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Real Estate Glossary

Demolition Clause

This is a clause found in a lease indicating that when the ground lease has passed its expiration date, the building needs to be demolished. In this case, the lessor is obliged to notify the tenants within an established time...

Real Estate Glossary

Geographic Submarket

This is the total amount of housing units or households within a defined area as determined by their income, tenure, and other socio-economic attributes that are calculated to be within a specific geographic division or unit.

Real Estate Glossary

Cost Plus Contract

In this contract, the contractor is reimbursed for all costs related to construction on top of a prearranged percentage of costs covering the contractor's profit and overhead. This is the kind of contract utilized when the scope...

Real Estate Glossary

Enclave community

Compared to planned communities, enclave communities are smaller in extent and usually has different price ranges for the residential neighborhoods. They typically have public recreation areas (such as swimming pools and...

Real Estate Glossary

Efficiency

This measures the effectiveness or capacity of a certain space to produce the desired outcome with minimum expenditure in terms of money, materials, time, and energy.

Real Estate Glossary

Exclusive Agency

This is an agreement where a broker has the exclusive rights to represent a tenant or an owner. Should the tenant or owner utilize another broker, both the actual and original broker are entitled to their own leasing commissions.