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A real estate investment association (REIA) is a trade organization for real estate investors.The purpose of a REIA is to provide networking opportunities, educational events, to advocate on behalf of the industry, to help members connect with the local community and to bring buying power to the members in the form of local and national discounts.
The National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (Nareit) is a Washington, D.C.–based association representing industries that include real estate investment trusts (REITs), mortgage REITs (mREITs) REITs traded on major stock exchanges, public non-listed REITs, and private REITs. Nareit publicly trades real estate in the U.S. real ...
An investment rating of a real estate property measures the property's risk-adjusted returns, relative to a completely risk-free asset. Mathematically, a property's investment rating is the return a risk-free asset would have to yield to be termed as good an investment as the property whose rating is being calculated.
REITs were created in the United States after President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed Public Law 86-779, sometimes called the Cigar Excise Tax Extension of 1960. [12] [13] The law was enacted to allow all investors to invest in large-scale, diversified portfolios of income-producing real estate in the same way they typically invest in other asset classes – through the purchase and sale of ...
A Real estate investment trust (REIT) can be an organization or an establishment able to supply other investors to finance their real estate business in a tax-efficient manner. In order to become a REIT, the organization needs to be registered as a corporation, trust, or association; it needs to be run by one or numerous trustees or directors. [2]
Real estate investment clubs have been booming since the 1990s, [2] so much so that the National Real Estate Investors Association was formed in the United States late 1990s. By 2002 the US Real Estate Investors Association had 44 active affiliated groups, and by 2008 they had over 230 groups. [3]
Real estate benchmarking is the standard of measurement used to analyze the financial characteristics of a real estate investment property. In the general sense, real estate benchmarking refers to the comparison of potential real estate investment properties against a predetermined framework of measurement. In a narrow sense, the term real ...
Real estate economics is the application of economic techniques to real estate markets. It aims to describe and predict economic patterns of supply and demand . The closely related field of housing economics is narrower in scope, concentrating on residential real estate markets, while the research on real estate trends focuses on the business ...