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  • 72-hour clause

    • A

  • Abandonment
  • Abstract of title
  • Acceleration clause
  • Accession
  • Acknowledgment
  • Acre - a measure of land area
  • Action to quiet title
  • Ad valorem tax
  • ADA
  • Adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM)
  • Adjusted basis
  • Administrator/Administratrix
  • Adverse possession
  • Agency – Real estate agency, Buyer brokerage
  • Agent – Real estate agent or broker, Estate agent
  • Agreement
  • Air rights
  • Alienation
  • Allodial, Allodium
  • Allodial title
  • Alluvion
  • Amenity
  • American Land Title Association (ALTA)
  • Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
  • Amortization
  • Amortization calculator
  • Amortization schedule
  • Anchor store
  • Annexation
  • Annual percentage rate
  • Apartment
  • Appraisal, real estate
  • Appraised value - An estimate of the present worth of a property
  • Appreciation
  • APR
  • Appurtenance
  • Appurtenant easement
  • ARELLO
  • Arm's length transaction
  • Arrears
  • Article 4 of the United States Constitution
  • Artificial person
  • Asking price
  • Assemblage
  • Assignee
  • Assignment
  • Assignment of contract
  • Assignor
  • Assessed value - The value set upon a property for taxation purposes
  • Assessment
  • Association of Real Estate License Law Officials (ARELLO)
  • Assumable loan
  • Assumable mortgage
  • Attorney-at-law
  • Attorney-in-fact
  • Auction
  • Avulsion
  • Assessor
  • Assumption of mortgage

    • B

  • Balance
  • Balloon mortgage
  • Bargain-and-sale deed
  • Baseline – a line that is a base for measurement or construction, lines that divide north/south or east/west in surveying
  • Basis
  • Benchmark
  • Beneficiary
  • Bequest
  • Bhoodan movement
  • Bilateral contract – contract in which only one party makes a promise
  • Bill of sale
  • Binder – In law, a binder (also known as an agreement for sale, earnest money contract, memorandum of sale, contract to sell) is a short-form preliminary contract in which the purchaser agrees to buy and the seller agrees to sell certain real estate under stated terms and conditions, usually in the form of a purchase offer, and is enforceable in a court of law and used to secure a real estate transaction until a more formal, fully negotiated contract of sale can be signed. See offer and acceptance.
  • Blanket loan, Blanket mortgage
  • Block
  • Blockbusting
  • Boiler insurance
  • Bona fide purchaser
  • Book value
  • Boot
  • Boundary
  • Breach of contract
  • Broker
  • Brokerage – Mortgage broker, Real estate broker, Buyer brokerage
  • Broker's Price Opinion (BPO)
  • BPO Standards and Guidelines
  • Budget
  • Building code
  • Bundle of rights
  • Burlington Company
  • Buyer brokerage
  • Buyer's agent

    • C

  • Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA)
  • Capital appreciation
  • Capital gain
  • Cap rate, Capitalization rate
  • Cash flow
  • Caveat emptor
  • Certificate of occupancy
  • Chain – sequence of linked house purchases
  • Chain – unit of measurement
  • Chain of title
  • Chattel
  • Chattel mortgage
  • Cheonse
  • City block
  • Civil action
  • Civil Rights Act of 1866
  • Civil Rights Act of 1968
  • Clause
  • Client
  • Closing costs
  • Closing
  • Closing statement
  • Cloud on a title, Cloud on title
  • Coinsurance, Coinsurance clause
  • Collateral
  • Color of title
  • Commercial property
  • Commingling
  • Commission
  • Comprehensive planning for community development
  • Confiscation
  • Commitment
  • Common area
  • Common law
  • Community-based planning
  • Community land trust
  • Community planning
  • Community property
  • Comparables
  • Compensatory damages, Expectation damages
  • Competition
  • Condemnation – building is deemed no longer habitable, government seizure through Eminent domain, or Urban decay
  • Condominium
  • Condominiums and the Jewish community
  • Condominium conversion, Condo conversion
  • Confidentiality, Confidential information
  • Conformity
  • Conservation land trust
  • Consideration
  • Construction loan, Construction mortgage
  • Constructive eviction
  • Consumer
  • Contingency, Contingencies
  • Continuing education requirement
  • Contour map
  • Contract for deed
  • Contract of sale
  • Contract
  • Contribution
  • Conventional mortgage
  • Conversion – removal of personal property or building fixtures
  • Conversion – process of changing a building to condominium
  • Covenants
  • Convey, Conveyance, Conveyancing
  • Cooling-off period
  • Cooperating broker
  • Cooperative apartment
  • Co-op
  • Co-ownership
  • Copyhold
  • Corporation
  • Corporeal property
  • Corrective maintenance
  • Cost basis
  • Council housing
  • Counteroffer
  • Courtesy tenure
  • Covenant
  • Covenant Against Encumbrances
  • Covenant for Further Assurances
  • Covenant of Quiet Enjoyment
  • Covenant of Right to Convey
  • Covenant of Seisin
  • Covenant of Warranty
  • CREA
  • Credit
  • Creditor
  • Cul-de-sac
  • Customer

