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Real estate owned
Real estate owned (REO, also OREO, bank-owned): property a lender owns after an unsuccessful foreclosure auction or deed in lieu. Sold as-is via MLS with financing and title insurance, usually at a modest discount, unlike auction or short-sale channels.
Real exchange rate
The real exchange rate (RER) is the nominal exchange rate between two currencies adjusted for their relative price levels, capturing deviations from purchasing power parity.
Real GDP
Real GDP is the inflation-adjusted value of goods and services produced in a country, expressed in fixed reference-year prices so output can be compared across years; it is the quantity counterpart of nominal GDP.
Real Hacienda
The Real Hacienda de las Indias was the royal fiscal administration of Spanish America, a network of district treasuries that collected taxes and tribute and remitted surplus silver to Spain.
Real interest rate
The real interest rate, also called the real rate, is an interest rate adjusted for inflation, so a 2% nominal rate against 4% inflation is a loss of purchasing power.
Real Irish Republican Army
Real Irish Republican Army (Real IRA, RIRA), dissident republican paramilitary group formed in 1997 from a Provisional IRA split; carried out the 1998 Omagh bombing that killed 29, later continuing as the New IRA.
Real money balances
Real money balances are the purchasing power of the money a person or economy holds, written M/P, nominal money divided by a price index; they fall when prices rise even if nominal money is unchanged.
Real options analysis
Real options analysis is a financial valuation method applying option-pricing theory to real investments, valuing managerial flexibility to defer, expand, contract, or abandon projects, yielding an expanded NPV.
Real presence of Christ in the Eucharist
The real presence of Christ in the Eucharist is the Christian belief that Christ is genuinely present in the bread and wine rather than merely symbolized, understood differently across traditions.
Real property
Real property is land and things permanently attached to it, distinct from personal property. Covers freehold and nonfreehold estates, easements, fixtures, feudal origins, US state governance, and comparative property-law systems.
Real Situado
The Real Situado, or situado real, was an annual subsidy from the Viceroyalty of Peru that financed Chile's professional army on the Bío-Bío frontier after 1603.
Real Sociedad Economica de Amigos del Pais de Filipinas
The Real Sociedad Economica de Amigos del Pais de Filipinas, sometimes called the Sociedad Economica de Manila, was a learned society founded in Manila in 1781 by Governor-General Jose Basco y Vargas.
Real wages
A real wage is a money wage adjusted for inflation, dividing nominal pay by a consumer price index; US real hourly earnings rose only 0.9% from 2020 to 2024.
RealClearPolitics
RealClearPolitics (RCP), founded 2000 by John McIntyre and Tom Bevan, is a US political news and polling aggregator known for the RCP Poll Average, a simple unweighted average of polls; Stagwell holds 35% since 2025.
Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft
Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, abbreviated RE and called Pauly-Wissowa, is a German encyclopedia of classical antiquity edited by Georg Wissowa from 1890 and completed in 1980.
Realism
Realism in philosophy is the family of views holding that some domain of entities, facts, or truths exists independently of our minds, concepts, or ways of thinking, opposed by anti-realism.
Realism (international relations)
Realism (political realism) is an IR theory family holding that states, in an anarchic system, pursue security and national interest through power and balance of power; branches include classical realism (Carr, Morgenthau) and neorealism (Waltz), contrasted with liberalism and constructivism.
Realist evaluation
Realist evaluation is a theory-driven evaluation method in social science, set out by Pawson and Tilley in 1997, that explains what works for whom, in what circumstances, and how.
Reality
Reality, in philosophy, is the totality of what exists; metaphysical realism holds it exists mind-independently, opposed by idealism, anti-realism, and semantic challenges from Dummett and Putnam.
Reality distortion field
The reality distortion field is an imaginary force field attributed to Steve Jobs, coined by engineers on the Macintosh team in 1981 to describe his persuading anyone of anything.
Reality shifting
Reality shifting is a practice popularized on TikTok from 2020 in which practitioners attempt to move their consciousness from their current reality into a scripted desired reality, often modeled on fiction like Hogwarts.
Reality tunnel
Reality tunnel is a subjective filter of beliefs and cultural conditioning through which an individual interprets the world. It was introduced by Timothy Leary in the 1960s.
Reality Winner
Reality Leigh Winner, born 1991, is an American former Air Force cryptolinguist and NSA contractor who leaked a classified report on Russian election interference to The Intercept in 2017.
Realm of New Zealand
Realm of New Zealand: the area under the King of New Zealand, comprising New Zealand, the Cook Islands, Niue, Tokelau, and the Ross Dependency, defined by the 1983 Letters Patent.
Realm of the Mrnjavčević family
The realm of the Mrnjavčević family was the territory in Macedonia ruled by brothers King Vukašin and Despot Jovan Uglješa, who died fighting the Ottomans at the Battle of Marica in 1371.
reAlpha Tech Corp.
reAlpha Tech Corp. is an American real estate technology company headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, whose AI-assisted platform bundles realty, mortgage, and title services; it trades on Nasdaq as AIRE.
Realpolitik
Realpolitik, politics based on power and national interest rather than ideals, coined by liberal August Ludwig von Rochau in 1853, later tied to Bismarck and practiced by Nixon and Kissinger, distinct from IR realism and idealism.
RealTech Holdings Inc.
RealTech Holdings Inc. is a Delaware corporation incorporated in 2013 and based in New York, known almost entirely through SEC Form D filings reporting $170 million raised across six offerings.
Realtek Semiconductor
Realtek Semiconductor (瑞昱半导体) is a Taiwanese IC design company founded in 1987 and headquartered in Hsinchu Science Park, known for Ethernet chips, PC audio codecs, and networking controllers.
Realterm Airport Logistics Properties
Realterm Airport Logistics Properties is an open-ended private equity real estate fund in Annapolis, Maryland, that invests in on-airport air cargo and aviation-support logistics real estate across North America.