"Traditionally real estate trails the stock market by about 6 to 9 months.
"If you're going to be on the ocean, I just don't see how you can touch it for less than …" Hamptons real estate Nancy Hardy trails off as she tries to think how much the cheapest beachfront house might cost.
Single women embarking on second-home ownership are the latest real estate pioneers, trailing those who, a generation ago, battled banks to get a mortgage without a husband as a co-signer, and who, before that, rented their own apartments, even as landlords required permission from their fathers.
Still, such a trip requires a certain amount of fortitude, as I discovered when I set out to blaze a trail from estate to estate last March, during the "first flush" harvest, said to produce the most delicate, flavorful leaves.
Mr. Arket said the commercial real estate market usually trailed the overall market by six to 12 months and that vacancy would fall further, barring another downturn.
Taylor Owner's Cottage, Sri Lanka There is room for just two at the newly opened Taylor Owner's Cottage, which forms part of the Ceylon Tea Trails estate of restored, former tea planters' bungalows.
They also mentioned her riding in the hunt country of Virginia, taking in the polo matches at the Piping Rock Club on Long Island, working hard on her orchids in her greenhouses or walking the grounds of Templeton, her estate on Long Island, trailed by a string of hunting dogs.
For mountain biking in Bristol, the main area is around the Ashton Court estate, with the Timberland trails being the main route.
She breezed into the Prudential-Centennial real estate office hot on the trail of her latest listing.
