"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

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