But after a year of chasing properties throughout Brooklyn -- one step behind the developers, or a bid too low in the case of a carriage house they loved and lost -- they found themselves facing an elegant, though pigeon-infested, former ice house that, at 14,000 square feet, was somewhat bigger than their idea of home sweet home.
In this study, the performance of a dual crystalline cementitious coating, which combines hydroscopic (water combining) and hydrophobic (water chasing) properties, for concrete protection was evaluated in an attempt to evaluate whether water affinity of the material can overcome the issue of reduced performance.
A flood of hot money chasing property, gems and state assets, coupled with buoyant oil and gas prices, has seen the once-lowly kyat rocket.
While job growth, new construction and vacancy rates and access to credit are important barometers, the bottom line is this: When there are more buyers chasing property than sellers looking to unload, that means a relatively quicker sale, which in this market is the best that can be expected, even if it's a small or flat price gain.
Foreigners are free to pur chase property under the value of NZ$10 million (£3.7m) unless it has more than 12 acres of land, or 2,000 sq m adjoining the coast.
In Croydon, 17,000 people will be chasing 10,000 properties.
Here are the latest toque-chasing properties.
The company, Old Republic National Title Insurance, told its agents Friday that it would not write policies on foreclosed Chase properties until "the objectionable issues have been resolved," according to a memorandum sent out by the firm's underwriting department.
When everybody was chasing commercial property, he was eyeing culture and tourism — the industries that the government is stressing and cultivating".
Private equity juggernaut Blackstone Group alone this year raised an $11 billion war chest to chase distressed properties, and large homebuilders looking to recapitalize, like Centex and Lennar, unloaded over $1.5 billion in homes to vulture funds between December 2007 and April 2008, for between 30 and 40 cents on the dollar.
The problem is that there are simply too many people chasing too few properties.
