio sales as part of strategic moves to exit particular regions or property types.
• Sales results for the most-important real estate transactions.
• Merger-and-acquisition activity among REITs and other kinds of real estate companies.
• Exclusive rankings of property brokers, real estate pension-fund advisors and other market players.
• Changes in property valuations, rents and occupancy rates.
• Liquidations of real estate assets by lenders and government agencies.
• Important personnel and strategic moves at real estate brokerage firms.
• Foreign interest in U.S. properties.

What is Real Estate Alert's Deal Database?

Subscribers to Real Estate Alert get FREE online access to the Deal Database, a powerful research tool that contains the terms of all U.S. property sales of $25 million or greater completed since Jan. 1, 2001.

The interactive database allows subscribers to search and sort through thousands of completed transactions throughout the U.S. For instance, a user can quickly create a list of all Midtown Manhattan office buildings that sold for more than $75 million, where Eastdil Secured was the broker. It’s an essential resource for professionals preparing property offerings or bids. Real Estate Alert relies on its database to produce its broker rankings, listings of each quarter’s largest transactions and other regular features.

About the Deal Database

Who produces Real Estate Alert?

Real Estate Alert's editors have been covering investment activity since 1989, when Resolution Trust Corp. began its massive liquidation of savings-and-loan assets. The government’s sell-off triggered the upward trend in real estate prices that only now appears to be leveling off. Since that watershed event in the U.S. property market, Real Estate Alert (formerly known as Liquidation Alert) has served as the eyes and ears for the market’s leading players.

Given its long track record of covering all phases of the real estate cycle, Real Estate Alert’s team of experienced editors is uniquely qualified to identify danger spots and money-making possibilities in today’s market.

The newsletter is produced by Harrison Scott Publications, which also publishes Hedge Fund Alert (the weekly update on the alternative-investment community), Commercial Mortgage Alert (the weekly update on real estate finance and securitization) and Asset-Backed Alert (the weekly update on worldwide securitization).

Real Estate Alert's offices are located in Hoboken, N.J. -- just minutes from Manhattan by PATH train or ferry. Click here for directions.