Mortgage Term Glossary Flashcards
A certificate issued by the VA certifying a veteran’s eligibility for a VA loan.
Certificate of eligibility
A general increase in prices coinciding with a fall in the real value of money.
Inflation
A mortgage used to finance a construction project.
Construction mortgage
The ________ System was put in place to require the prior purchaser to record their purchase so that a subsequent purchaser can search for prior purchases to determine whether they should buy the land.
Recording
The sum of a homeowner’s monthly mortgage principal and interest payments, hazard insurance premiums, property taxes, and homeowner’s association fees, plus monthly debt service.
Monthly Housing Expense
The amount borrowed and therefore the amount the borrower owes the lender on the origination date of the loan.
Original Principal Balance
An increase in an asset’s value, usually because of inflation.
Appreciation
variable rate mortgage
Adjustable Rate Mortgage
For an ARM, a limit on the amount that payments can increase or decrease over the life of the mortgage.
Lifetime Payment Cap
A fee equal to 1 percent of the loan amount that is prepaid interest on the mortgage loan. The more points, the lower the interest rate.
Discount point
The Act also regulates the collection, disclosure, use, and protection of consumers’ nonpublic personal information.
Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLB) 1999
The administration of a mortgage loan, including the collection of payments, release liens, and payment of property insurance and taxes.
Servicing
A mortgage that is subordinate to another mortgage on the same property.
Junior Mortgage
A fee charged by a lender to cover the administrative costs of making a loan.
Loan Origination Fee
The portion of a purchase price paid in cash (or its equivalent) at the time the sale agreement is executed
Down payment
A tenancy with two or more co-owners who are not spouses on the date of acquisition and have identical interests in a property with the same right of possession.
Joint Tenancy
A periodic partial payment of a debt.
Installment
Standard form which is used to itemize services and fees charged to the borrower by the lender or broker when applying for a loan for the purpose of purchasing or refinancing real estate.
HUD-1 Settlement Statement
A fee charged by a lender for preparing and processing a loan.
Origination Fee
Date upon which the rate of interest is subject to change.
Interest Rate Change Date
The process by which a borrower applies for a new loan, and a lender processes that application.
Loan Origination
A statement of a borrower’s account history and status, given by banks.
Verification of Deposit (VOD)
A fixed sum of money payable periodically, usually monthly or annually. These payments terminate upon the death of the designated beneficiary.
Annuity
A 2003 amendment to the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act providing for free annual credit reports to consumers and establishing measures intended to help prevent identity.
Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACT Act) 2003
Established in 1965, headed by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
The movement of cash through a business, as a measure of profitability or liquidity.
Cash flow
_______ insurance enables homebuyers and homeowners to finance both the purchase of a house and the cost of its rehabilitation through a single mortgage or to finance the rehabilitation of their existing home.
Section 203(k) Loans
Aka convertible arm
Conversion Clause/Option
An insurance policy used in FHA loans if your down payment is less than 20 percent.
Mortgage Insurance Premium (MIP)
The union of all elements (ownership, possession, and custody) constituting the legal right to control and dispose of property.
Title
Means any of the fees, costs, obligations, or characteristics of or associated with the product. It also includes any of the conditions on or related to the availability of the product.
Term
A written instrument by which land is conveyed.
Deed
An agency in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development responsible for facilitating mortgage lending by insuring mortgage loans on houses meeting the agency’s standards.
Federal Housing Administration (FHA)
A defect or potential defect in the owner’s title to a piece of land arising from some claim or encumbrance, such as a lien, an easement, or a court order.
Cloud on title
For an ARM, a limit on the amount that the interest rate can increase or decrease over the life of the loan.
Lifetime Rate Cap
The statute affects nearly every federal agency with jurisdiction over finance or consumer protection, and nearly every segment of the financial-services industry.
Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform & Consumer Protection Act
A naturally appearing radioactive gas found in some buildings, that, in sufficient concentrations, may cause health problems.
Radon
A federal statute that repealed both the part of the Glass-Stegall Act prohibiting combinations among banking, securities, and insurance companies, and related conflict-of-interest provisions for such companies’ officers, directors, and employees.
Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLB) 1999
Determination of the rate or amount of something, such as a tax or damages.
Assessment
Can refer to a discharge signed by the mortgagee or mortgage holder indicating that the property subject to the mortgage is released or that the mortgage debt has been paid and the mortgage conditions have been fully satisfied.
Satisfaction of Mortgage
An agreement to cover a loss resulting from the insured’s liability to a third party, such as a loss incurred by a driver who injures a pedestrian, and usually to defend the insured or to pay for a defense regardless of whether the insured is ultimately found liable.
Liability Insurance
A blank account, generally held in the name of the depositor and an escrow agent that is returnable to the depositor or paid to a third person on the fulfillment of specified conditions.
Escrow account
An agreement to indemnify against loss arising from a defect in title to real property, usually issued to buyer of the property by the title company that conducted the search.
Title Insurance
A daily compilation by the British Association of the rates that major international banks charge each other for large-volume, short-term loans of Eurodollars, with monthly maturity rates calculated out to one year.
London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR)
Property that is pledged as security against a debt; the property subject to a security interest or agricultural lien.
Collateral
The account in which funds are held so they can be applied as each payment comes due for an interest rate buy-down plan.
Buy down account
Loosely, the loan on which such a transaction is based.
Mortgage
Arrangement that allows the seller to deposit the money to an account, from which the money is released each month to reduce the mortgagor’s monthly payments during the early years of the mortgage.
Interest Rate Buy Down Plan
A financial statement that summarizes the revenues, costs, and expenses that a business incurred during a given period.
Profit and Loss Statement
A veteran’s mortgage that is guaranteed by the Veterans Administration.
VA Mortgage
A deed conveying title to real property to a trustee as security until the grantor repays a loan.
Deed of trust
The difference between a loan’s face value and the market value of the collateral that secures the loan.
Margin
A corporation that purchases both conventional and federally insured first mortgages from members of the Federal Reserve System and other approved banks.
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac/FHLMC)
The difference between the value of the property and all encumbrances on it.
Equity
One of the Act’s better-known and more heavily litigated provisions prohibits merchants from printing the expiration date or more than the last five digits of the card number on a point-of-sale credit-card or debit-card receipt.
Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACT Act) 2003
an irs form used to retrieve past tax retuns, w-2, and 1099 transcripts that are on file with the irs
4506-T
The value of an asset as determined by an appraiser for tax purposes.
Assessed value
Any borrower in addition to the first bar or whose name appears on the application.
Co-borrower
The Bureau protects consumers by restricting unfair and deceptive business practices, by promoting financial education, by taking consumer complaints, and by enforcing federal consumer-financial-protection laws
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
Borrowers can typically pay from 0-4 points.
Tax-deductible.
Discount point
Equity that results from a buyer giving an existing property as trade for all or part of the down payment on the subject property.
Trade Equity
Take-home pay after taxes and payroll deductions.
Net Monthly Income
When a business or person revises a payment schedule for repaying debt.
Refinance
A banker’s certificate acknowledging the receipt of money and promising to repay the depositor.
Certificate of deposit
The program was developed by the Home Owners Warranty Corporation, a subsidiary of the National Association of Home Builders.
Homeowner’s Warranty (HOW)
Borrowers generally must have high credit ratings to be approved for this type of loan.
Unsecured Loan
A number, usually expressed in the form of a percentage or ratio, that indicates or measures a series of observations, especially those involving a market or the economy.
