Index of real estate articles

This aims to be a complete list of the articles on real estate.

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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 calculator
 * Amortization schedule
 * Amortizing loan
 * 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 – a 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, or 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
 * 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
 * Certified Relocation and Transition Specialist
 * Chain – sequence of linked house purchases
 * Chain – unit of measurement
 * Chain of title
 * Chattel
 * Chattel mortgage
 * 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
 * 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

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

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 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
 * Flipping
 * 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 investing, Real estate investment club, Flipping property
 * Investment
 * Investment rating for real estate
 * Investment value
 * Involuntary alienation
 * Firm offer

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
 * 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
 * Mini dorm
 * 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
 * Peak land value intersection
 * 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 benchmarking
 * 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