- Branche: Real estate
- Number of terms: 2794
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- Company Profile:
Coldwell Banker is a large real estate franchise founded in 1906 in San Francisco. Coldwell Banker has an international presence, with offices on six continents, 46 countries and territories. There are more than 600 Coldwell Banker offices outside of the United States.
The title to property which has been sufficiently reviewed by a title insurance company, such that they are willing to insure it as free and clear.
Industry:Real estate
An inspection identifying existing or potential pest, dry rot, fungus, and other structure-threatening infestation or conditions. Sometimes referred to as "termite inspection."
Industry:Real estate
A buyer's agreement to assume the liability under an existing note that is secured by a mortgage or deed of trust. The mortgage or deed of trust. The lender must approve the buyer in order to release the original borrower (typically the seller) from liability. Not all loans or loan terms are "assumable".
Industry:Real estate
The sum paid for borrowing money, which pays the lender’s costs of doing business.
Industry:Real estate
A prepayment premium that allows investors to attain the same yield as if the borrower made all scheduled mortgage payments until maturity. Yield maintenance premiums are designed to make investors indifferent to prepayments and to make refinancing unattractive and uneconomical to borrowers.
Industry:Real estate
Any number of houses or other dwellings which are physically attached to one another, but are occupied by a number of different people. The individual houses may or may not be owned by separate people as well.
Industry:Real estate
Yield calculation used, in lieu of "Yield to Maturity" or "Yield to Call," where books are retired systematically during the life of the issue, as in the case of a "Sinking Fund," with contractual requirements. Because the issuer will buy its own bonds on the open market to satisfy its sinking fund requirements if the bonds are trading below Par, there is, to that extent, automatic price support for such bonds; they therefore tend to trade on a yield-to-average-life basis.
Industry:Real estate
Limits the interest rate or the interest rate adjustment to a specified maximum. This protects the borrower from increasing interest rates.
Industry:Real estate