Index
The actual cost of borrowing money, expressed in the form of an annualized interest rate.
Annual Percentage Rate (APR)
A mortgage loan under the maximum amount of loans that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are legally allowed to buy.
Conforming loan
The cap is usually defined in terms of rate, but the dollar amount of the principal and interest payment can be capped as well.
Payment Cap
An official who evaluates or makes assessments, especially for purposes of taxation.
Assessor
The fee paid to an agent for a transaction, usually as a percentage of the money received from the transaction.
Commission
After the fixed-interest rate expires, the interest rate starts to adjust based on an index plus a margin.
Fixed-Period Adjustable-Rate Mortgage
One’s ability to borrow money
Credit
The total cost of the fund is divided by the fund’s total assets to arrive at a percentage amount.
Total Expense Ratio
A statement in a mortgage contract forbidding the assumption of the mortgage by another borrower without the prior approval of the lender.
Non-Assumption Clause
A single real-estate unit in a multi-unit development in which a person has both separate ownership of a unit and a common interest, along with the development’s other owners, in the common areas.
Condominium
This differs from a tenancy in common because each joint tenant has a right of survivorship to the other’s share
Joint Tenancy
If the specific event is covered within the policy, the property owner will receive compensation to cover the cost of any damage incurred.
Hazard Insurance
A gift imposed on the transfer of property, especially by will, inheritance, or gift.
Transfer Tax
Financing that is ranked behind that held by secured lender in terms of the order in which the debt is repaid.
Subordinate Financing
The maximum interest rate that a financial institution can charge a borrower for an ARM or loan according to the contractual terms of the mortgage loan.
Interest Rate Ceiling (Cap)
One who is engaged for another, usually on a commission, to negotiate contracts relating to property in which he or she has no custodial or proprietary interest.
Real Estate Agent/Broker
The date when a new monthly payment amount takes effect.
Payment Change Date
The method used to determine the monthly payment required to repay the remaining balance of a mortgage, in substantially equal installments over the remaining term of the mortgage, at the current interest rate.
Standard Payment Calculation
Offers protections for service members, and sometimes their family members, such as protection for small-business owners.
Service Members Civil Relief Act
If things line up, the buyer can force seller to sell. If not, buyer is out its consideration paid.
Option Contract
A mortgage-application interest rate that is established and guaranteed for a specified period.
Lock-In-Rate
This type of deed resembles a mortgage.
Deed of trust
The interest rate that a commercial bank holds out as its lowest rate for a short-term loan to its most creditworthy borrowers, usually large corporations.
Prime Rate
Rent paid by a tenant under a long-term lease for the use of undeveloped land, usually for the construction of a commercial building.
Ground rent
a concise statement, usually prepared for a mortgagee or purchaser of real property, summarizing the history of a piece of loan, including all conveyances, interests, liens, and encumbrances that affect title to the property.
Abstract of Title
There are three types of ________ acts: race, notice, and race-notice. Which recording act applies depends on the state.
Recording
A conveyance of title to property that is given as security for the payment of a debt or the performance of a duty and that will become void upon payment or performance according to the stipulated terms.
Mortgage
It implies that the debt ranks behind the first secured lender, and means that the secured lenders will be paid back before subordinate debt holders.
Subordinate Financing
A mortgage that covers the costs of rehabilitating a property.
Rehabilitation Mortgage
An index based on the auctions of U.S. Treasury bills or on the U.S. Treasury’s daily yield curve, which is used in determining mortgage rates for mortgages with an unfixed component.
Treasury Index
A type of asset that is not easily turned into cash. Real estate is considered a non-liquid asset.
Non-Liquid Asset
These initial periods are offered in 3, 5, 7, and 10 year terms.
hybrid loan
A form of housing tenure where a person owns the home in which he or she lives.
Owner-Occupied Property
Ratio of debt to income and housing expense to income that is used by mortgage lenders to determine a borrower’s credit-worthiness for certain loan amounts.
Qualifying Ratios
A dispute-resolution process in which the disputing parties choose one or more neutral third parties to make a final and binding decision resolving the dispute.
The parties to the dispute may choose a third party directly by mutual agreement, or indirectly, such as by agreeing to have an arbitration organization select the third party.
Arbitration
An office in the U.S. Department of the Treasury responsible for regulating and examining thrift institutions to ensure that they are financially sound.
Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS)
A real-estate agent who is a member of the National Association of Realtors.
Realtor
The percentage of gross monthly income that goes toward paying for monthly housing expenses, alimony, child support, car payments, and other installment debts, and payments on revolving or open-ended accounts, such as credit cards.
Debt-to-income ratio
Means any written or oral statement, illustration, or depiction, whether in English or any other language, that is designed to effect a sale or create interest in purchasing goods or services, whether it appears on or in a label, package, package insert, radio, television, cable television, brochure, newspaper, magazine, pamphlet, leaflet, circular, mailer, book insert, free standing insert, letter,
catalogue, poster, chart, billboard, public transit card, point of purchase display, film, slide, audio program transmitted over a telephone system, telemarketing script, on-hold script, upsell script, training materials provided to telemarketing firms, program-length commercial (“infomercial”), the internet, cellular network, or any other medium.
Commercial communication
A warranty and insurance program that, among other coverage, insures a new home for ten years against major structural defects.
Homeowner’s Warranty (HOW)
In real estate, it is generally a percentage of the purchase price and may be a substantial sum. Though it rarely exceeds 10 percent of the purchase price.
Earnest Money Deposit
An agreement to pay off a mortgage if the insured dies or becomes disabled.
Mortgage Insurance (MI)
The voluntary yielding to a demand for the sake of a settlement
In a real-estate transaction, something given up or agreed to in sale negotiations. For example, the sellers may agree to help pay for closing costs.
Concessions
Obsolescence that results from external economic factors, such as decreased demand or changed governmental regulations.
Economic Obsolescence
A contractual provision by which an owner of realty enters an agreement with another allowing the latter to rent the property upon signing the lease with the option to buy the property at the end of the lease term, usually for a reduced rate.
Rent with Option to Buy
This conveyance is a lien against the property
Also refers to the instrument specifying the terms of such a transaction.
Mortgage
A loan which allows for gradual interest rate increase during the first few years of the loan.
Subordinate Financing
Financing that is ranked behind that held by secured lender in terms of the order in which the debt is repaid.
It implies that the debt ranks behind the first secured lender, and means that the secured lenders will be paid back before subordinate debt holders.
Step Rate Mortgage
Truth-in-Lending Act (TILA/Regulation Z)
A 1968 federal statute enacted as the first subchapter of the Consumer Credit Protection Act to safeguard consumers in the use of credit by regulating the use of credit cards.
Truth-in-Lending Act (TILA/Regulation Z)
These mortgages, which feature a fixed periodic payment and interest throughout the mortgage term, are typically used for home financing.
Conventional Mortgage
An ordinary ___________is revocable and automatically terminates upon the death or incapacity of the principal.
Power of Attorney
Financially sound enough that a lender will extend credit in the belief that default is unlikely. Fiscally healthy.
Creditworthy
Insurance that protects property owners against damage caused by fires, severe storms, earthquakes, or other natural events.
Hazard Insurance
A soft gray mineral that does not burn that was used especially as a building material in the past. It can cause serious diseases of the lungs when its dust is breathed in.
Asbestos
Gives you an estimate of the costs of the mortgage loan.
