Description
COMPENDIUM OF REAL ESTATE TERMS & CONCEPTS
FIRST Edition
ISBN 978-978-50988-1-5
© Kuye Olusegun
(2018)
COMPENDIUM OF REAL ESTATE TERMS & CONCEPTS is a book that contains about 250 main real estate themes and over 1,000 associated sub-themes and concepts that are predominantly synonymous with professionals and students in the built environment. This book, as aptly called, is truly a ‘COMPENDIUM’ in nature and scope, which becomes handy whenever there is need to refresh one’s mind on issues that bothers on professional practice.
Some of the notable ‘terms and/or concepts’ that were given extensive treatment include:
- Alternative dispute resolution (ADR)
- Asset management
- Business goals
- Civil and criminal justice
- Capital lease versus operating lease
- Contract
- Contract life cycle management
- Conflict of interest
- Commonwealth Association of Surveying and Land Economy (CASLE)
- Corporate social responsibility
- Environmental impact assessment
- Estate Surveyors & Valuers Registration Board of Nigeria (ESVARBON)
- Estate Surveyor & Valuer (ESV)
- Expert witness
- Expert versus Specialist
- Expression of interest (EOI)
- Facilities management
- Facility master plan
- Highest and best use
- Housing
- Intelligent buildings
- International Real Estate Federation (FIABCI)
- Land contract
- Land registration
- Land use control measures
- Partnering
- Professional abuse
- Professional ethics/code of conduct
- Professional malpractice
- Public-private partnerships (PPP)
- Reports
- Service level agreement (SLA)
- Strategic alliance
- Strategic facility plan (SFP)
- Terms of reference (TOR)
- Value added services (VAS)
- Value engineering
- Valuedrivers
- Etcetera
This BOOK is designed primarily for:
- Students of Estate Management & Valuation at every level of tertiary institutions;
- Candidates preparing for the professional practice examination (PPE) of the Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers, and other related examinations;
- Practicing Estate Surveyors and Valuers and they will find it particularly useful as a reference point in their day-to-day activities as substantial aspects of professional practice were extensively covered in the Book;
- Professionals and Students in other disciplines; and
- The general public as the BOOK will keep them well informed about the common terms in general usage in the real estate parlance.
Without doubt, this is one Book that everyone will find very useful irrespective of their different backgrounds and professional callings.


