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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Mortgages & real estate
blockbusting
brick
BTL
buy-to-let
chain
endowment mortgage
equity
landlady
letting
mortgagee
planning blight
real estate developer
real estate office
Realtor
realty
realty office
refinance
remortgage
repossess
vacancy

real estate | American Dictionary

real estate
noun[ U ]
us/ˈri·əl əˌsteɪt, ˈril/
property in the form of land or buildings

real estate | Business English

real estate
noun[ U ]
 PROPERTY USukus(alsorealty); (alsoreal property)
land or buildings that someone owns:
It's a prime piece of real estate.
commercial/residential/industrial real estate
buy/sell/invest in real estateSupported by bank loans, several manufacturing companies in the area invested heavily in real estate.
the activity of buying and selling land and buildings:
She works in real estate in Dallas.
the real estate industry/sector
a real estate investor/expert/tycoon

Examples of real estate

real estate
Why was there all this study about the stock market and not of realestate?
More often than not, this capital is invested in realestate overseas.
Thus, for example, he was allowed to trade in movable chattels, but he could not sell realestate.
In the civil court, however, people squabbled over capital, be it money, realestate or land.
In the previous year, the realestate associations had competed among themselves to expand their memberships.
It was a form of securitizing realestate.
States often limited the amount of realestate a corporation could hold, quantified either by acreage or by dollar value.
Realestate agents often say that the three most important aspects of a property are location, location, and location.
By the 1970s, marketing strategies that appealed to housewives no longer sustained downtown realestate values.
Other lucrative areas were to be found in land grabbing, urban realestate, and the exploitation of tax loopholes.
The mean-variance return of a pension fund's portfolio can be substantially improved by including realestate into the portfolio.
Another way is to calculate both direct realestate investments and loans to pension fund's realestate companies together.
In comparison, public pension funds invest more in realestate, primarily through direct investments and mortgage loans for their employees.
The remaining 57 per cent was held in short-term assets (public bonds, banking deposits, etc.) and the realestate market.
Foreign nationals' realestate holdings came only a distant second.
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