English word senses marked with topical category "Real estate"

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• AST (Noun) Initialism of assured shorthold tenancy.
• BPO (Noun) Initialism of broker's price opinion.
• CAM (Noun) Initialism of common area maintenance.
• DINO (Noun) Acronym of developer in name only — a real estate development company or individual that is still active, but does not have any developments underway due to a downturn in the market or in the economy in general.
• EIK (Noun) A kitchen with room for a table and chairs, or with a counter meant for eating on and room for barstools.
• FSBO (Noun) Acronym of for sale by owner, referring to the property.
• GFE (Noun) Initialism of good-faith estimate.
• HOA (Noun) Initialism of homeowner association.
• MLS (Noun) Initialism of multiple listing service.
• PMC (Noun) Initialism of property management company or corporation.
• RFQS (Adjective) reduced for quick sale: Used when advertising houses at a lower than expected price to indicate that the vendor wants to sell the house quickly.
• STCA (Adjective) Initialism of subject to council approval.
• TICAM (Noun) Acronym of taxes, insurance, and common area maintenance.
• abstract (Noun) A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of title.
• abstract of title (Noun) An epitome of the evidences of ownership; the condensed history of title to a particular parcel of real estate, with encumbrances.
• amortize (Verb) To alienate (property) in mortmain.
• appraisal cost (Noun) The costs that are incurred in assessing that products/services conform to the requirements. It relates to testing, executing, and examination to assess whether specified quality is being maintained. Some example component items of the total appraisal costs are: product quality audits, process control monitoring, inspection and testing of goods, and maintenance of test equipment.
• balloon payment (Noun) An unusually large payment due at the end of the term of a loan agreement.
• banjeonse (Noun) A form of lease in the South Korean real estate market which is a hybrid between jeonse and wolse, in which the lessee provides the landlord with a smaller lump sum deposit than would be required with jeonse, while agreeing to pay a lower rate of monthly rent than would be required with wolse.
• bath (Noun) Clipping of bathroom.
• bidworthy (Adjective) Worthy of a bid or offer
• blockface (Noun) The side of a block that faces a given street.
• caballeria (Noun) A medieval Spanish land tenure equivalent to a knight's fee, held under an obligation for military service.
• closing costs (Noun) Fees which are paid at the conclusion or closing of a real estate transaction.
• compensation (Noun) An equivalent stipulated for in contracts for the sale of real estate, in which it is customary to provide that errors in description, etc., shall not avoid, but shall be the subject of compensation.
• covenant of warranty (Noun) A legal agreement or promise, one of the English covenants of title and future covenants, whereby the grantor of a property assures the grantee that he or she will not be subject to the claims of someone with a paramount title, thereby guaranteeing the status of the title that is being conveyed.
• deed (Noun) A legal instrument that is executed under seal or before a witness; sometimes required for certain legal activities, such as the transfer of certain kinds of property.; The legal title to real estate; ownership.
• deed (Verb) To transfer real property by deed.
• development (Noun) A project consisting of one or more commercial or residential buildings.
• development (Noun) The building of such a project.
• effluxion of time (Noun) The determination of a term of years due to the passage of time, rather than the occurrence of a specific event.
• exchange contracts (Verb) To create a contract for the disposition of an estate in land between negotiating parties, by a process which is immediately followed by the exchange of executed counterparts of the contract between each party's legal representative.
• exchange of contracts (Noun) The act of exchanging contracts.
• exchanging contracts (Noun) Alternative form of exchange of contracts.
• fee simple (Noun) The private ownership of property (real estate) in which the owner has the right to control, use, and transfer the property at will.
• fee simple absolute in possession (Noun) The unqualified and unrestricted ownership of an estate in land; freehold tenure.
• fisbo (Noun) A property being sold by the owner, without the aid of a broker.
• fixer (Noun) A fixer-upper.
• fizbo (Noun) A property being sold by the owner, without the aid of a broker.
• folium (Noun) A document that acts as the legal record of a transaction.; A certificate of title.
• four door house (Noun) In Taiwan, a house with four doors, specifically a house with a garage, a garage door that connects to the home, a front door, and a back door.
• freehold (Noun) Real property held by a tenure of this type.
• front foot (Noun) The width, in feet, of the front of a property.
• gazump (Verb) To raise the selling price of something (especially property) after previously agreeing to a lower one.
• gazump (Verb) To buy a property by bidding more than the price of an existing, accepted offer.
• gazump (Noun) The act of gazumping.
• ghost home (Noun) A residence intentionally kept vacant by an absentee owner, especially a foreign investor, as a financially safe asset to be liquidated at a convenient time.
• googolplex (Numeral) An infinitesimally small portion of land, defined for legal purposes.
• ground rent (Noun) Rent paid under a ground lease, usually long-term or in perpetuity, for a surface right or estate in land where the landowner (surface owner) and the owner of improvements (ground lessor) are separate; the improvements are effectively security for the payment of the rent.
• head tenant (Noun) Synonym of lead tenant.
• homeowner association (Noun) A private association formed by a real estate developer for the purpose of marketing, managing, and selling homes and lots in a residential subdivision.
