Product Description

Olmos/Jacobus' quick-reference dictionary provides nearly 2,000 terms in BOTH English and Spanish covering all the essential areas for real estate. Comprehensive coverage, easy-to-find definitions, simple explanations, terminology used on licensing examinations, and numerous illustrations make this a handy reference tool. This up-to-date bi-lingual dictionary is a “must have” for practicing real estate agents, licensees and consumers.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #417572 in Books
• Published on: 2004-04-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

Review
As an attorney with many years of practicing law with a heavy concentration of Spanish – speaking clients, I found this book to be the most comprehensive reference dictionary that I have come across. Although exhaustive and thorough, it is easy to use for practical situations.

Hopefully all professionals involved in real estate matters will always have this dictionary available and at their client’s disposal which will serve as a measure for peace of mind and familiarity with its constant use to avoid deceit and fraud to protect those affected by lack of information. [Raul Sicilia Salgado, Attorney At Law; Former Mayor of the City of Tula, Former Congressman of the Mexican Republic]

A long awaited complete dictionary that will greatly help English and Spanish speaking real estate professionals and students.

About the Author
Nora Gutierrez-Olmos graduated with a B.A. from the Universidad de las Américas in Puebla, México, and an M.A. from the University of Houston. She has exercised multiple careers by working as a translator and a teacher for twenty-five years, having retired from law enforcement after twenty-one years and now teaching at Houston Baptist University, Houston Community College and San Jacinto Community College. Nora also has seventeen years experience in real estate and mortgage lending, with fifteen years as a real estate broker and eight months as a mortgage broker. She owns Mortgage Capital and is the designated broker of Commercial Real Estate of Texas, L.L.C.

Charles J. Jacobus received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Houston in 1970 and a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from the University of Houston Law Center in 1973. He is board certified by the State Bar of Texas Board of Legal Specialization in both residential and commercial real estate law. He is a member of the American College of Lawyers and the Houston Real Estate Lawyer's Council, and has served as president of the Real Estate Educators' Association, chairman of the Real Estate Section of the Houston Bar Association, and chairman of the American Bar Association Committee on Real Estate Brokers and Brokerage. He has served on the Board of Editors for the American Bar Association Committee on Books and Publications, was Mayor of his hometown, Bellaire, Texas, and currently serves on the Real Estate, Probate and Trust Law Council of the State Bar of Texas, and is chairman of the State Bar of Texas Committee on Title Insurance.

Customer Reviews

Good book
Really good book to have if you are in the real estate business. However, not all the words or phrases are in this book so you should follow it up by having a plain English/Spanish dictionary.

Okay if you only need only a few real estate terms.
In reality, any dealings in real estate also require terms in related fields, such as finance, taxes, accounting, banking, law, and more. This dictionary provides about 2,000 entries. A decent selection of terms pertaining to some areas of real estate. Realistically, a bilingual dictionary in real estate would need many more entries to properly cover this and related fields.

There are complete business dictionaries which cost about the same as this one. The Oxford Spanish Business Dictionary provides about 50,000 translations, and Webster's New World English-Spanish/Spanish-English Business Dictionary has over 100,000. That means that for each term in this dictionary there are 50 in Webster's New World English-Spanish/Spanish-English Business Dictionary.

If you buy one of these two you get thousands of real estate terms plus many thousands of terms that you are likely to need anyway if you work in real estate or related fields. Therefore, I recommend buying The Oxford Spanish Business Dictionary or Webster's New World English-Spanish/Spanish-English Business Dictionary instead of this one.

A superb resource for real estate salesmen
English-Spanish Real Estate Dictionary is a handy compilation of 2,000 real estate terms and definitions for quick translation from English to Spanish or Spanish to English. For maximum convenience, each English and Spanish definition is listed side by side; the first half of the book organizes the entries in English alphabetical order, the second half in Spanish alphabetical order. A superb resource for real estate salesmen, home owners, prospective home owners, and anyone seeking to pass the real estate licensing exam.