Index of real estate articles

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Property law
Part of the common law series
Types
Acquisition
  • Gift
  • Adverse possession
  • Deed
  • Conquest
  • Discovery
  • Accession
  • Lost, mislaid, and abandoned property
  • Treasure trove
  • Bailment
  • License
  • Alienation
Estates in land
Conveyancing
Future use control
Nonpossessory interest
Related topics
Other common law areas
  • Contract law
  • Tort law
  • Wills, trusts and estates
  • Criminal law
  • Evidence
Higher category: Law and Common law
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This aims to be a complete list of the articles on real estate.

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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

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
  • 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
  • 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[]

I[]

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

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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 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

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T[]

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[]

Z[]

  • Zoning
  • Zoning map
  • Zoning ordinance – local ordinance that controls land use and buildings

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