Good Faith Estimate
The process by which a company collects interest, principal, and escrow payments from a borrower.
Loan Servicing/Administration
A listing giving one agent has the right to be the only person, other than the owner, to sell the property during a specified period.
Exclusive Agency Listing
The act or an instance of improving the value of economically useless land by physically changing the land, such as irrigating a desert.
Reclamation
A listing stating the agent will allow other agents to try to sell the property.
Multiple Listing Service (MLS)
A person or entity from which money is borrowed.
Lender
The expenses that must be paid, usually in lump sum at closing, apart from the purchase price and interest.
Closing cost
An additional fee assessed on a debt when a payment is not received by the due date.
Late Charge
The acquisition of real property coupled with the assumption of personal liability for debt secured by that property.
Assumption (of Mortgage or Trust Deed)
These may include taxes, title insurance, and attorney’s fees.
Closing cost
The pro-rated amount of interest due calculated and paid at loan closings
Per Diem Interest
It was established by the Dodd-Frank Act in 2010 and began operating in 2011.
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
A federally owned corporation in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development responsible for guaranteeing mortgage-backed securities composed of FHA-insured or VA- guaranteed mortgage loans.
Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae/GNMA)
Non-invasive visual examination of a residential dwelling, performed for a fee, which is designed to identify observed material defects within specific components of said dwelling.
Home Inspection
Long-term mortgage loan.
Permanent Loan
The amount by which an interest in property exceeds secured claims or liens.
Equity
Listing agreement upon which the broker gets commission even if seller is the one who sells the house during the agreement period or for a certain period thereafter.
Exclusive Right-to-Sell Listing
It performs like a fixed and adjustable rate loan. It has a fixed rate for an initial period before turning into an ARM.
Hybrid Loan
A Fannie MAE loan application form designed by fannie mae and freddie mac that is used by lenders to obtain financial personal information from borrowers who apply for a mortgage loan secured by a one-to-four unit residential real estate
1003 (ten-oh-three)
An arrangement by which a borrower agrees to make additional payments to pay down past due amounts while still making regularly scheduled payments.
Repayment Plan
A destruction or deprivation of some estate or right because of the failure to perform some contractual obligation or condition.
Forfeiture
In some states, this right must be clearly express in the conveyance – otherwise, the tenancy will be presumed to be a tenancy in common.
Joint Tenancy
The price that a seller is willing to accept and a buyer is willing to pay on the open market and in an arm’s-length transaction, the point at which supply and demand intersect.
Fair Market Value
A tax-deferred retirement program developed for the self-employed.
Keogh Plan
A loan with a fixed rate for the first year that has a rate that changes yearly for the remaining life of the loan.
One Year Adjustment Rate Mortgage
The actual annual rate, which incorporates compounding when calculating interest, rather than the stated rate or coupon rate.
Effective Interest Rate
A promise from a lender to make a mortgage loan.
Firm commitment
______ is usually performed by the lender or the lender’s agent, for a fee.
Servicing
A residential mortgage on a dwelling that is designed to house more than four families, such as an apartment complex.
Multifamily Mortgage
The right to sell a principal’s products or to act as the seller’s real-estate agent to the exclusion of all others, including the owner.
Exclusive Right-to-Sell Listing
A mortgage that is senior to all other mortgages on the same property.
First mortgage
This plan is also known as an H.R. 10 plan, after the House of Representatives bill that established the plan.
Keogh Plan
A clause within the sales contract stating that a certain condition that must be met before a contract is legally binding, before the sale can close.
Real estate contracts often have a specific date by which this must be met.
Contingency clause
The act or result of gradually extinguishing a debt, such as a mortgage, usually by contributing payments or principal each time a periodic interest payment is due.
Amortization
A period of extra time allowed for taking some required action (such as making payment) without incurring the usual penalty for being late.
Grace period
The third-party depositary of an escrow.
Escrow agent
Article 9 of the UCC provides for a 20-day ______ _____, after the collateral is received, during which a purchase-money security interest must be perfected to have priority over any conflicting security interests.
Grace period
Was enacted to provide sufficient time for consumers to review the disclosures before consummation can take place.
Mortgage Disclosure Improvement Act (MDIA) 2008
A document indicating that a building complies with zoning and building ordinances and is ready to be occupied
Certificate of occupancy
A charge to a borrower when a mortgage banker or other small lender must borrower money on a short-term basis to loan money on mortgage loans.
Warehouse Fee
_____ is generally available as a remedy or defense for a non-defaulting party and is accompanied by restitution of any partial performance, thus restoring the parties to their precontractual positions.
Rescission
An initial evaluation of the credit worthiness of a potential borrower that is used to determine the estimated amount that the person can afford to borrow.
Pre-Qualification
Any property right that is not an ownership interest.
Encumbrance
Prepaid interest on the mortgage loan. The more points paid, the lower the interest rate.
Loan Discount Points
A clause in a mortgage contract that says if the mortgage is prepaid within a certain time, a penalty will be assessed.
Pre-Payment Penalty
A notification given to a borrower stating that they have not made their payments by the predetermined deadline, or is otherwise in default on the mortgage contract.
Notice of Default (NOD)
A mortgage that is guaranteed by a third party.
Guarantee Mortgage
Intended to encourage depository institutions to help meet the credit needs of the communities in which they operate, including low- and moderate-income neighborhoods, consistent with safe and sound banking operations.
Community Reinvestment Act (1977)
Such a mortgage covers both the outstanding balance of the first mortgage and the additional funds loaned.
Wraparound Mortgage
time between adjustment dates for an arm
adjustment period
A price extended to another party at which one is ready to buy or sell.
Offer
The measuring of a tract of land and its boundaries and contents. Also refers to the map indicating the results of such measurements.
Survey
Known as: uniform residential loan application
1003 (ten-oh-three)
Origination from a third party where the person is involved in the process of making mortgages and gathering borrower information for a mortgage application, which is then transferred or sold to the actual mortgage lender.
Third-Party Origination
A credit report that contains information from at least three credit repositories. Any duplicate entries are combined to provide a concise summary of outstanding liabilities and credit history.
Merged Credit Report
A modification of the original construction plans ordered by the property owner or general contractor.
Change order
The omission or failure to perform a legal or contractual duty, especially the failure to pay a debt when due.
Default
It compromises 12 central banks supervised by a Board of Governors whose members are appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate.
Federal Reserve System (FRS)
The ownership history of a piece of land, from its first owner to the present one.
Chain of title
Fee issued to the client which covers the cost of the assessment and is included in closing costs and fee
Flood certificate fee
A contractual stipulation
Term
If the mortgage is prepraid within a certaintime, the penalty is usually based on percentage of the remaining mortgage balance or a certain number of months’ worth of interest.
Pre-Payment Penalty
The sale of property on the understanding, or with the express option, that the seller may lease the property from the buyer, usually immediately after the sale.
Sale-Leaseback
A lien imposed on a judgment debtor’s nonexempt property.
Judgment Lien
Designed to enhance consumer protection and reduce fraud through the setting of minimum standards for the licensing and registration of state-licensed mortgage loan originators.
Secure and Fair Enforcement Act (S.A.F.E. Act) 2008
Assumption of the liability of another’s debts in the event of default.
Guarantee
The Association purchases, on the secondary market, residential mortgages originated by local lenders; it then issues federally insured securities backed by these mortgages.
Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae/GNMA)
An assignment in which a mortgage lender or borrower transfer the mortgage to a third party.
