Real Estate And Search Engine Optimization Glossary

Machine generated
Software tools that purport to auto-generate doorway pages. These pages are usually devoid of meaningful content. Severely frowned upon by search engine.

Major Deficiency
A deficiency that strongly impacts the usability and habitability of a house. Or a deficiency that may be very expensive to repair.

Mandatory delivery commitment
An agreement that a lender will deliver loans or securities by a certain date at agreed-upon terms.

Manual submitting
Submitting by hand to an individual search engine, rather than using an automated submission tool or service. Manual the most professional and effective way to submit a site to search engines.

Manufacture Housing
Once known as ''mobile homes,'' manufactured housing is any building which has been constructed off site, then moved onto a piece of real property.

Margin
The number of percentage points the lender adds to the index rate to calculate the adjustable rate mortgage (ARM) interest rate at each adjustment.

Marginal Land
Land whose value has been diminished due to some internal defect or external condition. In most cases, the cost to correct the flaw or condition is as much or more than the expected return from the property.

Market Value
The most likely price a given property will bring if widely exposed on the market, assuming fully informed buyer and seller.

Marketable Title
A title that is free and clear of objectionable liens, clouds or other title defects. A title which enables an owner to sell his property freely to others and which others will accept without objection.

Marketing
The management process through which efforts to conceive, develop and deliver goods and services are integrated to satisfy the needs and wants of selected customers as a means of achieving company objectives.