The phrase "acquiring a house" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the process of purchasing or obtaining a home.
Example: "After months of searching, we finally started the process of acquiring a house in our desired neighborhood."
Alternatives: "buying a house" or "purchasing a home."
These days our real estate market is suffering the consequences of an international finance crisis, which is causing trouble for sector companies, as well as private individuals interested in acquiring a house.
Those happy days in which acquiring a house seemed a sure bet have now ended and even the boost of a quarter-point rate cut from the Bank of England on April 10th is unlikely to bring them back.Prices, which had been drifting slowly lower over the winter, have started falling more rapidly and dropped 2.5% in March, according to Halifax, part of HBOS and the country's biggest mortgage lender.
I cruised through the West Side of Buffalo last summer with a young man named Kit who was looking to acquire a house.
For about two million New Zealand dollars ($1,278,000), a buyer could acquire a house on 10 acres about 40 minutes from Auckland.
For a home buyer who borrows 90percentt of the money to acquire a house, an appreciation rate of 11.2percentt offers an investment bonanza.
In 1909 Kandinsky and the German painter Gabriele Münter, who had been his mistress since 1902, acquired a house in the small town of Murnau, in southern Bavaria.
In 1925 his parents acquired a house, and Davis -- by then very much part of the summer scene -- set up his painting studio in it.
Later, he acquired a house on Long Island near Hofstra University, where he taught theater, and he used the apartment only on weekends.
Agnelli had acquired a house in Monte Argentario, a rather beautiful and exclusive promontory in Tuscany, a real millionaire's playground whose large villas can barely be perceived from the less privileged adjacent coastline.
He said he discussed plans with the promoter Don King to acquire a house in Nevada, and this showed that his intent upon leaving prison in 1995 was to become a Nevada resident.
Susan Anderson, 37, a court reporter in Minco, Okla., "didn't want to go the mobile-home route," she said, so she bought 30 acres "out in the boonies" and acquired a house 14 miles away, which she then moved.
