"protecting properties" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you are referring to protecting possessions or real estate from theft, damage, or other forms of loss. For example: "The security team is responsible for protecting properties from potential criminals."
Crews were protecting properties when the wind blew a fast-moving grass fire towards a truck parked between homes and the fire front.
Speaking after an hour-long evening meeting of the emergency committee Cobra, Greg Barker, the energy minister, said the army was being switched from protecting properties to helping with the clean-up.
Lambeth is now in a position to resume building its own housing and, like other councils in London, is looking at setting up special companies to do so, which will enable it to give tenants the same deal as traditional council tenancies whilst protecting properties against right to buy.
He added that existing defences had made a "really important contribution to protecting properties".
For all types of patina BTA/Paraloid B44 coating exhibited better protecting properties than MTI/Paraloid B44 coating.
Examples are Serratia marcescens that produces different cyclic lipopeptides (Matsuyama et al. 2011) with antimicrobial, antitumor and plant protecting properties (Thies et al. 2014).
The government must begin protecting property rights and reinforce a weak and often abused legal system.
A court system dedicated to protecting property and private enterprise and enforcing individual responsibility.
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The sentence against him is of course about protecting property, not art.
The three were said to be protecting property after a Jet petrol station had been robbed the previous day.
