Glossary

Redlining

Rectangular survey system

Quitclaim deed

Recovery fund

Pyramiding

Recording

Recorded plat

Realtist

Real estate mortgage investment conduit

Purchase money mortgage

Pur autre vie

Real estate license law

Puffing

Real estate investment trust

Public ownership

Real estate investment syndicate

Real estate inspector

Prorate

Property manager

Real Estate Center

Ready, willing, and able buyer

Promulgated contracts

Range

Promissory note

Rural Development

Risk management

Professional inspector

Riparian rights

Procuring

Revocation

Probate

Reversionary right

Private mortgage insurance

Reversion

Prior appropriation

Reverse annuity mortgage

RESPA

Principle of conformity

Residential rental locator

Principal meridian

Reservation

Renters insurance

Remainder interest

Prime rate

Release of lien

Primary mortgage market

Release deed

Price fixing

Regulation Z

Price

Prepaid item

Precedent

Power of sales clause

Power of attorney

Police power

Point of beginning

Point

Special agent

Plottage value

Sole proprietorship

Plat

Situs

Planned unit development

Shared appreciation mortgage

PITI

Severance

Physical deterioration

Severalty

Setback

Servient tenement

Personalty

Sellers Disclosure Notice

Personal property

Section

Periodic estate

Satisfaction of mortgage

Percentage lease

Salesperson annual education

Percent

Salesperson

Sales contract

Sales comparison approach

Patent

Sale and leaseback

Party wall

Subordination

Sublease

Subjective value

Subagent

Party

Straight line method

Partition

Steering

Parce

Statutory year

Panic peddling

Statutory lien

Package mortgage

Owelty

Statute of limitations

Statue of frauds

Spot zoning

Ostensible agency

Specific performance

Origination fee

Specific lien

Option

Special assessment

Open listing

Open end mortgage

Tax sale

Offer and acceptance

Tax lien

Objective value

Tax credit

Tax basis

Nuncupative will

Tacking

Novation

Syndicate

Note

Surface rights

Nonresident broker

Surety bond

Nonrecourse note

Nonhomogeneity

Nonconforming use

Surety bail bond

Supply

Net listing

Suit to quiet title

Subsurface rights

Substitution

Net lease

Subrogation

National association of realtors

Subpoena

Subordination agreement

Multiple listing

Multiperil policies

Mortgage broker

Trust deed

Mortgage backed securities

Trust

Mortgage

Trigger terms

Monument

Trade fixture

Township tier

Township line

Money judgment

Title theory

Monetary policy

Title search

Mitigate damages

Title commitment

Title

Timesharing

Testate

Tenant

Tenancy at will

Tenancy at sufferance

Misrepresentation

Tax shelter

Metes and bounds description

Mechanics lien

Market value

Vendees lien

Vendee

Variance

Variable rate mortgage

Value

VA loan

Valid contract

Usury

Useful life

Market price

Unity of ownership

Market data approach to the value

Unilateral contract

Marketable title

Uniform Settlement Statement

Market

Uniform Commercial Code

Trustees deed

Wraparound mortgage

Writ of possession

Writ of execution

Workers compensation insurance

Will

Waste

Warranty clause

Mandatory continuing education

Wage lien

Warehousing agency

Management agreement

Unenforceable contract

Lot and block description

Voluntary lien

Voluntary alienation

Volume

Loss

Voidable contract

Locational obsolescence

Viewshed

Loan discount

Vendors lien

Littoral rights

Vendor

Listing agreement

Lis pendens

Zoning ordinance

Liquidity

Zoning board of adjustment

Zero lot line

Liquidated damages

Linear measure

Limited partnership

Limited liability company

Like kind property

Life tenant

Lien theory

Lien

License

Liability coverage

Levy

Leverage

Legal description

Legacy

Leasehold estate

Lease

League

Law of agency

Latent defect

Last will and testament

Land contract

Laches

Junior lien

Judgment

Joint tenancy

Involuntary lien

Involuntary alienation

Intrinsic value

Interstate land sales full disclosure act

Internal revenue service tax lien

Intermediary broker

Interim financing

Interest only loan

Insurable title

Installment sale

Installment contract

Inspector

Inheritance taxes

