"Our mission is not simply to be a real estate operation," he said.

The real estate operations of the two companies have even greater potential.

His father ran the most successful real estate operation in Normandy.

That helps explain why its internal real estate operation now has about 80 full-time employees.

He returned to Oswego and engaged in real estate operations.

The Lays, whose real estate operations near here had been sliding toward foreclosure, were not alone.

He has also called on landscapers and those who operate real estate operations from home.

Other real estate operations - new construction, say - have been pared even further.

The company said debt levels were lower in its non-real estate operations.

By this time Gair was really running a real estate operation and took only a small portion of the space.