Real Estate Careers
Real Estate Careers 2
Real Estate Terms
100

This professional designs buildings.

What is an Architect?

100

Someone who gives legal advice to people who buy, sell or lease real estate.

What is an Attorney?

100

A mixture of land uses in one plan, such as residential, commercial, and retail.

What is a Mixed Use Development?

200

This person sets up loans to pay for the building or construction project.

What is a Banker?

200

This person identifies environmental concerns for a project.

What is an Environmental Consultant?

200

The rules that determine what you can build on a site.

What is Zoning?

300

This professional measures and describes land and creates legal descriptions of land.

What is a Surveyor?

300

This person manages a property on behalf of the building owner. 

What is a Property Manager?

300

An official certificate of permission to a builder to construct, enlarge or alter a building.

What is a Building Permit?

400

This professional designs roads, parking lots, grading, drainage for the site that the building is going to go on.

What is a Civil Engineer?

400

This person oversees a project while it is being built, making sure it is being built correctly, and develops schedules and budgets for construction.

What is a General Contractor?

400

When you investigate the important elements about a property before you go forward with the purchase.

What is Due Diligence?

500

This person estimates the value of real estate for loans, sales, and asset valuation.

What is an Appraiser?

500

This person helps people find properties to purchase or lease a property. 

What is a Broker?

500

Information about the ages and incomes of people within a certain distance from your property.

What is Demographic Data?