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Multiple listing service. A multiple listing service (MLS, also multiple listing system or multiple listings service) is an organization with a suite of services that real estate brokers use to establish contractual offers of cooperation and compensation (among brokers) and accumulate and disseminate information to enable appraisals.
Ocean Isle Beach (or simply Ocean Isle) is a small seaside town in Brunswick County, North Carolina, United States. It was incorporated as a town in 1959 [4] and is part of the Wilmington, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 867 at the 2020 census. Located at the southern end of North Carolina's Atlantic coastline, along the ...
A fixture, [1] as a legal concept, means any physical property that is permanently attached (fixed) to real property (usually land). Property not affixed to real property is considered chattel property. Fixtures are treated as a part of real property, particularly in the case of a security interest. A classic example of a fixture is a building ...
The distinction between the two lies in the potential veracity of the assumption. A hypothetical condition assumes a condition which is known to be contrary to fact whereas an extraordinary assumption assumes a condition or a fact which is merely unknown or uncertain. The results of an analysis involving any hypothetical conditions are known to ...
The Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA) was a law passed by the United States Congress in 1974 and codified as Title 12, Chapter 27 of the United States Code, 12 U.S.C. §§ 2601 – 2617. The main objective was to protect homeowners by assisting them in becoming better educated while shopping for real estate services, and eliminating ...
One homeowner has recently discovered he no longer owns his 8,300-square-foot home — at least on paper. Craig Adams, a local dentist in Raleigh, North Carolina, said the deed to his $4 million ...
The rule against perpetuities serves a number of purposes. First, English courts have long recognized that allowing owners to attach long-lasting contingencies to their property harms the ability of future generations to freely buy and sell the property, since few people would be willing to buy property that had unresolved issues regarding its ownership hanging over it.
The National Association of Realtors (NAR) is an American trade association [4] for those who work in the real estate industry. As of December 2023, it had over 1.5 million members, [5] making it the largest trade association in the United States [6] including NAR's institutes, societies, and councils, involved in all aspects of the residential and commercial real estate industries.