13 Real Estate Magazines You Should Start Reading Today

Staying current with the real estate industry is yet another task on your daily to-do list. Fortunately there’s a way to do it sitting down: magazines. There are multiple publications — both online and printed — that offer the latest and greatest in real estate news.

You can’t read every single magazine, so how do you narrow down your choices? Start with this list that we’ve curated for you! We took a look at the top real estate magazines and identified the ones that best provide relevant and comprehensive information all in a single resource.

Here are 13 real estate magazines that you should start reading.

1. Inman News is one of the leading sources of real estate news. It covers technology, brokerage and mortgage issues, marketing, regulations and more. Its regular contributors are from all aspects of real estate, so it’s a pretty well-rounded site.
2. Published by the NAR (National Association of Realtors^®) Realtor Magazine — also available in a print edition — includes practical tips and tools, profiles, news on laws and regulations, and more for industry professionals. The online version offers additional content such as product and technology trends.
3. Realty Times offers real estate news, advice from professionals and market outlook reports. The site also features Realty Times TV, which broadcasts short videos across a variety of topics.
4. RISMedia is a news, profile and article magazine, tip site and portal to other real estate-related sites and services. RIS Media publishes Real Estate Magazine, an annual Power Broker Report and other materials.

To keep abreast of other real estate-influencing industries and topics, check out these magazines as well.

Real estate investing

1. National Real Estate Investor focuses on all classes of commercial real estate, so if you’re looking to get an idea of what the trends are, it’s a good place to start.
2. One of the most popular features of BiggerPockets is its forums with a proliferation of user-generated content about real estate investing. Take your time browsing the threads and decide what parts of the site and content are most helpful for you.

Mortgage and lending

1. Dan Green is a mortgage industry guru and provides a ton of content on his website, TheMortgageReports. You can read his blogs, find information to explain the differences between loan types to clients, and even get a real-time mortgage rate.
2. Mortgage Professional America, formerly The Niche Report, is a general site for mortgage industry news and articles, offers professional profiles and analysis, as well as special reports and almost-live MBS (mortgage backed security) market data.

Regional publications for ideas in your area

1. If you want a quick way to get to know a neighborhood, Curbed can help. It covers sales and rentals, celebrity news, broker anecdotes, trendy restaurants and neighborhood scuttlebutt for a handful of big cities, plus the Hamptons and Cape Cod. It also has sections for national news and winter ski areas.

You might not operate in Chicago or New York, but good magazine sites to get the inside scoop on real estate in million-plus-population cities include —

1. Chicago Agent Magazine
2. The Real Deal and
3. Crain’s New York Business

Green real estate

1. For what may be a growing topic among your leads and clients,Urban Land Institute offers real estate best practices with a particular focus on building sustainable communities and infrastructures, and how the built environment is influenced by technological and demographic trends.

Here’s a bonus resource: Zillow Research. It’s not a magazine, but these pages offer extensive housing data and research covering more than 450 markets, including real estate market reports, negative equity, the Zillow Home Price Expectations Survey, the Zillow Housing Confidence Index, breakeven horizon, affordability research, and more.

It’s difficult to find even just a few minutes in the day to hunker down with a magazine or browse a website. Fortunately, most real estate magazines have online versions that are optimized for mobile devices, which makes it easy to peruse them on a smartphone or tablet when you have a little time between tasks. You don’t have to read an entire issue in one sitting, either; browse an article or two at a time, and you can quickly discover which magazines can help you best stay up to date on the real estate industry. Consider it part of your continuing education, except without the fees.