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Real Estate Terms





  • actual cash value

    The price property will bring in a fair market, after fair and reasonable efforts have been made to [...]

  • amortization

    The process of recovering, over a stated period of time, a capital investment; the provision for the [...]

  • arbitrage

    Buying in one market while selling simultaneously in another to make a profit (minus transaction costs). [...]

  • capitalization

    The process of converting into a present value (obtaining present worth of) a series of anticipated [...]

  • capitalization rate

    The rate used to convert income into value. [...]

  • compound interest

    The interest on interest; interest earned during a given period is added to the principal and included [...]

  • consumer price index

    Various statistical indexes gathered and published by the U.S. federal government as economic indicators. [...]

  • cost approach

    A method in which the value of a property is derived by estimating the replacement cost of the improvements, [...]

  • creative financing

    Any financing arrangement other than a traditional mortgage from a third-party lending institution. [...]

  • debt service

    The payments consisting of amortization and interest on a loan. [...]

  • depreciation

    A loss from the upper limit of value caused by deterioration and/or obsolescence. [...]

  • discount rate

    An interest rate commensurate with perceived risk; used to convert future payments or receipts to present [...]

  • DOWNREIT

    Similar to an UPREIT, with the difference lying in asset holdings. Most of a DOWNREIT's holdings are [...]

  • equity

    The net value of a property, obtained by subtracting from its total value all liens and other charges [...]

  • funds from operations

    Net income, excluding gains (or losses) from debt restructuring and sales of property, plus depreciation [...]

  • income approach

    An appraisal technique in which the anticipated net income is processed to indicate the capital amount [...]

  • leverage

    The use of borrowed funds to complete an investment transaction. The higher the proportion of borrowed [...]

  • market sales approach

    An appraisal technique in which the market value estimate is predicated upon prices paid in actual market [...]

  • market value

    The price to expect if a reasonable time is allowed to find a purchaser and if both seller and prospective [...]

  • mortgage constant

    The total annual payment of principal and interest (annual debt service) on a level-payment amortized [...]

  • multiple percentage rates

    A lease agreement in which the percentage rent rate changes at various increments of sales. [...]

  • net operating income

    The income after deducting from gross income the operating expenses, including property taxes; insurance; [...]

  • operating expenses

    Generally speaking, all expenses, occurring periodically, that are necessary to produce net income before [...]

  • recapture rate

    The annual rate at which capital investment is returned to an investor over a specified period of time; [...]

  • Sources

    ICSC, NAREIT, "Barron's Dictionary of Real Estate Terms." [...]

  • time value of money The concept underlying compound interest

    that a dollar received today is worth more than a dollar in the future, due to opportunity, cost, inflation [...]

  • UPREIT

    In the typical umbrella partnership real estate investment trust (UPREIT), the partners of an existing [...]