BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Estate
- a substantial area of land that normally includes a large house
- a deceased person's net assets
Wiktionary Definition for: Estate
- An area on land under single ownership.
- The property of a deceased person.
- A group of buildings built together as a single development on a designated area of land.
- A general collective noun.
- context UK automotive An estate car; the body style for cars, popular with families, which has an enclosed area where the boot or trunk would be on a sedan / saloon.
- A major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country and formerly possessing distinct political rights
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Additional Resources
- Real Estate Auction: Whose Sale Is This, Anyway?
- Selling real estate can be complex and difficult. In Alberta, the sale of real estate - including the sale of real estate by auction - is governed by the Real Estate Act. The Real Estate Act allows the Real Estate Council of Alberta to set standards of competency that must...
- White papers 2001-12-01
- Estate Tax Planning
- Estate tax planning is very important to preserving your wealth for future generations. Knowing your potential estate tax liability is a great place to start your estate tax plan. This tool can help you estimate your estate tax liability for the current year. You can also use it to project...
- Tools & templates 2008-01-01
- Real Estate Consumers Rule - Especially Buyers
- Inventories, mortgage rates and marketing don't drive the real estate market. Customers drive the real estate market, and the real estate buying customer is perhaps the most powerful customer in the marketplace today. The message for real estate consumers? More than ever, everything in a real estate transaction is negotiable....
- White papers 2004-01-15
- Estate Planning -- What To Do Now
- The main focus of this article is upon estate planning. The key features of the estate, gift, and generation-skipping provisions are: reduction of tax rates, increase in exemptions, separation of the estate and gift taxes, elimination of the estate tax, return of the estate and generation skipping tax in the...
- White papers 2001-08-01
- Estate Planning: An Overview of Estate and Gift Taxes and Marital Deduction
- "The Federal Estate and Gift Tax Laws are a complex set of laws contained in the Internal Revenue Code that are designed to assess taxes against individuals on the transfer of assets during their lifetime and/or upon their death. Through various estate planning mechanisms it is possible to...
- White papers 2001-01-07
- Real Estate Research Needs of the Plan Sponsor Community: What Do the Plan Sponsor Real Estate Investment Managers Want to Know?
- This article reports the results of a web-based survey of real estate portfolio managers in the pension fund industry. The study focused on ascertaining the real estate research interests of the respondents as well as whether or not research funding should be allocated to various research topics. Performance measures of...
- White papers 2002-07-30
- Creation of Spatial Information Database for Appraising the Real Estate
- Up to now real estate appraisers have appraised real estate based on their intuition or experiences. In the course of time several studies have been made on calculating the risk or proper price of real estate by applying usual financial technology to this field. It has been recognized that the...
- White papers 2001-11-27
- Adding Value to Real Estate
- Whether planning to sell, buy or re-model, it’s important to understand what makes real estate values go up and down. The article provides a summary of the basic forces which influence the value of real estate. Some of these forces include: the local real estate market, land value, convert personal...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Tax Uncertainty Motivates Many To Update Estate Plans
- From the executive summary: ‘While the elimination of the estate tax is seen as a popular political move, local financial experts believe that the revenue it raises will outweigh its political goodwill, especially given the current growing Federal budget deficit. The estate tax is seen as easy money for the...
- White papers 2004-01-09
- The World's Markets Look Toward Recovery
- Philosophy and real estate generally are not used in the same sentence. Socrates and Aristotle aren't known for their real estate developments, asset management expertise in corporate real estate or investment strategies. Real estate knowledge and experience to most philosophers is probably limited to home ownership or renting an apartment...
- White papers 2002-09-24
- Advanced Estate Planning: An Absolute "Must" For Larger Estates
- The article talks on the net value of the client's estate, the client's life expectancy, the anticipated value of the estate at the end of the lifetime and the final estate tax obligation. The whole purpose of advanced estate planning is to "freeze" and "discount" the assets that one owns...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Inter-Asset Differences in Effective Estate Tax Burdens
- This paper explores the effect of discretion in estate valuation techniques on the effective estate tax burden on different asset classes. For some assets, such as liquid securities, there is relatively little discretion in valuation. For other assets, such as partial interests in closely-held businesses, family limited partnerships, and real...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Can Private Real Estate Portfolios Be Rebalanced/Diversified Using Equity REIT Shares?
- The purpose of this study is to determine whether or not private real estate portfolios can be diversified or rebalanced using public real estate equity real estate investment trust stocks. An examination of resulting efficient frontiers and their corresponding optimal portfolio weights across various levels of expected return reveals that...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Evaluating the Vulnerability of Banks and Thrifts to a Real Estate Crisis
- The results of the research with REST indicate that the institutions most vulnerable to real estate crises today are headquartered in the West and a handful of southern cities. The real estate markets in these locations are currently healthy, but because banks - and by extension the FDIC - have...
- White papers 2003-12-15
- The Benefits Of Real Estate Investment
- This article explains about real estate investment, which represents a significant part of many institutional investors portfolios. Since real estate is not directly traded on a centralized exchange, the physical real estate market is characterized by relative lack of liquidity, large lot size, and high transaction costs with properties that...
- White papers 2003-03-01
- World and US Real Estate ETFs
- Richard Shaw QVM Group submits: The four big asset classes are stocks, bonds, cash and real estate. Direct ownership of real estate is the pure form of the asset class. To achieve diversification within the financial capability of most investors, securitization of a direct real estate portfolio REITs is...
- External links 2008-06-08
- Estate Planning Emerging From Its ‘Dark Cave’
- This article explains that estate planning has always been a delicate subject for financial planners and their clients, but one that was already demanding increased attention this past decade as planners dealt with an aging clientele and more new-wealth and fractured families. Then came the booming ’90s, the boom bust,...
- White papers 2002-06-01
- About Estates And Gifts Taxes
- A number of important changes have been made in the past several years in estate and gift taxation. This memorandum summarizes the pertinent Estate and Gift Tax provisions as they affect estate planning. Some of these changes include: The martial deduction, martial deduction trust, charitable deductions and many more. The...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Opportunities in US Real Estate Video
- ôCash is pouring into the industry", says Dale Anne Reiss, Ernst & Young's Global Director for Real Estate, Hospitality and Construction, of the US real estate market. This is having a huge impact, as are the challenges associated with meeting all the increased compliance requirements and governance issues that have...
- Webcasts
- Value Creation and the Contribution of Corporate Real Estate: Mapping Enterprise Value and Driving Positive Financial Impact
- The article discusses how the enterprise value map for corporate real estate can demonstrate ways that real estate activities can contribute measurable value to an organization. Corporate Real Estate executives can use the map to identify the links between real estate activities and specific financial statement drivers. For example, Corporate...
- White papers 2005-07-01
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