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Abstract
Last year marked the first release of the Real Estate Academic Leadership (REAL) rankings for authors and institutions. Real estate research continues to be a dynamic, evolving field with far-ranging implications from construction and development to finance and investment to local and national social and policy implications on real estate. Despite contributing to multiple fields and disciplines, the contributors to innovative real estate research, by author and/or institution, are often difficult to measure or highlight. The inaugural rankings in 2011–2015 attempted to highlight the authors and institutions making the greatest contributions to the field of real estate research based on publications in the top three peer-reviewed real estate journals. The 2012–2016 REAL rankings demonstrate that real estate rankings, much like the research and the field, are dynamic.