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Helpful person's reorganised random sailor's property (6,3,6)

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I believe the answer is:

bricks and mortar

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'property' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I don't understand how one could define the other.

'helpful person's reorganised random sailor's' is the wordplay.
'helpful person's' becomes 'brick's' (brick can mean a reliable person).
'reorganised' is an anagram indicator.
'sailor' becomes 'tar' (tar can mean a sailor).
'random' anagrammed gives 'andmor'.
'bricks'+'andmor'+'tar'='BRICKS-AND-MORTAR'

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(Other definitions for bricks and mortar that I've seen before include "buildings" , "Housing" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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