    • D

  • Damages for breach of contract
  • Datum
  • Debit
  • Debt service coverage ratio
  • Decedent
  • Declaration of Condominium
  • Declaration of Restriction
  • Decree
  • Deductible expense
  • Deed
  • Deed in bargain and sale
  • Deed in lieu of foreclosure
  • Deed in trust
  • Deed of gift
  • Deed of trust
  • Deed restriction
  • Default
  • Defeasance clause
  • Defeasible fee
  • Defeasible estate
  • Deficiency – physical condition or construction that is considered sub-standard or below minimum expectations
  • Deficiency judgment
  • Delivery and acceptance
  • Demise
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
  • Depreciable asset
  • Depreciated value
  • Depreciation
  • Descent
  • Designated agency, Designated agent
  • Devise – disposal of real property in a will and testament, or the property itself which has been disposed of
  • Devisee – beneficiary of a will and testament
  • Disability
  • Discount points
  • Disintermediation
  • Documentary stamp
  • Documentary stamp tax
  • Domania
  • Dominant estate, Dominant tenement
  • Dominion Land Survey
  • Double closing
  • Dower
  • Dual agent, Dual agency
  • Due-on-sale clause
  • Duress

    • E

  • Earnest money
  • Earthquake insurance
  • Easement
  • Easement appurtenant
  • Easement by condemnation
  • Easement by implication
  • Easement by necessity
  • Easement by prescription
  • Easement in gross
  • ECOA
  • Economic depression
  • Economic rent
  • Effective demand
  • Effective interest rate
  • Egress
  • Egress window
  • Ejectment
  • Ejido
  • Emblements
  • Eminent domain
  • Enabling act
  • Encroachment
  • Encumbrance
  • Endorsement – signature on a contract thereby indicating the person's intent to become a party to the contract
  • Enforceable
  • Environmental Protection Agency
  • Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA)
  • Equitable title
  • Equity
  • Equity of redemption
  • Escheat
  • Escrow
  • Escrow account
  • Escrow agent
  • Escrow instructions
  • Escrow payment
  • Estate – legal term for a person's net worth at any point in time alive or dead
  • Estate – a very large property (such as country house or mansion) with houses, outbuildings, gardens, supporting farmland, and woods
  • Estate agent
  • Estate for years
  • Estate manager
  • Estate tax
  • Estoppel
  • Et al.
  • Et ux., Et uxor
  • Et vir
  • Evaluation
  • Eviction
  • Exclusive agency
  • Exclusive right to sell
  • Executed contract
  • Execution
  • Executor
  • Executory contract
  • Executrix
  • Exempt – Grandfather clause that allows a pre-existing condition to continue, Tax exemption that legally excludes income or other value to reduce taxable income
  • Exercise of option
  • Expectation damages
  • Express contract
  • Extended coverage

    • F

  • Fair Housing Act of 1968
  • Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988
  • Fair market value
  • Fannie Mae
  • Fed, the
  • Freddie Mac
  • Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (FHLMC or Freddie Mac)
  • Federal Housing Administration (FHA)
  • Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA or Fannie Mae)
  • Federal Reserve System
  • Fee simple
  • Fee simple absolute
  • Fee simple determinable
  • Fee simple subject to condition subsequent
  • Feudal system as applicable to real estate
  • FHA
  • FHA-insured loan
  • Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 (FIRREA)
  • Fire insurance
  • FIRREA
  • First mortgage – as opposed to Second mortgage
  • Fixed-rate mortgage
  • Fixer-upper
  • Fixture
  • Flat-fee MLS
  • Flood hazard area
  • Flood insurance
  • Foreclosure
  • Four unities
  • Fraud
  • Freehold
  • Freehold estate
  • For Sale By Owner
  • FSBO
  • Functional obsolescence
  • Future interest

