List of real estate topics

A

• Abstract of title
• Acknowledgement
• Adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM)
• Adverse possession
• Allodial, Allodium
• American Land Title Association (ALTA)
• Amortization
• Appraised value
• Arrears
• Assignment of contract
• Assumable loan
• Assumption of mortgage

B

• Basis (in property)
• Binder
• Buyer's agent

C

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

D

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

E

• Earnest money
• Easement
• Eminent domain
• Encroachment
• Encumbrance
• Equitable title
• Equity
• Escrow
• Escrow payment
• Estate
• Estate agent
• 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

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

H

• Heirs and assigns
• Home equity line of credit
• Homeowner's association
• Housing association
• Housing tenure

I

• Impound account
• Index
• Installment land contract
• Installment sale
• Insured mortgage
• Interest rate

J

• Joint and several liability
• Joint tenancy
• Judgment

K

L

• Land lease
• Land trust
• Landlord
• Lease/Option
• Leasehold
• Lien
• Life estate
• Liquidated damages
• Lis pendens
• Listing
• Loan-to-value ratio
• Lot

M

• Market analysis
• 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)
• Note

O

• Option
• Origination fee
• Owner-occupancy

P

• Performance mortgage
• Periodic tenancy
• Plat
• Points
• Proration
• Public housing
• 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

S

• Second mortgage
• Secondary mortgage market
• Security instrument
• Settlement statement
• Specific performance
• Sublet
• Subject-to
• Subordination

T

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

U

• Urban Land Institute [1]

V

W

• Warranty deed

X

Y

• Yield spread premium

Z

• Zoning

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