"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

This week,Rich Kleinfeldt and Shirley Griffith are your guides as we take you to the Biltmore Estate.

VOA: special.2009.11.16

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

Yet all of the area was planned, built,and planted by the men who designed the estate.

VOA: special.2009.11.16

The other is refinancing. Most commercial real estate loans have terms of ten years or less.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

We have entered a private road that leads to the main house on the Biltmore Estate.

VOA: special.2009.11.16

(Music) An estate is a property, usually large, owned by one person or a family.

VOA: special.2009.11.16

The forest provides a wood crop that helps pay the costs of operating the estate.

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The man who owned the Biltmore estate in North Carolina was George Vanderbilt.

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Yet there is still much to see at the Biltmore estate.

VOA: special.2009.11.16

There was once a dairy farm on the Biltmore estate.

VOA: special.2009.11.16

Real estate agents hope this coming spring will be busier.

VOA: special.2011.01.24

He predicts high failure rates for smaller, regional banks in 2010 as commercial real estate loans come due.

VOA: standard.2009.12.20

Yet Yang Shuai, manager of a Beijing real estate office, says home ownership is on the rise.

VOA: standard.2009.09.28