"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

So right now, the real estate sector is like extremely dominant.

所以现在，房地产行业支配着经济发展。

纽约的负面变化 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

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

For where tax cuts imply greater room for the real sector to operate, spending cuts all but guarantee it.

FORBES: The Sequester That Saved the Economy

The real sector's still in a shambles.

CNN: THE FEUDING MINISTERS

When asked to identify three locations and real-estate sector combinations, investors pointed to industrial and logistics real estate in Greater China as the second most appealing sector, behind the office market in Australia.

WSJ: Investors Target Logistics Property in China