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Business Definition for: Real

  • after the effects of inflation are taken into consideration

Wiktionary Definition for: Real

  • #That can be characterized as a confirmation of truth.
  • #That has physical existence.
  • Ex:''No one has ever seen a real unicorn because they don't exist.''
  • #That is a version of a fact or statistic (especially in economics) that is intended to reflect key fundamental trends, generally generated by the removal or nullification of irrelevant or "noisy" data from the input.
  • Ex:''real consumption''
  • Ex:''real GNP''
  • # mathematics Relating to numbers with a one-to-one correspondence to the points on a line.
  • # law Relating to immovable tangible property.
  • Ex:''real estate''
  • Ex:''real property''
  • #That is an exemplary or pungent instance of a class or type.
  • Ex:''a real problem''
  • Ex:''a real hero''
  • #Genuine, not faked.
  • Ex:''real tears''
  • #Genuine, not artificial.
  • Ex:''real leather''
  • # slang Signifying meritorious qualities or actions especially in regards to enjoying life, prowess at sports and success wooing potential partners.
  • Ex:''keeping it real''
  • # US colloquial really.
  • # math A real number.
  • #A unit of currency used in Brazil, and formerly in Portugal.
  • #That has physical existence.
  • #That is a version of a fact or statistic (especially in economics) that is intended to reflect key fundamental trends.
  • #real
  • #royal
  • the real; real number
  • (''plural'': réis) currency real
  • #real
  • #royal
  • #Short form of '''realskola'''.
  • #real#English real; currency of Brazil and formerly Portugal

Additional Resources

Off the Shop Floor and on to the Playing Field
What do successful manufacturing companies have in common? First, they provide real products and real services to real customers for real money. They resolve real problems and create real opportunities. In order to get real, some manufacturers have to fall out of love with their machines. While processes are critical...
Tags: Manufacturer, Manufacturing
White papers
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...
Tags: Real Estate, Real Estate Act, Auction, Business Operations
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....
Tags: White Paper, Business Operations, Real Estate
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...
Tags: Real Estate, Business Operations
White papers 2002-07-30
Prism's National Real Estate Investor Launches ''Global Real Estate Monitor'' for GE Real Estate
NEW YORK -- National Real Estate InvestorR magazine today launched "Global Real Estate Monitor", a new e-newsletter sponsored exclusively by GE Real Estate. Produced by NREI's editorial staff, the monthly e-newsletter will reach an initial audience of 56,000 worldwide and focuses on U.S. and international commercial real estate industry topics,...
Tags: General Electric Co., real estate
Research articles 2006-07-13
Moviegoers Get Ready to Return to the Multiplex for the First-Ever REAL D Cinema Experience on Nov. 4; REAL D Cinema to Offer Moviegoers 3-D So Believable It's Unbelievable When Disney's ``Chicken Little'' Opens in REAL D Cinema Format
LOS ANGELES -- REAL D, the leader in the delivery of premium 3-D experiences, today announced theater locations that will present Disney's Chicken Little in REAL D Cinema format. Disney's Chicken Little is the first-ever feature presentation in REAL D Cinema format and will open on 88 REAL D Cinema...
Tags: Disney Corp.
Research articles 2005-11-02
The Path to Dividends
Dividend stocks are most likely to be the types of companies that one can understand. These are the firms that make real products and provide real services that create real cash flow. They then pay some of this real cash flow out to real shareholders in the form of real...
Tags: Finance, Financial Accounting, Financial Planning, Dividend, Cash Flow
White papers 2005-02-07
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...
Tags: Real Estate, Business Operations, Article
White papers 2003-01-01
Prudential Real Estate and Yahoo! Team up to Provide Comprehensive Real Estate Listings
IRVINE & SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Prudential Real Estate Affiliates, Inc., a Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE:PRU) business, and Yahoo! Inc. announced today that they have entered into an agreement that gives visitors to Yahoo!R Real Estate (http://realestate.yahoo.com) access to comprehensive and detailed real estate listing information from a Prudential Real Estate...
Tags: Prudential Insurance Company of America, real estate, Yahoo! Inc.
Research articles 2004-06-17
MetaCreations and Real 3D Partner to Commercialize 3-D Image Scanner; Lockheed Martin's Real 3D Will License, Manufacture and Distribute RealScan 3D
LOS ANGELES--BUSINESS WIRE--Aug. 6, 1997--MetaCreations (NASDAQ:MCRE) and Real 3D Wednesday announced at the SIGGRAPH '97 conference an agreement for Real 3D to become a licensee of MetaCreations' Real Time Geometry technology for the manufacture and distribution of a real-time, three-dimensional (3-D) scanning device called RealScan 3D.
Tags: 3D, Lockheed Martin Corp., scanner
Research articles 1997-08-06
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...
Tags: Operational Planning, Recovery, Business Operations, Asset Management, Real Estate, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting
White papers 2002-09-24
Fidelity looking to hit the headlines with latest real-time initiative
Fidelity Assets, the first company to create search engine marketing SEM strategies tailored to the specific needs of real estate brokers and agents, now offers real estate professionals free syndicated news content from Fidelity Assets' industry blog for real-time publishing to real estate agent's websites.
Tags: Fidelity Investments, real estate
Research articles 2006-03-22
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...
Tags: Business Operations, Real Estate, Equity
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...
Tags: Real Estate, Business Operations, Vulnerability, Bank
White papers 2003-12-15
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...
Tags: Business Operations, Real Estate
White papers 2003-01-01
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...
Tags: Investment, Business Operations, Real Estate, Benefit
White papers 2003-03-01
Windermere Real Estate Launches New Home Search Software Featuring Google Maps and Super-Size Photos
Searching for real estate online just got easier. Windermere Real Estate, the largest independent real estate company in the West, today debuted its new PropertyPoint™ home search tool and announced the availability of its real estate listings on Google.
Tags: Google Inc., Google Maps, real estate
Research articles 2006-09-25
Real Estate Price Index: A Model for the Philippines
Real estate price index REPI is a valuable tool for countries in assessing and valuing real properties. Valuations of real properties are used for different purposes - acquisition and disposal, mortgages, taxation, land and property management, among others. Most countries however do not have an established system of real estate...
Tags: Real Estate Price Index, Real Estate, Business Operations
White papers 2005-04-22
Real Asset Ownership and the Risk and Return to Stockholders
Many corporations own a significant amount of real assets and this includes real estate. However, the effect of real asset ownership on the risk and return for a firm’s stockholders is unknown. This study attempts to ascertain the effect, if any, of corporate real asset ownership on the risk and...
Tags: Asset, Stockholder, Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations
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...
Tags: Business Operations, Real Estate, Database
White papers 2001-11-27
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