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Maps Index of real estate articles

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

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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

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C

• Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA)
• Capital appreciation
• Capital gain
• Cap rate, Capitalization rate
• Cash flow
• Caveat emptor
• Certificate of occupancy
• Certified Relocation and Transition Specialist
• 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
• Courtesy signing
• 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

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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
• Dominant portion
• Dominion Land Survey
• Double closing
• Dower
• Dual agent, Dual agency
• Due-on-sale clause
• Duress

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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

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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 Real Estate Board
• 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
• Field Card
• 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

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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

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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

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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

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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 development
• 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 deed investment company
• 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

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