Course 1: Real Estate Essentials
Key terms for Exam 1
191 terms from Course 1, Real Estate Essentials. Each entry gives you a short description, the module and lesson it belongs to, and a quick quiz to check that you can pick the term from its description.
FINTRAC
Free accountCanada's financial intelligence unit, which helps detect and deter money laundering and terrorist financing.
Module 6 · Lesson 11
Fair information principles
Free accountThe ten ground rules, from accountability to challenging compliance, for handling personal data.
Module 6 · Lesson 5
Fill bylaw
Free accountMunicipal rule governing placing and removing soil, topsoil storage and changes to land grade.
Module 6 · Lesson 10
Final plan approval
Free accountStage reached once draft conditions are fulfilled, issued before the plan is tendered for registration.
Module 6 · Lesson 9
Financial benefit
Free accountCash, a gift, event tickets or similar compensation a salesperson or relative might get through the work.
Module 5 · Lesson 2
First application
Free accountOwner-initiated route that brings registry land under land titles, investigated under Part IV of the Act.
Module 4 · Lesson 2
Fixture
Free accountPersonal property securely attached to a property, normally passing to the buyer with it.
Module 2 · Lesson 1
Flat fee
Free accountFixed payment for services, an increasingly common alternative to percentage-based pay.
Module 1 · Lesson 5
Four unities
Free accountConditions covering the same document, timing, possession and share that must all exist for a joint holding.
Module 3 · Lesson 1
Fractional ownership
Free accountArrangement where several buyers each purchase a share of a valuable asset, with use allotted by share size.
Module 3 · Lesson 1
Fraudulent misrepresentation
Free accountFalse statement made knowingly, or with reckless disregard, to induce another party into an agreement.
Module 6 · Lesson 2
Fundamental breach
Free accountFailure so serious it goes to the heart of an agreement, letting the other side walk away.
Module 6 · Lesson 3
General inspection
Free accountVisual look at a residence or facility by the regulator to spot faults needing correction.
Module 7 · Lesson 8
Green building
Free accountConstruction approach promoting efficient resource use, durable components and sound environmental planning, with no universal standard.
Module 7 · Lesson 5
HCRA
Free accountRegulator licensing those who construct and sell new homes and handling their conduct complaints; took over in 2021.
Module 7 · Lesson 6
Implied consent
Free accountPermission assumed from a prior relationship or a publicly shared address rather than a direct opt-in.
Module 7 · Lesson 1
Impossibility of performance
Free accountEnding of an agreement because unanticipated events after signing, such as a fire, release both parties.
Module 6 · Lesson 3
Information statement
Free accountSeller-completed written document about the property for buyers; its existence must be revealed to every interested buyer.
Module 5 · Lesson 2
Injunction
Free accountRemedy in which a court orders a party not to carry out a wrongful act.
Module 6 · Lesson 3
Insurance principle
Free accountAnyone harmed by a register error is compensated, as far as money can, rather than regaining the land.
Module 4 · Lesson 2
LEED
Free accountIndependent rating system benchmarking green building design, construction and operation, run by a not-for-profit council.
Module 7 · Lesson 5
Land Titles Assurance Fund
Free accountStatutory source of compensation for owners wrongly deprived of land through fraud or errors in the register.
Module 4 · Lesson 2
Land division committee
Free accountGroup appointed by an upper-tier municipality that performs functions similar to a lower-tier adjustment committee.
Module 6 · Lesson 9
Land lease
Free accountArrangement where the house is owned but the ground beneath is rented, commonly for 20 to 99 years.
Module 3 · Lesson 1
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