    • G

  • General plan
  • General warranty deed
  • Gentrification
  • Ginnie Mae
  • GNMA
  • Good faith estimate
  • Government National Mortgage Association (GNMA or Ginnie Mae)
  • Graduated payment mortgage
  • Gramdan
  • Grant bargain and sale deed
  • Grant
  • Grant deed
  • Grantee
  • Grantor
  • Green belt
  • Ground lease
  • Ground rent

    • H

  • Habendum clause
  • Habitable
  • Hard money
  • Hard money lenders
  • Hard money loan
  • Hazard insurance
  • Heirs, Heirs and assigns
  • Hereditament
  • Heterogeneous
  • Highest and best use
  • (HOA)
  • Holographic will
  • Home construction loan
  • Home equity line of credit (HELOC)
  • Home rule
  • Home-equity debt
  • Home equity loan
  • Home inspection – especially Home buyers inspection before closing or Pre-delivery inspection of new construction
  • Homeowners association (HOA)
  • Homeowner's insurance
  • Homeowner's policy
  • Home warranty
  • Homestead
  • Homestead exemption
  • Homogeneous
  • Housing association
  • Housing bubble
  • Housing tenure
  • Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
  • Housing cooperative
  • HUD
  • HUD-1 Settlement Statement
  • Hypothecation

    • I

  • IBC
  • Illusory offer, Illusory promise
  • ILSA
  • ILSFDA
  • Immobility – immovable real estate
  • Immovable property
  • Implied contract
  • Implied warranty
  • Improved land
  • Improvements – Home improvement or Land improvement
  • Inspection
  • Income approach for appraisal
  • Income property – real estate rented out to provide income for the landlord
  • Income shelter
  • Incompetent
  • Incorporeal property
  • Indemnification
  • Ingress
  • Inheritance tax
  • Injunction
  • Installment land contract
  • Installment sale
  • Interest rate
  • International Building Code (IBC)
  • Internet Data Exchange (IDX)
  • Instrument
  • Insurable interest
  • Interest
  • Interstate Land Sales Full Disclosure Act of 1968 (ILSFDA or ILSA)
  • Intestate
  • Intestate succession
  • Invalid
  • Investing in real estate – Real estate investor, Real estate entrepreneur, Real estate investment club, Flipping property
  • Investment
  • Investment rating for real estate
  • Investment value
  • Involuntary alienation
  • Irrevocable

    • J

  • Jeonse
  • Joint and several liability
  • Joint tenancy
  • Joint venture
  • Judgment
  • Judgment lien
  • Judicial foreclosure
  • Junior mortgage – smaller mortgage in addition to the primary mortgage; examples: second mortgage, 80-15-5 piggy-back loan, and home equity loan
  • Jurisdiction

    • K

  • Key money

    • L

  • Laches
  • Land
  • Land bank, Land banking
  • Land contract
  • Land grant
  • Land lease
  • Land registration
  • Land tenure
  • Land Trust Alliance
  • Land trust
  • Landlocked
  • Landlord
  • Law of agency
  • Lawful
  • Lease
  • Lease option
  • Leaseback
  • Leasehold
  • Leasehold estate
  • Legal capacity
  • Legal description
  • Legal entity
  • Legal personality
  • Legal interest rate – the opposite of Usury
  • Lenders mortgage insurance
  • Lessee
  • Lessor
  • Leverage
  • Levy – a fine as penalty, seizure of debtor's property after judgment, financial charge such as tax
  • Licensee
  • Lien
  • Lienee – property owner who grants the lien
  • Lienor – person who benefit from the lien
  • Lien holder – person who benefit from the lien
  • Life estate
  • Life tenant – owner of a life estate
  • Like-kind property exchange
  • Limited liability company (LLC)
  • Limited partnership
  • Liquidated damages
  • Liquidation value
  • Liquidity
  • Lis pendens
  • Listing contract
  • Litigation
  • Littoral rights
  • LLC
  • LMI
  • Loan origination fee
  • Loan-to-value ratio (LTV)
  • Location
  • Lot
  • Lot and Block survey system
  • LTV

