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An institutional review board ( IRB ), also known as an independent ethics committee ( IEC ), ethical review board ( ERB ), or research ethics board ( REB ), is a committee at an institution that applies research ethics by reviewing the methods proposed for research involving human subjects, to ensure that the projects are ethical.
The Assessment Review Board ( ARB; French: Commission de révision de l'évaluation foncière) is an independent, quasi-judicial agency in Ontario, Canada. [1] It is one of 13 adjudicative tribunals under the Ministry of the Attorney General that make up Tribunals Ontario.
The National Association of Realtors (NAR) is an American trade association [4] for those who work in the real estate industry. As of December 2023, it had over 1.5 million members, [5] making it the largest trade association in the United States [6] including NAR's institutes, societies, and councils, involved in all aspects of the residential and commercial real estate industries.
The California Department of Real Estate ( DRE) is a California state agency focused on safeguarding and promoting the public interest in real estate matters through licensure, regulation, education, and enforcement. Employees headquartered in Sacramento and in district offices in Oakland, Fresno, Los Angeles, and San Diego carry out the DRE's ...
Institutional investor. An institutional investor is an entity that pools money to purchase securities, real property, and other investment assets or originate loans. Institutional investors include commercial banks, central banks, credit unions, government-linked companies, insurers, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, charities, hedge ...
A long-awaited U.S. rule aimed at curbing money laundering in real estate has reached a key White House office for review, the final hurdle for it to clear before it can be formally proposed next ...
Real estate appraisal, property valuation or land valuation is the process of developing an opinion of value for real property (usually market value).Real estate transactions often require appraisals because they occur infrequently and every property is unique (especially their condition, a key factor in valuation), unlike corporate stocks, which are traded daily and are identical (thus a ...
In the United States institutional investors owning single-family homes has become an increasing object of debate since the early 2000s, owing to rapidly rising housing costs and the perceived death of the American Dream being brought on by these investors. During the Global Financial Crisis and subsequent Great Recession, house prices in the ...