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Real estate is property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as growing crops (e.g. timber), minerals or water, and wild animals; immovable property of this nature; an interest vested in this (also) an item of real property, (more generally) buildings or housing in general.
In countries with personal ownership of real property, civil law protects the status of real property in real-estate markets, where estate agents work in the market of buying and selling real estate. Scottish civil law calls real property heritable property, and in French-based law, it is called immobilier ("immovable property").
A real estate transaction is the process whereby rights in a unit of property (or designated real estate) are transferred between two or more parties, e.g., in the case of conveyance, one party being the seller(s) and the other being the buyer(s). It can often be quite complicated due to the complexity of the property rights being transferred ...
Real estate development, or property development, is a business process, encompassing activities that range from the renovation and re-lease of existing buildings to the purchase of raw land and the sale of developed land or parcels to others.
Real estate agents and real estate brokers are people who represent sellers or buyers of real estate or real property. While a broker may work independently, an agent usually works under a licensed broker to represent clients. [ 1 ]
Graph showing the increase in price of commercial real estate in the US. Cash inflows and outflows are the money that is put into, or received from, the property including the original purchase cost and sale revenue over the entire life of the investment. An example of this sort of investment is a real estate fund. Cash inflows include the ...
According to the Federal Reserve, the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA) requires lenders to provide an itemized list of what will be paid with the funds and where the money goes once ...
Once an instrument affecting the title to real estate has been recorded, the law holds that everyone is deemed to know of its existence, even if they have not searched the records in the recorder's office. This is the doctrine of "constructive notice" and it is nearly universal in the various states of the U.S. So, for example, after a deed or ...