Terms Flashcards
The liquidation of a financial obligation on an installment basis; also, recovery over a period of cost or value.
Amortization
One qualified by education, training and experience who is hired to estimate the value of real and personal property based on experience, judgment, facts, and use of formal appraisal processes.
Appraiser
The highest price in terms of money which a property will bring in competitive and open market and under all conditions required for a fair sale, i.e., the buyer and seller acting prudently, knowledgeably and neither affected by undue pressures.
Market Value
Present worth of future benefits arising out of ownership to typical users/investors.
Value
An estimate of the value of property resulting from an analysis of facts about the property.
Appraisal
The desire for possession or ownership backed by the financial means to satisfy that need.
Effective Demand
The capacity to satisfy human needs and desires.
Utility
The supply of property in relation to effective demand.
Scarcity
The relative ease with which ownership rights are transferred from one person to another.
Transferability
The highest price in terms of money which a property will bring in competitive and open market and under all conditions required for a fair sale, i.e., the buyer and seller acting prudently, knowledgeably and neither affected by undue pressures.
Market Value
The cost of replacing a structure completely destroyed by an insured hazard.
Insured Value
The current value for accounting purposes of an asset expressed as original cost plus capital additions minus accumulated depreciation.
Book Value
A valuation placed upon a piece of property by a public authority as a basis for levying taxes on the property.
Assessed Value
The most probable use to which a property is suited that results in its highest value or highest returns to the land.
Highest and Best Use
The price paid regardless of pressures, motives or intelligence.
Market Price
Affirms that the maximum value of a property tends to be set by the cost of acquiring an equally desirable and value substitute property, assuming no costly delay is encountered in making the substitution.
Principle of Substitution
The principle that states the value of a property will increase if the supply decreases and the demand will either increase or remains constant, and visa versa.
Supply and Demand
Holds that the maximum value is realized when a reasonable degree of homogeneity of improvements is present.
Principle of Conformity
The influences outside of a property can have a positive or negative affect on its value.
Principle of Externalities
Affirms that value is created by anticipated benefits to be derived in the future.
Principle of Anticipation
A component part of a property is valued in proportion to its contribution to the value of the whole. Holds that maximum values are achieved when the improvements on a site produce the highest (net) return, commensurate with the investment.
Principle of Contribution
Holds that profits tend to breed competition and excess profits tend to breed ruinous completion.
Principle of Competition
Holds that it is the future, not the past, which is of prime importance in estimating value. Change is largely the result of cause and effect.
Principle of Change
One of the three methods in the appraisal process. A means of comparing similar type properties, which have recently sold, to the subject property. Commonly used in comparing residential properties.
Sales Comparison Approach (Market Data Approach)
One of the three methods in the appraisal process. An analysis in which a value estimate of a property is derived by estimating the replacement cost of the improvements, deducting therefrom the estimated accrued depreciation, then adding the market value of the land.
Cost Approach
One of the three methods of the appraisal process generally applied to income producing property, and involves a three-step process
1) Find net annual income
2) Set an appropriate capitalization rate or “present worth” factor
3) Capitalize the income dividing the net income by the capitalization rate
Income Approach
The cost of replacing the subject improvement with one that is the exact replica, having the same quality of workmanship, design and layout, or cost to duplicate an asset.
Reproduction Cost
The cost to replace a structure with one having utility equivalent to that being appraised, but constructed with modern materials and according to current standards, design and layout.
Replacement Cost
Loss of value of property brought about by age, physical deterioration or functional or economic obsolescence.
Depreciation
Impairment of condition. Loss in value brought about by wear and tear, disintegration, use and actions of the elements; termed curable and incurable.
Physical Deterioration
The period over which a property will yield a return on the investment over and above the economic or ground rent due to land.
Economic Life
A loss in value due to factors away from the subject property but adversely affecting the value of the subject property.
Economic Obsolescence
A loss of value due to adverse factors from within the structure which affect the utility of the structure, value and marketability.
Functional Obsolescence
A number which, times the gross income of a property, produces an estimate of value of the property.
Gross rent multiplier
An analysis of the competition in the marketplace that a property will face upon sale attempts.
Comparative Market Analysis
A person whose principal business in the originating, financing, closing, selling and servicing of loans secured by the real property for institutional lenders on a contractual basis.
