Real estate is "Property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as crops, minerals, or water; immovable property of this nature; an interest vested in this; (also) an item of real property; (more generally) buildings or housing in general. Also: the business of real estate; the profession of buying, selling, or renting land, buildings or housing."
It is a legal term used in jurisdictions such as the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
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“I came back to myself,
To the real work, to
“What is to be done.””
—Gary Snyder (b. 1930)
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—Shirley Chisholm (b. 1924)