They walk the halls and pace the roofs of apartment buildings in targeted neighborhoods, figuring out the exact location of the wire rooms and the best routes for their raids.
While the pace of sales for apartments costing $10 million or more has remained largely flat, Mr. Miller's data shows a huge jump and a steady rise in the number of $10,000 and $15,000 rentals, particularly in the first three quarters.
Even the pace of growth for luxury apartments, long the strongest segment of the Manhattan market, has slowed.
Mr. Miller said that in some instances, exceptionally high carrying costs had tugged down prices and slowed the pace of sales, even in apartments that cost tens of millions of dollars.
January's increase was paced by a 17.7percentt surge in starts of apartment buildings and other multifamily dwellings.
Instead, they are working with the wide range of support companies that excavate, build and maintain the wells, or, in a race with the dizzying pace of growth, construct the hotels, apartments and camps for employees.
While China has imposed lighting efficiency standards on new buildings and is drafting similar standards for household appliances, construction of apartment and office buildings proceeds at a frenzied pace.
Instead of collapsing onto the couch, I pace my apartment all night long, in ever-tightening circles.
"It's actually a really nice place," she said of the sleek, modern apartment complex where the pace of life revolves around the school day.
"It's actually a really nice place," she said of the sleek, modern apartment complex where the pace of life revolves around the school day.