Assignment of mortgage
Truth-in-Lending Act (TILA/Regulation Z)
A 1968 federal statute enacted as the first subchapter of the Consumer Credit Protection Act to safeguard consumers in the use of credit by (1) requiring full disclosure of the terms of loan agreements, including finance charges.
Truth-in-Lending Act (TILA/Regulation Z)
Also, a right, often acquired under a life-insurance contract, to receive fixed payments periodically for a specified duration
Annuity
A loan in which its entirety, or a portion of it, can be forgiven or deferred for a period by the lender when certain conditions are met.
Soft Second Loan
Reasons include the loan amount is higher than the conforming loan limit, lack of sufficient credit, the unorthodox nature of the use of funds, or the collateral backing it.
Non-Conforming Loan
The land burdened by an easement
Servient estate
A land area zoned for a single-community subdivision with flexible restrictions on residential, commercial, and public uses.
Planned Unit Development (PUD)
A mortgage that is fully amortized over a significantly shorter term than the traditional 25- to 30- year mortgage, with increasing payments each year.
Growing-Equity Mortgage (GEM)
Offers protections for service members, and sometimes their family members, such as eviction prevention.
Service Members Civil Relief Act
A guarantee that the lender will deliver a specific combination of interest rate and points if the mortgage closes by a specified date.
Lock
An escrow holder is not a common-law agent because the holder does not act subject to the control of the parties to the escrow agreement.
Escrow agent
Handbook about Adjustable-Rate Mortgages
Must be presented within 3 days of application.
Consumer Handbook on Adjustable Rate Mortgages
A debt, such as one for delinquent taxes, that is not released through bankruptcy.
Non-Discharge Debt
Buyer pays seller consideration to make offer irrevocable for a certain period, with attached terms of sale.
Option Contract
An unconditional written promise, signed by the maker, to pay absolutely and in any event a certain sum of money either to, or to the order of, the bearer or a designated person.
Promissory Note
An area owned and used in common by the residents of a condominium, subdivision, or planned- unit development
Common area
When a condition is not likely to occur until the obligee has relied on the expected exchange by, for example, performing or preparing to perform, nonoccurrence of the condition results in the obligee’s loss of its reliance interest when the obligee loses the right to that exchange.
Forfeiture
A measure of the total costs associated with managing and operating an investment fund.
Total Expense Ratio
An abbreviation for “comparable properties” used for comparative purposes in the appraisal process.
Comparables
The final transaction between the buyer and seller, whereby the conveyancing of documents is concluded and the money and property transferred.
Closing/Settlement
A ratio comparing housing expenses to before-tax income that is used by lenders to qualify borrowers for a mortgage.
Housing Expenses-to-Income Ratio
The original term of the loan after the number of payments made has been subtracted.
Remaining Term
A short-term loan that is used to cover costs until more permanent financing is arranged or to cover a portion of costs that are expected to be covered by an imminent sale.
Bridge loan
A check drawn by a bank on itself, payable to another person, and evidencing the payee’s authorization to receive from the bank the amount of money represented by the check; a draft for which the drawer and drawee are the same bank, or different branches of the same bank.
Cashiers check
A clause found in an ARM contract that limits the possible increase in the loan’s interest rate to a certain amount each year.
Payment Cap
A transaction that has the intent but not the form of a mortgage, and that a court of equity will treat as a mortgage.
Equitable mortgage
That portion of the total monthly payment that is applied toward principal and interest.
Monthly Fixed Installment
An interest-bearing account at a bank or other financial institution.
Money Market Account
Insurance that covers both damage to the insured’s residence and liability claims made against the insured, especially those arising from the insured’s negligence.
Homeowner’s Insurance
Offers protections for service members, and sometimes their family members, such as postponed civil court matters.
Service Members Civil Relief Act
An adjustable rate mortgage with an initial fixed-interest-rate period.
Fixed-Period Adjustable-Rate Mortgage
the tax otherwise paid in a traditional sale is deferred indefinitely until the replacement property is sold or another _________ is initiated
1031 exchange
A covenant by which the grantor in a deed promises to secure to the grantee the estate conveyed in the deed, and pledges to compensate the grantee if the grantee is evicted by someone having better title.
The covenant is binding on the grantor’s heirs.
Historically, a warrantor was expected to turn over land, but cash compensation could be substituted.
Warranty
Credit cards, home equity lines of credit (HELOC) and personal lines of credit are all examples of ________.
Revolving Debt
A credit bureau’s report on a person’s financial status, usually including the approximate amounts and locations of a person’s bank accounts, charge accounts, loans, and other debts, bill- paying habits, defaults, bankruptcies, foreclosures, marital status, occupation, income, and lawsuits.
Credit report
(Credit Bureau)
Consumer Reporting Agency
The restoration or return of something to a former owner or holder.
Reconveyance
Someone who stands in a fiduciary or confidential relation to another, especially one who, having legal title to property, holds it in trust for the benefit of another and owes a fiduciary duty to that beneficiary.
Trustee
The cost of a substitute asset that is equivalent to an asset currently held.
The new asset has the same utility but may or may not be identical to the one replaced.
Replacement cost
Seller promises that there were no defects in title that arose or were created while seller owned the property, but no promises about defects arising while someone prior to the seller owned the property.
Special Warranty Deed
A legal document or property delivered by a promisor to a third party to be held by the third party for a given amount of time or until the occurrence of a condition at which time the third party is to hand over the document or property to the promisee.
Escrow
A law or regulation setting forth standards for the construction, maintenance, occupancy, use, or appearance of buildings and dwelling units.
Housing Code
Mortgage loan originators who work for an insured depository or its owned or controlled subsidiary that is regulated by a federal banking agency, or for an institution regulated by the Farm Credit Administration, are registered.
All other mortgage loan originators are licensed by the states.
Secure and Fair Enforcement Act (S.A.F.E. Act) 2008
A savings or brokerage account to which a person may contribute up to a specified amount of earned income each year.
Individual Retirement Account (IRA)
A sales contract in which ownership of property is transferred from a seller to a buyer for a fixed sum at a fixed date.
Purchase/Sales Agreement
An absolute right to a benefit granted immediately upon legal requirement.
Entitlement
Typically, borrowers can pay for 0-4 points.
Loan Discount Points
A payment for less than the full amount claimed by the creditor.
Partial Payment
The fee paid to a lender when an assumption takes place.
Usually paid by the purchaser
Assumption fee
The interest rate used in calculating the initial mortgage payment in qualifying a borrower.
Qualifying Rate
If the policyholder were to die while the ______ ____ _____ was in force, the policy would pay out a capital sum that will be just sufficient to repay the outstanding mortgage.
Mortgage Life Insurance
A title free from any encumbrances, burdens, or other limitations. i.e., good and marketable title
Clear title
The instruction given to the third-party depositary of an escrow.
Escrow agreement
A rent-to-own purchase plan under which the buyer takes possession of the property with the first payment and takes ownership with the final payment.
Lease-Purchase Option
A real-estate broker who acts as the agent of a purchaser of property
Statutes in many states permit prospective buyers to retain a licensed real-estate agent as their agent.
In some states, this entity is treated as the subagent of the broker with whom the owner lists property for sale and not the agent of the buyer.
Buyer’s Broker/Agent
An individual or organization that markets mortgage loans and brings lenders and borrowers together.
Mortgage Broker
A written promise by one party to pay money to another party or to bearer.
