"condo" is an acceptable and commonly used word in written English.
You can use it to refer to a condominium apartment or unit. Example: We just bought a condo in a new development near the beach.
Washington otherwise doesn't have quite the problems that exist in Manhattan – the city's height act ensures, for now, that there won't be a billionaires' condo lording over the national mall.
Earlier this year, the commission rejected for the first time a new project: a six-storey condo that would have increased shadow in the park nearby by less than one percentage point.
"Billionaires' Row" is rising over midtown Manhattan, a collection of glassy new pinnacles that promise the kind of condo views you can get in New York only by building taller than everything else around.
But Cruz also told voters his daughter, Caroline, had given him permission to join the presidential race in the hopes that the family puppy would get to play on the White House lawn instead of near their Houston high-rise condo.
My first tastes of seafaring life came in the early 2000s, firstly on a bargain-priced lap of the Baltic aboard the Costa Atlantica and then a brief spell on The World, the notorious cruising condo where paying passengers are treated as steerage by rich residents.
Entire condo projects and upscale residential lots are being pre-sold before any construction, with buyers freely admitting that they have no intention of occupying the units or building on the land but rather are counting on 'flipping' the properties--selling them quickly at higher prices.
Despite seven rounds of "cooling" measures by the authorities to try to slow the relentless spiral of property prices, demand remains strong as people just borrow more to buy their dream condo or government-built flat.Adding to the problem is the wall of money coming Singapore's way as the city-state establishes itself as a global centre for managing money (see chart).
Then there are speculators (buy-to-letters and condo flippers) who only buy if they think prices are rising.
At the tail end of the property frenzy, with impeccably disastrous timing, developers at last managed to put up a fancy high-rise condo-and-retail behemoth that now dominates the area between the intracoastal waterway and the sea.
There was surely plenty of evidence of Americans speculating on property as well; remember the condo-flippers.
The governor who pushed for its adoption insisted that the state's "quality of life" was at risk from "sagebrush subdivision, coastal condo-mania and the ravenous rampage of suburbia".
