real estate

See also: real-estate

English

Etymology

Estate that is real, in the legal sense of "relating to immovable tangible property". This sense of the word ultimately goes back to Latin, where reālis could be used similarly.

Pronunciation

• enPR: /rēl' əstātʹ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈɹiːl əˌsteɪt/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

real estate (uncountable)

1. (US, Canada, Australia) Property that cannot easily be moved, usually buildings and the ground they are built on.

   They failed to find any investors for the construction of new real estate on the north side.

   It's free real estate.

2. (informal) Space used for a particular purpose.
   • 1982, J. A. Kraulis, Ontario‎^[1], page 6:

     The "Golden Horseshoe", the commercial and industrial end of Lake Ontario, is the most crowded real estate in Canada.

   • 2007, Preston Gralla, Big Book of Windows Hacks:

     Virtual desktops allow you to stretch your screen real estate well beyond its normal size.

Synonyms

• immovable
• immovable property
• property (British)
• realty
• real property

Antonyms

• personalty
• chattels

Derived terms

• real-estate
• real estate owned
• real estate tax

 

Related terms

• realtor

Translations

property that cannot easily be moved

• Albanian: pasuri të paluajtshme m
• Arabic: عَقَار (ar) m (ʕaqār)
• Armenian: անշարժ գույք (hy) (anšarž guykʻ)
• Azerbaijani: daşınmaz əmlak, əmlak (az)
• Bashkir: күсемһеҙ мөлкәт (küsemheź mölkət)
• Belarusian: нерухо́масць f (njeruxómascʹ)
• Bulgarian: недви́жима со́бственост f (nedvížima sóbstvenost)
• Burmese: ထာဝရဥစ္စာ (my) (htawa.ra.ucca)
• Cherokee: ᎦᏙ ᎣᏤᎵᎪ (gado otseligo)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 不動產／不动产 (zh) (bùdòngchǎn), 房地產／房地产 (zh) (fángdìchǎn)

• Czech: nemovitost (cs) f
• Danish: fast ejendom c
• Dutch: onroerend goed (nl) n, immobiliën (nl) m pl, vastgoed (nl) n
• Esperanto: nemoveblaĵoj pl
• Estonian: kinnisvara
• Finnish: kiinteistö (fi), maaomaisuus (fi)
• French: immobilier (fr) m, bien immobilier m
• Galician: ben inmóbel m, ben raíz m
• Georgian: უძრავი ქონება (uʒravi koneba)
• German: unbewegliche Sache f, Immobilie (de) f
• Greek: ακίνητο (el) n (akínito), ακίνητη περιουσία (el) f (akíniti periousía)

  Ancient: ἔγγειον n (éngeion)

• Hebrew: נכסי דלא ניידי m pl (nikhséi deló naydéy), (acronym) נדל״ן (he) m pl (nadlán)
• Hindi: भू-संपदा f (bhū-sampdā), स्थावर (hi) m (sthāvar)
• Hungarian: ingatlan (hu)
• Icelandic: fasteign (is) f
• Ido: terhavajo, imoblo (io)
• Indonesian: lahan yasan, real estat
• Italian: bene immobile m
• Japanese: 不動産 (ja) (ふどうさん, fudōsan)
• Kazakh: жылжымайтын мүлік (jyljymaityn mülık)
• Khmer: អចលនវត្ថុ (km) (ʼaʼcaʼlaʼnaʼvŏətthoʼ), អសង្ហារិមៈ (km) (ʼaʼsɑnghaarimĕəʼ), អសង្ហារិមទ្រព្យ (ʼaʼsɑnghaarɨm trŏəp)
• Korean: 부동산(不動產) (ko) (budongsan)
• Kyrgyz: кыймылсыз мүлк (kıymılsız mülk), кыймылсыз буюмдар (kıymılsız buyumdar)
• Lao: ອະ​ສັງ​ຫາ​ລິ​ມະ​ຊັບ (ʼa sang hā li ma sap)
• Latin: rēs solī f
• Latvian: nekustamais īpašums m
• Lithuanian: nekilnojamasis turtas (lt) m
• Macedonian: (a particular property) недвижнина f (nedvižnina), недвижност f (nedvižnost), (real estate in general) недвижнини pl (nedvižnini), недвижности pl (nedvižnosti)
• Malay: hartanah (ms), harta tanah (ms)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: үл хөдлөх хөрөнгө (ül xödlöx xöröngö), гэр байшин газар хөрөнгө (ger bajšin gazar xöröngö) (China)

  Mongolian: ᠦᠯᠦ
  ᠬᠥᠳᠡᠯᠬᠦ
  ᠬᠥᠷᠦᠩᠭᠡ (ülü ködelkü körüŋge), ᠭᠡᠷ
  ᠪᠠᠶᠢᠰᠢᠨᠩ
  ᠭᠠᠵᠠᠷ
  ᠬᠥᠷᠦᠩᠭᠡ (ger bayisinŋ ɣaǰar körüŋge)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fast eiendom m

  Nynorsk: fast eigedom m

• Persian: اَملاک (fa) (amlâk), مُستَغِلّات (fa) (mostağellât), اَموالِ غِیرِ مَنقول (amvâl-e ğeyr-e manqul)
• Polish: nieruchomość (pl) f
• Portuguese: bem imóvel m, imóvel (pt) m
• Romanian: imobil (ro) n
• Russian: недви́жимость (ru) f (nedvížimostʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: некретнѝна f

  Roman: nekretnìna (sh) f

• Slovak: nehnuteľnosť f
• Slovene: nepremičnina (sl) f
• Spanish: bien inmueble m, bien raíz (es) m
• Swedish: fast egendom (sv) c, fastighet (sv) c
• Tagalog: pingkas
• Tajik: мулки ғайриманқул (mulki ġayrimanqul), амволи ғайриманқул (amvoli ġayrimanqul)
• Tatar: күчемсез мөлкәт (küçemsez mölkät)
• Thai: อสังหาริมทรัพย์ (th) (à-sǎng-hǎa-rí-má-sáp)
• Turkish: emlak (tr), gayrimenkul (tr)
• Ukrainian: нерухо́мість f (neruxómistʹ)
• Uzbek: amlok (uz), koʻchmas mulk
• Vietnamese: bất động sản (vi), địa ốc (vi) (dated)

space used for a particular purpose

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 地方 (zh) (dìfang), 空間／空间 (zh) (kōngjiān), 餘地／余地 (zh) (yúdì)

• Finnish: tila (fi), alue (fi)
• German: Spielraum (de) m, Platz (de) m
• Greek: διαθέσιμος χώρος m (diathésimos chóros), χώρος (el) m (chóros)
• Hebrew: (acronym) נדל״ן (he) m pl (nadlán)
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• “real estate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• etersalate