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Our glossary of terms contains a comprehensive guide to various property investment related terms to give you a better understanding of the language used when talking about investing in property. Browse our property investment glossary to cut through the technical jargon which will help you when deciding on your next property investment.
An adjustment to bond prices due to interest being paid at specific intervals, despite being earned on a daily basis.
The units which roll income into the value of units but that don’t pay income.
The earnings per share on revenue profit that is adjusted to not include deferred tax that may be associated with investment properties.
Investments such as property, private equity and hedge funds, but not equities or fixed incomes.
A large shop or supermarket that is brought into a specific area that will attract more shoppers, encouraging other retailers to lease units.
A fund’s annual fee that is calculated on a daily basis and covers the costs of running a fund.
Gross rents plus increases to estimated rental value (where rent reviews are outstanding), minus any rents payable under head leases.
Regular payments made over a specific period of time to an individual.
An increase in the value of an asset.
The proportion of the investment or assets that are placed in different industries, geographic regions or types of security.
Categories for different assets that have similar characteristics or other similarities.
A possession that has a value.
A UK-based unit trust that has been given his status by the FSA, meaning that the units are able to be marketed to all types of customers.
The maturity of a bond relates to the time of which the principle of a bond can be repaid. The average maturity is a statistic providing the weighted-average maturity of bonds that are in a fund.
A target figure that is used to measure the performance of an investment fund.
Any units or shares may be bought or sold at this price.
The difference between the buying price and the selling price of shares and units.
An agreement with a company or government of a loan, where an arranged repayment is agreed and interest is generated throughout the length of the loan. These bonds are also available to be bought and sold.
Assets and liabilities are held in the accounting records at this amount.
A method where stock selection determines a portfolio construction. The quality and future prospects of a stock are assessed, with strength of management, market share and pricing power all being analysed.
A clause within a contract that allows one or both parties to terminate the contract.
A type of property that is bought in order to be rented out.
An option that allows somebody to purchase an investment at a later date with the price that has already been agreed.
A kind of benefit available to an owner against income tax or corporation tax for a qualifying buildings capital expenditure.
When an investment is sold at a price that is higher than the initial price that was paid.
The amount of tax that is payable on a capital gain.
A fund that seeks capital growth aims to maximise the capital sum invested rather than producing any income.
An assets, freeholds or leaseholds value, as distinct from its annual or periodic value.
The value of an asset relating to expected future income.
An agreement between parties to exchange the difference between the closing and opening prices of a contract. Contracts for Differences allows you to trade shares or markets, which can potentially lead to you benefiting from a fall in markets of share prices as well as rising ones.
Unprovided further taxation that can become payable if the properties of a company were sold at current market value.
Issued by a company and can be exchanged for a number of shares at a conversion price that is pre-stated.
Debt obligations that are issued by corporations instead of offering equity ownership by issuing stock. Most corporate bonds pay semi-annual interest and promise to return their principle when they mature.
The use of currency futures and options transactions in order to protect the value of investments and cash against changes in exchange rates, relating to the relevant currency.
A decrease in the value of property, caused by different factors including obsolescence and deterioration in its condition.
Material changes made to a building or land that will affect its appearance.
The combination of a development programme and proposed plans that are not yet included within the programme but are likely to be included in the future.
A schedule of major development schemes including projects that are completed but not yet fully let.
A specific fund that invests fully into direct commercial property, holding no property shares, REITs, other equities or other indirect holdings.
The difference between the value of the assets of the company and the company’s market capitalisation. The difference is often represented as a percentage.
The extent to which the performance of two or more assets are different.
Where an individual or organisation are located for regulatory or tax purposes.
The internal rate of return that a property produces, allowing for increases in rent to market levels, voids and expenditure, but not allowing for increases in the market rent.
The most common yield calculation, dividing annual income paid by the market price.
The absolute ownership of land without burdens or being overshadowed by a higher form of ownership.
A long lease granted at a ground rent. For example, a rent disregarding building values or other improvement of land, but which does reflect any right to develop the land.
Rent that is paid for vacant land which is suitable for development.
A fund that has a main objective of capital appreciation. This contrasts with an income fund where the main aim is to provide higher than average income in the form of a dividend payment.
A transaction that helps to reduce the risk of an investment or protects an existing commitment, by covering adverse market movements by using one type of investment.
