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location, location, location

location, location, location proverb: the most important consideration in buying real estate is its location.

Proverb

location, location, location

  1. The most important consideration in buying real estate is its location.
  2. (broadly) Locations are important.
    • One could argue that sports are no different from fast foods—it's all location, location, location. Because the core sport product is a game form, simultaneously produced and consumed, it makes sense that the venue of that game form should maximize exposure.2007, Bernard James Mullin, Stephen Hardy, William Anthony Sutton, Sport marketing, Human Kinetics, →ISBN, page 345
    • Theatre is all about location, location, location. More than most art forms, it is rooted in a specific time and place.2011, Aleks Sierz, Rewriting the Nation: British Theatre Today, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 10

Origin of location, location, location

Often attributed to English property tycoon Harold Samuel, Baron Samuel of Wych Cross, but the phrase was already in common use when he was still quite young.

Questions about location, location, location

What does location, location, location mean?
Location, location, location means the most important consideration in buying real estate is its location.
What part of speech is location, location, location?
Location, location, location is a proverb.

Words near location, location, location in the dictionary

  1. locatio et conductio
  2. location
  3. location arithmetic
  4. location map
  5. location maps
  6. location, location, location
  7. location-agnostic
  8. locational
  9. locationality
  10. locationally
  11. locationcel

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