IN a sense, the real estate recession immeasurably helped many of the area's buildings.

Then demand dried up with the real estate recession in the early 1990's, and the market took years to recover.

Caught in the real estate recession of the early 90's, construction came to a halt.

Although much of the country is in a real estate recession, there are encouraging words from the heartland.

Many life insurance companies are managing their way through the real estate recession.

But because of the real estate recession the office and hotel were never developed.

But, she said, most of the larger projects were stopped before they began because of the real estate recession.

We have not yet seen enough recovery in the real estate recession and that has the most important effect on the banks.

Many brokers report that prices are, on average, higher than they were a few years ago, at the depth of the real estate recession.

That year is generally considered the nadir of the last real estate recession.