the property market

noun [C, usually singular] (US also real estate market) PROPERTY

Definition

› the buying and selling of land and buildings: Booming house prices have effectively priced low-paid workers out of the property market. a booming/buoyant property market the commercial/residential property market

(Definition of the property market noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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