Real Estate Terms

  1. Repricing Opportunity

  2. Required Cash

  3. Reserve Fund

  4. Reset Date

  5. Reset Rate

  6. Residential Mortgage-Backed Security (RMBS)

  7. Residential Rental Property

  8. Residual Income

  9. Restricted Market

  10. Restrictive Covenant

  11. Retail Lender

  12. Retaliatory Eviction

  13. Return On Capital Gains

  14. Return On Net Assets - RONA

  15. Revenue Per Available Room - RevPAR

  16. Revenue Per Occupied Room - RevPOR

  17. Reverse Exchange

  18. Reverse Mortgage

  19. Revocable Line Of Credit

  20. RHS Loan

  21. Right Of Foreclosure

  22. Right Of Redemption

  23. Risk Participation

  24. Risk-Based Mortgage Pricing

  25. Robo-Signer

  26. Roll In

  27. Rollover Mortgage

  28. Rule Of 78

  29. Sandwich Lease

  30. Scheduled Recast

  31. SEC Form S-11

  32. Second Lien Debt

  33. Second Mortgage

  34. Secondary Mortgage Market

  35. Secondary Mortgage Market Enhancement Act - SMMEA

  36. Section 1041

  37. Secure Option ARM

  38. Secured Creditor

  39. Secured Debt

  40. Securitization

  41. Security Agreement

  42. Security Deposit

  43. Self-Amortizing Loan

  44. Seller Financing

  45. Seller-Financed Sale

  46. Seller-Paid Points

  47. Serious Delinquency

  48. Servicing Fee

  49. Settlement Agent

  50. Settlement Statement

  51. Shadow Inventory

  52. Shared Equity Finance Agreements

  53. Shared Equity Mortgage

  54. Shared-Appreciation Mortgage - SAM

  55. Shell Lease

  56. Sheriff's Sales

  57. Short Refinance

  58. Silent Second Mortgage

  59. Simple Interest Bi-Weekly Mortgage

  60. Simple-Interest Mortgage

  61. Simultaneous Closing - SIMO

  62. Single Net Lease

  63. Skip-Payment Mortgage

  64. Spot Loan

  65. Spousal Stripping

  66. Squatter

  67. Standing Mortgage

  68. Stated Income / Stated Asset Mortgage - SISA

  69. Step-Up Lease

  70. Strategic Default

  71. Straw Buyer

  72. Straw Buying

  73. Stripped MBS

  74. Subject Offer

  75. Sublease

  76. Subprime Borrower

  77. Subprime Meltdown

  78. Subprime Mortgage

  79. Take-Out Commitment

  80. Take-Out Loan

  81. Tandem Plan

  82. Tax Lien Foreclosure

  83. Teaser Loan

  84. Teaser Rate

  85. Technical Default

  86. Temporary Lender

  87. Tenancy At Sufferance

  88. Tenancy At Will

  89. Tenancy By The Entirety

  90. Tenancy In Common

  91. Tenants By Entirety - TBE

  92. Tenants In Common - TIC

  93. Tenement

  94. Termination Statement

  95. The Smith Maneuver

  96. Third-Party Mortgage Originator

  97. Time Sharing

  98. Timeshare

  99. Title Search

  100. Torrens Certificate

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