estate agency
estate agency — 名詞
1. a company whose main work is helping people buy, sell, or rent homes, land, and
房屋仲介公司
協助房屋與土地買賣、租賃的公司
a company whose main work is helping people buy, sell, or rent homes, land, and commercial buildings, and sometimes managing properties for the owner
Tunde visited the estate agency on Green Street to ask about flats near the university.
Tunde 去格林街的房地產仲介公司詢問大學附近的公寓。
estate agency + preposition 'on' + street name for location
The estate agency sent the contract to Lucas and Talia after they bought the cottage.
Lucas 和 Talia 買下小屋之後，房地產仲介公司便將合約寄給他們。
Lien found a reliable estate agency that sold her family house within three weeks.
Lien 找到一家可靠的房地產仲介公司，在三週內就幫她賣掉了老家。
Apinya works at an estate agency that manages over fifty rental properties in the city.
Apinya 在一家房地產仲介公司工作，該公司負責管理全市超過五十筆出租物件。
The estate agency on Church Road closed when the property market slowed last year.
教堂路上那家小型房地產仲介公司，去年因為房市不景氣而倒閉了。
- real estate agency
the American English equivalent, used throughout North America
- property agency
a slightly broader term sometimes used for agencies that deal with land and buildings
- letting agency
focuses specifically on rental properties rather than sales or management
用法筆記
This term is used mainly in British English. In American English, the equivalent is 'real estate agency'. The person who works at an estate agency is called an 'estate agent' in British English or a 'real estate agent' in American English. 'Estate agency' refers to the business itself, not to the individual worker.