A fund investing in indirect property vehicles including property shares, REITs, limited partnerships, property investment companies or property unit trusts, rather than including direct commercial property in its portfolio.
Investing in vehicles that invest into shares, property investment companies and limited partnerships rather than directly investing in property.
The net rent at the date of purchase, divided by the gross purchase price, with the costs of the purchase included.
A collection of assets that are for investment purposes.
A property that has been invested in for the purpose of generating rental income and the appreciation of its capital value.
A company that invests into the shares of other companies.
The owner of property or land that gives exclusive possession to an individual for a period of time through a tenancy agreement or lease.
The grant of a right to exclusive possession of another person’s land for an agreed set period of time.
The risk that a buyer may not be found with a reasonable price reflecting the value of an investor’s asset.
A building that has particular historical or architectural features that the owner shall not do anything to without the correct consent.
The total value for a company’s stock.
The amount that is estimated to be the value that a property should be exchanged at between a buyer and a seller.
A decrease in the amount of available space within a particular period of time, taking into consideration the amount of space let and the amount of new space that is set to come on to the market.
The rental income that is generated after operating costs and other costs are deducted.
Factors affecting the economic life of the land and buildings, with types including economic, environmental, configurative, strategic and functional.
The price in which a unit may be bought at.
A property rented at a price that is higher than the current market value.
Rent that is payable at present due to the terms of the tenancy agreement or lease.
A collection of the investments that are held by a fund or investor.
A legal agreement for the letting of a property that is set to take effect at a date in the future, due to the completion of a development.
An investment that is regarded as the best within a certain location or class.
The yield that is used in the valuation of a prime property let at full market value.
The rent that represents a holdings full open market annual value.
The development of land including the removal of at least most of the structures that it holds.
One method of indirect property investment, including tax free distributions, and which are taxed according to the shareholders tax status.
A section in the lease that states the rent is to be reviewed at different intervals, with the review procedure outlined in the agreement.
The growth of the estimated rental value of a property over a specific period of time.
The amount that an investment changes due to capital growth or interest dividend income, often displayed as a percentage.
Excluding any impacts from exceptional costs or profit, revenue profit is the profit before tax.
A process whereby a right in a property transferred by a deed of trust or mortgage is returned to the initial owner after the interest held by others on the property ends.
The discount rate that is applied to the reversionary income in a valuation for a term and reversion.
The relationship between the potential growth of an investment and its exposure to loss.
Properties that aren’t prime properties, and aren’t considered to be on the same level due to poor location, configuration or the tenants.
Property developments that are constructed without having any known buyers or tenants in place for the completion of the development.
An investment or organisation that has non-taxable returns or where any tax that is due is imposed on the investors.
An individual or company holding a tenancy to a property.
All capital expenditure for a project, comprising of the cost of the property and all financial costs.
A percentage that expresses valuation surplus, profit or loss on property sales and net rental income.
A share holdings growth in value over a specific period of time.
An internal rate of return that an investment brings, reflecting reversions to current market rent.
Unitised collective funds are often based offshore, but are being increasingly adopted as a structure for UK OEICs, offering investors a choice of sub funds and free switching between each sub fund.
The amount of profit that is generated before tax, after the exclusion of trading profits, one-off gains, profits on disposal of fixed assets and exceptional items.
Where the money from several investors is pooled together and collectively invested in things such as shares and bonds, with each investor owning at least one unit.
The rate that can be charged by an authority on empty non-domestic properties.
A review of rental fees where the rent payable only increases after the review.
A percentage of a portfolio that is vacant. This is calculated by dividing the total rental value of the vacant property/properties by the total rental value of the whole portfolio.
The income that the investments generate in relation to the price.
Shown in a graph, yield curve shows the relationship between maturities for a given issuer’s securities and individual yields.
The rate of return from cash flows in a given time period until maturity.
A method used for the analysis of rental value of retail space, by dividing into strips of equal depth parallel with the frontage. The front of a shop is the most valuable area within the shop, and each zone following is ‘halved back’ in value. For rental purposes attributed to the front zone, zone A is the unit of comparison.
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Our glossary of terms contains a comprehensive guide to various property investment related terms to give you a better understanding of the language and terminology used when talking about investing in property.
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