Then there's Russia, where the very idea of middle-class property ownership is foreign.

FORBES: Waking Dead Capital

For that reason concerns persist that the harm may be a property of the drug class.

FORBES: Merck Does The Right Thing

Real estate derivatives are a way for investors to gain exposure to the asset class without the need to buy or sell properties by replacing the exposure of the real property to the performance of a real estate return index.

FORBES: A Guide To Real Estate Derivatives

The bank, under the guidance of its top executives, Ferozi and Sherkhan Farnood, a world-class poker player, had begun to founder, in part owing to the collapse of the property market in Dubai.

NEWYORKER: The Afghan Bank Heist

The company is particularly adept at taking advantage of low property values in its acquisitions, and its ability to bring in first class tenants on long-term leases.

FORBES: Some Commercial REITs Still Look Good!

Property developers, anxious to take advantage of a booming economy and a growing middle class, drill boreholes, but these now have to go deeper and deeper to reach water.

ECONOMIST: It must also be clean

Property prices here are mind-bendingly expensive, but the vast majority of people are middle class.

ECONOMIST: Shining some light

Property-tax collection is a quarter of what it was in 1970, when the middle class began to flee.

ECONOMIST: Urban affairs