Continued funding for the institute has been provided various private sources along with grants. Institute faculty are subsidized by the Louisiana Real Estate Commission Endowed Chair of Real Estate, the Latter and Blum Professorship of Business Administration, and the C. J. Brown Professorship of Real Estate.

In terms of professional outreach, the RERI, along with the Baton Rouge Association of Realtors, hold the annual Trends in Baton Rouge Real Estate which typically between 300-500 attendees. In terms of academic research, Ong, Ooi, and Wong (2001) ranked LSU as second in terms of publishing in US real estate journals. Dombrow and Turnbull (2002) ranked LSU as third out of 40 institutions for publications in the core real estate journals.