Building/Construction

What are real estate improvements?

Additions to or enhancements of raw land or structures on real property that are permanently affixed or attached and add usefulness and value to the property, rather than simply re...


What are real estate facilitators?

The real estate market is not a single unified market, rather it is highly fragmented and segment into markets and submarkets, each having a different market structure and competit...


What are real estate bonds?

Real estate bonds are fixed-income capital market instruments that are secured by income-producing property (IPP).  They are issued either directly by the borrowing entity, the ori...


What are project contractors?

The general contractor is commonly an engineer specialized in construction supervision engaged by the project manager to coordinate the overall property development process.  The g...


What are listing services?

A multiple listing service (MLS) is a service used by real estate brokers to represent sellers and allow others to view the listings of properties for sale.  Both selling and buyin...


What are hotel management agreements?

Under a hotel management agreement (HMA), a hotel chain or independent management company operates a hotel business on behalf of the business owner for a fee.  It is typically heav...


What are fixtures?

A fixture is originally an item of personal property that has become permanently affixed or attached to real estate such that it is considered to be an integral part of the propert...


What are facilities services?

Facility services are those services organized and rendered by facilities managers that focus on the buildings and the property infrastructure that support the core business of the...


What are crowdlending platforms?

Any credit activity facilitated by an online electronic platform that matches loans with lender interest is variably called "crowdlending", “loan-based crowdfunding”, “P2P lending”...


What are CRE syndicated and club lending?

Syndicated lending is multilateral lending that is originated, arranged and structured by one or more commercial or investment banks and marketed to a group ("syndicate") of underw...


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