The real estate market is a crowded sector, with millions of active professionals in the US alone. And this can make the prospect of growing a business more than a little overwhelming.
The housing market has been red hot for quite some time now, and people just can't quite decide on whether or not it's a good thing. Surging prices give people with homes a more valuable property, but not only does this make it incredibly difficult for first-time buyers to establish themselves on the ladder, but it also means that sellers with one property end up paying over the odds elsewhere, even if the cost is lower than the sale.
China Evergrande is teetering between a messy meltdown with far-reaching impacts, a managed collapse or the less likely prospect of a bailout by Beijing for what was once the country's top-selling property developer.