Real Estate

The term of Real Estate is used as a legal descriptor encompassing specifically fixed or immovable property, inclusive of the land, dwellings and fixed buildings on the mentioned land.  Real estate is governed and enforced by real estate law, and is enforceable in various regions and countries throughout the world, according to their specifically defined jurisdictions.

In some instances real estate and real property appear to by synonomous, however in many of the mentioned jurisdictions real estate refers to the land as well as the fixtures or permanent buildings on the land, whereas the real property refers to the ownership rights of the land, these two terms of real estate and real property are used in common law, whereas the term immovable property is used in civil law, and satifies the same issue pertaining to the land.