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Unit 1 Key Terms
Term | Definition |
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broker | (1)One who acts as an intermediary on behalf of others for a fee or commission. (2)One who is licensed to list, lease, buy, exchange, auction, negotiate or sell interest in real estate for others for a fee. |
business cycles | The upward and downward fluctuations in business activities generally characterized by four stages: expansion, recession, depression, and revival. |
chattel | Items that are movable personal property which can be removed from real property. |
demand | The amount of goods people are willing and able to buy at a given price. |
hereditaments | Any interest in real estate capable of being inherited |
heterogeneity | Describes the quality of real estate that no two parcels of land are exactly the same. |
highest and best use | The possible use of a property that would produce the greatest net income and thereby develop the highest value. |
land | The earth's surface extending downward to the center of the earth and upward infinitely into space and including things permanently attached by nature, such as trees and water. |
market | A place where goods can be bought and sold and value established. |
nonhomogeneity | A lack of uniformity; dissimilarity; heterogeneity. A quaility of real estate because no two parcels of land are exactly alike. |
nonprovisional broker | (InNC)A real estate licensee that has completed the 90-hour postlicensing education to remove the provisional license status, also called a full broker |
personal property | Items of chattels or personalty that are movable and thereforeat do not fit the description of real propery. Ex: clothing, furniture, jewelry, money, vehicles, et cetera. |
personalty | Items of personal property that are not permanent and so can be removed from real property. |
provisional broker | A real estate licensee who performs real estate activities under the supervision of a licensed real estate broker-in-charge. Must complete postlicensing courses to remove status. |
real estate | Land including all things permanently attached to it, whether naturally or artificially. |
real propery | Land + improvements + rights, benefits, and interest inherent of ownership of said land |
situs | The personal preference of people for one location over another, not necessarily based on objective facts and knowledge. |
supply | The amount of goods available in the market to be sold at a given price. |
tenements | Any structure attached to the land. |