COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE

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.

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.