A GLOSSARY OF REAL ESTATE TERMS


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SIR
Safe rate
Sale and leaseback
Sale-leaseback-buyback
Sales and use tax
Sales comparison approach
Sales contract
Sales expenses
Sales kit
Sales tax
Salesperson
Salvage value
Sandwich lease
Sash
Satisfaction
Satisfaction piece
Savings Association Insurance Fund
Savings and Loan Association
Savings and Loan Association, S&L
Savings bank
Scarcity
Scribing
Seal
Search
Seasonal fluctuation
Seasoned loan
Second mortgage
Secondary financing
Secondary mortgage market
Secret interest
Section - A
Section 1031 exchange
Section 8 housing
Sector
Sector hypothesis
Sectory theory
Secured
Secured party
Security
Security agreement
Security deposits
Security interest
Seed money
Seisin
Self-amortizing mortgage
Self-liquidating loan
Self-regulating
Seller financing
Seller's market
Seller's permit
Selling agent
Senior mortgage
Separate property
Septic tank
Service property
Servicing loans
Servient tenement
Set-off
Setback
Setback ordinance
Settlement
Severalty
Severalty ownership
Severance
Severance damages
Shakes
Sharecropping
Shared Appreciation Mortgage, SAM
Sheathing
Shed roof
Sheriff's deed
Sheriff's sale
Sherman Antitrust Act
Shopping center
Short rate
Short-term capital gain
Sill
Simple interest
Simulate
Single agency
Single-family home
Sinking fund
Site
Site-built home
Sitting
Situs
Sky lease
Slander of title
Slum area
Slum clearance
Social class
Social obsolescence
Social overhead capital
Society of Industrial REALTORS®, SIR
Society of Real Estate Appraisers, SREA
Soft costs
Soft money
Soil pipe
Soil stack
Sole or sole plate
Sole ownership
Southern Colonial
Sovereign consumer
Span
Special assessment
Special power of attorney
Special warranty deed
Specific lien
Specific performance
Specification
Specimen tree
Sphere of influence
Split rate interest
Spot zoning
Spouse
Square
Square root
Square-foot method
Squatter
Squatter's rights
Stability of income
Stagflation
Stakeholder
Standard depth
Standard metropolitan statistical area
Standard subdivision
Standby agreement
Standby commitment
Standby fee
Standing loan
Starter
State association
Statement of consideration
Status
Statute
Statute of frauds
Statute of limitations
Statutory
Statutory dedication
Statutory lien
Statutory redemption period
Statutory right of redemption
Statutory warranty deed
Steering
Step-up lease
Stigmatized property
Stock cooperative
Stock-in-trade
Straight line equation
Straight loan
Straight mortgage
Straight note
Straight term mortgage
Straight-line capital recapture
Straight-line depreciation
Street Improvement Bonds
Strict foreclosure
Strict liability
Stringer
Studs
Subagency
Subagent
Subcontractor
Subdivider
Subdividing
Subdivision
Subdivision and development ordinances
Subdivision plat
Subjacent support
Subject property
Subject to
Subject to and agreeing to pay
Subject to mortgage
Subjective value
Sublease
Subletting
Subordinate
Subordination agreement
Subordination clause
Subpoena
Subprime loan
Subrogation
Subsidized housing
Subsidy
Subsidy buy-down
Substitution of mortgagor
Subsurface rights
Suburb
Succession
Successor
Successor's liability
Sufferance
Sufficient description
Suit for possession
Suit to quiet title
Sum of the years digits depreciation
Summary appraisal report
Summation
Summons
Sump pump
Superfund
Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act, SARA
Supermarket
Supply
Surcharge
Surety
Surety bond
Surface rights
Surface water
Surrender
Survey
Survivorship
Suspension
Sustained-yield management
Sweat equity
Swing loan
Syndicate
Syndication
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A theory of city growth that considers the city as a circle with wedge-shaped sectors pointing into the center of the urban area.