• iBuyer (Noun) A company which offers to buy real estate (usually residential) quickly for cash, often without the level of due diligence exercised by traditional buyers and using computer algorithms to determine price.
• jeonse (Noun) A form of lease in the South Korean real estate market in which the lessee does not pay rent, but instead provides the landlord with a large lump sum deposit which is returned in full once the lease has determined, with the landlord profiting through investment of the deposit.
• knight's fee (Noun) The specific amount of land giving rise to such requirements generally, being sometimes a hide or less and sometimes six or more hides.
• landlocked (Adjective) Surrounded by other property and having no access to a public road.
• lead tenant (Noun) The tenant nominated to be the primary point of contact for a managed residential joint tenancy.
• lease for lives (Noun) A kind of lease for a term of years determinable, popular in the 17th and 18th centuries, which typically named three individuals – the "lives" – and determined upon the death of all three.
• leasehold (Adjective) Of an estate in land, held for a term of years absolute by a lessee or tenant.
• mixed-use (Adjective) Of an urban development: blending residential, commercial, cultural, institutional, or entertainment uses, where those functions are physically and functionally integrated, and have routes that connect them for pedestrians.
• nominated tenant (Noun) Synonym of lead tenant.
• overbuilt (Adjective) Having had excessive construction (building) carried out, as:; Overdeveloped.
• overdeveloped (Adjective) Excessively developed, as:; Overbuilt.
• paramount title (Noun) A claim to the title of a property, which is superior and stronger in comparison to all other claims.
• personal covenant (Noun) A legal agreement or promise regarding a piece of real estate, which binds the party who makes the covenant but which does not pass from one owner to another when the land is conveyed.
• predeveloper (Noun) An agent who acquires land for the purpose of later development.
• property management (Noun) The operation, control and oversight of real estate.
• rancher (Noun) A ranch-style house, a ranchhouse.
• real covenant (Noun) A legal agreement or promise regarding a piece of real estate, which passes from one owner to another when the land is conveyed and which is said to run with the land.
• resi (Adjective) Clipping of residential.
• resi (Noun) Clipping of residential real estate.
• scavenger sale (Noun) The sale of a property whose previous tenants were ejected for not paying rent.
• shirtfront (Noun) An attractive facade applied only to the front of a house.
• short sale (Noun) A property sale negotiated with a mortgage company in which a lender takes less than the total amount due.
• situs (Noun) The portion of an address comprising street number and street name, such as "3912 Park Drive".
• square (Noun) A unit of measurement of area, equal to a 10 foot by 10 foot square, i.e. 100 square feet or roughly 9.3 square metres. Used in real estate for the size of a house or its rooms, though progressively being replaced by square metres in metric countries such as Australia.
• staircase (Verb) To increase one's share in a co-ownership.
• subdivide (Verb) To divide into smaller sections.; To divide a plot of land into plots for residences; to convert open land into housing.
• sublet (Noun) Synonym of sublease.
• subletter (Noun) Synonym of sublessor.
• subletting (Noun) Synonym of sublease.
• sweat equity (Noun) An investment of labour, typically by the owner and often his or her family, usually in a small business or personal residence that increases the value of the business or residence.
• tax lot (Noun) An parcel of real property on which property taxes are levied.
• teardown (Noun) A well-maintained structure purchased and torn down to make way for a new structure.
• tenant at will (Noun) One who holds lands at the will of the owner.
• term of years (Noun) An estate in land held under a lease which is not perpetual or indefinite in length, though in some cases may be contingent on some guaranteed occurrence.
• term of years absolute (Noun) An estate in land held for a term of years of either a specified length or on a periodic basis, and which is not a term of years determinable (though may be determinable for other reasons); a leasehold estate in land.
• term of years determinable (Noun) An estate in land held for a term of years which determined on the deaths of certain individuals, or the cessation of certain life interests.
• time-share (Noun) A property jointly owned or leased by multiple people who are allowed to use (or sublet) it only during specified periods each year.
• time-sharing (Noun) The joint ownership or lease of a property by multiple people who can only use it for specified periods every year, or every other year.
• underlet (Verb) To let below the value.
• warranty (Noun) A legal agreement that was a real covenant and ran with the land: The grantor of a piece of real estate held in freehold, and his heirs, were required to officially guarantee their claim and plead their case for the title. If evicted by someone with a superior claim (paramount title), they were also required to hand over other real estate of equal value in recompense. It has now been replaced by p…
• warranty (Noun) A legal agreement that was a real covenant and ran with the land: The grantor of a piece of real estate held in freehold, and his heirs, were required to officially guarantee their claim and plead their case for the title. If evicted by someone with a superior claim (paramount title), they were also required to hand over other real estate of equal value in recompense. It has now been replaced by p…
• white land (Noun) Land not included in a plan for development, demolition, etc.
• widow foreclosure (Noun) Foreclosure on a reverse mortgage after the deedholder passes away, while the spouse resides on the property.
• wolse (Noun) A lease in the South Korean real estate market in which rent is paid monthly.

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