Cooler Home Sales Ushers in it's own Lexicon

It helps to have a decoder ring when you read today’s real estate ads –

Newly spruced up to wow buyers in a tightening market. Here are some definitions:

Old World Elegance. The word luxury is so 2005.
Estate Condition. This means it's a wreck – but you can buy it for less than if it weren't.
New Price. The seller dropped the asking price, but doesn't want to put it bluntly.
Price Reduced to Sell: Sometimes the direct approach works.
Dripping with Charm. Better than saying the faucets leak.
Mint. If you like the seller’s taste, you won’t have to do a thing.
Cook's Kitchen or Chef's Kitchen. Bigger than the usual galley kitchen.
Intimate: The new euphemism for small.
Grand. It suggests glamorous things like sweeping staircases in duplexes -- and sweeping prices to match.