    • M

  • Market
  • Market analysis
  • Market value
  • Marketable title
  • Master plan for community development
  • Masters of Real Estate Development
  • Material fact
  • Materialman's lien
  • Mechanic's lien
  • Meeting of minds
  • Menace
  • Merger
  • Metes and bounds
  • Mill
  • Millage tax
  • Mineral lease
  • Mineral rights
  • Ministerial act
  • Minor
  • MIP
  • Misrepresentation
  • MLS
  • Mortgage
  • Mortgage Account Error Correction, see Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act
  • Mortgage assumption
  • Mortgage bank, Mortgage banker
  • MGIC
  • Mortgage insurance premium (MIP)
  • Mortgage loan
  • Mortgage broker
  • Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corporation (MGIC)
  • Mortgage insurance
  • Mortgagee – borrower
  • Mortgagor – lender
  • Multiple Listing Service (MLS)
  • Mutual agreement
  • Mutual assent
  • Mutual mistake
  • Mutual savings bank

    • N

  • NAEA
  • NAR
  • NAREB
  • National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA)
  • National Association of Real Estate Brokers (NAREB)
  • National Association of Realtors (NAR)
  • National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
  • National Flood Insurance Program
  • Negative amortization
  • Negligence
  • NEPA
  • Net income
  • Net lease
  • Net operating income
  • Notary Public
  • Note
  • Niche real estate
  • Nonconforming use
  • Notice of lis pendens
  • Novation
  • Null and void

    • O

  • Obligee
  • Obligor
  • Obsolescence
  • Occupancy
  • Offer
  • Offer and acceptance
  • Offeree
  • Offeror
  • Open listing or Open agency
  • Operation of law
  • Option
  • Ordinance
  • OREO
  • Origination fee
  • Other Real Estate Owned (OREO)
  • Outdated
  • Overimprovement – building and land improvements that far surpass other local properties
  • Owner-occupancy
  • Ownership

    • P

  • Parol evidence rule
  • Participation mortgage
  • Partition
  • Partnership
  • Party wall
  • Perc test, Percolation test
  • Percolation
  • Personal property
  • PITI
  • Planned community
  • Plat
  • Pledge
  • Plottage
  • PLSS
  • PMI
  • Pocket listing
  • Points
  • Police power
  • Population density
  • Positive misrepresentation
  • Power of attorney
  • Pre-delivery inspection
  • Prepaid expenses
  • Prepayment penalty
  • Prescription
  • Prescriptive easement
  • Preventive maintenance
  • Price fixing
  • Pricing
  • Prima facie
  • Prima facie case
  • Primary residence
  • Prime rate
  • Principal – the amount of money owed on a mortgage loan
  • Principal meridian
  • Principal residence
  • Private equity real estate
  • Private mortgage insurance (PMI)
  • Private property
  • Privity of contract
  • Probate
  • Profit à prendre
  • Promissory note
  • Promulgate, Promulgation
  • Property management
  • Property manager
  • Proration
  • Provision
  • Public housing
  • Public property
  • Public Land Survey System (PLSS)
  • Public record
  • Public utility
  • Punitive damages
  • Pur autre vie

    • Q

  • Quarter section
  • Quiet enjoyment
  • Quiet title
  • Quiet title action
  • Quiet title proceeding
  • Quitclaim deed

    • R

  • Racial steering
  • Rate of return
  • Ratification
  • Ratify
  • Rating for real estate investment
  • Real estate
  • Real estate agency
  • Real estate agent
  • Real estate appraisal (property valuation, land valuation)
  • Real estate broker
  • Real estate brokerage
  • Real estate bubble
  • Real estate contract
  • Real estate developer
  • Real estate economics
  • Real estate investment trust (REIT)
  • Real Estate Owned (REO)
  • Real estate salesperson
  • Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA)
  • Real estate trading
  • Real estate trends
  • Real property
  • Realtor
  • Recording
  • Recourse note
  • Recovery and Enforcement Act (Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989, FIRREA)
  • Redemption
  • Redlining
  • Refinancing
  • Regress
  • Regulation Z
  • REIT
  • Reject
  • Remainder
  • Remainderman
  • Remise
  • Rent
  • Rent-back agreement, Rent-back clause
  • REO
  • Replacement cost, Replacement value
  • Repossession
  • Rescission
  • Resident manager – Estate manager, Property manager, Building superintendent
  • Residual income
  • Restrictive covenant
  • Revaluation of fixed assets
  • Reverse mortgage, Reverse annuity mortgage
  • Reversion
  • Reversionary interest
  • Revocation
  • RICS
  • Right of first refusal
  • Right of redemption
  • Right of survivorship
  • Right to emblements
  • Riparian rights, Riparian water rights
  • Risk management
  • Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)
  • Run with the land

