What is CAM?
Common Area Maintenance: shared costs of operating common areas (lobbies, parking, landscaping, security) allocated to tenants, usually by proportionate share of rentable square footage.
Where you will use it: this term comes up in the Real Estate Finance course, and the full course glossary collects every term in one place.
Related terms
From the free Real Estate Finance course by Devon Coombs, CPA, MBA.