real estate
Americannoun
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property, especially in land.
three acres of real estate.
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available space or capacity.
A bigger screen will give you extra real estate.
noun
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- real-estate adjective
Etymology
Origin of real estate
First recorded in 1640–45
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Four years into China’s property downturn, one of the country’s biggest real estate developers is facing a reckoning over its bonds.
From Barron's
Michael Burry, the Big Short star and former hedge fund manager, pointed to this Wells Fargo chart showing household stock wealth being higher than real estate wealth.
From MarketWatch
But Zillow gets only a small percentage of its traffic from search engine marketing, and managing real estate listings is highly complex and regulated, limiting the risk of disintermediation—or cutting out middlemen.
The real estate investment arm of global financial services firm Morgan Stanley recently paid $211 million for the distribution center on 98th Street amid several private long-term parking structures that serve LAX.
From Los Angeles Times
Warner also controls a substantial amount of its own studio real estate.
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