Oh, and a property boom that has filled estate agents' pockets.
Although about 70 percent of empty lots from three years ago have been filled, real estate construction since then has far exceeded the purchases, more than doubling the amount of vacant space available, said Timothy Trask, the director of corporate ratings at Standard & Poor's in Dubai.
The estate fills 200 acres, its golf course spotted with 850 olive trees, 11 artificial lakes and a scattering of sculptures.
The memos also suggest that both houses kept tabs on and discussed the lifeblood of the trade, the great estates filled with art and about to come up for auction.
On the North Shore a good many of these requirements are filled by the estates there and we know the case of one lady who voted to turning herself into a village by calling a meeting of the servants.
And if you live here, you know that Glasgow is becoming a dark, divided place - where criminal networks are never far away from stylish bars or consumer emporia, and where the drugs economy grips large areas of estates, filled with the 'flotsam and jetsam' (to use an SNP ministers words) left over by the end of industrialism.
While the park is secured by an electric fence on three sides – those that border the city – the open end allows wildlife to spill out into Kintengela, once a vast wildlife corridor that is now quickly becoming filled with housing estates.
Some people fill out estate planning questionnaires and do not include their foreign assets because they think the assets do not have relevance in the United States.
We think, as a young company, you are a product of your environment and you should choose that environment really carefully and surround yourself really carefully … and that's more our focus than filling real estate.
She filled her 1910s estate in Madison, N.J., with canine bronze statues, paintings, sketches and photos.
The estate filled 24 shops with small independent retailers, a posh supermarket and a designer furniture store.