Infrastructure

Inflation

Infant

Independent contractor

Incorporeal right

Income approach

Implied contract

Implied agency

Hypothecation

HUD 1

Homestead

Home mortgage disclosure act

Holographic will

Holdover tenancy

Highest and best use

Heterogeneity

Habitability statue

Habendum clause

Groundwater rights

Ground lease

Gross rent multiplier

Gross income multiplier

Grantor indexes

Grantor

Grating clause

Grantee

Graduated payment mortgage

Government survey system

Government national mortgage association

Good faith estimate

Good and indefeasible title

Ginnie mae

General partnership

General lien

General agent

Gap

Future interest

Functional obsolescence

Fully amortized loan

Freehold estate

Freddie mac

Fraud

Formal will

Foreclosure

Forcible entry and detainer

Flexible payment loan

Fixture

Fiscal policy

First mortgage

Fire and extended coverage insurance

Financing statement

Fiduciary relationship

FHA loan

Feudal system

Fee simple subject to a condition subsequent

Fee simple estate

Federal reserve system

Federal national mortgage association

Federal judgment lien

Federal home loan mortgage corporation

Federal emergency management agency

Federal agricultural mortgage corporation

Farmer mac

Farm service agency

Fannie mae

Fair housing acct of 1968

Extraterritorial jurisdiction

External obsolescence

Express contract

Express agency

Executory contract

Executor

Execution

Executed contract

Exclusive agency

Exception

Evidence of title

Eviction

Estoppel certificate

Estimate of value

Estate in land

Estate from period to period

Estate for years

Escrow

Escheat

Erosion

Equity loan

Equity

Equitable title

Equitable right of redemption

Equitable lien

Equal opportunity in housing

Equal Credit Opportunity Act

Endorsement

Encumbrance

Encroachment

Enabling acts

Employment contract

Employee

Eminent domain

Emblements

Economic life

Easement in gross

Easement by prescription

Easement by necessity

Easement by implication

Easement appurtenant

Easement

Earnest Money Deposit

Cycle

Customer

Curtesy

Counteroffer

Counseling

Cost recovery

Cost approach to value

Corpus

Corporeal right

Corporation

Co ownership

Cooperative

Conveyance

Conventional loan

Contract for deed

Contract

Consumer

Constructive notice

Consideration

Condominium

Conditional use permit

Condition

Condemnation

Computerized loan origination

Comprehensive plan

Competitive market analysis

Competent parties

Comparables

Community Reinvestment Act

Community property right of survivorship

Community property

Common law

Common elements

Commission

Commingle

Collateral

Coinsurance clause

Codicil

Cloud on the title

Closing statement

Closing agent

Closing

Client

Civil Rights Act of 1966

Chattel

Channeling

Chain of title

Caveat emptor

Casualty insurance

Cash flow

Capitalization rate

Capitalization

Capital investment

Capital gain

Buyers broker

Buyer representation agreement

Buyer agency

Buydown mortgage

Business interruption insurance

Business cycle

Bundle of legal rights

Building permit

Building line

Building code

Buffer zone

Broker associate

Brokerage

Broker

Breach of contract

Branch office

Boot

Blue sky laws

Blockbusting

Blanket mortgage

Biweekly payment plan

Bill of sale

Bequest

Beneficiary

Bench mark

Basis

Base line

Balloon payment

Avulsion

Automatic extension

Attorney

Attachment

Assumption of mortgage

Assignment

Assessment roll

Assessment

Assessed value

Assemblage

ARELLO

Appurtenances

Apprentice inspector

Appreciation

Appraised value

Appraisal review board

Appraisal

Appointed licensee

Antitrust laws

Amount realized on sale

Amortization

Americans with Disabilities Act

Allodial system

Alienation clause

Alienation

Air rights

Air lot

Agent

Agency by ratification

Agency

Adverse possession

Ad valorem tax

Administrator

Adjusted sales price

Adjustable rate mortgage

Actual notice

Acre

Acknowledgement

Accrued items

Accretion

Accession

Acceleration clause

Abstract of title with lawyers opinion

Abstract of title

Abatement

Abandonment

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