What is "real-estate"

Usage examples of "real-estate".

On this bit of real-estate development were parked Cadillacs, Chryslers, Chevrolets, and cars further along in the alphabet, all with gleaming paint jobs and, as far as could be seen in the advertisable moon light, good tires.

He clicked the button again and dialled a real-estate broker who owed him serious money.

He'd earnt more than a hundred thousand dollars in prizes that year, which he'd used to stake his first real-estate venture.

She's no longer a secretary, she's an account manager, and what's more, she got her real-estate license on the side.

Several steel and auto plants had shut down, and two major banks failed, throwing thousands of white-collar workers out of jobs and causing downturns in real-estate, advertising, law and other fields.

Using the data from the sales of those 100,000 Chicago homes, and controlling for any number of variables--location, age and quality of the house, aesthetics, and so on--it turns out that a real-estate agent keeps her own home on the market an average of ten days longer and sells it for an extra 3-plus percent, or $10,000 on a $300,000 house.

Warders, the real-estate agent, however, rates unemployment as the No.

They're vain as fashion models and shallow as real-estate developers.

The junk motels, bristling with neon, squat on the littered sand, spaced along the beach areas, interspersed with package stores, cocktail lounges, juice stands, auction parlors, laundromats, hair stylists, pizza drive-ins, discount houses, shell factories, real-estate offices, tackle stores, sundries stores, little twenty-four-hour supermarkets, bowling alleys and faith healers.

Ferguson, a chilly-faced man of about fifty who had been convicted of some vast and preposterous real-estate swindle before being sent to Nepenthe Center, began telling her about a trip to Mendocino that he wanted to take this weekend to meet a woman who'd be podding up from San Francisco to see him, but Elszabet listened with only half an ear.

The area was still largely intact-old-age pensioners stubbornly propping up their hydrangea bushes-but real-estate syndicates would eventually mow them all down.

If they had been genuine riders of the purple sage instead of computer-networking specialists or real-estate salesmen, one of them might have whupped his ass just as a matter of principle.

In 1982, Khalid quit teaching and devoted himself full-time to his burgeoning real-estate business.

The broker explained to him that it was used, especially in the real-estate business, to refer to choice properties as though they were seats used in a children's game.

And so the California real-estate market was even now serving the security interests of the United States of America.