Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• BUY-DOWN - When the lender and/or the home builder subsidizes the mortgage by lowering the interest rat...
  
  
• BUY-DOWN ACCOUNT - An account in which funds are held so that they can be applied as part of the monthl...
  
  
• BUY-DOWN MORTGAGE - A temporary buy-down is a mortgage on which an initial lump sum payment is made by ...
  
  
• BUY-IN - Occurs when a seller or short seller fails to deliver the securities required to satisfy a tra...
  
  
• BUY-SELL AGREEMENT - a written agreement between a homeowner/borrower, a construction lender and a perm...
  
  
• BUY-SIDE ANALYST - A financial analyst employed by a nonbrokerage firm, typically one of the larger mon...
  
  
• BUY-SIDE OR BUYSIDE - Refers to financial organizations which tend to be natural buyers of securities, ...
  
  
• BUY-TO-LET - This is a mortgage designed for people who wish to purchase a property to rent out to othe...
  
  
• BUY-UP - Paying a higher interest rate in exchange for a rebate by the lender which reduces upfront cos...
  
  
• BUY-WRITE - An investment strategy that consists of buying an asset and selling a call on it. Thus, the...