About Real Estate Defined
This excellent reference source is based on the highly-acclaimed ENCYCLOPEDIA OF REAL ESTATE TERMS (3rd. ed. 2008). It is intended for real estate appraisers, agents, brokers, investors, lawyers, consultants, managers, students and general readers. A subscriber to this site will be able to find quickly and in one place, at any time and anywhere:
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page and paragraph). Including such publications as ALR, Am.Jur.2d, C.J.S., Halsbury's Laws of England, the ALI Restatements, USPAP, the RICS Red Book, all the major international real estate textbooks, and many many more. - answers to many questions on real estate accounting, appraisal, contract, finance, investment, landlord/tenant, planning/zoning, real estate law, tort, valuation, … .
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- updates are added, with over 250 new words and phrases since publication of the Third Edition of the Encyclopdia. Further additions and modicifiations are made on a regular basis. A subscriber may also request further information through the Suggestions Page.
This professional reference work on real estate definitions is truly international, with material from the U.S.A., the U.K. (including Scotland). Australia, Canada, New Zealand, France, as well as Latin and Civil Law property terms, words and phrases.
