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New site offers broad scope of REIT data.


For the first time, there is an easy access, cost-effective resource that answers all questions pertaining to real estate investment trusts (REITs). Now, investors, researchers and real estate advisors are just a click away from comprehensive data on REITs and other real estate securities that had not previously been available in one place. This resource is a newly launched Internet Web site called REITNet.com, a joint venture between ASSETrac Information Services See Information Systems.  and the Center for Real Estate Studies at Indiana University Indiana University, main campus at Bloomington; state supported; coeducational; chartered 1820 as a seminary, opened 1824. It became a college in 1828 and a university in 1838. The medical center (run jointly with Purdue Univ.  School of Business.

REITNet.com provides real estate information with a buy-side perspective. This differs dramatically from the sell-side slant that is generally available in the marketplace. Dow Jones Dow Jones

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 called the site "one of the best virtual doors to the otherwise obscure realm of REITs."

Founders of the site are Joyce F. Geiger, ASSETrac Managing Director, and Jeffrey D. Fisher, director of the Center for Real Estate Studies and professor of Finance and Real Estate at the Indiana University School of Business. They developed REITNet.com to provide unbiased investment information about REITs and a method for researching REITs that meet specified investment criteria.

REITNet offers a vast array of information products that include subscription, pay-per-view and free services (O.Eng. Law) such feudal services as were not unbecoming the character of a soldier or a freemen to perform; as, to serve under his lord in war, to pay a sum of money, etc.

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 that range from directory services and financial data, to news and industry statistics, to a primer on the basics of REIT REIT

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 investing.

REITNet online is composed of 10 sections: Subscription based service includes REITSearch, RealSource, REITLocator, RETrac and REIT Metrics. Free services include "REITs 101," Glossary, Web RESources, RealNet-News and MarkeTrac.

REITSearch and REITLocator offer varying degrees of REIT contact and corporate profile data. REITSearch, a proprietary subscription or pay-per-view directory, is the more comprehensive of the two, with profiles of corporate officers, board of directors and corporate affiliations for over 200 public REITs, 80 private REiTs and 75 international REITs.

RealSource is a treasure trove TREASURE TROVE. Found treasure.
     2. This name is given to such money or coin, gold, silver, plate, or bullion, which having been hidden or concealed in the earth or other private place, so long that its owner is unknown, has been discovered by accident.
 of information, containing more than 15,000 abstracts from 40 real estate academic and professional journals. The RealSource search engine helps users find specific journal articles or search for information on general topics.

RETrac and MarkeTrac are composed primarily of statistical tables. Examples of RETrac tables include Stock Performance Trends, Real Estate Fund Profiles and Offerings Pipeline. RETrac offers stock performance statistics in a variety of industry groupings such as Investment and Property Focus. MarkeTrac tables include national as well as regional and/or MSA-specific economic and real estate market trends.

RealNet-News is a securitized securitized

Of, related to, or being debt securities that are secured with assets. For example, mortgage purchase bonds are secured by mortgages that have been purchased with the bond issue's proceeds.
 real estate news service providing daily news updates from a variety of sources, as well as a searchable archive of past abstracts. Abstract categories include REIT industry, property, corporate and financial topics.

"REITs 101 "explains the basics of investing in real estate investment trusts. The Glossary contains access to definitions for over 1,500 teal teal: see duck.
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 estate industry terms. Web RESources is useful to both academics and professionals conducting research via the Web. It provides information as well as the URL URL
 in full Uniform Resource Locator

Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program.
 address for a multitude of real estate-related sites.

ASSETrac Information Services is a division of IBC IBC International Building Code
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 Financial Data. In addition to REITNet.com, ASSETrac's other services include REITMonitor, an innovative new data service that tracks approximately 20,000 REIT-owned properties as well as provides a comprehensive source of corporate and financial detail, including historical performance; and RealEstateTrac, a resource available on The Bloomberg for monitoring and evaluating real estate securities, including REITs. ASSETrac also offers the REITSearch Business Profile & Contact Directory in a stand-alone version and makes it available through an annual subscription. Subscribers receive a hard copy directory and disk set.

For additional information call (973) 566-9300.
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