"There's a great temptation to overbuild in the real estate area."

In the estate areas, we want to maintain the turn-of-the-century look.

Sometimes the overall sensor dimensions are given, from which the real estate area can be calculated.

"This is a prime real estate area," he said "and you don't want to pay $100,000 an acre for a polo field."

The estate area has an area of 6.6 km2 (2.5 mile2).

Many, with babies, buy in one of the estate areas of Yonkers.

They point to the easy accessibility of an estate area, just a 20-minute drive from downtown Wilmington, where properties are available for $500,000.

"It's one of the last estate areas available in the whole village."

Bedford Hills is the town's business hub, a big estate area and the seat of town government.

"A lot of our customers work in the insurance, financial and real estate areas and they were hard hit by the economy," he said.