Terms Starting with S
205 terms
Supply Constraints
Supply constraints are factors that limit new housing construction—zoning, land availability, labor, materials, and permitting—that affect vacancy-rate, rental-income growth, and market-fundamentals.
Supply Glut Shield
A Supply Glut Shield is an investment strategy focused on selecting properties and markets that are naturally protected from oversupply risk — where geographic, regulatory, or economic barriers limit new construction that could flood the market and compress rents.
Supply and Demand
Supply and demand is the basic economics of markets: low supply plus high demand pushes prices up; high supply plus low demand pushes them down.
Supply-Demand Imbalance
The Supply-Demand Imbalance in housing refers to the structural deficit between the number of housing units available and the number needed to meet population and household formation growth, currently estimated at 3-5 million units nationally, driving sustained upward pressure on prices and rents.
Surety Bond
Surety Bond is a real estate insurance concept that describes a specific aspect of how real estate transactions, analysis, or operations work in the context of legal protection asset structuring deals.
Surveyor
A surveyor is a licensed professional who measures and maps property boundaries, improvements, and easements to produce a survey plat.
Suspended Passive Loss
Suspended Passive Loss is a tax strategy concept that describes a specific aspect of how real estate transactions, analysis, or operations work in the context of tax optimization deals.
Sweat Equity (Renovation)
Sweat Equity (Renovation) is a construction and renovation concept that describes a specific aspect of how real estate transactions, analysis, or operations work in the context of value add renovations deals.
Syndication
A real estate syndication is a partnership. Multiple investors pool capital to buy and operate commercial properties. A general partner runs the deal; limited partners provide most of the money and stay passive.
Syndication Entry Evaluation
Syndication entry evaluation is the systematic due diligence process passive investors use to assess real estate syndication opportunities before committing capital, analyzing sponsor track records, deal economics, fee structures, and legal protections.
Syndication Exit Waterfall
A syndication exit waterfall is the contractually defined sequence in which sale proceeds from a real estate syndication are distributed among limited partners (LPs) and general partners (GPs), typically structured in tiers that prioritize LP capital return before GP profit participation.
Syndication Structure
A syndication structure is the legal and financial framework that organizes a real estate investment among a sponsor (General Partner) who manages the deal and passive investors (Limited Partners) who contribute most of the capital, with profits split through a tiered waterfall.
Vacancy Assumption
Vacancy Assumption is a deal evaluation concept that describes a specific aspect of how real estate transactions, analysis, or operations work in the context of deal analysis deals.