What commercial real estate donors give in federal races

A sector phrase under $5.7 million

$5,718,310 is the occupation-level dollar total. 17,218 is the itemization count. 959 is the donor-record count. Dividing dollars by lines yields about $332 per contribution. Dividing by donors yields about $5,963 per donor record. The repeat rate is about 18 itemizations per donor record. Seventeen thousand-plus lines from 959 donor records is a mid-to-high frequency property-sector key rather than a thin stack of outsized checks.

Those means are arithmetic, not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution, no party split, and no cycle series. A few large lines can lift $332 while most receipts stay smaller—or the reverse. This guide cites only the three harvested facts and the trivial ratios computed from them.

Mean dollars per line sit in a middle band among occupation strings near this dollar total. The packet still has no median and no broker-versus-owner split.

Commercial versus generic real estate as occupation text

Some donors write COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE; others write REAL ESTATE BROKER or CRE. FEC bulk data keeps each spelling. LobbyVault does not merge them.

FEC Form 3 (candidate committees) and Form 3X (PACs and party committees) collect occupation as free text on itemized Schedule A. FEC.gov publishes what committees reported. There is no drop-down of job titles and no license check. LobbyVault groups rows whose occupation field equals COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE after indexing. REAL ESTATE, REALTOR, and COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE BROKER remain other occupation pages unless the extract normalized them to COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE.

What 959 donor records can and cannot show

959 donor records used COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE on at least one matching itemization. 959 donor records used this sector-as-occupation label. That is not a headcount of commercial-property professionals. Many people in the sector file a real job title and never appear here.

A person who listed COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE on some gifts and a neighboring title on others will appear in both occupation totals for the respective lines. Occupation is stored per transaction, not as a lifetime identity field. Address variants can also split one human into more than one donor record.

Do not add this string to an industry page

Industry pages on LobbyVault group employer-side categories. Industry pages on LobbyVault are the better place for real-estate sector questions. This occupation page answers only what the occupation text COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE summed to. Adding $5,718,310 to an industry total double-counts overlapping itemizations. Use one filter at a time unless you are tracing a single row.

Open the COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE occupation page for the indexed line list. Use the occupations index to place this string next to neighboring labels. Independent expenditures are not contributions and are not inside $5,718,310.

How to cite the commercial real estate key

A usable public-record citation names the exact string: COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE itemizations in FEC bulk data indexed on LobbyVault sum to $5,718,310 on 17,218 contributions from 959 donor records. Add that the figure is itemized occupation money. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code, so they never enter the total.

Source: FEC Form 3/3X schedules. The facts do not encode party. Recipient committees are a different join. Do not read the total as commercial real estate’s federal giving. It is one occupation string.

Reading a property-sector label as job text

COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE in this extract is $5,718,310 on 17,218 itemizations from 959 donor records, or $5.7 million in compact millions. Those dollars are itemized activity on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules indexed on LobbyVault from FEC.gov bulk data. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code, so they never enter the total. Refunds and memo entries follow FEC presentation in the underlying schedules; this guide does not invent a fourth occupation-level fact. A sector phrase in the occupation column is not an employer-sector rollup. The occupation field is donor-supplied free text, not a NAICS industry code and not a verified roster.

Arithmetic means on this key are about $332 per contribution and about $5,963 per donor record, with roughly 18 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution and no party split. REAL ESTATE, REALTOR, and COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE BROKER remain other occupation pages unless the extract normalized them to COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE. Combining those keys without naming each source total changes the unit from one FEC string to a homemade cluster.

Industry pages group employer-side categories and should not be added to $5,718,310. A public-record citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE, dollars equal $5,718,310, contributions equal 17,218, donors equal 959. Candidate and committee pages hold the recipient side. LobbyVault does not infer motive from the occupation column.

Researchers who need cycle cuts, employer text, or recipient lists should leave this guide and open the live occupation hub. This file restates harvested packet facts only. Compact millions ($5.7 million) are the same headline amount as $5,718,310, rounded to one decimal place. Keep the contribution count and the donor-record count in any sentence that quotes the dollars, so readers can see the shape of COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE in this extract. Exact-string matching is the method. Anything else is a different query.

Questions

How much have commercial real estate donors given in FEC records?

Itemizations that list COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE sum to $5,718,310 across 17,218 contributions and 959 donor records in the LobbyVault index of FEC bulk data. The total is an exact-string occupation filter. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Is REAL ESTATE included in this total?

No. REAL ESTATE is a separate occupation string. This page covers COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE only: $5,718,310, 17,218 contributions, and 959 donors. Combining them would invent a combined property total the packet does not contain. The occupation field is donor-typed on Form 3 and Form 3X. LobbyVault indexes exact strings from FEC.gov bulk data. Unitemized gifts never carry an occupation code.

Does this include commercial brokers?

Only if they typed COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE in the occupation field. COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE BROKER is a different key if it appears as its own string. This page is $5,718,310 from 959 donor records. Cite the three packet facts with the exact occupation string. Source: FEC.gov Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault. Unitemized receipts are outside this total.

Where can I see the underlying receipts?

Open the COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE occupation page for the indexed table, then verify on FEC.gov. Industry pages group employer-side labels separately. The occupation total is $5,718,310. Confirm surprising amounts on the committee report at FEC.gov. Occupation matching is exact-string only. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.