    • S

  • S corporation
  • Sale and leaseback
  • Sales contract
  • Salesperson – Estate agent, Real estate agent
  • Salvage value
  • SAM
  • Savings and loan association
  • Scarcity
  • Scavenger sale
  • Second mortgage
  • Secondary mortgage
  • Secondary mortgage market
  • Section – unit of land: 640 acres in the U.S., 1 square mile plots in Western Canada, the Alberta Township System
  • Securitization
  • Security deposit
  • Seisin
  • Seizing
  • Self-build mortgage
  • Seller agency
  • Separate property
  • Servient estate, Servient tenement
  • Setback
  • Settlement costs
  • Settlement statement
  • Settlement
  • Shared appreciation mortgage (SAM)
  • Sheriff's deed
  • Situs
  • Sole proprietorship
  • Special agent – person acting under a Power of attorney
  • Special assessment, Special assessment tax
  • Special warranty deed
  • Special flood hazard area
  • Specific performance
  • Speculation
  • Spot zoning
  • Squatter's rights
  • Starker exchange, Starker Trust
  • Starter home
  • Statute of Frauds
  • Statute of limitations
  • Statutory foreclosure
  • Steering
  • Stigmatized property
  • Straight–line depreciation
  • Strata title
  • Strict foreclosure
  • Style obsolescence
  • Sub-agent
  • Subdivision
  • Subdivision lot block and tract
  • Subject-to
  • Sublease
  • Sublet
  • Subordination
  • Subordination agreement
  • Supply and demand
  • Survivorship
  • Sweat equity

    • T

  • Tacking
  • Tax assessment
  • Tax basis
  • Tax credit
  • Tax sale
  • Tax shelter
  • Tax-deductible expense
  • Tax-deferred exchange
  • Tenancy by the entirety
  • Tenancy in common
  • Tenant
  • Tenements
  • Testate – opposite of Intestate
  • Testator
  • Testatrix
  • Theory of value
  • TILA
  • Timeshare
  • Title
  • Title insurance
  • Torrens title
  • Truth in Lending Act of 1968 (TILA)
  • Township
  • Tract
  • Trespasser
  • Trust deed
  • Trust
  • Trustee
  • Trustor

    • U

  • UCC
  • Underimprovement – building and land improvements that are far below the level of other local properties
  • Underwriting
  • Undisclosed principal
  • Undivided interest
  • Undue influence
  • Unencumbered property – a property without any encumbrance
  • Unenforceable contract
  • Uniform Commercial Code (UCC)
  • Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP)
  • Uniform Vendor and Purchaser Risk Act (UVPRA)
  • Unilateral contract – contract in which all parties make promises
  • Unintentional misrepresentation – also called innocent misrepresentation
  • Unities
  • Unlike-kind property exchange – opposite of Like-kind exchange
  • USPAP
  • United States housing bubble
  • Urban renewal
  • Urban sprawl
  • Urban Land Institute
  • Usufruct
  • Usury
  • Utility

    • V

  • VA loan
  • Valuable consideration
  • Valuation
  • Value in exchange
  • Value in use
  • Value theory
  • Value
  • Variance
  • Vendee – buyer of goods or services
  • Vendor – supplier/seller of goods or services
  • Vicarious liability
  • Void contract
  • Voidable contract
  • Voluntary alienation

    • W

  • Warranty deed
  • Warranty of title
  • Waste
  • With reserve – in an auction, the price ("reservation price" or "reserve") below which the seller will not sell the item/property
  • Words of conveyance
  • Wraparound mortgage
  • Writ of attachment

    • Y

  • Yield
  • Yield spread premium

    • Z

  • Zoning
  • Zoning map
  • Zoning ordinance – local ordinance that controls land use and buildings

    • References

    Index of real estate articles Wikipedia
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