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"S" Listings - Mortgage Glossary

  • Safe Rate – The rate of interest paid on government bonds, utility bonds or bank savings...
  • Sales Broker – Broker who specializes in selling properties...
  • Sales Comparison Value – One of the three appraisal methods where an estimate of value is obtained...
  • Satisfaction of Mortgage – Recording the document that acknowledges the full repayment of the debt...

  • SBA Financing – Financing provided or guaranteed in part by the Small Business Administration...
  • Second Mortgage – A secondary lien placed up on a property that is explicitly subordinate to the first mortgage...
  • Secondary Mortgage Market – A market for the purchase and sale of existing mortgages...
  • Sector Growth Theory – A theory of city growth that considers the city as a circle...

  • Securitization – The act of pledging or putting up something of value...
  • Security – Anything pledged of value to make certain that an obligation or the payment of a debt is fulfilled...

  • Self Storage – A sub classification of industrial commercial property type or building type characterized by its usage for self storage purposes...
  • Self Amortizing Mortgage – Also known as an interest only loan that will eliminate itself by regular principal and interest payments...

  • Seller Contributions – Closing costs paid by seller in an effort to just get the property sold...
  • Servicer – Institution acting for the benefit of the certificate holders in the administration and servicing of mortgage loans...
  • Settlement Services – Services performed to close a mortgage loan, including attorney services...
  • Site Analysis – Analysis of a site for a given business enterprise...
  • Site Feasability – Analysis of whether a given site could prove profitable...
  • Sole Proprietorship – The simplest and easiest business entity to have, since it requires no legal costs upfront...
  • Sprinklered – Identifies whether all areas of the building are sprinklered; a sprinkler system is typically an automatic...
  • Stabalized Operating Property – Means that the income generated on an annual basis...
  • Standard && Poor's – A collection of market capitalization-weighted benchmark indices...
  • Standard Deviation – The square root of the variance...
  • Standard Industrial Classification – (SIC) A code system that designates a unique business activity classified by industry...
  • Strip Center – A retail property subtype in which the property is occupied by one or more anchor tenants...
  • Survey – The method by which a surveyor of real property identifies the boundaries of a parcel of land...

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