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Real Estate terms
Real estate terms cover buying, renting, financing and investing in property. They help you follow a mortgage offer, a commercial lease or a property valuation without getting lost in jargon. 300 Real Estate terms are explained below, each with real-world examples.
- A-Note
- Absentee Landlord
- Absentee Owner
- Absolute Auction
- Absolute Title
- Abstract of Title
- Accelerated Amortization
- Acquisition Debt
- Acquisition Fee
- Add-On Factor
- Affidavit of Title
- Affordability Index
- Alienation Clause
- All Cash
- All-in-One Mortgage
- Alt-A
- Alternative Documentation
- Alternative Mortgage Instrument (AMI)
- Amenity
- Annual Mortgage Statement
- Appraisal Approach
- Appraisal Management Company (AMC)
- Appraised Value
- Appraiser
- Appurtenance
- ARM Index
- ARM Margin
- Assessor
- Assumable Mortgage
- Assumption Clause
- Attornment
- B-Note
- Bad Title
- Balloon Mortgage
- Bank-Owned Property
- Bird Dog
- Blanket Mortgage
- Broker Price Opinion
- Brownfield
- Bundle of Rights
- Bungalow
- Buy-Up
- Buydown
- C Note
- Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation Chmc
- Captive Real Estate Investment Trust
- Certificate of Title
- Chain of Title
- Clear Title
- Closing Statement
- Cloud on Title
- Co-Owner
- Co-Tenancy Clause
- Comparables
- Comparative Market Analysis
- Condemnation
- Conditional Offer
- Condominium
- Condominium Fee
- Condotel
- Construction Lien
- Construction Mortgage
- Contingency Clause
- Curb Appeal
- Deed
- Deed of Trust
- Defective Title
- Downreit
- Dry Closing
- Due-on-Sale Clause
- Easement
- Easement in Gross
- Encroachment
- Endowment Loan
- Escrow Agent
- Eviction
- Fair Housing Act
- Federal Housing Administration
- FHFA
- First Mortgage
- First-Time Home Buyer
- Floor Area Ratio
- For Sale by Owner
- Foreclosure Action
- Foreclosure Crisis
- Foreclosure Filing
- Freddiemac
- Free and Clear
- Functional Obsolescence
- Fundsfromoperation
- Gazump
- Gentrification
- Gift Letter
- Good Faith Money
- Graduated Lease
- Graduated Payment Mortgage
- Grant Deed
- Grantee
- Gross Yield
- Habendum Clause
- Hard Money Loan
- HECM
- Held by Production
- Holdover Tenant
- Home
- Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP)
- Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP)
- Home Equity
- Home Equity Conversion Mortgage
- Home Lien
- Home Mortgage
- Home Warranty
- Homemodification
- Homeowners Association
- Homeowners Association (HOA)
- Homeowners Association Fee - HOA Fee
- Homeowners Protection Act
- Homestead Exemption
- House Swap
- Housing Bubble
- Housing Choice Voucher Program
- Housing Expense Ratio
- Housing Unit
- HUD-1 Settlement Statement
- Hybrid Adjustable-Rate Mortgage
- Impact Fee
- Implied Warranty of Habitability
- Impound
- In Escrow
- Income Approach
- Income Property
- Jointownedproperty
- Judicial Foreclosure
- Junior Mortgage
- Land Flip
- Land Lease Option
- Land Trust
- Landlocked Property
- Landlord
- Landrehabilitation
- Landvalue
- Lanominium
- Lease
- Lease Option
- Leaseback
- Lessee
- Lessor
- Lien Sale
- Limited Common Elements
- Littoral Land
- Lowball
- Manufactured Housing
- Mcmansion
- Mini-Perm
- Month-to-Month Tenancy
- Mortgage Broker
- Mortgage Credit Certificate (MCC)
- Mortgage Electronic Registration System (MERS)
- Mortgage Equity Withdrawal
- Mortgage Putback
- Mortgage Rate Lock
- Mortgage Recast
- Mortgage Servicing Right (MSR)
- Mortgagee
- Mortgagor
- MSA
- Multiple Listing Service (MLS)
- Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund (MMIF)
- Nareit
- National Housing Act
- Needsapproach
- Negative Gearing
- Negative Points
- New Home Sales
- No Cash Out Refinance
- Noappraisal Loan
- Noappraisal Mortgage
- Noappraisal Refinancing
- Non Owner Occupied
- Nonconforming Use
- Nondisturbance Clause
- Notice of Default
- Offset Mortgage
- OFHEO
- One Percent Rule
- Opco Propco
- Open House
- Openlisting
- Opinion of Title
- Owner Financing
- Owner Occupant
- Party Wall
- Perfect Title
- Periodic Cap
- Permanent Loan
- Planned Urban Development
- Pocket Listing
- Power Center
- Power of Sale
- Pre-Foreclosure
- Price-to-Rent Ratio
- Principal Reduction
- Private Equity Real Estate
- Propco
- Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) Loan
- Property Inventory
- Property Lien
- Property Manager
- Proprietary Reverse Mortgage
- Purchase Money Mortgage
- Quiet Title
- Quiet Title Action
- Quitclaimdeed
- Rate and Term Refi
- Real Estate Limited Partnership (RELP)
- Real Estate Owned (REO)
- Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA)
- Real Estate Short Sale
- Real Estate Tier Classifications Tier 1 Tier 2 and Tier 3
- Real Property
- Realestateagent
- Realtor
- Recordingfee
- Refi Bubble
- REIT ETF
- Rent Ceiling
- Rental Pool
- REOC
- Repeatsales Method
- Residentialrentalproperty
- Retaliatory Eviction
- Reverse Exchange
- Right of Egress
- Right of First Offer
- ROFO
- Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)
- Royalty Interest
- Sandwich Lease
- Seller Financing
- Settlementstatement
- Shadow Inventory
- Shared Equity
- Shared Equity Finance Agreement
- Sharedequityfinanceagreements
- Sheriff's Sale
- Simultaneous Closing
- Single-Disbursement Lump-Sum Payment Plan
- Single-Purpose Reverse Mortgage
- Special Warranty Deed
- Spot Zoning
- Squatter
- Strategic Default
- Straw Buyer
- Stuart A Miller
- Tax Deed
- Tax Foreclosure
- Tax Lien Certificate
- Tax Lien Foreclosure
- Tax Sale
- Tenancy at Sufferance
- Tenancy at Will
- Tenancy in Common
- Tenement
- Tenure Payment Plan
- Terminal Capitalization Rate
- Timeshare
- Title
- Title Binder
- Title Insurance
- Titlesearch
- Torrens Certificate
- Total Housing Expense
- Triple Net Lease Nnn
- Turnkey Property
- Two Percent Rule
- Underwater Mortgage
- Unencumbered
- Unrecorded Deed
- U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
- Vacationhome
- Vendor Take Back
- Viager
- Voluntary Conveyance
- Voluntary Foreclosure
- Warranty Deed
- Warranty Title
- Waste (Property Law)
- Water Rights
- Wholesaling
- With Benefit of Survivorship
- Wrap-Around Mortgage
- Zero Lot Line House
- Zombie Foreclosure
- Zoning
- Zoning Ordinance
- 2/28 ARM
- 18-Hour City
- 25 Percent Rule
- 80-10-10 Mortgage
- 125% Loan
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