Real property is best described as which of the following?

• A. Real estate
• B. Movable property
• C. Ideas
• D. Rights of ownership without land

Answer: (A)

Real property includes land and anything permanently attached to it, such as buildings and fixtures. Real estate is the common term used to describe this land-and-permanent-improvements bundle. Movable property refers to personal property—items that can be moved like vehicles or furniture. Ideas are intangible and not property in the real-property sense. Rights of ownership without land describe ownership of something other than land, not the property itself. So, real estate best describes real property because it captures both the land and the permanent additions on it.