Texas Real Estate Exam
2026 Texas Real Estate Exam // Practice Questions with
Detailed Answers
This set has the following topics:
Property Law
Contract Law – Special Part
Foundations of Civil Law
Securities & Guarantees
Secured Transactions & Creditors’ Rights
State Territory
Business Organizations & Corporate Governance
Law of Succession
Commercial Transactions
State and Local Taxation
Financial Consumer Protection & Anti-Money Laundering
Confidentiality & Privilege
Negotiable Instruments & Banking Law
Labor Relations and Unionization
Estate, Gift, and Transfer Taxation
Family Law
Crimes Against Habitation, Public Order & Morality
Crimes Against Property
Individual and Property Taxation
State & Local Public Law
Sentencing & Collateral Consequences
Consumer & Trade Protection
International Economic Law
Agency Law
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Torts
Special Proceedings
Maritime Law
Sources of International Law
Comparative & Theoretical Perspectives
Refugee & Migration Law
1. Real property
ANSWER: All the legal rights, powers, and privileges of real estate ownership. The rights of
ownership are often referred to as the bundle of rights.
2. Bundle of Rights
ANSWER: 1. Possession, 2. Use, 3. Encumber, 4.Exclusion, 5.Transfer
3. Personal Property
ANSWER: Movable rather than being permanently attached to real estate
4. Chattel
ANSWER: personal property
5. Fixture
ANSWER: An item of personal property that has been converted to real property by being
permanently affixed to the realty. Ex: cabinets, carpet, built-in shelves
6. Emblements
ANSWER: Crops or any type of seasonal/annual plantings that are cultivated for profit. These are
classified as personal property.
7. Trade fixtures
ANSWER: personal property that a business operator installs as part of the business operations.
8. MARIA
ANSWER: Method of Attachment, Adaptability, Relationship, Intention, Agreement
9. Severance
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ANSWER: turning the item into personal property
10. Economic Characteristics of Land
ANSWER: scarcity, improvements, permanence of investment, area preference
11. Scarcity
ANSWER: There's a limited supply of real property, particularly when considering a specific area.
12. Improvements
ANSWER: Adding improvements to real property affects its value.
13. Permanence of investment
ANSWER: Investment in improving a property tends to be very long term.
14. Area preference (location)
ANSWER: The location of a parcel can dramatically affect its value.
15. Physical Characteristics of Land
ANSWER: Immobility, Indestructibility, Uniqueness
16. Immobility
ANSWER: In general, land doesn't move.
17. Indestructibility
ANSWER: This refers to the fact that land can't be destroyed.
18. Uniqueness
ANSWER: Each property is unique.
19. Metes and bounds
ANSWER: A method of land description which involves identifying distances and directions and
makes use of both the physical boundaries and measurements of the land.
20. Lot and block
ANSWER: A method of land description frequently used after land has been subdivided into
building lots; also referred to as the recorded plat method. (Must have a plat map to find the
property)
21. Government survey or rectangular survey
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2026 Texas Real Estate Exam // Practice Questions with
Detailed Answers
This set has the following topics:
Property Law
Contract Law – Special Part
Foundations of Civil Law
Securities & Guarantees
Secured Transactions & Creditors’ Rights
State Territory
Business Organizations & Corporate Governance
Law of Succession
Commercial Transactions
State and Local Taxation
Financial Consumer Protection & Anti-Money Laundering
Confidentiality & Privilege
Negotiable Instruments & Banking Law
Labor Relations and Unionization
Estate, Gift, and Transfer Taxation
Family Law
Crimes Against Habitation, Public Order & Morality
Crimes Against Property
Individual and Property Taxation
State & Local Public Law
Sentencing & Collateral Consequences
Consumer & Trade Protection
International Economic Law
Agency Law
1|Page
,Texas Real Estate Exam
Torts
Special Proceedings
Maritime Law
Sources of International Law
Comparative & Theoretical Perspectives
Refugee & Migration Law
1. Real property
ANSWER: All the legal rights, powers, and privileges of real estate ownership. The rights of
ownership are often referred to as the bundle of rights.
2. Bundle of Rights
ANSWER: 1. Possession, 2. Use, 3. Encumber, 4.Exclusion, 5.Transfer
3. Personal Property
ANSWER: Movable rather than being permanently attached to real estate
4. Chattel
ANSWER: personal property
5. Fixture
ANSWER: An item of personal property that has been converted to real property by being
permanently affixed to the realty. Ex: cabinets, carpet, built-in shelves
6. Emblements
ANSWER: Crops or any type of seasonal/annual plantings that are cultivated for profit. These are
classified as personal property.
7. Trade fixtures
ANSWER: personal property that a business operator installs as part of the business operations.
8. MARIA
ANSWER: Method of Attachment, Adaptability, Relationship, Intention, Agreement
9. Severance
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ANSWER: turning the item into personal property
10. Economic Characteristics of Land
ANSWER: scarcity, improvements, permanence of investment, area preference
11. Scarcity
ANSWER: There's a limited supply of real property, particularly when considering a specific area.
12. Improvements
ANSWER: Adding improvements to real property affects its value.
13. Permanence of investment
ANSWER: Investment in improving a property tends to be very long term.
14. Area preference (location)
ANSWER: The location of a parcel can dramatically affect its value.
15. Physical Characteristics of Land
ANSWER: Immobility, Indestructibility, Uniqueness
16. Immobility
ANSWER: In general, land doesn't move.
17. Indestructibility
ANSWER: This refers to the fact that land can't be destroyed.
18. Uniqueness
ANSWER: Each property is unique.
19. Metes and bounds
ANSWER: A method of land description which involves identifying distances and directions and
makes use of both the physical boundaries and measurements of the land.
20. Lot and block
ANSWER: A method of land description frequently used after land has been subdivided into
building lots; also referred to as the recorded plat method. (Must have a plat map to find the
property)
21. Government survey or rectangular survey
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