Buying Motives: Ownership of real estate satisfies certain basic human needs. These needs are what motivate a person to purchase real property. They include: comfort and convenience, desire for profit, pride of ownership, and security.

 

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Buying Motives: Ownership of real estate satisfies certain basic human needs. These needs are what motivate a person to purchase real property. They include: comfort and convenience, desire for profit, prid . . . View Full Definition

Panic Buying Or Selling: Rapid trading of stocks or bonds in high volume in anticipation of sharply rising or falling prices, usually after unexpected news is released.

Protective Put Buying Strategy: A strategy that involves buying a put option on the underlying security that is held in a portfolio. Related: Hedge option strategies.

Vacation Buying-Selling-Trading: A program that allows employees to buy additional vacation time from another employee or sell additional time they may have available to another employee. Some programs also allow for tradin . . . View Full Definition

Management Buying: The acquisition of a controlling interest in a promising business by an outside investment group that retains existing management and places representatives on the board of directors.

Buying Signals: Words, actions or facial expressions that signal a prospects readiness to buy.

Buying On Contract: A type of contract used in connection with the sale of real property where the seller retains legal title to the property until some future date, usually when the full purchase price has bee . . . View Full Definition

Buying Power: The amount of money available to buy securities, determined by adding the total cash held in brokerage accounts and the amount that could be spent if securities were margined to the limit.

Buying Climax: A rapid rise in the price of a stock resulting from heavy buying, which usually creates the market condition for a rapid fall in the price.

Buying The Index: Purchasing the stocks in the S&P 500 in the same proportion as the index to achieve the same return.