houses – used especially when talking about them as an investment 房产〔尤指作为一种投资〕
Examples from the Corpus
bricks and mortar• Sound waves can also travel through solids, even such as bricks and mortar.• On downtown streets, broken glass covered many sidewalks and fallen bricks and mortardented cars.• What was a potentially valuable, or at least useful, asset in bricks and mortar rapidly becomes a liability.• As a former building contractor, he had an eye for a sound investment in bricks and mortar.• The originalbricks and mortar might be pulled down but Leatherslade Farm will remain for ever at the centre of the legend.• I saw him rainingbricks and mortar on the people of Clydebank.• We feel that bricks and mortar are solid investment.• The prospect of delightfulgardens was lost and the Brookdisappeared under bricks and mortar.