A GLOSSARY OF REAL ESTATE TERMS


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Earnest money
Easement
Easement appurtenant
Easement by condemnation
Easement by necessity
Easement by prescription
Easement in gross
Easy money
Eaves
Economic base
Economic base analysis
Economic goods
Economic life
Economic obsolescence
Economic rent
Economics
Economy
Effective age
Effective date of value
Effective demand
Effective gross income
Effective gross revenue
Effective interest rate
Egress
Ejectment
Elasticity
Elevation
Elizabethan or half timber style
Ellwood technique
Emancipate
Emancipated minor
Embezzlement
Emblements
Eminent domain
Employee
Employment contract
Empty nesters
Enabling act
Encapsulation
Encroachment
Encumber
Encumbrance
Endorsement
Energy efficient
Enforceable
English architecture
Entrepreneur
Environmental Assessment, EA
Environmental Impact Report, EIR
Environmental Protection Agency, EPA
Environmental obsolencence
Equal Credit Opportunity Act, ECOA
Equality of economic opportunity
Equalization
Equalization factor
Equilibrium
Equitable conversion
Equitable lien
Equitable mortgage
Equitable right of redemption
Equitable title
Equity
Equity build-up
Equity funds
Equity interest
Equity justice
Equity of redemption
Equity participation
Equity participation loan
Equity sharing
Erosion
Errors and Omissions insurance, E&O
Escalation
Escalator clause
Escalator mortgage
Escape clause
Escheat
Escrow
Escrow account
Escrow agent
Escrow contract
Escrow instructions
Estate
Estate at sufferance
Estate at will
Estate by the entireties
Estate for life
Estate for years
Estate from period to period
Estate in Fee
Estate in expectancy
Estate in land
Estate in possession
Estate in remainder
Estate in reversion
Estate in severalty
Estate of inheritance
Estate taxes
Estimate
Estimated remaining life
Estoppel
Estoppel certificate
Et al
Et ux
Ethics
Evaluation
Eviction
Eviction notice
Evidence
Evidence of title
Ex officio
Ex parte
Exception
Excess depreciation
Excess rent
Exchange
Exchange brokerage
Exchangor
Exclusion
Exclusionary zoning
Exclusive agency listing
Exclusive listing
Exclusive right to sell listing
Exculpatory clause
Execute
Executed contract
Execution
Execution of judgment
Executor
Executor's deed
Executory contract
Executrix
Exempt
Exemption
Existing mortgage
Exoneration
Exoneration (in suretyship)
Expansible house
Expansion joint
Expenses
Express agency
Express agreement
Express contract
Expropriation
Extended coverage
Extended policy
Extension
Extensive margin
External depreciation
External obsolescence
Extinguishment
Extra use
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The gradual wearing away of the ground surface by the act of water, wind or glacial ice.