1.   Apartment builders like Post Properties and Trammel Crow surveyed the landscape.

2.   He soon joined one of them, an apartment builder and manager.

3.   Last week, Hanshin, a leading apartment builder, was declared bankrupt after financial problems caused by a seven-year recession in the local property market.

4.   To navigate these complex currents, Trammell Crow and other apartment builders are finding it helps to have a guide.

5.   Tuckerman had in mind an apartment house exclusively for bachelors, a group viewed with suspicion by boarding-house operators and apartment builders alike.

6.   The major apartment builder, which was suspended from trading earlier Thursday, said the loss reflected the sale of properties.