property market

noun

The buying and selling of real estate

Meanings

nounproperty market (countable and uncountable, plural property markets)

plural property markets

  1. countableuncountableThe buying and selling of real estate

    After an initial bounce back, the post-Covid Chinese economy has turned sluggish. Its property market - once a key driver of growth - is now mired in a credit crisis, exacerbating a domestic "debt bomb" that has ballooned from years of borrowing by local government and state-owned enterprises.

    2023 November 15, Tessa Wong, “Xi Jinping arrives in US as his Chinese Dream sputters”, in BBC
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APA

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“property market.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/property%20market. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “property market,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/property%20market.

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