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Real Estate And Search Engine Optimization Glossary

Statute of Frauds
The law requires that certain contracts, such as agreements of sale, to be in writing in order to be enforceable.

Statutory Lien
An involuntary lien, includes tax liens, judgment liens, mechanic liens, etc.

Stemming
Search engines use a process called stemming to deliver results based on a word's root spelling.

Subdivision  
A residential development that is created from a piece of land which has been subdivided into individual lots.

Subject Property  
A term which indicates a property which is being appraised.

Submitting
Submitting a web page address to a search engine in the hopes that it will index it. Submitting your pages using an automated tool (see "automated submitting"), submitting multiple pages of the same web site (see "deep submitting"), or submitting multiple times (see "resubmitting"), particularly if those pages are already indexed, are techniques typically frowned upon by search engines

Substitute of Trustee
A document which is recorded to change the trustee under the deed of trust.

Supplemental Pages
Pages which are indexed in Google but do not exist at this time. But during searching for a particular thing they are shown in the search result pages. These pages provides additional information about the particular search.

Survey
Map or plat made by a licensed surveyor who measures land and charts its boundaries, improvements, and relationship to the property surrounding it. A survey is often required by the lender to assure him that a building is actually sited on the land according to its legal description.

Survivorship
All rights of a joint tenant passes to the surviving joint tenant.

Sweat Equity
Equity created by the labor of the purchaser or borrower that increases the value of the property.

 

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