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This combination Real Estate Glossary and Personal Finance Glossary provides definitions of commonly used real estate and personal finance terms. All definitions are listed below, arranged in alphabetical order.

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12(b)-1 Fees

401(k) Plan

403(b) Plan

A

Abstract of Title

Accelerated Benefit

Acceleration Clause

Accumulation Fund

Acquisition or Bank Fee

Addendum

Adjustable-Rate Mortgage (ARM)

Adjusted Gross Income

Agency

Agency Closing

Agent

Agreement of Sale

Amortization

Annual Mileage Allowance

Annual Percentage Rate (APR)

Any-Occupation Policy

Application

Application Fee

Appraisal

Articles-of-Agreement for Deed

Asset Allocation

Assumption of Mortgage

B

Balloon Mortgage

Blue Chips

Bond

Bond Fund

Building Code and Condition Coverage

Building Line or Setback

Buy Down

Buyer Broker

Buyer's Market

C

Callability

Calls

Capital Gain

Capitalized Cost Reduction

Capital Loss

Certificate of Title

Cash Surrender Value

Cash Value Policy

Catastrophic Care

Chain of Title

Churning

Classified Shares

Closed-Ended

Common Stock

Conditionally Renewable Policy

Consumer Federation of America (CFA)

Consumer Price Index (CPI)

Contrarian fund

Cost-Of-Living Adjustments (COLA)

Convertible Bond

Corporate Bond

Coupon

Current Yield

D

Debt Service

Deferred Compensation Plan

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

Dependent

Discount

Diversified Funds

Dividends
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E

Endorsement

Equity

Estimated Tax Payments

F

Fee Simple

Fiduciary Duty

Filing Status

First Mortgage

Fixture

Foreclosure

Fund Of Funds

Fund Supermarket

G

GAP Insurance

Gift Letter

Good Faith Estimate (GFE)

Grace Period

Graduated Payment Mortgage

Gross Capitalized Cost

Growth Stock

Guaranteed Cost Replacement

Guaranteed Renewable Policy

H

Hard Asset Funds

Hazard Insurance

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

HMO (Health Maintenance Organization)

Holdback

Homeowner's Association

Homeowner's Insurance

Home Inspection

Home Warranty

Hostile Takeover

I

Inception Fees

Income Replacement Policy

Income Stock

Indemnity Plans

Index Funds

Individual Retirement Account (IRA)

Initial Public Offering (IPO)

Installment Contract for Deed

Institutional Investors or Lenders

Interest

Interest-Only Mortgage

Interest Rate Cap

IRS Penalty

J

Joint Tenancy

K

Keogh

L

Landscape

Late Charge

Lease Charge or Money Factor

Lease with an Option to Buy

Lender

Lessee

Lessor

Letter of Intent

Leverage

Lien

Life Cycle Funds

Listing

Load

Loan

Loan Commitment

Loan Origination Fee

Loan-to-Value Ratio

Location

Lock-In

Long-Term Care Insurance

M

Maintenance Fee

Management Buyout

Market Price

Market Sector

Matured Bond

Medicaid

Medicare

Medicare Supplemental Insurance (Medigap or MedSup)

Merger

Mortgage

Mortgage Banker

Mortgage Broker

Mortgagee

Mortgagor

Multiple Listing Service (MLS)

Municipal Bond

N

Negative Amortization

Net Asset Value (NAV)

No-Fault Insurance

No-Load

Non-Cancelable Policy

O

Opened-Ended

Open-End Lease

Operating Expense Ratio (OER)

Option to Purchase

Optionally Renewable Policy

Origination Fee

Ownership

Own-Occupation Policy

P

Package Mortgage

Paper

Par

Partial Disability Coverage

Personal Articles Rider

Personal Injury Protection

Personal Property

PITI

Pledged Account

Point

POS (Point of Service) Plans

Possession

Power of Attorney

PPO (Preferred Provider Organization)

Pre-Existing Condition

Preferred Stock

Prepaid Interest

Prepayment Penalty

Prequalifying for a Loan

Presumptive Disability

Price to Earnings Ratio (P/E)

Principal

Private Mortgage Insurance (PMI)

Property Tax

Proration

Purchase Agreement

Purchase Fee

Purchase Money Mortgage

Purchase-Option Price

Q

Quit-claim Deed

R

Real Rate of Return

Real Estate

Real Estate Agent

Real Estate Attorney

Real Estate Broker

Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA)

Realtist

Realtor

Recording

Redemption Fee

Redlining

Regulation M

Regulation Z

Replacement Insurance

Reserve

Residual Value

Roth IRA

S

Sale-Leaseback

Sales Contract

Sales Tax

Savings Bonds

Savings Incentive Match Plan for Employees (SIMPLE-401(k) or IRA)

Second Mortgage

Seller Broker

Settlement Statement

Shared Appreciation Mortgage

Simplified Employee Pension (SEP-IRA)

Social Security

Special Assessment

Specialty Funds

Spin-off

Standard Deduction

Stock Broker

Stock Rights

Subagent

Subdivision

Subvented Lease

T

Tax Audit

Tax Bracket

Tax Credit

Tax Exemption

Tax Lien

Tax Shelter

Taxable Income

Tenancy by the Entirety

Tenants in Common

Tender Offer

Term (Bonds)

Term (Car Lease)

Title

Title Company

Title Insurance

Total Return

Transaction Fees

Treasuries

Treasury Bills (T-Bills)

Trust Account

U

Umbrella Liability Policy

Underwriter

Universal Life Insurance

V

Variable Interest Rate

Viatical Settlement

Void

Voluntary Lien

W

Waiver

Warrants

Wash Sale

Withholding

Withholding Allowance

Wrap Accounts

X

Y

Yield to Call

Yield to Maturity

Z

Zero Coupon Bonds

Zoning