List of real estate topics - Definition and Overview

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

Contents: Top - 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

A

• Abstract of title
• Acknowledgment
• Acre - A measure of land
• Ad valorem tax
• Adjustable rate mortgage (ARM)
• Administrator/Administratrix
• Adverse possession
• Agency, Agent
• Allodial, Allodium
• American Land Title Association (ALTA)
• Amortization
• Antitrust laws
• Apartment
• Appraisal
• Appraised value - An estimate of the present worth of a property
• Appreciation
• Arrears
• Assessment
• Assessed value - The value set upon a property for taxation purposes
• Assignment
• Assignment of contract
• Assumable loan
• Assumption of mortgage

B

• Basis (in property)
• Binder
• Buyer's agent
• Bundle of Rights

C

• Capital gain
• Capitalization rate
• Chain of title
• Cloud on title
• Closing costs
• Community property
• Community land trust
• Comparables
• Condominium
• Conservation land trust
• Contingency
• Contract of sale
• Contract for deed
• Conventional mortgage
• Conveyancing
• Cooperative apartment
• Copyhold
• Council housing

D

• Deed
• Deed of trust
• Deficiency
• Depreciation
• Documentary tax stamps
• Dominion Land Survey
• Double closing
• Due-on-sale clause

E

• Earnest money
• Easement
• Eminent domain
• Encroachment
• Encumbrance
• Equitable title
• Equity
• Escrow
• Escrow payment
• Estate (law) and Estate (house)
• Estate agent
• Estate agent (United Kingdom)
• Estate for years

F

• Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (FHLMC or Freddie Mac)
• Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA or Fannie Mae)
• Federal Housing Administration (FHA)
• Fee simple
• Freehold
• Foreclosure

G

• Gentrification
• Good faith estimate
• Government National Mortgage Association (GNMA or Ginnie Mae)
• Gramdan
• Grant deed
• Green belt

H

• Hard money
• Hard money lenders
• Heirs and assigns
• Home equity line of credit
• Homeowners association
• Housing association
• Housing tenure

I

• Impound account
• Index
• Installment land contract
• Installment sale
• Institute for Community Economics
• Insured mortgage
• Interest rate

J

• Joint and several liability
• Joint tenancy
• Judgment

K

L

• Land bank
• Land lease
• Land trust
• Land Trust Alliance
• Landlord
• Law of Agency
• Lease/Option
• Leasehold
• Lien
• Life estate
• Liquidated damages
• Lis pendens
• Listing
• Loan-to-value ratio
• Lot

M

• Market analysis
• Market value
• Marketable title
• Mechanic's lien
• Mortgage
• Mortgage broker
• Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corporation (MGIC)
• Mortgage insurance
• Multiple Listing Service (MLS)

N

• National Association of Realtors (NAR)
• Notary Public
• Note

O

• Option
• Origination fee
• Other Real Estate Owned (OREO)
• Owner-built home
• Owner-occupancy

P

• Performance mortgage
• Periodic tenancy
• Plat
• Points
• Proration
• Public housing
• Public Land Survey System
• Purchase money mortgage

Q

• Quiet title proceeding
• Quit claim deed

R

• Real estate
• Real estate agent
• Real estate broker
• Real estate developer
• Real estate investment trust (REIT)
• Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA)
• Real property
• Realtor
• Recording
• Recourse note
• Redemption
• Refinancing
• Release
• Rent
• Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
• Risk???? someone please put up something about it

S

• Second mortgage
• Secondary mortgage market
• Security instrument
• Settlement statement
• SOIR
• Specific performance
• Speculation
• Squatter's rights
• Sublet
• Subject-to
• Subordination
• Sweat equity

T

• Tenancy in common
• Tenancy by the entirety
• Tenant
• Theory of Value
• Title
• Title insurance
• Truth in Lending Act

U

• Urban sprawl
• Urban Land Institute[1] (http://www.uli.org)

V

• Value Theory

W

• Warranty deed

X

Y

• Yield spread premium

Z

• Zoning