| Despite a pickup in the retail and real-estate sectors, confidence in the economy remains stubbornly elusive. |
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| We pull up in front of a weathered frame house tucked behind a real-estate office on a busy main road. |
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| I work for a commercial real-estate company with a highly conservative dress code. |
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| She left corporate America in 1992 to take a real-estate appraising course and soon went into business for herself. |
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| So, when Japan's real-estate bubble burst and the economy flatlined for over a decade, the world was caught unawares. |
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| The scion to a Manhattan real-estate fortune, he had determined early on to pour his wealth into projects that helped other people. |
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| His wife overheard him talking with a travel agency and real-estate company. |
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| The Californian former real-estate agent can turn a seemingly impossible-to-sell property into a des res, in only seven days. |
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| Conspicuous consumption of incongruent high-rise real-estate at the expense of venerable neighborhood community centers! |
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| Like all American real-estate ventures since colonial days, it's a mixture of vision, business, and blarney. |
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| While this glad-handing was politically motivated, we now also know that they are not above schmoozing with conmen for real-estate discounts. |
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| Finally, a real-estate developer from Hong Kong demolishes his cramped home during Beijing's pre-Olympic prettification. |
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| Investors since 2000 have moved from fantasy Internet stocks to solid yielders like banks, utilities and real-estate companies. |
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| A droopy stock market and the dot-com crash that began nearly two years ago put a damper on the high end at a time when many were trying to cash in on the real-estate boom. |
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| Connie runs a Third World knickknack store, but she believes herself to be an expert on the law and on real-estate statutes. |
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| Europeans now routinely fly across the Atlantic to go shopping, and they have also started to nose around in the American real-estate market. |
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| He recently delisted it, having decided that most of the interest was just real-estate rubbernecking. |
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| But in that case, you also have to treat the real-estate bubble as an exogenous event. |
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| The author kept these letterheads from the time he planned to register his own real-estate agency under this trade name. |
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| The European Commission has decided today to authorise a local real-estate tax exemption to benefit the development of seaports in Poland. |
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| His father was a real-estate tycoon who owned several Manhattan skyscrapers, and Coupey's early childhood was one of nannies and private schools. |
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| At the same time, they reduced their borrowing, cutting back on housing loans as activity on the real-estate market slowed down considerably. |
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| Once the board was established, its enormous powers to expropriate property and enter the real-estate market provided a new momentum to urban segregation. |
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| Last week, property owners were beaten by security guards as they confronted a real-estate developer who defrauded them. |
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| One woman lost her real-estate job and then got diagnosed with lymphoma the following month. |
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| The twister also scooped up a real-estate salesman and his boat on the same lake and then slammed him into a 3rd-floor window of a commercial building, resulting in his death. |
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| To the new-moneyed suitcase ranchers who had moved in all around him — ex-California real-estate agents, fabulous doctors, and retired cola executives — the Harp looked a skanky run-down outfit. |
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| Swissbau in Basel has emphatically confirmed its position as the leading exhibition and most important meeting place for the construction and real-estate sector in Switzerland and its neighbouring countries. |
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| Then the third point on real-estate and land: it seems to me, now that we are in the second quarter of 2005, that the tendency is calming down and perhaps even being reversed. |
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| As a full-service provider for real-estate investment, IKB also develops comprehensive plans and solutions for newbuild developments, as well as for refurbishments or change-of-use projects. |
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| Much of the gain from the region's booming, innovative economy accrues to landowners who are able to earn rents thanks to real-estate supply limits. |
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| There are carbon-neutral investment banks, carbon-neutral real-estate brokerages, carbon-neutral taxi fleets, and carbon-neutral dental practices. |
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| And the same policymakers who launched their stimulus measures two years ago are now staging a witch-hunt against real-estate investors, in an attempt to restrain the monster they themselves created. |
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| In addition, the Group wishes to enquire into its consumption of renewable energy, particularly on the occasion of a real-estate project concerning the Crédit Coopératif head office. |
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| Then they positioned themselves as reformers, overturning primogeniture and the treizième, an archaic perquisite that, until 2007, entitled the Seigneur to an eight-per-cent cut of any real-estate transaction. |
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| It's as if a national-amnesia button got pushed, one able to wipe out memories of the actual President: the former reality-show star, real-estate brander, double-talker, and serial distorter of reality. |
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| The project is being funded entirely by real-estate taxes paid by the new Austintown racino. |
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| Brcko registered several other legislative achievements in the period, including the introduction of the first modern real-estate tax law in Bosnia and Herzegovina. |
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| Hollywood was laid out as a real-estate subdivision in 1887 by Harvey Wilcox, a prohibitionist from Kansas who envisioned a community based on his sober religious principles. |
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| We are seeing here the same vicious circle than the one that threw the American real-estate market in crisis, and by repercussion, global markets in turmoil. |
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| He took them for real-estate agents, but they were FBI investigators, and Autonomedia became yet another subpoena recipient in the ongoing investigation. |
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| Sakowitz, a Miami attorney and real-estate developer, blew the whistle on Fort Lauderdale political insider Scott Rothstein's elaborate Ponzi scam. |
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| To a mathematician, a googolplex is the figure 1 followed by a googol of zeroes. To a real-estate man, it's one infinitesimal parcel of a plot of land. |
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| Real-estate investment rocketed 32 per cent in the year's first seven months on a wave of home buying. |
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| Real-estate expert Julian Hitchcock told Grub Street he expects to see more chain restaurants pop up in New York. |
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