Mortgage Banker
A broker who arranges a mortgage loan between a lender and a borrower for a fee.
Mortgage Broker
A mortgage in which the scheduled payment will not amortize the loan over the mortgage term; therefore, for the debt to be fully satisfied, a final payment called a balloon payment, larger than the uniform payments, is required.
Balloon Mortgage
A mortgage that requires the mortgagor to pay interest only during the mortgage term, with the principal due at the end of the term.
Term Mortgage
Occurs when monthly installment payments are insufficient to pay the interest accruing on the principal balance, so that the unpaid interest must be added to the principal due.
Negative Amortization
A mortgage securing a loan made by investors without governmental underwriting, i.e., which is not FHA insured or VA guaranteed. The type customarily made by a bank or savings and loan association.
Conventional Loan
An acronym denoting that a mortgage payment includes principal, interest, taxes, and insurance.
PITI
The relationship between the amount of a mortgage loan and the lender’s opinion of the value of property pledged to secure payment of the loan.
Loan to Value Ratio
Mortgage guaranty insurance available to conventional lenders on the first, high risk portion of a loan (PMI).
Private Mortgage Insurance
The interest earned by a bank on the money it has loaned.
Yield
The amount of money the borrower or seller must pay the lender to get a mortgage at a stated interest rate. The amount is equal to the difference between the principal balance on the note and the lesser amount which a purchaser of the note would pay the original lender for it under market conditions. A point equals one percent of the loan.
Discount Points
The financing charge that a lender requires.
Loan Origination Fee
A loan made to qualified veterans for the purchase of real property wherein the Department of Veteran’s Affairs guarantees the lender payment of the mortgage.
VA Loan
The federal banking system of the United States under the control of central board of governors (Federal Reserve System) involving a central bank in each of twelve geographical districts with broad powers in controlling credit and the amount of money in circulation.
Federal Reserve System
The minimum interest rate set by the Federal Reserve for lending to other banks.
Discount Rate
Written notice of an obligation given by a corporation or government entity. A surety instrument.
Bond
The activity of lenders’ making mortgage loans to individual borrowers.
Primary Mortgage Market
The buying and selling of existing deeds of trust and promissory notes.
Secondly Mortgage Market
The shortened name for the Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA), a privately owned corporation that purchases FHA, VA, and conventional mortgages.
Fannie Mae
A nickname for the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (FHLMC), a corporation wholly owned by the Federal Home Loan Bank System that purchases FHA, VA, and Conventional mortgages.
Freddie Mac
A nickname for the Government National Mortgage Association (GNMA), a U.S. government agency that purchases FHA and VA mortgages.
Ginnie Mae
The name given to the federal statutes and regulations (Regulation Z) which are designed primarily to insure that prospective borrowers and purchasers on credit receive credit cost information before entering into a transaction.
Truth in Lending
A federal law requiring the disclosure to borrowers of settlement (closing) procedures and costs by means of a pamphlet and forms prescribed by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA)
A person to whom a debt is owed.
Creditor
The relative cost of credit as determined in accordance with Regulation Z of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System for implementing the Federal Truth in Lending Act.
Annual Percentage Rate
A mortgage loan which bears interest at a rate subject to change during the term of the loan, predetermined or otherwise.
Adjustable Rate Mortgage (ARM)
Funds provided usually by the builder or seller to temporarily reduce the borrower’s monthly principal and interest payment.
Subsidy Buydown
A loan against the equity in a home.
Home Equity Loan
A financing device whereby a lender assumes payments on existing trust deeds of a borrower and takes from the borrower a junior trust deed with a face value in an amount equal to the amount outstanding on the old trust deed and the additional amount of money borrowed.
Wrap Around Mortgage
A loan made to finance the actual construction or improvement on land. Funds are usually dispersed in increments as the construction progresses.
Construction Loan
A financial arrangement where at the time of sale the seller retains occupancy by concurrently agreeing to lease the property from the purchaser. The seller receives cash while the buyer is assured a tenant and a fixed return on buyer’s investment.
Sale and Leaseback
The right of the State to enact laws and enforce them for the order, safety, health, morals and general welfare of the public.
Police Power