Some Related
WWW Sites
of Interest
to the Real Estate Industry

As part of the continuing trend toward increased securitization of real estate and the integration of real estate with the vast public capital markets, a number of efforts presently are underway to make real-world, real-time market and transaction information available online. These efforts involve industry trade associations, professional societies and private ventures

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Some Other Related WWW Sites...

MIT Center for Real Estate
Information about the Center for Real Estate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Introduction to Geographic Information Systems

A brief introduciton to GIS technology presented by the U.S. Geologic Survey.

ARGUS Financial Software for the Real Estate Industry

ARGUS provides a family of comprehensive analytical software programs for the real estate industry. ARGUS "Lease by Lease for Windows" is designed to analyze and value all types of commercial properties including office buildings, shopping centers, mixed use facilities, hotels, apartment communities and portfolios containing virtually any number of individual properties and tenants. The current version includes Portfolio Analysis features which allow detailed sensitivity analyses and tenant reporting across entire portfolios of properties. Other ARGUS products models cash flows associated with the development and sale of individual units over time, such as subdivisions, condominiums, PUD's and business parks. The products run on a MS-Windows platform.

Teleres: Information for the Emerging Real Estate Public Markets

Clinton Smullyan, Jr. explains Teleres and its mission to create a single national source of comprehensive on-line real estate information and analysis designed to effectively standardize the process for valuing, trading, liquefying, securitizing, rating, hedging, benchmarking and describing commercial real estate.

Securitization in the Commercial Mortgage Market

Ernst & Young's primer is intended to provide a basic understanding of commercial mortgage securitization - what it is, the process, and how securitization is utilized by investors and lenders to increase leverage and insulate themselves against credit risk, while providing a new and efficient source of capital for commercial real estate owners - enabling them to finance acquisitions and refinance debt, as well as free up capital for development.

NetWatch Gateway to Top Ten Real Estate WWW Sites

David Moninger has collected a list of some of the more interesting uses of the World Wide Web by companies and organizations in the real estate industry. The intent is not to duplicate established Real Estate oriented Link Pages but to highlight outstanding, new, interesting, and/or unusual Real Estate related sites. The list includes links to individual real estate agents, local and regional brokerage firms, national firms, real estate outside of the U.S., outstanding or unusual properties offered for sale, interesting uses of WWW technology by real estate related firms, and links to other sites of interest to real estate professionals. This list changes and is updated periodically. (Note: This links to the Netwatch Top Ten table of contents. Access the Real Estate list from this page.)

Washington-Area Federal Facilities Database

Retrieve information on Federal land, buildings, and office space in and around Washington, using a realtime link from the internet to an SQL-database. The information was compiled at the Computer Resource Laboratory of MIT's School of Architecture and Planning, in association with the U.S. National Capital Planning Commission in Washington, DC.

Using Information Technology to Better Manage Your Real Estate

James Melson, Jr., founder of Melson Technologies, Inc., discusses the strategic role of current technologies in real estate property and portfolio management.

Business and Economics on the Internet

Former Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation economist and developer of FreddieMac's automated underwriting system, Dr. Arnold Kling discusses some of the implications of internet technology for the real estate industry.

The Legal Information Institute

Legal information ranging from supreme court decisions to law journal articles. Includes ability to search West Pulishing Company's directory of lawyers to find information about any member of the bar.

RealWorks Real Estate Forum

First Realty Advisors, Inc. specializes in high tech solutions for the real estate industry. The web page features product information, demos, an international network of appraisers, and pointers to other real estate information available on the Net.

NASDAQ Financial Executive Journal

The online edition of the National Association of Security Dealers' publication discussing current issues in securities law.

U.S. Census Database

A searchable 125-gigabyte database of census data maintained at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.

The Age of the Network

Pre-release description of a new book by Jessica Lipnack and Jeffrey Stamps which explores networked organizational structures as a logical evolution of the traditional heirarchical and bureaucratic frameworks.




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