Property Developer Gifts

Indian burial ground.

Designated area of outstanding natural profitability.

'You always bring me the same thing every year, toys games sports equipment. I never get what I really want!' - 'What's that?' - 'Real estate!'

'It's worse than we thought. They're developers!'

'The roof was just re-frosted last year. And did I mention these custom peppermint windows?'

"Sure, we need affordable housing - just so long as it doesn't come at the expense of unaffordable housing."

'My plan is to build a sandcastle here, but right now I'm working on the financing.'

"I see no problems. We can get lots more of these houses in.."

'Probably left here my the decorators, as I was saying, the roof is watertight.'

Sowing the seeds of property

Affordable Housing Estate Agents - 'It's affordable if you're rich...'

'Property ownership is SO nineties! Gerald and I sold our house to a private consortia and are leasing back.'

'I think this is deep enough for the foundations!'

'Kitchen's small, but I love the granite countertops.'

'Well Mr. Jenkins it may be historically accurate, but it doesn't really comply with planning permission as an extension to your bungalow.'

"We just need to cut through all the pesky government red tape."

REALTY, 'It's a fixer-upper.'

"You see a haunted house, I see a house with good bones."

'I'm a little surprised you got planning permission.'

"We're still not seeing a recovery in housing."

"It has tremendous possibilities."

"We need to convince the planners that there is a bird colony here."

"'Let's buy this place', you said. 'We'll flip it, and make a killing', you said..."

Location location location. Next 3 exits.

"If we got rid of Central Park we could put up a lot more buildings."

'Excellent. I'll buy the lot.'

'I'm not gonna lie to you. . . They all seem geometrically identical to me.'

House hanging on cliff with 'FILL WANTED' sign.

'It says this one giant redwood would be able to produce enough lumber to build 25 single-family foreclosures...'

'Now from this room you can get a great view of the whales going by!'

Dominoes

'Son, someday this will all be yours. Or Wal-Mart's. Whoever pays Daddy the most.'

Meanwhile back at the pond 'Wow... nice pad man!'

'We love our new flat-pack house, trouble is, we don't know what to do with the box it came in.'

What people won't put up with to have a view.