The phrase "acquiring house" is not correct in standard written English.
It may be intended to refer to the process of purchasing or obtaining a house, but it lacks clarity and proper grammatical structure.
Example: "They are in the process of acquiring a house in the suburbs."
Alternatives: "buying a house" or "purchasing a home."
(The museum has a policy of not acquiring houses for its collection, Mr. Riley explained, excluding it as a potential buyer).
Amazon is a behemoth hitherto unknown, Jeff Bezos making inroads not only in areas formerly reserved for bricks and mortar, but also publishers, the retailer touting its KDP Select as well as acquiring houses and churning out product of its own.
Players try to build themselves an empire by acquiring houses and hotels.
"We're running to keep standing still really, in the sense that, more and more people are coming into Britain and using the services, acquiring housing, transport," he says.
Despite the rise of a British-educated Chinese upper-class by the late-19th century, race laws such as the Peak Reservation Ordinance prevented ethnic Chinese in Hong Kong from acquiring houses in reserved areas, such as the Victoria Peak.
The rare set, superbly carved, will adorn the newly acquired house of an English connoisseur.
She moved to a newly acquired house in New Haven, Connecticut, although she continued to maintain her office in New York and commuted there daily.
Wright hurtled through the levels, evolution moving at hyperspeed as his creature acquired houses, tools, weapons, vehicles, and cities.
It's the 1950's, and a motley collection of Muscovites are desperate to acquire housing in a new high-rise in a drab neighborhood.
I don't refer merely to the glaring fact that the minister eventually acquires houses and Cadillacs while the faithful continue to scrub floors and drop their dimes and quarters and dollars into the plate.
