| Noun | 1. | real estate - property consisting of houses and landacres, demesne, landed estate, estate, land - extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use; "the family owned a large estate on Long Island" land - the land on which real estate is located; "he built the house on land leased from the city" dead hand, mortmain - real property held inalienably (as by an ecclesiastical corporation) | |