# Index of real estate articles

This aims to be a complete list of the articles on real estate.
* Top
* 0–9
* A
* B
* C
* D
* E
* F
* G
* H
* I
* J
* K
* L
* M
* N
* O
* P
* Q
* R
* S
* T
* U
* V
* W
* X
* Y
* Z
* 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
* Double escrow
* 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