Notice of Default (NOD)
A notification given to a borrower stating that they have not made their payments by the predetermined deadline, or is otherwise in default on the mortgage contract.
Note
The rate of interest charged by a mortgage lender.
Mortgage Rate
A process used by banks and mortgage lenders to review the employment history of a borrower, to determine the borrower’s job stability and cross-reference income history with that stated on the Uniform Residential Loan Application.
Verification of Employment (VOE)
The national market in which existing mortgages are bought and sold, usually on a package basis.
Secondary Mortgage Market
In real estate projects, it is obtained after completion of construction, usually to repay the short- term construction loan.
Permanent Loan
The current single family loan limit is $453,100. $533,850 for a two-unit home. $645,300 for a three-unit home. $801,950 for a four-unit home.
Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac Loan Limit
Local governments often impose _________ to finance school districts, municipal projects, and the like.
Property Tax
A 1968 federal statute that prohibits discrimination based on race, sex, religion, family status, or national origin in the sale or rental of a dwelling, especially in the refusal to sell or rent.
Fair Housing Act (FHA)
A stipulation or prerequisite in a sales contract, constituting the essence of the instrument.
Condition
Liability shared by two or more parties.
Joint Liability
If a court construes a contractual term to be a ____________, then its untruth or breach will entitle the party to whom it is made to be discharged from all liabilities under the contract.
Condition
Money paid by the buyer of a house to reduce the mortgage-interest payments.
Buy-down
A comprehensive _________ usu. regulates the height of buildings and the proportion of the lot area that must be kept free from buildings.
Zoning Ordinance
Enacted April 9, 1866.
Affirmed that all citizens are equally protected by the law.
Civil Rights Act (1866)
Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment: “Nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation.”
Eminent Domain
A statutory lien that secures payment for labor or materials supplied in improving, repairing, or maintaining real or personal property.
Mechanic’s Lien
Builders often provide this type of coverage, and may states provide similar warranty protection by statute.
Homeowner’s Warranty (HOW)
A type of asset that arises on a balance sheet because a business made payment for goods and services to be received.
Pre-Paid Expenses
An investment company that invests its shareholders’ money in a usually diversified selection of securities.
Mutual Funds
Such a lease is usually treated as an installment sale. Under a capital lease, the lessee is responsible for paying taxes and other expenses on the property.
Lease-Purchase Option
Open-ended accounts, usually with variable interest rates, pre-determined credit limits and payments that are calculated as a percentage of the unpaid balance.
Revolving Debt
A law or regulation setting forth standards for the construction, maintenance, occupancy, use, or appearance of buildings and dwelling units.
Building code
An individual who has had no ownership in a principal residence during the 3-year period ending on the date of purchase of the property.
First-Time Home Buyer
A form of insurance specifically designed to protect a repayment mortgage.
Mortgage Life Insurance
A method of documenting a loan file by using information such as pay stubs, W-2 forms, and bank stubs instead of waiting on verifications sent to third parties for confirmation of statements made on the application.
Alternative documentation
An interest in land owned by another person, consisting of the right to use or control the land, or an area above or below it, for a specific limited purpose.
Easement
an arrangement in which a person who is in a position to refer business incident to a real estate settlement service involving a federally related mortgage loan has either an affiliate relationship with or a direct or beneficial ownership inters of more than 1 percent in a provider of settlement services: and either of such persons directly or indirectly refers such business to that provider or affirmatively influences the selection of that provider.
Affiliated business arrangement
Generally includes all the steps from taking a loan application up to disbursal of funds.
Origination
Under the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act, someone who, for fees, dues, or on a cooperative nonprofit basis, regularly engages in the practice of assembling or evaluating consumer-credit information or other information about consumers for the purpose of furnishing consumer reports to third parties, and who uses any means or facility of interstate commerce to prepare or furnish consumer reports.
Consumer Reporting Agency (Credit Bureau)
A loan that fails to meet bank criteria for funding.
Non-Conforming Loan
An agent who represents the purchaser or buyer in the negotiation and closing of a real-property transaction by handling financial calculations and transfers of documents.
Closing agent
A debt that is evidenced by a legal judgment or brought about by a successful lawsuit against the debtor.
Installment Debt
This rate, which can vary slightly from bank to bank, often dictates other interest rates for various personal and commercial loans.
Prime Rate
A deposit paid (often in escrow) by a prospective buyer to show a good-faith intention to complete the transaction, and ordinarily forfeited if the buyer defaults.
Earnest Money Deposit
A _______search is typically conducted by a title company or a real-estate lawyer at a prospective buyer’s or mortgagee’s request.
Title Search
A project in which a corporation hold title to a residential property and sells shares to individual buyers, who then receive a proprietary lease as their title.
Cooperative (Co-op) Project
AKA Conventional Loan
Conventional Mortgage
Collectively, the word includes any aggregation of rights, privileges, powers, and immunities, distributively, it refers to any one right, privilege, power, or immunity.
Interest
On an Arm, typically one, three or five years depending on the index.
Adjustment interval
A loan that is obtained without the use of property as collateral for the loan.
Unsecured Loan
Ratio of the total mortgage liens against the property to the lesser of either the appraised value or the sales price.
Combined Loan-to-Value (CLTV)
An agency in the U.S. Department of Agriculture responsible for making or guaranteeing loans for rural housing.
Rural Housing Service (RHS)
The housing expense measure includes mortgage principal, interest payments, property taxes, hazard insurance, mortgage insurance, and association fees.
The limit is generally 28 percent.
Housing Expenses-to-Income Ratio
The ratio, usually expressed as a percentage, between the amount of a mortgage loan and the value of the property pledged as security for the mortgage.
Loan-to-Value Ratio (LTV)
Made in good faith; without fraud or deceit
Bona fide
Offers protections for service members, and sometimes their family members, such as postponement of foreclosures.
Service Members Civil Relief Act
This is often required before title can be transferred and the building occupied
Certificate of occupancy
When a mortgage allows the borrower to make minimum payments that are less that the entire amount of interest owed, the unpaid interest is deferred by adding it to the loan balance.
Negative Amortization
A reduction in the value or price of something, specifically, a decline in an asset’s value because of use, wear, obsolescence, or age.
Depreciation
Listing agreement upon which the broker does not get commission if seller sells the property himself.
Exclusive Agency Listing
Was enacted in 1994 as an amendment to TILA to address abusive practices in refinances and closed-end home equity loans with high interest rates or high fees.
Home Ownership and Equity Protection Act (HOEPA) 1994
The amount of after-tax income produced by a specific asset or group of assets, calculated by subtracting federal income tax from gross income.
Net Effective Income
it is used to validate income documentation for underwriting and quality control purposes.
4506-T
Liability on a claim
Debt
The date when a debt falls due, such as a debt on a promissory note or bond.
Maturity Date
Financial obligations in a specified amount.
Liabilities
The interest paid on the principal only and not on accumulated interest.
Simple Interest
A line of bank credit given to a homeowner, using as collateral the homeowner’s equity in the home.
Home equity loan
The requirement that certain kinds of contracts be memorialized in a writing, signed by the party to be charged, with sufficient content to evidence the contract.
Statute of Frauds
The date scheduled for the conclusion of the real estate transaction.
Closing date
A loan provided by the seller of a property or business to the purchaser.
Owner Financing
Under this agreement, the original agent gives the selling agent a percentage of the commission or some other stipulated amount.
