A selection of real estate terms clearly and briefly defined to help understand the homebuying and homeselling process. Adjustable rate mortgage: A mortgage on which the interest rate charged may ...

"As is" is perhaps one of the biggest red flags in real estate. “It often signals that the property may have significant ...

Do you know the meaning of these terms: density bonus; waiver/variance and mitigation; bundle/unbundle; traffic demand management and special district? If not, you should, because they and Alameda’s ...

Kim Porter began her career as a writer and an editor focusing on personal finance in 2010. Since then, her work has been published everywhere from Forbes Advisor to U.S. News & World Report, Fortune, ...

A strange word has entered the real estate vocabulary: “surban.” This awkward portmanteau represents a fundamental shift in where people want to live and work. In particular, where millennials want to ...

With so much uncertainty in the markets, more investors are exploring new ways to counter daily volatility. Commercial real estate (CRE) with longer-term, stable income streams is rapidly gaining ...

If a real-estate agent working with the buyer represents the seller, the agent will ask the buyer to sign an agency disclosure notice informing the buyer of this relationship. Also, if the same firm ...