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NC Real Estate
NC Real Estate Key Terms
Question | Answer |
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Bill of sale | An instrument transferring ownership of personal property |
Chattel | Personal property |
Closing | The consummation of a real estate contract. Also called settlement. |
Free market | An economic condition in which buyer and seller are able to negotiate a purchase and sale without undue pressure, urgency, or outside influences other than the law of suply and demand. |
Higest and best use | The use of land that will preserve its utility and yield a net income in the form of rent that forms, when capitalized at the proper rate of interest, the highest present value of the land. |
Immobility | A physical characteristic of land describing the impossibility of relocating land from one place to another. |
Improvements | Structures, walls. roads and so on. |
Indestructibility | A physical characteristic of land meaning that land is a permanent commodity and cannot be destroyed. |
Land use controls | Governmental controls (e.g. zoning laws, building codes) or private controls such as deeds restrictions, subdivision covenants that dictate how the land can be used. |
Listing contract | An agreement whereby a property owner employs a real estate broker to look for a buyer for the property described in the contract and promises to compensate the agent. |
Nonhomogeneity | A physical characteristic of land describing that land as a unique commodity. |
Offer to purchase and contract | A bilateral enforceable contract for the sale of real property. |
Personal property | All property that is not land and is not permanently attached to land. Everything that is movable. |
Personality | Personal property or chattels. |
Real Estate | Land and everything that is permanently attached to land. |
Real Property | Land and everything permanently attached to land, including all rights and interests in the land. |
Realtor | A registered trademark of the National Association of REALTORS. |
Realty | Land and everything permanently attached to land. |
Scarcity | In short supply in comparison with demand. |
Situs | Location of land. |
Specific performance | An instruction of a court requiring a defaulting party to a contract to buy and sell real property to carry out his or her obligations under the contract. |