Multiple Listing Service (MLS)
The original cost of an asset
Acquisition Cost
A report prepared prior to issuing a policy of title insurance that shows the ownership of a specific parcel of land, together with the liens and encumbrances thereon which will not be covered under a subsequent title insurance policy.
Preliminary Title Report
A statutory procedure by which a usually insolvent debtor obtains financial relief and undergoes a judicially supervised reorganization or liquidation of the debtor’s assets for the benefit of creditors
Bankruptcy
Was enacted to ensure that consumers receive good faith estimates of TILA disclosures at the beginning of the application process.
Mortgage Disclosure Improvement Act (MDIA) 2008
The amount of a debt, investment, or other fund, not including interest, earnings, or profits.
Principal
The realty that all tenants may use, though the landlord retains control over and responsibility for it.
Common areas
The monthly payment due on a mortgage loan which includes both principal and interest.
Fixed Installment
The voluntary transfer of property
Conveyance
An independent federal agency that regulates consumer financial products and services
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
A formal agreement or promise to perform, or not perform, a particular act.
Covenants
A good and merchantable _________ shows clear and marketable title, rather than showing only the history of the property.
Abstract of Title
A mortgage provision that gives the lender the option to accelerate the debt if the borrower transfers or conveys any part of the mortgaged real estate without the lender’s consent.
Due-on-Sale Clause
The central bank that sets credit and monetary policy by fixing the reserves to be maintained by depository institutions, determining the discount rate charged by Federal Reserve Banks, and regulating the amount of credit that may be extended on any security.
Federal Reserve System (FRS)
An individual, freestanding, unattached dwelling unit, typically built on a lot larger than the structure itself.
Single-Family Properties
Land and anything growing on, attached to, or erected on it, excluding anything that may be served without injury to the land.
Real Property
Describes the features of the ARM loan, which must be presented to the consumer within 3 days of application.
ARM Disclosure
The contract among buyer, seller, and escrow holder, setting forth the rights and responsibilities of each.
Escrow contract
A request for a copy of your credit report by a lender or other business, often when you fill out a credit application and/or request more credit.
Inquiry
A provision in an ARM which allows the loan to be converted from an ARM to a fixed-rate mortgage at specified times during the term.
Usually allowed at the end of the first adjustment period.
Conversion Clause/Option
A claim or liability that is attached to property and that may lessen its value, such as a lien or mortgage.
Encumbrance
Someone who mortgages property
Borrower (Mortgagor)
A mortgage with an interest rate that remains the same over the life of the mortgage regardless of market conditions.
Fixed-Rate Mortgage (FRM)
A fee charged by a licensed certified appraiser to determine a fair market value at a point in time.
Appraisal fee
A 1970 federal statute that regulates disclosure and use of consumer-credit information and ensures the right of consumers to have access to and to correct their credit reports.
Many states have enacted similar statutes.
Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA/Regulation V)
A form that lists basic information about the terms of a mortgage for which the applicant has applied.
Good Faith Estimate
The portion of a monthly mortgage payment that is earmarked to pay property taxes and property-insurance premiums.
Impound
The act of refraining from enforcing a right, obligation, or debt.
Forbearance
Typically, the creditor does not take possession of the property on which the ____ has been obtained.
Lien
An individual or organization that originates real-estate loans for a fee, resells them to other parties, and services the monthly payments.
Mortgage Banker
A mortgage in which the lender can periodically adjust the mortgage’s inters rate in accordance with fluctuation in some external market index.
Adjustable Rate Mortgage
These are properties like the property under consideration. They have reasonably the same size, location, and amenities and have recently been sold.
These properties help the appraiser determine the approximate fair market value of the subject property.
Comparables
An interest in land that, being the broadest property interest allowed by law, endures until the current holder dies without heirs; especially a fee simple absolute.
Fee simple
The power to create or enter into a legal relation under the same circumstances in which a normal person would have the power to create or enter into such a relation; specifically, the satisfaction of a legal qualification, such as legal age or soundness of mind, that determines one’s ability to sue or be sued, enter a binding contract, and the like.
Capacity
Seller promises that there are no defects in title that arose or were created while seller owned the property or while anyone prior to seller owned the property.
General Warranty Deed
The determination of what constitutes a fair price for something or how its condition can be fairly stated
Appraisal
At maturity, the periodic payments will have completely repaid the loan
Fully Amortized Mortgage
A program in which an employer assists its employees in purchasing homes by helping with the down payment, closing costs, or monthly payments.
Employer-Assisted Housing
A limitation placed on the use or enjoyment of property.
Restriction
Fannie Mae uses this application form, referring to it as the freddie mac form 65
1003 (ten-oh-three)
A loan that is secured by property. AKA collateral loan
Secured Loan
Protects active-duty service members, including National Guard and reserve members, who have been activated by the federal government.
Service Members Civil Relief Act
An occasion when real estate offered for sale can be viewed by prospective buyers without an appointment.
Open House
A title that a reasonable buyer would accept because it appears to lack any defect and to cover the entire property that the seller has purported to sell.
Marketable title
The total amount of a person’s income before taxes.
Gross monthly income
These costs consist primarily of management fees and additional expenses such as trading fees, legal fees, auditor fees, and other operational expenses.
Total Expense Ratio
A document indicating ownership of real or personal property. This document usually identifies any liens or other encumbrances.
Certificate of title
The cabinet-level department of the federal government responsible for operating programs that benefit veterans of military service and their families.
Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
Basis increased by capital improvements and decreased by depreciation deduction
Adjusted Basis
Commercial and Residential uses at the same time.
Mixed Use Property
Offers protections for service members, and sometimes their family members, such as termination of lease agreements and prevention of repossession of property.
Service Members Civil Relief Act
Loosely, any real-property security transaction, including a deed of trust.
Mortgage
The cabinet-level department of the federal government responsible for overseeing programs that are concerned with housing needs and fair-housing opportunities, and with improving and developing the country’s communities.
Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
This can be for the entire balance or for any upcoming payment that is paid in advance of the date for which the borrower is contractually obligated to pay it.
Pre-Payment
A potential buyer’s contractual right to meet the terms of a third party’s higher offer.
Right of First Refusal
An instrument granting someone authority to act as agent or attorney-in-fact for the grantor.
Power of Attorney
The national market in which mortgages are originated.
Primary Mortgage Market
A city ordinance that regulates the use to which land within various parts of the city may be put.
It allocates uses to the various districts of a municipality, as by allocating residences to certain parts and businesses to other parts.
Zoning Ordinance
A legal right or interest that a creditor has in another’s property, lasting usually until a debt or duty that it secures is satisfied.
Lien
A feature of some mortgages, usually fixed-rate, that helps you buy a home with a low-down payment.
Low-Down-Payment Feature
A mortgage that a buyer gives the seller, when the property is conveyed, to secure the unpaid balance of the purchase price.
Purchase Money Mortgage (PMM)
Mortgagee
Lender
The inherent power of a governmental entity to take privately owned property and convert it to public use, subject to reasonable compensation for the taking.
Eminent Domain
Also refers to a lien on real estate in favor of a state or local government that may be foreclosed for nonpayment of taxes.
Most state have adopted the Uniform Federal Tax Lien Registration Act.
Tax Sale
A sale of property because of nonpayment of taxes.
Term
A contractual stipulation
Tax Lien
When a mortgage negatively amortizes, the ______ _____ _______does not include any amount for principal reduction and does not cover all the interest. The loan balance therefore increase instead of decreasing.
