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Washington Center for Real Estate Research
About the Washington Center for Real Estate ResearchThe Washington Center for Real Estate Research is an industry-focused unit within the Runstad Center for Real Estate Studies. Like the Runstad Center, it is housed within the College of Built Environments at the University of Washington. The WCRER was initially established by the Board of Regents at Washington State University to provide a bridge between academic study and research on real estate topics and the professional real estate industries. It served that mission at WSU until merging with the Runstad Center at the beginning of 2012. At the Runstad Center the combined industry research conducted by the staff and students at WCRER can reinforce the academic research conducted by a distinguished faculty. WCRER works with the faculty to ensure their rigorous research is accessible and easily usable by industry participants, the media and the general public, regardless of their statistical sophistication. Much of the work at WCRER is driven by the legislation which created the real estate research funding surcharge on real estate licensees, both new licenses issued and renewal. RCW 18.85.741 states: The purpose of a real estate research center in Washington state is to provide credible research, value-added information, education services and project-oriented research to real estate licensees, real estate consumers, real estate service providers, institutional customers, public agencies, and communities in Washington state and the Pacific Northwest region. The center may:
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