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Glossary Of Terms

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Additional security fee

Annual percentage rate

Arrangement fees

Assignment

Auction

Basic variable mortgage rate

Bridging loan

Building survey

Buy to let mortgage

Capital

Capped mortgage

Chain

CML

Completion

Conditions of sale

Contents insurance

Contract

Contract race

Conveyancer

Conveyancing

Covenants

Deeds

Deposit

Detached

Development

Dilapidations

Disbursements

Discharge

Draft Contract

Early redemption charge (ERC)

Endowment mortgage

Equity

Excess

Exchange of contracts

Failed valuation survey

Fixed rate mortgage

Fixtures & fittings

Flexible mortgage

Freehold

Gazumping

Gazundering

Ground rent

Guarantor

Homebuyer's survey and valuation

IFA

Individual savings account (ISA) mortgage

Interest charges (mortgage)

Interest-only mortgage

Inventory

Joint tenants

Land registry fee

Lease

Leasehold

Lender’s arrangement fees

Lender’s legal fees

Listed building

Loan to value (LTV)

Local authority search

Maintenance charge (or service charge)

Maisonette

Mortgage

Mortgage deed

Mortgage indemnity guarantee (MIG)

Mortgage indemnity premium (MIP)

Mortgage payment protection (MPP)

Mortgage rate

Mortgage term

Mortgagee

Negative equity

NHBC (National House-Building Council)

Offer

Offer of a loan

Ombudsman

Open market value

Payment break

Penalties

Peppercorn ground rent

Pied a terre

Preliminary enquiries

Premium

Premium lease

Principal

Public liability insurance

Purchaser

Redemption

Re-mortgage

Repayment mortgage

Repossession

Retention

Search

Semi-detached

Service charge

Sole agent

Solicitor

Stamp duty

Structural survey

Studio Flat

Subject to Contract (STC)

Surveyor

Tenancy

Tenancy agreement

Tenant

Tenants in common

Tenure

Terraced house

Title deeds

Transfer deeds

Under offer

Valuation

Variable base Rate

Vendor

Yield

 

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