Index of real estate articles explained
This aims to be a complete list of the articles on real estate.
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- 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 – a 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, or 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
- Buyer brokerage
- Buyer's agent
C
- Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA)
- Capital appreciation
- Capital gain
- 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
- 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
- Courtesy signing
- 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
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