|
Search over 100 encyclopedias and dictionaries: |
Research categories | Follow us on Twitter |
Research categories
View all topics in the newsView all reference sources at Encyclopedia.com |
|||
|
Steering
STEERING The process whereby builders, brokers, and rental property managers induce purchasers or lessees of real property to buy land or rent premises in neighborhoods composed of persons of the same race. Steering is an unlawful practice and includes any words or actions by a real estate sales... Read more |
|
Setback
SETBACK A distance from a curb, property line, or structure within which building is prohibited. Setbacks are building restrictions imposed on property owners. Local governments create setbacks through ordinances and building codes, usually for reasons of public policy such as safety, privacy,... Read more |
|
fine
fine 1 In criminal law, sum of money exacted by a lawful tribunal as punishment for a crime. In the case of misdemeanors and minor infractions of the law, convicted persons ordinarily have the alternative of paying a fine or undergoing a short term of imprisonment. This practice has been... Read more |
|
Market Value
MARKET VALUE The highest price a willing buyer would pay and a willing seller would accept, both being fully informed, and the property being exposed for sale for a reasonable period of time. The market value may be different from the price a property can actually be sold for at a given time... Read more |
|
Closing
CLOSING The final transaction between a buyer and seller of real property. At the closing, all agreements between buyer and seller are finalized, documents are signed and exchanged, money passes to the seller, and title to the property passes to the buyer. Closings generally take place at... Read more |
|
Listing
LISTING An agreement that represents the right of a real estate agent or broker to handle the sale of real property and to receive a fee or commission for services. There are various types of real estate listings. A general or open listing is a right to sell that may be given to more than one... Read more |
|
National Trust
National Trust British association to preserve for the nation places of natural beauty or buildings of architectural or historic interest in the British Isles; founded 1894, chartered 1895. By act of Parliament (1907) the Trust was empowered to acquire land inalienably and to be exempt from duties... Read more |
|
buyer
buyer the buyer has need of a hundred eyes, the seller of but one warning to a purchaser that it is their responsibility to examine goods on offer. Recorded from the mid 17th century; a similar saying is found in Italian.let the buyer beware it is up to the buyer to establish the nature and value... Read more |
|
lotus-eaters
lotus-eaters or Lotophagi , a fabulous people who occupied the north coast of Africa and lived on the lotus, which brought forgetfulness and happy indolence. They appear in the Odyssey. When Odysseus landed among them, some of his men ate the food. They forgot their friends and home and had to... Read more |
|
Adverse possession
ADVERSE POSSESSION A method of gaining legal title to real property by the actual, open, hostile, and continuous possession of it to the exclusion of its true owner for the period prescribed by state law. personal property may also be acquired by adverse possession. Adverse possession is similar... Read more |
No reference documents or articles match the search term The land that time, and homebuyers, forgot British property buyers are
Suggestions: