What Does The Term Real Estate Mean?
The History of The Term Real Estate
Do you ever keep a dictionary close by with reading? Kindle’s let you click on a word and find its meaning. We were thinking about this and our profession. We help people buy and sell real estate. So what exactly does “real estate” mean. Let’s explore.
As you might imagine, the term real estate has legal and linguistic definitions. There is a nifty website (https://english.stackexchange.com) that looks at the origin and meaning of English words. Want to know what a “blue berserk” is, they have it. Want to know the origin and meaning of “real estate,” they can tell you.
Here is what they have to say,
The real in real estate (AmE) or real property (BrE) is archaic, meaning of actual or physical things. The Latin root is res, generally translated as things or “realis” that means existing and true.
The term estate is traced to both Latin and French. Derived from the Latin term “status,” that means state or condition, it’s combined with stare, which means to stand, and its French derivative is estat.
When Did The Term Real Estate First Come To Use?
The combined term, real estate, was coined in London in 1666, the year of the London Fire. Interestingly, the time that saw most of London’s real estate go up in smoke.
Well, now you know more about the words “real estate” than you may have ever wanted. Yet when it come to the actual buying and selling of real estate, you’ve found a team to stand with you.
The Santa Barbara Group Are Real Estate Pros
Though we were not around when the term was conceived, we have collectively been helping people for nearly four decades. In that time, we’ve conducted hundreds of transactions, reviewed thousands of offers/contracts and come up against about every weird problem imaginable. When we do get stumped, which doesn’t happen often, we have the backing of a fantastic team assembled by Warren Buffet who gets us, and you, to the finish line.
Give us a call or drop us an email. Our contact info is at the bottom of the page and join the hundreds before you who call The Santa Barbara Group their real estate go-to guys.
Joe Parker, Garrett McCaw, Avi Becker
The Santa Barbara Group
Berkshire Hathaway HSCP
3868 State Street Santa Barbara, CA 93105
info@thesantabarbaragroup.com
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