Property Market Quotes

We will strengthen crackdown on illegal renovations and enforce a restitution of large-scale development gains to better stabilize the real estate market.

I bought a flat in Camden when I was 26, which I was extremely lucky to do. I think it's an Irish thing about owning land, giving you a bit of security.

The London property market has excellent investment opportunities.

I put all my eggs in one basket and invested in property. I didn't do anything internationally - it was all in Ireland.

I got into this little habit of architecture and building. I designed a house in Colorado and one in Hawaii. The idea is supposed to be build and sell - but then I can never bring myself to sell them.

Everyone says buying your first apartment makes you feel like an adult. What no one mentions is that selling it turns you right back into a child.

I started out, coming out of college, I had my Realtor's license, and I did real estate full time for a number of years.

As Realtors, you live and breathe the American dream.

In this year 1634, I purchased the moiety of thirteen houses in the Strand for five hundred and thirty pounds.

A Realtor is an old fashioned Real Estate man with a neck tie. A Real Estate man sold you what you wanted, a Realtor sells you what you don't need. A Real Estate man showed you what you could raise on the land, a Realtor tells you what you can build on it.

Investing in Chicago property is just Wanda's first move into the U.S. real estate market.

Estate agents. You can't live with them, you can't live with them. The first sign of these nasty purulent sores appeared round about 1894. With their jangling keys, nasty suits, revolting beards, moustaches and tinted spectacles, estate agents roam the land causing perturbation and despair. If you try and kill them, you're put in prison: if you try and talk to them, you vomit. There's only one thing worse than an estate agent but at least that can be safely lanced, drained and surgically dressed. Estate agents. Love them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.

Squeeze property speculators until the pips squeak.

I've got four houses in my street. I live in two, and the others are empty. I'll buy more as they come up, because I think it would be great to have the entire street.

I think it's hard for anyone to get into real estate or Hollywood.

New Yorkers are predatory about real estate. When they sense softening, they move in for the kill.

I'm very harsh on real estate agents. I'm not sure why. Maybe it's because of how the call every small house 'charming' and every run-down house a 'great fixer-upper'. Just once, I'd like them to show me a house and declare, 'This one's a piece of crap'.

People are out there saying we have to devalue our properties because of the Internet, but it hasn't even come into play!

The magic of property turns sand to gold

In Hong Kong, the property business has always been very competitive, so we have to think of ways to get an edge over our competitors.

Property is impossible.

When 'Ice Ice Baby' was selling a million records a day, I bought several properties: a home next to Michael J. Fox in L.A., a palace in Miami and a mountain cabin in Utah. Then, a few years later, I took a break from touring, saw that my properties had cobwebs, so I sold them, and - to my surprise - I made a huge profit!

The housing market will get worse before it gets better.

Estate agents: like them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.

I work in the commercial real estate sector.