The following article, prepared using dictionary materials, is related to the issues of intercultural communication. It considers historical genesis of written records of the word «недвижимость» (“real estate”) in the English and Russian languages. We analysed the issue of equivalence of the Russian word «недвижимость» (“real estate”) and its English counterparts and suggested an approach to understanding equivalence under the conditions of inhomogeneous expressiveness of the researched word in different semantic fields of the Russian and English languages.