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    Commercial Real Estate Glossary

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    Property-specific factors

    Factors influenced by the site-specific and technical characteristics of a property or parcel including its layout, limitations, orientation, physical features, and ability to comply with government imposed zoning and land-use restrictions.

    Property type

    The classification of commercial real estate based on its primary use. The four primary property types are: retail, industrial, office, and multi-family residential.

    Proprietary data

    Information obtained (usually at a cost) from private sources or firms that hold the exclusive rights to manufacture and distribute information created for specific commercial applications, supplying business, sales, and market-potential data and other information services to a targeted audience.

    Purchasing power risk

    The variability in the future purchasing power of income received from an investment.

    PV

    See present value.

    Qualify

    First stage of four-stage transaction management process pertaining to the process of gathering and evaluating information to measure a client’s readiness, willingness, and ability to consummate a transaction. The acronym QUALIFY represents the considerations of quantify, usage, authority, latitude, intention, financial, and yield involved in the qualify stage.

    Quality of life

    The psychological and individual aspects of social well-being as perceived and experienced by people in reference to a given geographic area, which reflect a state of mind or position on the prevailing quality of existence in relation to various socio-economic and environmental conditions and/or amenities known to be associated or found within that area.

    Range

    The maximum distance consumers are willing to travel to purchase a good or service from a given establishment or location. Hence, the boundary or outer limits of the market area circumscribed about a location at which a good or service may be purchased can be easily identified having knowledge of the range.

    Rate of return

    The percentage return on each dollar invested. Also known as yield.

    Real estate

    See commercial real estate.

    Real estate cycles (phases)

    The regularly repeating sequence of economic downturns and upturns and associated changes in real estate market transactions tied to market dynamics and changing macro economic conditions, whose phases include (in order) recession, recovery, expansion, and oversupply.

    Real estate fluctuations

    Short-term variations in real estate prices or rents (usually lasting anywhere from one day to a few months) caused by natural hazards (such as tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, and wildfires) or boosts or shocks to the local economy (such as the entry or exit of major employers).

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