"Typically the real estate sector leads the economy in a recovery, meaning that it tends to pick up before some other things.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

Banks hold one and a half of the three and a half trillion dollars in debt that supports the commercial real estate market.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

The other is refinancing. Most commercial real estate loans have terms of ten years or less.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

Real estate agents hope this coming spring will be busier.

VOA: special.2011.01.24

He predicts high failure rates for smaller, regional banks in 2010 as commercial real estate loans come due.

VOA: standard.2009.12.20

Yet Yang Shuai, manager of a Beijing real estate office, says home ownership is on the rise.

VOA: standard.2009.09.28

Many developers paying high prices for real estate want a multiplex to help cover the cost.

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

They hope to draw that new middle class demographic, says Savills Real Estate's Matt Brailsford.

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

The property company has been hard hit by the global financial and real estate crises, putting on hold many of the grandiose projects for which Dubai has gained fame.

VOA: standard.2009.11.30

Even before the global financial crisis hit late in 2008, the Vietnamese government was already working to halt galloping inflation and investment due to an overheated real estate sector.

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

After going to four Olympic games with no medal,Lodwick,33, now a father of two, left the sport in 2006 to sell real estate in his hometown of Steamboat Springs Colorado.

VOA: standard.2010.01.31

Joining the president at the podium were three unemployed Americans - a former auto dealership parts manager, a former fitness center employee and a former real estate agent - whose government support has run out or is about to expire.

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

a vision of America where growth is not based on real estate bubbles or overleveraged banks, but on a firm foundation of investments in energy, education and health care that will lead to a real and lasting prosperity,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.21