The town remains nearly empty and deserted, with Erdos denizens preferring their old houses and apartments, and the vast majority of new residences purchased as investments by people from who knows where.

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Tokyo businesswoman Yumiko Kawaguchi, 45 years old, has rented apartments in Mori buildings since 2003.

WSJ: Pampered in Tokyo

Most of the city's small apartments are in old buildings and there aren't enough of them.

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By 1970, at only 26 years old, he owned about 100 apartments in Las Vegas and had begun work on his first new construction, a 40-unit apartment building.

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The conversion of the old stadium site into 724 luxury apartments opening in 2009 and the redevelopment of property bought around the new stadium is helping the team pay down debt.

FORBES: Gunning for It All

Many of the colonial mansions within the Old City have been transformed into comfortable apartments, while high-rise modern flats can be found outside the walls.

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He knows there are ultra-cheap apartments in Carroll Gardens because, like a 6-year-old who's spotted a unicorn in the backyard, he's seen them.

WSJ: Couplets for Low Rents

Carmel and go back to live with his mother in the old house in Tel Ilan, to live off the rental income from the two apartments in Haifa that he owned, and to devote himself to his hobby, building model airplanes.

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Sunita lived in an old textile warehouse, a big, echoing building that was due to be converted into apartments.

NEWYORKER: Raj, Bohemian

The museum, a stone's throw from the river, is surrounded by tasteful inner-city apartments and close to the striking Bonnefanten, where art works by modern and old masters find a comfortable home together.

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