51.   In exchange, the development company will reduce its land price to QVC by an equal amount.

52.   In the provincial capital, Guangzhou, the city known in colonial times as Canton, downtown land prices equal those of some Western European capitals.

53.   In the last two years, land prices in this town have doubled.

54.   Investment in small lots contributes to higher land prices.

55.   Investors said the purchase of a plot in downtown Tokyo by a Hong Kong company was reason for optimism about land prices and such other assets such as stocks.

56.   Investors said the sale was reason for optimism about not only land prices but other asset markets such as stocks.

57.   Investors said they were encouraged by news that the decline in land prices seems to be slowing.

58.   Investors say they have lost confidence that the government will be able to help the economy by stopping the decline in land prices and cleaning up the bad debt.

59.   Investors say they have lost confidence that the government will be able to stop the decline in land prices and clean up the bad debt.

60.   Japanese real estate stocks led the market to a seven-week high amid signs a four-year slide in land prices may be ending.