Sentence examples for * teardown in from inspiring English sources

HAVE you ever lived near a teardown in progress?

They, too, had a reconstruction in mind, with plans to demolish and rebuild the place — a teardown in the sky.

The walls will be finished using an ancient tinted-plaster technique, and the terra-cotta floors will be courtesy of a 300-year-old teardown in southern France.

The cost of a rebuilt house can exceed $1 million, yet Lisa Chiarolanzio, an agent with Coldwell Banker, estimated that "there are about 100 people waiting to buy a teardown" in Florham Park.

John Kaeser, the president of the Kaeser Construction Company, in Westport, recently bought a prospective teardown in New Canaan so the owners could buy one of his new colonials elsewhere in town.

The Saba house may be the only eight-figure purchase in the neighborhood, but it is far from being the only multimillion-dollar teardown in this area, which has become a center of the borough's Syrian Jewish community.

As to the teardowns in his old stamping ground, Roosevelt might in theory have supported them.

Evelyn Atanas, the owner of Atanas Realty in Williston Park, said she saw a similar decline in teardowns in her area of Nassau County.

"In a place like Greenwich, they do lots of teardowns in order to build new mansion-type homes," he said.

Nor does the area have landmark status, the ultimate protection against teardowns in areas with restrictive zoning.

Now, people are buying teardowns in the Hamptons for $35 million to $40 million, say real estate agents there.