Need to know real estate jargon? This quick-reference guide can help. Home buyers and sellers, as well as real estate professionals, investors, and attorneys can rely on this quick-reference source. More than 3,000 terms and definitions cover topics that include appraisal, architectural styles, brokerage, construction, development, environmental finance, mortgage types, zoning regulations, and much more. Includes graphs, charts, and line art.

Barron’s Dictionary of Real Estate Terms includes more than 3,000 terms and definitions to help you feel comfortable using modern real estate language. This quick reference guide for home buyers and sellers, real estate professionals, business students, investors, or attorneys includes: Definitions for real estate topics A-Z, including: appraisal, architecture, brokerage, construction, debenture, flood plain, negative, amortization, security instrument, subprime loan, underlying mortgage, zoning, and more More than 200 line illustrations graphs, charts, tables A list of common abbreviations and mathematical formulas Mortgage payment table and measurement tables for quick reference