BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Real Estate
- property consisting of land or buildings
Wiktionary Definition for: Real Estate
- property that cannot easily be moved, usually buildings and the ground they are built on
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Academic and Applied Real Estate Research: “As Two Worlds Collide” or “As Two Worlds Divide”?
- Some believe that academic real estate research is out of touch with the real world and professional real estate research is too basic to contribute to theory. Others believe that there needs to be a new approach to real estate research, a more applied approach. In coming years, the way...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Bank Entry Into Real Estate Brokerage
- This paper deals with entry of banks into the real estate business. The cost curve of the typical real estate firm is U-shaped; beyond some output level diseconomies of scale will work to increase unit costs of production. If bank entry results in additional concentration within the real estate industry,...
- White papers 2002-08-20
- Strategic Savings from Real Estate
- This paper answers questions related to inadequacies in real estate cost containment resulting from the rapid changes as corporation's experiences the economy ebbs and flows. A disciplined, process-driven approach to real estate management provides the best path to generating savings. Thus Real estate activities provide a surprising number of ways...
- White papers 2001-08-31
- Real Estate Recovery Account
- The California Department of Real Estate administers a victim's fund, known as the Real Estate Recovery Account. The Recovery Account enables a person who has been defrauded or had trust funds converted by a real estate licensee in a transaction requiring that license, to recover at least some of his...
- White papers 2003-08-01
- Real Estate Investment Trust - REIT
- This article discusses about Real Estate Investment Trust ű REIT. What if anyone wants to invest in the real estate sector but they already have a house or don't have enough money to buy one right now? The answer is REITs. REITs can offer a wide range of objectives within...
- White papers
- Corporate-Owned Real Estate Represents a Substantial Investment Universe
- Corporate-owned real estate is a much more significant component of the real estate investment universe than is broadly recognized. In this article the results of recent research concerning the magnitude of the investment universe represented by corporate-owned real estate is presented, and the implications of the significance of corporate real...
- White papers 2003-11-04
- Risk Management and the Corporate Real Estate Portfolio
- In a global business economy, firms have a broad range of corporate real estate needs. During the past decade, multiple strategies and tactics have emerged in the corporate real estate community for meeting those needs. This paper proposes a framework for analyzing and prioritizing the various types of risk inherent...
- White papers 2002-04-23
- International Evidence on Real Estate as a Portfolio Diversifier
- This paper provides an international comparison of the benefits of including real estate assets, both domestic and international, in mixed-asset portfolios. Data from seven countries on three continents are considered for a common time period (1987-2001) to facilitate comparisons. Real estate is found to be an effective portfolio diversifier, and...
- White papers 2003-07-29
- Corporate Real Estate on the Rise: Helping Corporate Real Estate Earn a Place at the Strategy Table
- Corporate real estate is one of the largest components of a company's infrastructure and can have a direct impact on operating margins and profitability. It's often a significant factor for strategic decisions like business structure, M&A, off-shoring and tax. But often most companies treat corporate real estate as an administrative...
- White papers 2004-10-21
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