41.   Commercial property prices in Tokyo, for example, have fallen by almost three-quarters.

42.   Declining borrowing costs shored up confidence that property prices and corporate profits will keep rising.

43.   Easier credit may also spur bank lending and give a fillip to property prices.

44.   EPA Director General Isamu Miyazaki suggested at a press conference that government money be used to boost property prices.

45.   Even in Hong Kong, property prices plunged by more than half, and are only now recovering.

46.   Exports are dropping, as are commercial property prices, corporate profits, housing starts and consumer confidence, a harbinger of consumer spending.

47.   For many Hong Kong companies, property prices still hold the key to earnings.

48.   For the most part, these stocks lagged because people were worried that property prices may stall.

49.   Ghost-town property prices are rising.

50.   Hayashi said the stock rally will be short-lived because the plot of land is too small to indicate new trends in property prices.