Monthly Fixed Installment
Information in the files of a credit bureau, regarding an individual’s debts and repayments (or non-repayments) of such.
Credit history
Collateral given or pledged to guarantee the fulfillment of an obligation, especially that a creditor will be repaid (usually with interest) any money or credit extended to a debtor.
Security
A short-term loan secured to cover certain major expenditures, such as construction costs, until permanent financing is obtained.
Interim Financing
A federal statute that requires lenders to provide home buyers with information about known or estimated settlement costs
Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA/Regulation X)
Unless necessary to sow the court’s jurisdiction, a plaintiff’s pleadings need not assert the legal capacity of any party. A party wishing to raise the issue of _________ must do so by specific negative pleading.
Capacity
A legal proceeding to terminate a mortgagor’s interest in property, instituted by the lender (the mortgagee) either to gain title or to force a sale to satisfy the unpaid debt secured by the property.
Foreclosure
Loosely, any real-estate agent or broker.
Realtor
A structure, transportable in one or more sections, that when traveling is 8 body feet or more in width or 40 body feet or more in length, or when erected on site, is 320 or more square feet, and that is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities, and that has within it plumbing, heating, air-conditioning, and electrical systems.
Manufactured Housing
A mortgage requiring periodic payments for a specified time and a lump-sum payment of the outstanding balance at maturity
Balloon mortgage
These daily rates are used as the underlying interest rates for derivative contracts in currencies other than the euro.
London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR)
A set restriction on how much payments can increase or decrease over a single adjustment period.
Periodic Payment Cap
Any movable or intangible thing that is subject to ownership and not classified as real property.
Personal Property
a loan agreement provision that requires the debtor to pay off the balance sooner than the due date if some specified event occurs, such as failure to pay an installment of to maintain insurance.
Acceleration Clause
A mortgage whose initial payments are lower than its later payments.
Graduated Payment Mortgage (GPM)
A privately owned and managed corporation chartered by the U.S. government that provides a secondary mortgage market for the purchase and sale of mortgages guaranteed by the Veterans Administration and those insured under the Federal Housing Administration.
Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae/FNMA)
Change in the frequency of payment or interest rate of ARM.
Change frequency
Any asset purchased to produce a profit, whether from income or resale.
Investment Property
Mortgage insured by a government entity, such as FHA, VA or RHS.
Government mortgage
The components of a monthly mortgage payment.
Principal, Interest, Taxes, and Insurance (PITI)
Life insurance on a borrower, usually in a consumer installment loan, in which the amount due is paid if the borrower dies.
Credit life insurance
The pro-rated amount of interest due for remaining days in a month.
Per Diem Interest
A mortgage in which the lender disburses money over a long period to provide regular income to the borrower, and in which the loan is repaid in a lump sum when the borrower dies or when the property is sold
Reverse Annuity Mortgage (RAM)
Offers protections for service members, and sometimes their family members, such as life insurance coverage protection, and suspension of professional liability insurance.
Service Members Civil Relief Act
Equity that results from a buyer giving an existing property as trade for all or part of the down payment on the subject property.
Trade Equity
A mortgage that is insured fully or partially by the Federal Housing Administration.
FHA mortgage
A party’s unilateral unmaking of a contract for a legally sufficient reason, such as the other party’s material breach, or a judgment rescinding the contract.
Rescission
AKA self-liquidating mortgage
Fully Amortized Mortgage
An alternative financing option for low- and moderate-income households.
Survey
The measuring of a tract of land and its boundaries and contents. Also refers to the map indicating the results of such measurements.
Subsidized Second Mortgage
Criteria used to determine the eligibility for a loan.
Qualifying Guidelines
A second mortgage issued when a lender assumes the payments on the borrower’s low-interest first mortgage (usually issued through a different lender) and lends additional funds.
Wraparound Mortgage
A 1968 federal statute enacted as the first subchapter of the Consumer Credit Protection Act to safeguard consumers in the use of credit by restricting the garnishment of wages.
Truth-in-Lending Act (TILA/Regulation Z)
This regulation provides the public loan data that can be used to assist in determining whether financial institutions are serving the housing needs of their communities, public officials in distributing public-sector investments to attract private investment to areas where it is needed, and in identifying possible discriminatory lending patterns.
Home Mortgage Disclosure Act of 1975 (HMDA/Regulation C)
A mortgage in which the mortgagor pays the interest as well as a portion of the principal in the periodic payment.
Fully Amortized Mortgage
The condition of being unable to pay debts as they fall due or in the usual course of business.
Insolvency
This lien gives the judgment creditor the right to attach the judgment debtor’s property.
Judgment Lien
When a seller wants to close a sale of real estate but the buyer is not yet able to fully fund the purchase, the parties can close the sale with the seller taking from the buyer a purchase money note and mortgage in lieu of an all-cash payment.
Seller Take-Back
Unscrupulous actions carried out by a lender to entice, induce, and/or assist a borrower in taking a mortgage that carries high fees, a high interest rate, strips the borrower of equity, or places the borrower in a lower credit rated loan to the benefit of the lender.
Predatory Lending
A statement of a financial position as of the statement’s date, disclosing the value of assets, liabilities, and equity
Balance sheet
Such an account, usually pays interest competitive with money-market funds but allows a limited number of transactions per month.
Money Market Account
A loan that is issued and supported only by the borrower’s creditworthiness, rather than by a type of collateral.
Unsecured Loan
A measure of one’s wealth, usually calculated as the excess of total assets over total liabilities.
Non-Assumption Clause
A statement in a mortgage contract forbidding the assumption of the mortgage by another borrower without the prior approval of the lender.
Net Worth
One who gives credit for money or goods.
Creditor
Known as a deferred interest.
Negative Amortization
A mortgage loan in a principal amount that exceeds the dollar limits for a government guarantee.
Jumbo Mortgage
If the interest rate on the short-term loan is too large to make money on the spread, the mortgage broker will charge a _________ to cover its costs until it can assemble enough loans in its virtual warehouse and sell them to someone else making enough money to pay off its short-term loans.
Warehouse Fee
A debt that is overdue in payment
Delinquency
For the holder to have good title, every prior negotiation must have been proper. If necessary indorsement is missing or forged, the __________ ________ ________ is broken and no later transferee can become a holder.
Chain of title
Means any form of credit that is secured by real property or a dwelling and that is offered or extended to a consumer primarily for personal, family, or household purposes.
Mortgage Credit Product
A final loan payment that is usually much larger than the preceding regular payments and that discharges the principal balance of the loan.
Balloon payment
Insurance that indemnifies against a loss caused by a flood. This type of insurance is often sold privately but subsidized by the federal government.
Flood insurance
The rate of interest that is added to the principal of a financial instrument between cash payments of that interest.
Interest Accrual Rate
An option to buy something at a fixed rate price even if the market rises; the right to require another to sell.
Call option
This is used to calculate the interest rate on an ARM.
Indexed Rate
An act of lending
Loan
For example, if Beth has a _________ on the purchase of Sam’s house, and if Terry offers to buy the house for $300,000, then Beth can match this offer and prevent Terry from buying it.
Right of First Refusal
A binding offer by a lender to make a loan under certain terms or conditions to a borrower.
Includes the amount of the mortgage, the interest rate, and repayment terms.
Commitment
A mortgage that covers an aggregation of property or that secures or provides for indebtedness previously existing in various forms.
Especially, a mortgage covering two or more properties that are pledged to support a debt
Blanket mortgage
A federal statute that prohibits creditors from discriminating against credit applicants based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, or marital status with respect to any aspect of a credit transaction.
Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA/Regulation B)
An item that is owned and has value.
Asset
A promise to answer for the payment of some debt, or the performance of some duty, in case of the failure of another who is liable in the first instance; a collateral undertaking by one person to be answerable for the payment of some debt or performance of some duty or contract for another person who stands first bound to pay or perform.
Guaranty
An appraisal issued by the VA showing the property’s fair market value.
Certificate of Reasonable Value (CRV)
Form used in mortgage lending to verify monthly rents paid and late payments, if any.
Verification of Rent (VOR)
The government official who keeps the public records affecting real property, such as deeds, liens, and judgments.
Recorder
A process used to make sure that companies participating in the issuance of mortgages comply with all state and national laws related to those mortgages.
Quality Control
A mortgage, not backed by government insurance, by which the borrower transfer a lien or title to the lending bank or other financial institution.
Conventional Mortgage
Interest that is earned but not yet paid, such as interest that accrues on real estate and that will be paid when the property is sold if, in the meantime, the rental income does not cover the mortgage payments.
Accrued Interest
Offers protections for service members, and sometimes their family members, such as deferred income taxes.
Service Members Civil Relief Act
Headed by the Comptroller of the Currency.
Office of Comptroller Currency
An offeree’s new offer that varies the terms of the original offer and that ordinarily rejects and terminates the original offer.
Counteroffer
A lien on property, and all right to property, imposed by the federal government for unpaid federal taxes.
Tax Lien
Property that produces income, such as rental property.
Income Property
Usury
The charging of an illegal rate of interest as a condition to lending money.
Unsecured Loan
An examination of a structure by a qualified person to determine the existence of termite infestation.
Termite Inspection
A sale of property because of nonpayment of taxes.
Tax Sale
For example, an $80,000 loan on property worth $100,000 results in this ratio of 80 percent - which is usually the highest ratio that lenders will agree to without requiring the debtor to buy mortgage insurance.
Loan-to-Value Ratio (LTV)
an agreement that obligates someone to sell and may include a corresponding obligation for someone else to buy.
Agreement of sale
A fee the buyer pays a lender when applying for a mortgage.
Loan Application Fee
A note evidencing a loan for which real property has been offered as security.
Mortgage Note
A letter to the lender from the donor stating a gift of money has been made to the buyer to purchase specific property. The relationship of the donor and done is stated, as well as the amount of the gift.
Gift Letter
The act of assuming a risk by insuring it.
Underwriting
Offers protections for service members, and sometimes their family members, such as protection against default judgments
Service Members Civil Relief Act
System was established by the Federal Reserve Act of 1913.
Federal Reserve System (FRS)
A tax levied on the owner of property, usually based on the property’s value.
Property Tax
The transfer of rights or property.
Assignment
this allows resident and non resident united states federal taxpayers to defer capital gains and recaptured depreciation taxes when exchanging real or personal property held for productive use in a trade, business, or for investment for like-kind real personal property held for productive use in a trade, business, or for investment
1031 exchange
The complete payment of a mortgage.
Satisfaction of Mortgage
Financial equity created in property by the owner’s labor in improving the property.
Sweat Equity
Some ________ mortgages allow a borrower to roll the costs of rehabilitation and home purchase into one mortgage loan.
Rehabilitation Mortgage
A mortgage that is junior to a first mortgage on the same property, but that is senior to any later mortgage.
Second Mortgage
A legal share in something, all or part of a legal or equitable claim to or right in property.
Collectively, the word includes any aggregation of rights, privileges, powers, and immunities, distributively, it refers to any one right, privilege, power, or immunity.
Interest
A clause in a sales contract that allows the buyer to examine the property being purchased at a specified time immediately before the closing.
Walk-Through
A single parent who has only owned with a former spouse while married.
First-Time Home Buyer
The FHA assesses either an “upfront”______ at the time of closing, or an annual _____ that is calculated every year and paid in 12 installments.
Mortgage Insurance Premium (MIP)
on an ARM, the time between changes in the interest rate and/or monthly payment
Adjustment interval
An interest rate charged on loans to borrowers that is calculated by taking the sum of a is used to calculate the interest rate on an ARM.
Indexed Rate
No promises concerning the quality of the title.
Radon
A naturally appearing radioactive gas found in some buildings, that, in sufficient concentrations, may cause health problems.
Quitclaim Deed
The length of time it will take to amortize the mortgage loan expressed in months.
For example, a 30-year mortgage is a 360-month amortization term
Amortization Term
A _____ _____ does not originate or service mortgage loans.
Mortgage Broker
Someone who contracts for the completion of an estate project, including purchasing all materials, hiring and paying subcontractors, and coordinating all the work.
General Contractor
A 2010 federal statute whose stated purposes include promoting the financial stability of the United States by improving accountability and transparency in the financial system.
Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform & Consumer Protection Act
Any asset purchased to produce a profit, whether from income or resale.
Investment Property
Certificate given to veterans or reservists who have served 90 days of continuous active duty (including training time), which enables veterans to obtain lower down payments on certain FHA loans.
Certificate of veteran status
The minimum interest rate allowed according to the contractual terms of the mortgage loan.
Interest Rate Floor
A U.S. federal agency that serves to charter, regulate, and supervise the national banks and the federal branches and agencies of foreign banks.
Office of Comptroller Currency
The insured’s claim under the policy arises once the insured’s liability to a third party has been asserted.
Liability Insurance
An interference with or intrusion onto another’s property.
Encroachment
Statistically derived numeric expression of a person’s creditworthiness that is used by lenders to access the likelihood that a person will repay their debts.
Credit score
The lowest limit, such as the lowest interest rate allowed by law or the smallest permissible payment under a contract.
Floor
The satisfaction of a debt or installment payment before its official due date.
it.
Pre-Payment
A process where the terms of a payment are modified outside the original terms of the contract agreed to by the lender and borrower.
Modification
An asset that is readily convertible into cash, such as a marketable security, a note, or an account receivable.
Liquid Asset
Offers protections for service members, and sometimes their family members, such as, reduced interest rates.
Service Members Civil Relief Act
The act or process of legally dispossessing a person of land or rental property.
Eviction
An examination of the public records to determine whether any defects or encumbrances exist in a given property’s chain of title.
Title Search
The payments are intended to gradually increase, as the borrower’s income increases over time.
Graduated Payment Mortgage (GPM)
A sales contract in which an offer has been made and accepted, and the contract has been signed and initialed by all parties involved.
Ratified Sales Contract
The contributions, along with any interest earned in the account, are not taxed until the money is withdrawn after a participant reaches 591/2 (or before then, if a 10 percent penalty is paid).
Individual Retirement Account (IRA)
A person named by a testator to carry out the provisions of the testator’s will.
Executor
These are used in computing investment yields and in apportioning costs and calculating interest rate in real-estate transaction.
Basis point
The land benefitting from an easement
Dominant Estate
_______ can be either corporeal (soil and buildings) or incorporeal (easements).
Real Property
It is an alternative to a mortgage preferred by lenders because it is faster and cheaper to foreclose.
Deed of trust
An impartial person who estimates the value of something, such as real estate.
Appraiser
The interest rate that applies on the first day of the loan’s term.
Initial Interest Rate
_______ financing is when a seller acts as the bank or lender and carries a second mortgage on the subject property, which the buyer pays down each month.
Seller Carry Back
It is headed by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
