Short Sale

Short sale may refer to:

  • Short (finance), the practice of selling securities or other financial instruments, with the intention of subsequently repurchasing them at a lower price
  • Short sale (real estate), a sale of real estate in which the proceeds from selling the property is less than the amount owed

Famous quotes containing the words short and/or sale:

    “In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “[T]he dignity of parliament it seems can brook no opposition to it’s power. Strange that a set of men who have made sale of their virtue to the minister should yet talk of retaining dignity!”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)