Updated May 2026 · Senate LDA filings
Real Estate, Lobbying Spending
10 organizations · $377.2M total spend
Real Estate is a heavy-engagement sector in the LobbySpend index. Its 10 tracked organizations have collectively reported $377.2M in disclosed federal lobbying — a meaningful share of total disclosed lobbying activity, typical of industries whose core economics are directly shaped by federal rulemaking.
What These Numbers Mean
Average disclosed spend per organization in Real Estate is $37.7M — a high per-filer number that reflects a top-heavy distribution: a small set of megaspenders pulls the average up well above what a typical firm in the sector reports.
Within Real Estate, the disclosed-spend leader is National Association of Realtors at $348.2M — more than 4167% ahead of the #2 sector filer National Multifamily Housing Council ($8.2M). A gap that wide usually indicates one anchor filer with a multi-decade in-house government-affairs operation.
Every figure on this page is drawn from filings submitted to the Senate Office of Public Records under the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995. Filings are quarterly and public domain. The campaign-finance research project at OpenSecrets uses the same Senate LDA filings as one input and frequently provides additional reporting on individual sector filers.
Top Policy Issues
Top-issue coverage for Real Estate is unusually broad — at least 10 distinct issue areas appear in the sector's aggregated filings, signalling that filers in this industry engage Congress on a wide regulatory front rather than a single defining policy.
Top Spenders in Real Estate
How to Read This Page
Industry pages aggregate all LobbySpend-tracked filers whose primary business sits in the same sector. The total-spend number is the sum of disclosed dollars across every quarterly LDA filing for those filers in the years tracked, deduplicated against amendments. The per-organization average is the simple mean and is sensitive to the presence of one or two megaspenders — for sectors with extreme top-heaviness, the median is typically a more useful summary, which the underlying data supports if you click through to the individual filer pages.
The top-issues breakdown reflects filer-allocated dollars on each filing — registrants are required to report which general issue areas they lobbied on and, where applicable, how spend was allocated. Issue dollars should be read as a directional signal of where attention is concentrated rather than as audited line items. For the full Influence Score formula and known limitations of LDA disclosures, see the methodology page.
Real Estate organizations have collectively disclosed $377.2M in federal lobbying across 10 tracked filers, drawn from Senate LDA quarterly disclosure filings.
The this entity record above pulls directly from the Senate Lobbying Disclosure Office LD-2 filings. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. federal lobbying disclosure distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
The methodology behind every numeric value on this page is publicly documented on the the Senate Lobbying Disclosure Office LD-2 filings portal and described in detail on this site’s methodology page. Refresh cadence varies by underlying series; the page surfaces the as-of date for each number so readers can trace any figure back to the source release.
Practical use of this page is in combination with the comparison and ranking pages elsewhere on the site, which surface the same data for this entity’s peers within U.S. lobbying activity. A single-entity reading without peer context can be misleading when an entity is an outlier on one axis but typical on another.