Glossary
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.
- 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
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- B
- Balloon Mortgage
- Blue Chips
- Bond
- Bond Fund
- Building Code and Condition Coverage
- Building Line or Setback
- Buy Down
- Buyer Broker
- Buyer's Market
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- C
- Callability
- Calls
- Capital Gain
- Capital Loss
- Capitalized Cost Reduction
- Cash Surrender Value
- Cash Value Policy
- Catastrophic Care
- Certificate of Title
- Chain of Title
- Churning
- Classified Shares
- Closed-Ended
- Common Stock
- Conditionally Renewable Policy
- Consumer Federation of America (CFA)
- Consumer Price Index (CPI)
- Contrarian fund
- Convertible Bond
- Corporate Bond
- Cost-Of-Living Adjustments (COLA)
- Coupon
- Current Yield
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- D
- Debt Service
- Deferred Compensation Plan
- Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
- Dependent
- Discount
- Diversified Funds
- Dividends
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- F
- Fee Simple
- Fiduciary Duty
- Filing Status
- First Mortgage
- Fixture
- Foreclosure
- Fund Of Funds
- Fund Supermarket
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- 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
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- H
- Hard Asset Funds
- Hazard Insurance
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
- HMO (Health Maintenance Organization)
- Holdback
- Home Inspection
- Home Warranty
- Homeowner's Association
- Homeowner's Insurance
- Hostile Takeover
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- 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 Rate Cap
- Interest-Only Mortgage
- IRS Penalty
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- 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
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- 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
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- N
- Negative Amortization
- Net Asset Value (NAV)
- No-Fault Insurance
- No-Load
- Non-Cancelable Policy
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- O
- Open-End Lease
- Opened-Ended
- Operating Expense Ratio (OER)
- Option to Purchase
- Optionally Renewable Policy
- Origination Fee
- Own-Occupation Policy
- Ownership
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- 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
- Principal
- Private Mortgage Insurance (PMI)
- Property Tax
- Proration
- Purchase Agreement
- Purchase Fee
- Purchase Money Mortgage
- Purchase-Option Price
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- R
- Real Estate
- Real Estate Agent
- Real Estate Attorney
- Real Estate Broker
- Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA)
- Real Rate of Return
- Realtist
- Realtor
- Recording
- Redemption Fee
- Redlining
- Regulation M
- Regulation Z
- Replacement Insurance
- Reserve
- Residual Value
- Roth IRA
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- 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
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- 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
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